RE: STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE #40 : Quesadillas, Cheesy Mexican Tortilla with Guacamole - Vegetarian
Yum yum yum, now that's a breakfast worth getting out of bed for! :-)
I adore Quesadillas, either using traditional ingredients like you or varying it depending on what I have in my fridge! Either way they're so tasty and easy to prepare. Do you ever make your own tortillas Putri, just out of curiosity? I also adore guacamole... I used to eat this pretty much every day (with raw carrot sticks) following the birth of my son when I was trying to lose weight! Simple, satiating, crunchy, yum. My personal preference is chunky, though sometimes I blend it smooth and spread on the tortillas before adding the filling. Yours looks amazing... that close-up photo makes me want to reach in and scoop a fingerful! And I love your photos with all the bright vibrant ingredients - so fresh I can almost smell them!
It was interesting to read the info at the start of your post. I didn't know there was a preference for flour or corn tortillas depending which area in Mexico. Also it seems we have much to thank to Aztecs for... I keep coming across all these ancient foods they ate and we still eat, and they always seem to be super nutritious! Thanks, and good luck @ikaputri3
Thank you for your kind words @woman-onthe-wing! Me too, I also love Guacamole, but each time I have some avocados on hand, I will just eat it like that. I'm used to eating it without adding anything since I was a kid. This one was safe because of SCC :-D
I always want to make tortilla by myself but I never did :-D Do you have any good and recipe for tortilla? I'd love to try.
I read about preference of tortilla from Wikipedia and just like you, I found it really interesting. I should try one with corn tortilla. Luckily, there's a small Mexican shop where I can find both corn and wheat flour tortilla :-)
I have only made them once myself, and used einkorn flour which I found made them a little crunchier than pre-packaged tortillas you buy in a supermarket, and I think they were more flavoursome too. I want to try using spelt flour next time as I think they would be even nicer than the einkorn ones. But they were really tasty and worked well. I always make my recipes up as I go along rather than using them from books or online (I like to remain original!) so here is the link to my recipe... It was actually my SCC #16 entry way back before I was hosting! I made my own version of guacamole too you can see how it compares to your own :-)
I would really love to see you developing your originality Putri... I hope you don't mind me saying... but you clearly have a talent in the kitchen and I think if you were posting original recipes people would be taking a LOT more interest in your blog. It's such a shame seeing your posts not make very much, when you put in so much time and make them really beautiful. Perhaps you could start simply by taking a recipe from a book (or wherever) and just change one ingredient, or add one ingredient. Start very simply and as confidence increases you can build up to one day creating complete recipes in your head! I'd love to see that, and if there's any way I can help please let me know :-) I do hope I'm not being patronising... sometimes the mother in me takes over!!!
Well noted for your recipe! Thank you for sharing! I'll definitely try it and let you know.
I was thinking the same, I should have started to make my own recipe. I have no problems in developing Asian recipe but it's quite hard to do the same for another type of cuisine. I had this discussion as well with a friend about changing one or two ingredients, add your "touch" to make it original and claim the recipe yours.
I am happy to have such feedback. It means a lot to me. It makes me growing and improving :-) Thank you Joanna!
Btw, I've got your message. Let me think about it and get back to you tonight. I hope it's ok for you.
Absolutely, yes, have a think and let me know, thanks :-)
I'm glad to hear you've already been thinking a lot about the next step for your recipes... I know that after a short time you'll have much more confidence about experimenting. Sometimes, rather than starting with a recipe and buying the ingredients for it, I start with buying ingredients and then sitting down with a cup of tea and thinking 'what original recipe can I create with these?' It often results in some very unusual dishes, and I wouldn't even know which culture that dish might suit! Recently someone commented one of my salads asking if it was the 'Indian version recipe' and I had no idea what they meant! But then someone else explained I'd happened to create something similar to some southern Indian dishes, which I found very interesting indeed!
Perhaps we often get too focused on existing dishes and conventional ways of preparing ingredients, and trying to achieve perfection. But it's more fun to mess things up and do it your own way! Like grinding seeds into flour, or using grapes instead of tomatoes, or making a pie crust from legumes, etc. You will find your own style and I look forward to seeing it develop!
Oh - I meant to add I have left a message for you in Seemit.Chat if you could get back to me. Thanks!