Food For Thought

My sister Amy arrives from AZ tonight. I am definitely lucky to have such a loyal sister who will now have visited me four times here in PA, not counting my wedding.

In honor of this we decided to throw a 4th of July party. Our house definitely has a large enough back yard to accommodate guests, but as our number has grown to 42 (and counting) I'm a little concerned about food shortages. Not necessarily on the BBQ, as John is doing a cornucopia of meat and chicken, but for the basic side dishes. Everyone is bringing something thank heavens, but I'm hard pressed to come up with anything other than the various salads, corn, baked beans, etc. that you can have at one get together. I've scoured the internet for something different to serve my guests but am finding it difficult to locate anything we aren't already doing or that won't cost me an arm and a leg. So... any recipe ideas readers?