But I have to say, if you don't practice, you're going to lose skills. In this case, I say life skills. I'm normally not a *bad* cook (I don't set anything on fire, can time things OK, everything seems to taste like food and not death)... but lately I've been a mediocre cook in every sense of the word. HOWEVER, TODAY THAT HAS CHANGED AND I AM BACK TO MY FORMER BRILLIANCE. Anyways - does anyone enjoy Tex-mex food?
QUESADILLA RECIPE OF AWESOME
Iight, so you probably think a quesadilla is pretty wimpy shit when it comes to cooking, but there is an art to making a quesadilla that doesn't taste like stale soft tacos and overly fried chicken.INGREEJAMENTS:
1) Soft taco shells, preferably some that are not a million years old. Take out one taco shell per quesadilla you would like to make.
2) Oil (Like canola but anything will work. Just don't use lard. That's gross.) I don't measure oil. I just throw some in a pan and hope for the best.
3) Chili Powder - Again, something I don't measure.
4) Salsa. You can use aaaaany type you like. I used President's choice mild cheap salsa and it was fantastique.
5) A variety of veggies. Howevs, this better include onion. I used onion and red and green peppers. OH AND I USED CORN. Riiight. So good.
6) Some sort of protein. I prefer chicken. Chicken is good.
7) Some sort of melting cheese.
8)) OPTIONAL THANGS: Sour Cream for dippin'. Pickled (or fresh) Jalapenos for an extra SPIIIIICY quesadilla.
INSTRUCTIONES:
1) Heat some oil in a pan, about mediumish. Medium high is probably okay too. Fry your chicken (probably best to cut it into strips or chunks first) till its almost done (all white in the middles). Add some salsa and any frozen veggies (like corn) you may have to the chicken so it all heats up into one lovely congealed mixture.
2) Take another pan and add some oil. Just a lil' bit. Throw your tortilla in there so it starts getting toasty and rub it around the pan so the oil sticks to it. Throw some chili powder on the tortilla (again, as much as you'd like really).
3) Start adding your crap. Put your fresh veggies and your onions on, then add some of that possibly now gelatinous chicken-salsa mix and top it with some cheese. Fold it into two like a calzone and press down with a flipper or something. Ideally, when the cheese melts, it will hold the two sides together, but if not, but careful when you flip it onto the other side or a plate or whatever since your junk might fall out and that would be sad. Actually not really, the innards of this particular quesadilla are delicious.
4) YOUR QUESADILLA IS READY TO BE CONSUMED.
Seriously, it was an excellent quesadilla. But in other news (and I'm going to say news, not necessarily life lesson style news), there is a pretty hardcore strike going on at my school right now (McGill University). All of the unionized administrative non-academic staff are on strike (and for pretty good reason, to be fair). But MAN do Quebecers know how to put on a strike. They've got megaphones and placards and chants. It's actually fantastic. That's how a good strike should be. Anyone remember when the teachers in BC went on strike when we were in Grade 11? They just sat in lawn chairs and drank coffee for a week.
Okay, now to life lessons.
7. NEVER underestimate the weather in Montreal. Today the high was 26, which back home would be completely manageable, non-deathly heat. However, today was 26, but the humidity made it feel like 38. I LIVE IN A FLAT WITH NO AIR CONDITIONING. ;__; Now this isn't the end of the life lesson, no siree. I did all of my laundry last night since it was overflowing (I had ignored it for a while now) and it's still drying on the drying rack 24 HOURS LATER. It still isn't dry. Humidity sucks for pretty much everything (except my skin and lungs which seem to adore it).
8. ALWAYS underestimate Montreal transit. I've only had two classes so far and I've been late for both of them. Why? Well, the first class I had I decided to only take the Metro since I had time to kill. Well... The Metro was running extremely late because they had some sort of mechanical issue, so what I thought was me going to be extremely early for class turned into just the opposite. The second day I decided to take the bus since it was quite hot and the hill I have to walk up is extremely steep and horrible. Got to the bus stop no problem (from the Metro station) and the bus came perfectly on time but it was the travel - when we got to Sherbrooke and University, something had happened and traffic was clogged and there were ambulances and everything. So again, I went from being 20 minutes early to 10 minutes late because of this congestion and the driver wouldn't let the students off on Sherbrooke because it wasn't safe. :/ LIFE LESSON LEARNED WALKING TO SCHOOL FOREVER.
