Your FIL's recipe sounds tasty FROSTONE1.
I ended up cooking the pasta dish, which turned out amazing. I used onion, garlic, tomatoes, chilli, wine, chicken stock and a small amount of fresh herbs. Mixed it through fettuccine and chucked a bit of Parmesan and parsley on top. Put me in the good books! Gonna prep the rest as calamari dusted in a mild curry powder, flour and S&P.