Traditional italian sunday dinner?!

I'm from a very Italian household and the order we always did was:
Antipasta, then pasta.
Small break (mostly sitting at the table talking & drinking) while clearing off the table and getting the next course ready.
Salad and meat served at same time.
A longer break (more talking, more drinking)
Dessert & coffee

Have fun (and I hope he appreciates your effort)
J

Appetizers: prosciutto with melon, green olives, Parmesan with grapes or even better with jelly made of white wine.
Pasta: penne with tuna, butter and parmesan (you don't need to cook anything except for pasta itself); pasta alla bolognese (meat souse) or pasta alla genovese (this one is just any king of pasta with souse of onion with beef that has to be cooked for about 2 hours, but it's very good). You can also make lasagna here.
Secondo: Any kind of meat or fish cooked in a simple way - frilled most of the time and a salad. Very easy and popular salad in Campania (where I live now) is lattice with extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice.
Dessert: Tiramisu, ricotta with pear, or other italian pastry.
Later serve some liquor like limoncello (lemon liquor) or something else strong (amaro) in a small abount.
Don't forget about fresh bread and good wine!
Buon appetito!

I live in Amalfi south of Italy.

Well, it's completely different if you're out at a restaurant, or if you're talking about an American Italian sunday dinner.

Here, for an Italian Sunday dinner, it's usually a huge ordeal, with family and friends... and the order kinda depends on what you're serving. For instance, if you're making a pasta, a red sauce (typically called gravy) would be made. This sauce would be a basic marinara made in a big pot, but you would add whole italian sausages, pieces of beef, veal, lamb, etc and even meatballs. When you sit down to the table, there would be bread, a huge pot of pasta, and the meat that you cooked in the sauce would be in a separate dish to the side, and another small plate to serve yourself salad. Then desert or coffee would be served after.

If it's just gonna be you and him, then you'll do the appetizer, then starch (i.e. risotto or pasta), then the protein (i.e. meat), then a very simple salad, then go with espresso and desert.

be your self......and invite him for what you used to have....and maybe later you would learn more thing's that he lilikesFirst serve your didish'snd in the future....serve the didish'shich he like....

maybe he would like your way

all the best :)

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