Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Knock it off, Napoleon! Make yourself a dang quesadilla!




Mexican food is my favorite thing in the entire world. I love the free chips, the giant margaritas, and most of all I love fish tacos. Holy crap, I love fish tacos. I dream about them. Unfortunately, I suck at cooking fish... except salmon, which we'll get to in another post. So, when I make my own Mexican creations at home, I usually make something with grilled vegetables and refried beans. The other day, I was making somesuch thing, and I decided to lovingly throw some chicken in there for Mark. 


To begin, I cut up my vegetables and put them in the pan with some oil. I just used onions and peppers, because that's a really subtle flavor combination. Also, that's all we had, and you know by now that I refuse to leave the apartment unless it's an extreme emergency. 

And, there you go. Just green peppers, red peppers, and onions. These will cook down a lot, so don't worry about making them bite-sized. Crude chunks will be just fine. Put in some salt and pepper, and cover. 


In the meantime it's time to cut up your pal, chicken. I bought the Purdue fit n' easy chicken breasts, because I like my chicken fit and easy. I guess. Here it is:


Plus, at the store, all of the other packages of chicken were bloody and weird, and I could not deal with that. Therefore, here we are. All I did was take one breast out, and cut it into cubes.


Looking good. Okay, now once that's all done, add your chicken to your veggies and cook until those little cubes are no longer pink in any way. Cut one open to make SURE they aren't pink in the middle, because that's effing disgusting and will kill all of your loved ones. Or at least make them sick, which is also gross.


See that pinkness around 3:00? Mmmm mmmm, we cannot have that. Cook it for a little longer until all of the surface pinkness at least goes away. Then, add some taco seasoning to give it all the flavors of Mexico. 


I added about 1-2 tablespoons, and then I covered it for about 5 more minutes and cooked it on medium. Again, cut one of your pieces of chicken open to make sure it's fully cooked all the way through. Now we can assemble!


Take the chicken out of the pan, and put it in a bowl. Put a tortilla down in your chicken/veggie pan and let it get warm. You may be thinking, "you burned the shit out of your veggies and chicken!" Well, you're wrong. That's the taco seasoning giving it a nice burnt sheen. Also, my camera makes everything look slightly burnt. If you actually do burn your chicken and veggies, as I definitely did not, just cover them up with cheese and no one will dare complain to you about it.


Ahhh, cheese. Okay, now just let your cheese melt and fold! I made two of these and cut them into wedges like a delicious quesadilla pie. Mark ate some of these wedges before I could take a picture, so here you go. 



Delicioso!

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