What shall I cook for dinner party?

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I'm a decent cook. Cannot think what to make for six coming up this week. My requirements are:
DH is fussy and annoying and won't eat anything with cheese or that is creamy
Preferably nothing 'plated'. Generally prefer to do a slow cooked something or other as opposed to something that requires lots of last minute stuff and plating careful elements etc.

Stuff I usually do:
Proper chilli (ie not tomatoes, sauce made from all diff chillis) with all the usual sides
Makhani curry with naan, Dahl, saag aloo etc
Ragu with crusty bread and salad
Roast Chicken with braised celery
Roast chicken with interesting salads
Slow cooked lamb shoulder with grilled aubergine, garlic yoghurt, flatbreads that sort of thing

Any brill suggestions? And an interesting pudding?

Yeah that is what I generally do. But tell me about chocolate puddle pudding any way!!!!

Ta da ... www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/food/recipes/article3884248.ece

I always make half a pint of the chocolate liquid with 4 tablespoons cocoa powder and 150g soft brown sugar. Then there is loads of sauce.

My kids love this pudding!

Sorry realised the method didn't show up via the link.

Basically make a chocolate sponge batter. Bung into dish. Dissolve sugar and cocoa powder in a saucepan in 1/2 pint boiling water. Pour contents of saucepan over the sponge.

The sponge rises through the liquid, the liquid thickens and you end up with fudgy sponge and lovely chocolate sauce. For extra luxury I put chocolate chips in the sponge.

Bake at GM4 until sponge cooked through. About 45 minutes.

Erm, not sure on sides to be honest. I only ever cook it as an evening meal for me and dh - I just serve it with rice. If you do a dessert, something tropical fruit based would work well I think - mango/yoghurt based I'd say.