Tonight's interesting quesadilla

[Tab]

The other day I saw a "quesadilla machine" on sale for 20 bucks. Basically it's a top and bottom grill, round shape, and little triangle shapes in the circle, but I got it because I've always had to grill and flip, and I was getting tired of doing that.

Anyway, so we've been making more quesadillas than usual here, and my wife is really getting to like them, which is nice, because since I've learned how to make omelettes properly she's been bugging me for omelettes and the quesadilla is much easier to deal with.

I decided to experiment a bit more, away from the traditional chicken & cheese & salsa quesadilla.

This is what I bought to work with:

Sun-dried tomato and basil tortillas
Thin smoked salmon slices (basically, lox)
Cream cheese w/ chive and onion
Mango salsa

Thin layer of chive/onion cream cheese on the sun-dried tomato/basil tortilla
Then shreds of smoked salmon
Then mango salsa

grill.

Needs a little tweaking but VERY promising. The flavors complement and yet different ones stand out at different times - it's not just a mush.

I have some Havarti that I got in case the cream cheese didn't work out.

Anyone have any ideas for what might bump this from being yummy into true godliness?

[NMDemDist2]

1. dill chutney?

dill seems a perfect addition to those flavors.......

[Tab]

5. Dill, perhaps

but would the chutney be a replacement for something, or an addition?

[japple]

2. Maybe a few leaves of fresh spinach??? N/T

[Stinky The Clown]

3. We sometimes make them with shrimp .......

Sea Pak Grilled and Marinated Shrimp is a frozen product you just put in a skillet and heat up. They have the marinade already on 'em and the cook fast. Just cook them and put them on the queso with some monty jack and cheddar .... maybe a few jalepeno slices.

It ain't hard to make gourmet fare, but it hits the spot when you want a different kinda queso.

[Tab]

4. I'd go for that but

my wife doesn't like shrimp.

Actually the best quesadilla I ever had was when I was skiing out west in Colorado at Keystone, and this little bar across the street had a Mango Duck Quesadilla.

I must have gone in nearly every day for one of those.

(if you didn't figure out, that's where the idea for the mango salsa part came from).