The fast and the filling

5-star dishes ready in under 25 minutes

- TANYA SICHYNSKY

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been averaging a dinner time of around 9.58pm. It’s not that I prefer to eat late. I'd love nothing more than to sit down to a meal at 6pm on the dot, to not immediately go to bed with a stuffed stomach. But after a day in an office, a stint at the gym, a shower and a 45-minute commute, I’m lucky if I even make it home in time for Love Island USA.

At this rate, I'll rarely consider something that takes more than 30 minutes to get from the kitchen to the couch. But on the next day I squeak home before, say, 8.30, I'm making Kristina Felix’s crispy potato quesadillas, coming in at, OK, 35 minutes. A hearty filling of shredded cheese and smashed potato and peas, with a zippy slaw topping of seasoned cabbage, carrots, red onion and jalapeño, means I won't need to eat two quesadillas to feel something.