Quesadillas for everyone

Some days you sleep in, don't have time to escape at lunch and get to 6.15 with absolutely no desire to go to the gym that late in the day ... other times you realize you just need to get a few miles in.  So 3 miles later, it was 7.00 by the time I got home.  Queue up simple dinner option number 1 .. quesadillas!

Tonight I did a quesadilla stuffing of Cilantro chicken sausage and a mixture of sautéed sweet & hot peppers.  I topped them off with some avocado salsa and served it on top of rice and beans.  It's taken me a while to figure out the best way to do quesadillas, but I've finally figured it out and am ready to share.  The secret is a cast iron pan ... yep, that simple.  Put the pan on a medium low heat, and let it warm up.  Combine your filling ... meat, cheese, etc and fold over.  With a medium sized pan you should be able to do two of these guys at a time.  No oil, butter, or anything else is needed ... though I do recommend a nice thin metal spatula to help flip them.  I recommend flipping every 2 minutes or so to allow both sides to heat, melt and cook ... when done your tortillas should have a nice crispy brown outside.  This method works wonders with both corn and flour tortillas.

As an aside, I often do about 30 - 45 seconds per side with corn tortillas before putting them in a tortilla warmer for tacos ... gives them more of that restaurant quality than the normal chewy taste you get from store bought corn tortillas.