What is your Friday night "treat" dinner? With DC.

[ImFree2doasiwant]

Staying in I mean. Bonus if easy to cook. Not a takeaway though as I have to drive miles to get one!
I had planned what to have but its not something the DC will love so thinking of something else

Not pizza (1 dc loves, me and other dc dont )

Home made burgers and chunky chips or fajitas

Fajitas but 2 pans so less spice for dc.

Ooh ive got a fajita kit, good call. I'd forgotten about it

I would said pizza but as that's out, oven chips, breaded fish and peas.

Home made curry. DH is a wiz at it

We do chicken wraps using those southern fried bits you can buy ... add salad and lots of mayo and sweet chilli sauce , yum bit like McDonald's. With oven chips. Top tea

I chop up chicken thighs, breadcrumb then bake them, serve with homemade wedges (sprinkled with Chinese 5 spice), curried baked beans, corn on the cobs and chip shop curry sauce. It’s vaguely healthy but feels like a takeaway. Kids lap it up.

Oooh Monkey yours sounds lovely

DS's absolute favourite was spaghetti carbonara. Lucky, because it's very quick and easy to make!

Home made Nandos - chicken in pitta with Nando sauce and rub, my version of macho peas and fries

fakeaway doner kebab - really easy and really good with pitta, cabbage salad, garlic sauce

Anything mexican but particularly nachos fajitas

Tacos
Fajitas
Burgers & good chips

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz it’s the Chinese 5 spice on the wedges that make it so tasty. DP accidentally used it years ago when making some instead of paprika and it’s all we use on them now. Heaven when dunked into Mayo!

Poke bowls (a variant thereof - sushi rice, tuna, peppers, cucumber, avocado - poke sauce, pickled ginger, soy, sesame seeds, seaweed) which kids can assemble themselves.

Oh and to make any tea a treat I Chuck a blanket on the living room floor and declare it a picnic. My kids love it.

Chicken Kievs and chips

@MonkeyPuddle that's exactly what I was thinking!

Re the picnici mean.

@ImFree2doasiwant

Ooh ive got a fajita kit, good call. I'd forgotten about it

I cook all the chicken veg etc, put a little bit of spice in and than take dc portion out, then whack on all the spice for us. Saves washing 2 pans. All our treat teas are things like that. Tacos, pulled pork, even hot dogs or burgers are great if you go all out on the sides (coleslaw, corn on the cob, etc)

Singapore noodles for us, you could leave out the chilli for DC if needs be.

Fajitas/wraps/loaded tortillas - sour cream essential

Burgers (chicken/beef/pulled pork) & chips

Party buffet (mozzarella sticks, Chinese starters like prawn toast, frozen bao buns/dumplings, obligatory bit of salad/edamame)

And sometimes just an individual selection of ‘posh-ish’ ready meals - DH & I curry or Thai, kids usually pasta based like Mac n cheese. Everyone gets what they like the most/fancy that day.

Mexican - tortillas with veggie chilli, guacamole etc.

Stir fry in our house

Skinless/boneless chicken thighs, flattened with a mallet, marinated in buttermilk for a few hours, then dipped, in flour, egg and parmesan & breadcrumbs and fried. SO delicious.

Served with wedges. And some veg if you must.

I'm gonna prep that now actually.