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Flour tortillas and cheese only.
With a side of chorizo, fried eggs, and cafe con leche.

OMG! There are other RICE CHALLENGED people! ((Hugs)) to you all. My rice always comes out like joint compound no matter what I do. I make an excellent risotto and excellent fried rice (with someone else's rice or leftover white rice from the Chinese restaurant). I can glove bone a turkey with a paring knife. I can't make rice.

Feels so great to see others!! I don't feel like such a dweeb anymore.

Chiffy

When I make it myself: Sliced fresh ham and salami, swiss, sharp cheddar and smoked provolone, a drizzle of salsa fresca and a spinkle of fresh herbs on a white flour tortilla. Fresh guac and more salsa fresca on the side. Yum! (Is it lunchtime yet?)

In the neighborhood cheap "healthy" Mexican joint, Gordito's in Seattle's Greenwood district, it'll be the grilled chicken quesadilla with its sour cream and guac on the side and the four house-made salsas to pick from on the salsa bar. Nice big cheesy wedges of fun.

i can't deep-fry -- i've a fear of splattering hot oil!

Some really creative ideas that I plan to try--thanks!

Do you prefer corn or flour tortillas?

Do you order quesadillas in restaurants? I rarely do because they cool-off so fast that they usually are cold by the time I can eat mine :(

Bananas, raspberries, vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce make a great desert quesadilla (more like a crepe I guess you would say but it still works!)

Other than that, I like me some cheese quesadillas with mole sauce.

Hillary
Chew on That

dessert quesadilla:

mini marshmellows and chocolate chips. If you included crushed graham crackers, it would be smorelike....

Dessert quesadillas sin queso:

banana slices and Nutella
thinly sliced apples and cajeta

Butter outerside of tortillas, slowly brown in butter over medium heat in a teflon-y pan.
To make a true quesadilla, I guess you could use cream cheese and fruit or cajeta.