Hard to please

We are having some people come to stay with us for 2 days and there quite hard to please and usually when they come to stay we just have some sort of take out but i haven't been able to eat take out since i was pg with DS.

Can anyone help with any yummy meals that aren't too boring. A nice italian recipe would go down well as we all enjoy italian foods, but i dont have any good recipes. But any recipe ideas will do:D

Also she is breast feeding and is very concerned about what she can and cant eat.

TIA everyone.

i've seen a great tomato sauce thats great with ravioli here on bb somewhere... i made it once, it was great! will have a look around...

ETA tis is the one i made, by simone.... "i make a "rustic" tomato sauce - saute onion and garlic, chop up tomatoes and add them in, some dry white wine, and some herbs (i use the italian herbs mix and basil, then some fresh parsley). let it simmer and add some olives. Its really yummy, i got it off Hueys cooking. we serve it over ravioli. Its delicious and really easy!!"

Keep it simple. Everyone likes spaghetti bol. Just get some prepared sauce from the supermarket pasta section. Cut up some onion & fry it together with your mince, add the sauce and you can't go wrong.

Add some garlic bread - there are some really nice ones in the fridge section of the supermarkets these days.

If you want to make it from scratch fry your onion and mince together with some italian herbs, add a bottle of passata and 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and cook away. You can add garlic as well if you like it.

I do both versions and they never fail to please.


You could also do home made pizza. Grab a pkt of frozen pizza crusts from the freezer section of your supermarket. Cover them in tomato paste, shredded ham, cheese and italian herbs. Add whatever else you like. You could do an aussie one if you add bacon and egg. Or add some canned pineapple to have a hawaiian one. The possibilities are endless.

For a simple lasagne you could grab a large can of spaghetti sauce with beef (there are a couple of different brands in the pasta sauce area in the supermarket) and a packet or two of lasagne and layer it alternately with the sauce and home made bechamel sauce. You finish off with bechamel sauce on top and sprinkle cheese and italian herbs on top. This is the way my mum made it (she always worked so had to have short cut recipes) and it is a family favorite. Even my ex used to say it was the best lasagne he'd ever had and he was constantly eating lasagne whenever we ate out.