Need Help With Ideas/recipes.

[Tilly2]

I have a relative visiting soon, for a week, and she doesn't like spicy/garlicky/creamy/ 'foreign' food.

Any ideas for nice dishes which are a a bit less mundane that egg, chips and peas? I do like to make an effort when we have visitors and cannot go for a week living on Shepherd's pie, fish and chips and roast beef.

I would like to do something a bit special but there are restrictions. All ideas would be most welcome. Thank you.

[Maydup]

Warm chicken salad with asparagus and new potatoes, followed by Eton Mess. Not special, but seasonal and familiar.

[Jenarry]

I make a nice danish meatballs recipe that maybe ok. Pork meatballs made with onion, a little paprika and thyme . Then a tomato sauce made with butter ,flour chicken stock,chopped toms ,bayleaf , just 1 garlic clove and Tom purée. . Garnish with Greek yoghurt or soured cream and more fresh thyme .

[Jenarry]

Slow cooked pork chops can be very yummy with a bit of veg.

[Patsy33]

Sausage and mash.
Meat salad & new potatoes?

[wolf63]

My dad used to refuse to eat "that foreign muck" and said that was happy eating British food such as Pizza and Curry.

[pastafreak]

BBC Good Food is a good source of ideas...

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/course/dinner

[Tilly2]

Thanks for those ideas so far. I'm not sure she would eat asparagus, Maydup but I would! That sounds lovely.

Jennarry, she would detect the one clove of garlic but it's an idea for us when she's gone home. She watches me preparing the food... :-)

Patsy, she would love those.

Wolf, I didn't like to say 'foreign muck' but you obviously know what I'm dealing with. However, Curry and pizza are definitely off the menu.

Thanks for that link, Pasta. I'll have a good look, later.

[woofgang]

oven baked salmon (or any fish really) with new potatoes. Stuffed tomatoes, an omelette, meatloaf, a chicken breast hammered out then egg and breadcrumbed (no need to call it a vienna schnitzel)

[spathiphyllum]

Toad in the hole with mash, peas and onion gravy. Make ur own hole with a square tin, whack some mixture in it, then whack the toads in there. Cook up, the juices will flow to the Yorkie pud. Ahhhhh delicious.

[spathiphyllum]

To be honest.. she sounds like a faff. What about something like chicken basque? Not too exotic but not bland by any means.

[sunny-dave]

A joint of boiled ham, new spuds, minted peas and lashings of parsley sauce :+)

[saintpeter48]

Corn Beef hash with veg and gravy is a favourite, also try a Lyonaisse Salad, with a salad, croutons, bacon bits and a poached egg, yummy! Or try a cheese omelette with salad, or a breast of chicken that has been gently flattened and seasoned, fried or grilled served with salad or mash, peas and gravy. Grilled salmon with baby veg, or try a casserole in a slow cooker, chicken or pork, finely chopped veg, gravy etc, really tasty.

[Cloverjo]

Fish pie.
Lasagne. Ok it is ‘foreign’, but not spicy or weird.
Roast chicken.

[maggiebee]

Fish pie with grated cauliflower on top instead of potatoes.

[Tilly2]

I think I have enough ideas now. Thank you all for bothering to give me some ideas.

She is a pain to cook for but I can forgive her because she is such a lovely person and I really enjoy her company. Thanks again. :-)

[Maydup]

I have a friend like that Tilly, I'm very fond of her, but its even difficult to treat her to a meal out. I once went somewhere with her that I thought was safe and she couldnt find anything on the menu she would eat and asked them if they'd do her a cheese sandwich!

Never again will I go anywhere other than her choice!