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title: Easy goat cheese quesadilla
date: 2008-02-22T15:33:02Z
modified: 2008-02-22T15:33:02Z
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  - Kids
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On the weekends I like to make hot breakfast/brunches for the family. Mostly because I like hot breakfast food, myself, so it’s kind of selfish. Sometimes I make pancakes, and we recently got a fun waffle maker that turned out stellar waffles once I got the hang of it (reading the directions helped!).

This past weekend I decided to make quesadillas. The kids wanted theirs with cheddar cheese and beans, which I easily obliged (it’s so easy to customize quesadillas!). For mine and my hubby’s, I pulled out a log of goat cheese I picked up at Costco, diced up some fresh tomatoes (I would have used dried tomatoes, if I hadn’t had fresh that needed to be used), and fresh spinach leaves. For the kids’, I borrowed a technique from Jessica Seinfeld’s book and minced up some fresh spinach leaves and spread them around underneath the cheese. No one was the wiser, and the kids ate the spinach!![Goat cheese quesadilla](http://elizabethyarnell.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/goatcheesequesadilla.jpg "Goat cheese quesadilla")

Anyway, the basic idea of a quesadilla is to lay a tortilla (I use whole wheat flour tortillas) on a lightly greased (or even ungreased, but I used a little real butter this time) griddle/frying pan. Spread thin layers of ingredients around and top it with a second tortilla. When the bottom is sufficiently toasted, flip it. When you finish, the cheese should be melted around the other ingredients, gluing both sides together. Finally, I like to cut it with a pizza cutter.

Mmmmmmm! The salty goat cheese wrapped around the tomatoes in a crunchy crust. One of my favorite meals or snacks that takes literally 5 minutes to prepare!