Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Quick Quesadillas...

Yesh!  It is ONE. DREARY. DAY outside today!  Aren't the May flowers suppose to now be blooming after all the April showers????

Anyways...enough whiningJ  I'll rewind to last nights dinner which we enjoyed on a glorious (NO HUMIDITY) 75 degree nightJ  hahahahahahaha  After celebrating a friend's birthday this weekend, I thought I'd recreate the dinner that I had had and loved oh-so-much:  Fajita QuesadillasJ

And they couldn't have been any easier.  We diced up some chicken, red pepper & onion and sauteed everything until cooked through...

Once everything was ready, I quickly toasted up some wheat tortillas on the stove top to give a nice char.  Watch these CLOSELY!  They will burn within SECONDS of being on the flamesJ

Top the (toasty) tortilla with the chicken, peppers & onions, a little cheese and some sliced avocado...with Penny's approving eye, of courseJ

A little smoosh in the panini press and it was chow time!  Super simple, super healthy & brimming with veggies all minus the extract oils that restaurant tend to 'sneak' into a dish like this.  Plus, you also can get great fiber boost from these (Trader Joe's) 140 cal. whole wheat tortilla.  (FYI-read your labels!  Some of those things are calorie dense AND filled with hydrogenated oils and lard...eeeeek!)
We served our quesadillas with a side of Trader Joe's fat free refried beans, which are just far superior to any otherJ hahahahhaa...so yep: easy, cheap & healthy...can't beat that combo, right??

Hope you guys are having a more cheerful day than Jersey is having todayJ  The one bright spot of today is that I was boiling couscous at 6:30am this morning, so we will be all ready to make one of our all time favorite dishes with dinner tonight...with a 'southwest' flair, of courseJ  Stay tuned and happy Wednesday!

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