CHEESE QUESIDILLAS (with SNOWFLAKE VARIATION)

Ingredients:

2 Flour Tortillas (I use the ones that look like pie crusts, then I cook them in a skillet)

Grated Cheese (your favorite)  I use cheddar, mozzarella and Monterey Jack

Directions:

If you have the pie crust like tortillas, cook your tortillas, turning when the bubbles appear.  Cook in a sauteusse pan until the tortilla is no longer doughy.

Sprinkle grated cheese on one side of a tortilla.  Cover the cheese with the other tortilla.  Cook in a medium high skillet a few minutes on each side until the cheese is melted (I like to press down on the tortilla while the quesadilla is cooking).  Using Kitchen shears or a sharp pizza wheel, cut the quesadilla into wedges.  Serve and enjoy.

Ingredients

In the Frying Pan

Starting to Get Bubbles, Almost Ready to Turn

Ready to Turn

Cheese Layer

Covered with Top and Ready to flip

Ready to Serve

Yum

Variation:  Make snowflake quesadillas by folding on and cutting little shapes out of the tortilla at the seems (just like you would make a paper snowflake).  Use an uncut tortilla as the bottom of your quesadilla, sprinkle with cheese and place the “snowflake” on top.  Cook as usual.  Serve and enjoy.  (originally found on Pinterest, from a Martha Steward website)

Snowflake Variation

Folded and Ready to make snowflake

Snowflake Tortilla

Snowflake Tortilla Cooking

Ready to make quesidilla

Cheese 

Ready to Cook in Skillet

Just Out of the Skillet

Cut in Wedges and Ready to Eat

MY CHICKEN WRAPS

3 Chicken Breasts (chopped)

Lemon Pepper or Grill Mates Chicken Seasoning

1 tablespoon pine nuts, toasted

6 bacon strips cooked and crumbled

Chopped green onion

Grated cheese

Cous cous

Avocado

Shredded cabbage (optional)

Chopped bell peppers (optional)

No Bake Tortillas from Costco

1 cup pearled Wheat and 2 cups water, 1 tablespoon butter and garlic powder or brown rice

Chop green onion, chop bell peppers (I use a food chopper).   Cook bacon strips until crispy.  Crumble bacon strips.

Prep chicken by removing fat and any veins.  Using poultry scissors or kitchen utility scissors, cut chicken breast into cubes.  Fry in a sauteuse with your choice of chicken seasoning.  Add pine nuts to cubed chicken.  Drain any water from pan.  You may also toast pine nuts for about 5 minutes in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven.  Stir after 3 minutes and cook until toasted.

Fry each tortilla separately in a sauteuse pan with a bit of olive oil, turning when bubbles appear on the top.  Store each tortilla in a tortilla container with a paper towel between each  one or use a tortilla keeper.

Cook Cous Cous as directed

Rinse pearled wheat.  Add to Rice Cooker.  Add 2 cups water, butter and garlic powder.  Cook in rice cooker until all moisture is absorbed.  Or prepare brown rice as directed

Slice avocado

Serve all separately.  Then create your fabulous chicken wrap.

Simple Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Treat

1 unbaked tortilla (you can find them at Costco – the current brand is Tortilla Land)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 teaspoons sugar

A spread of butter

Directions:

Mix cinnamon and sugar together to taste.

Fry tortilla as directed (I fry mine without any oil in a sauteuse pan on medium heat. For best results, preheat the pan before beginning to cook the tortilla.

After the tortilla is cooked on both sides, remove it from the pan and spread a light coat of butter all around the tortilla. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture. Shake off extra cinnamon and sugar mixture. Roll up and enjoy.