Ahh, a familiar scene in our house: everyone hungry, and Mom with no dinner plan, even though she wrote up a menu for the week already! Probably did not get to the store, or the store did not have the necessary ingredients for said menu.
Hubby is not on his way home, he is already there! That is what happens when his job is studying language at home. Hmmm.
What usually works for us here in Chaing Mai, is take out! hehehe.
you do have to be specific when you order though, or you get a tidbit like this on top of your food!
Really it is cheaper than making my own dinner many times. But, the kiddos, especially #2 and #3 are not so exicted about Thai at dinner after eating it at school for lunch.
Personally, I could eat it all the time. We used to have a great restaurant at the end of our street that made great food, but the cook disappeared one day and was replaced by a very inferior imposter! No more riding the bike down the block to pick up lunch or dinner. But I digress.
Our fast and easy, and actually fairly cheap meal of choice is chicken baked in BBQ sauce (the most expensive part) or other tasty marinade and Mustard Potatoes.
Mustard Potates
Cut enough potatoes for your family into small pieces.
Microwave in covered bowl with a bit of water until soft.
Set potatoes aside
In saucepan, melt a couple of TBL butter and saute some chopped onion and garlic.
Once the onion is clear, add a cup or so of milk and a couple of squirts of yellow mustard.
Sprinkle a bit of cumin -or- yellow curry powder and blend well.
Salt and pepper to taste. Be careful with the salt here, the mustard already gives it a bit of saltiness.
Toss with the potatoes and bake in a greased covered casserole dish 20 minutes or so, at the same temp as the chicken is using.
(of course if you have a large family, you will need to increase the amount of milk and mustard. You just need to make sure you have enough sauce to coat the potatoes well. )
Add to the chicken and potatoes a variety of fresh veggies, like carrots, broccoli and tomatoes and dinner is served!
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I would definitely PASS on the octopus, thank you very much.
The mustard potatoes sound yummy. You probably have lots and lots of ideas that would fit this category as you are such an excellent cook. Do your mom and sister cook as well?
Glad you have been able to get picture loaded!!
The mustard potatoes sound delicious! The thing on the plate… not so much.
Believe it or not, my kids love octopus. This comes from a husband who stops off for caterpillar rolls on the way home from work for a ‘fun surprise for the kids’.
Yuck.
Yum! Those potatoes sound good! I’ll have to try that soon.
I will also skip on the octopus, but I love mustard and potatoes!
My 2nd daughter is a major meat-and-potatoes gal, plus she loves mustard. This is now on my must-try list. Thank you!
Martie
Oh, man, does that sound tasty (the potatoes, not the octopus)! I’m not sure my pickiest eater would try it, but I’m going to give this a test run in our household and discover who will.
Thanks for the great explanation, too. I like that it’s not a precise recipe, but more like instructions. I can follow that easier.
Ann,
I was surprised that our kids liked the mustard potatoes on our first go round, and had only made enough for Greg and I. Now we make sure to make more than enough, because daughter #2 always is looking for leftovers of them the next day.
For milehimamaa,
I am sure you could just add in some baby octopus to the potatoes for a new and rather interesting twist!:)
Curious as to what a caterpillar roll is though.
It’s a fried softshell crab sushi roll. It looks like a caterpillar is sticking out of them though. Sometimes it’s called a spider roll.