Oh yeah, baby! And again:
See all that cayenne pepper, chili powder, and cumin? Yum.
The good news is that you can easily make these child or delicate-taste-bud friendly. You can pretty much make a quesadilla that anyone, even super picky people will eat (Joey - this may or may not pertain to you). You can use leftovers, you can make them vegetarian, you can use corn tortillas, flour tortillas, flavored tortillas (like sun dried tomato or garden herb)...whatever you have on hand! For these I used leftover chicken, shredded cheese and jalapenos. You could use steak, black beans, peppers, corn, shrimp, onions, re-fried beans, leftover taco meat, or nothing except cheese! That's the only rule though...you have to have cheese.
Look at all that melty goodness (I know it's a terrible picture, but I am trying!)! I topped mine with taco sauce and sour cream, but you could use salsa, guacamole (or just sliced avocado), shredded lettuce, or chopped tomatoes (or all of the above!).
Because you can adapt this to whatever you would like for fixings, I gave just the technique below. Make sure that if you make these carnivorous, use meat that is already cooked, as you don't cook these hot enough or long enough to cook raw meat. I also saute peppers and onions (when I use them) for a few minutes to make them crisp-tender.
Quesadillas
- 2 tortillas (I prefer flour)
- 3/4 cup of shredded cheese (I used a mexican blend; cheddar, jack, or mozzarella would also work)
- Any additional fixin's, chopped up (and cooked, if necessary)
- Toppings (optional)
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whadda ya mean picky/ i would dump the jalapenos
ReplyDeleteand cayenne use extra mozarella maybe diced tomatoes and lettuce. i have some meatballs might cut those up and taco sauce sounds good lindseh
lindsey wonderful idea
ReplyDeletefor lunch today i used chunky salsa , pepperoni slices, mozarella cheese(should have used more)
and lettuce to top . YUMMY for my tummy . salsa was
medium but with the pepperoni was spiiicy.
you forgot one ingredient. Extra Napkins
Love ya babe
Those both sound great! Joey - I know that top one is from you, but who posted the second anonymous comment? It's much more fun if you leave your name :)
ReplyDeletei posted both couldn't figure out how to do the name thing but now i got it
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