Well eek!

My daughter and her partner are coming to stay a week..should be here in a about 4 hours time. I have never bothered to get to know him (hoped he'd go away), and suddenly it means including what he will and will not eat

I was going to make meatloaf since 'everyone' likes meatloaf..at least until it was pointed out that actually 'not' everyone likes meatloaf.

What do you all make in shortish notice for guests with unknown food likes and dislikes. As far as I know he is not vegetarian or on any special diets.

Umm...let's see.

Fry something up? Fish?

There's always stew using hamburger meat and canned and frozen vegetables. Takes about 20 minutes to make.

Soft Tacos? Easy to make, makes a bit of a mess with the dishes. But easy to make.

What about gettin out the grill?

If you want to make something super awesome. Try making canadian bacon stuffed mozzarella burgers.

Ingredients

- 1.5# 90% lean hamburger
- 1 egg
- Pecorino Romano Cheese (or Parmesian)
- A1 Steak Sauce
- block of hard provolone (or hard mozz) cheese
- Pack of canadian bacon
- Soft Mozzarella balls in water (ie the real deal)
- Garlic salt

Optional: chopped roasted peppers, onions, etc to mix in burger mix
Optional: fine breadcrumbs (I didn't use)

So, combine burger, egg, romano cheese, steak sauce (to taste), diced provolone, salt/spices, and chopped optional stuff.

Take some burger mix, about palm sized, and slap a piece of ham on there.

The patty should be slightly bigger.

You can just press the ham into the patty a little, then pull the hamburger around. Try to keep it somewhat flat.

You can fill in with hamburger if you don't have enough to complete the patty.

Burgers on the tray. These puppies are stuffed with a slice of Canadian Bacon and little blocks of hard cheese.

They get broiled until the outsides are done, flipped, then switched to 'bake' while the insides get done. Make sure the burger is done where it touches the bacon.

When they're just about done, crack open those Mozzarella balls. If you have big balls <snicker> slice them for the burger tops.

If you have little balls <snicker>, just use the whole ball.

I usually make some kind of pasta with fresh tomato sauce or linquine with spinach pesto...and a little champagne with strawberries makes everything seem special...Good luck lil'.

these are great ideas!

ok, I am going to do a combo...pasta, BBQ and salad

thanks everyone!