While enjoying the last days of our Indian Summer, I reach for something quick to make for dinner since the daylight is gone by 5 and we HAVE to play outside after school until it gets dark.  On the days I am lucky enough to prep a little, dinner can actually be ready by 5;30.  Other days, well, it’s a houseful of crabby kids or we end up eating eggs or peanut butter sandwiches for dinner.  Today I got lucky, and with about 15 minutes of prep work during nap time, I had my taco bowls teed up and ready to cook when dinner time rolled around.  I chopped everything, measured my spices, and fully prepped the potatoes.  An hour before dinner I turned on the oven (potatoes were already on a cookie sheet in the oven from earlier).  30 minutes before dinner I stirred the potatoes, returned them to the oven, grabbed a sauté pan and put my taco meat together.  It was on the table in under 30 minutes! (not including the potato roasting time of course!)

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