So I joined another group called Craving Ellie in My Belly.  Funny thing is I was just surfing the web jumping from one blog to another, and I came across this blog…and noticed I already had some of these cookbooks.  More interesting was I had never tried any of the recipes.  So this was a perfect way to actually make myself try some of it.  The postings are meant to be every Thursday.  (Please remember I’m on Pacific Time Zone!!)

This week’s recipe was Easy Chicken Mushroom Quesadillas (recipe here), chosen by Marthe of Culinary Delights.

I must say…flipping those Quesadillas was hard!!!  So I made a couple of changes here and there.  I never really liked “cubed” chicken.  I just think it makes the meat…so…tough.  So I decided to shred it!

No cubes for me!

Just so that I could make it a bit healthier, rather than using any kind of oil to cook the chicken, I cooked it in boiling water for about 15 minutes.  And it came out very tender!

The next step was to cook everything…

Everything in the pan

I loved how the filling to tortilla ratio was very very generous with this recipe.  I hate it when I order quesadillas and I get two slabs of tortilla with like 0.2 mm of filling in between!

looks like pizza!

Also, just to have a little more veggie, I put a layer of spinach over the tortilla before putting the filling on top of it.

Done!

The hardest part for me was flipping the quesadilla over  after 3 minutes.  My first one just came all undone and it was a huge mess!!!  So for the second one, I actually cut it into fours before putting it on the pan.  Which made life so much easier.

As for the Salsa, I used medium heat.

medium heat salsa

And for the sour cream.  Here’s my 3rd change.  I used greek yogurt rather than sour cream!  Have you heard of Fage??  It’s my favorite thing right now.  I had some sour cream at home, but after tasting it, I went with Fage and it was oh-so-good.  And no fat, too!  I’ve been hooked on these things…eating it with frozen fruits and agave with some salt sprinkled on top.  I’ll post a pic of that later.

Fage Greek Yogurt

And here’s the whole finished product.  I definitely enjoyed it!  Just need a little bit more practice with the flipping!