Recipe Two: Quesadillas

For my second recipe, I decided to cook up some quesadillas (hey, I needed to figure out something to do with my left over chicken).  The ingredients you'll need are:

- One onion

- One pepper

- Chicken

- Tortillas

- Cheese

- Sour cream and salsa (optional)

- Olives (again, optional)

So, to start off, I cut up an onion (trying my best not to cry), along with a red pepper.  I decided to pre-fry the two, although, like I said in my last recipe, some people prefer raw onions.

While the two ingredients fried, I begun work on the cheese.  I shredded about a cup of cheese, and then crumbled some goat cheese into the mix.  Then, I sliced about twenty black, pitted olives.  By that time, the onions and peppers were fried.  I placed a bit of salsa onto the tortilla, and then added the peppers, onions, olives, chicken, and cheese (in no particular order).

Now that the hard part was done, all I had to do was place the quesadillas into the pan, and fry them up.  All stoves are different, but for me, I put it onto medium/high heat.  Make sure to cook the quesadillas long enough, or else the cheese won't melt properly.

And now you're done! I add a bit of sour cream onto mine, but as always, it's your choice.  I thought guacamole would be really good in this dish, although the food store wasn't carrying any.

So what did you think?  Good, bad? Suggestions even?  This was a really good recipe to use for the chicken leftover from the salad in my previous post (although I still have a tub of chicken sitting in my freezer). I'm still looking for another recipe to make, but hopefully, after looking through a few issues of Cook, I'll get some information. Until then....

-Lhasa