Yeah, the only thing with a curry though is that if you're making it from scratch, and don't make it all the time, it ends up being expensive to buy all of the ingredients. If you do make it though, I can give you the easiest recipe in the world to make some bread to go serve with it, people love that.

Here's the recipe for Pastitsio - you can make the meat sauce and pasta ahead of time (mix them together), and then make the cheese sauce at the last minute before you put it in the oven. It is sooooo tasty!

Ingredients (serves 8)

* 2 tablespoons of oil
* 1 large brown onion, finely chopped
* 2 cloves garlic, crushed
* 750g veal or beef mince
* 800g can chopped Roma tomatoes
* 140g tub tomato paste
* 1 cup white wine
* 1 teaspoon dried basil
* 1 teaspoon dried oregano
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 500g packet dried macaroni pasta
* 180g butter
* 1 cup plain flour
* 100ml cream
* 3 1/2 cups milk
* 2 eggs lightly beaten
* 1 1/2 cups tasty cheese, grated

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180?C. Grease two, 26cm x 18cm lasagne dishes. Heat oil in a large, heavy-based saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until tender. Add mince and cook, stirring with a wooden spoon to break it up, for 5 minutes or until browned.
2. Stir in tomatoes and juice, paste, wine, basil, oregano and cinnamon. Season to taste. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes or until thick. Cool.
3. Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling salted water until just tender. Drain and return to pan. Stir in meat sauce.
4. Melt butter in a saucepan over high heat. Add flour and cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Slowly add cream and milk, stirring constantly. Return to heat and cook, stirring constantly, until sauce comes to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes. Stir in eggs and cheese.
5. Spoon meat and pasta mixture into prepared dishes. Pour cheese sauce over mixture and spread evenly. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until hot and golden.

If I'm making it just for us, I halve the recipe, and still makes enough for leftovers the next day.

Let us know what you decide D, and how it goes!