
Quesadillas
My basic quesadilla recipe is as follows:
- Get pan on medium-high heat
- grab a tortilla, and butter one side
- throw tortilla on pan, while you prep everything else
- get your cheddar cheese grated
- turn down heat to medium once pan warms up, flip tortilla after a minute or so (once pan is warm, successive tortillas need less time)
- flip tortilla again once it is soft
- cheese goes on one half of tortilla, and close it
- make sure you have your next tortilla buttered
- flip quesadilla as needed to melt cheese
- La Victoria green taco sauce goes in the middle once its done
- at this point its just repeating the above so that you always have quesadillas going
Should be able to have the first one done maybe 4 minutes after starting, and plenty of successive ones coming soon after.
For the lunch I made today at work, I got a bit fancy:
- I made some tortillas last night
- turned some of those tortillas into chips this morning
- I was cooking these at work, so had to use a toaster oven to heat them (would have buttered and pan done them otherwise)
- one tortilla, followed by pepper jack cheese on one side, Wisconsin cheddar on the other, top with another tortilla... made two of these
- heat in toaster oven for 7 minutes or so
- take out of toaster oven, put Tapatio in one quesadilla, La Vicatoria green taco sauce in the other.
- cut each into 4 pieces
- dust hot New Mexican chili powder over them, and some cilantro
- wrap each in aluminum foil, back in toaster oven while I prepared guacamole
- take out of toaster oven, and get to nice forested secluded area as quickly as possible
- eat guacamole and chips, quesadillas, with a bottle of Pinot Grigio, and finish with a tangerine and chocolate truffle
Who says you can't eat good at work?
