BBQ Quesadillas

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the extended hiatus. Travel and watching my weight plays a huge part in deciding which celebrity recipes to test. My boyfriend and I are going to try to watch what we eat, so I've decided to try to pick some recipes that don't go crazy with butter, fats, creams, etc. You get the drift. Also, I'm trying a recipe tonight from a chef I've never watched but who appears to be quite popular, and whose beautiful bamboo reversible cutting board I got for Christmas from my son. Curtis Stone. Take Home Chef! Now, I sifted through his recipes and I found a couple that, well, I don't feel deserve to take up space in a cookbook.

The recipe book is called "Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone; recipes to put you in my favorite mood". Beautiful hardcover, lots 'o recipes from breakfasts and brunches to entrees, sides and desserts. As I'm flipping through the pages, I come across "Watermelon with fresh mint and lime" - 4 ingredients: can you guess??? Watermelon, lime, mint and 1/3 cup sugar. So, why does this deserve two full pages? Beautiful picture of an oval shaped watermelon with mint and lime zest but I thought to myself, geesh, I hope this chef has more to offer than that!

So, tonight I've chosen:

Barbeque Chicken Quesadillas

To be frank, I chose this because I have some tortillas at home that need to be used or else they are garbage, so that's my primary reason. Second, it's bbq chicken smothered in cheese. Ok, so I should be really smothering my food in cheese if I'm watching my weight but the good news is that the recipe calls for 1 tortilla and you fold it over, so no need to make a 10" quesadilla with a top and bottom tortilla! Plus, I'm using low-fat marble cheese. Rest assured, I'm not going to go crazy with this. It appears to be a simple recipe with chicken, cheese, cilantro, jalepeno and bbq sauce. I have everything on hand so I'm good to go!

Let's give Curtis a test and see how yummy this recipe is, shall we?

This is a super simple recipe. I laid out the tortillas, put the chicken on, the cheese, cilantro, jalepeno and bbq sauce, grilled them until the cheese melted.... Voila!

So, now we're sitting down to eat and I await the verdict from my boyfriend nd my son....

Boyfriend: It's good. Ahhh, yum. That's really good!

Son: It's really good, I like it. Good thing there's another one for me!

I totally agree! This is very yummy! I would put a bit more bbq sauce in there and maybe melt some cheese on top. Delicious! And simple!!! I made some salsa the other night and it's complimenting this recipe very nicely.

The boys are off for their seconds! That's always a good sign.

No picture again because it was eaten too fast to get a shot.

I give this a 4 1/2 out of 5. I think it could use a bit more of the ingredients I mentioned above but it's very good. I don't know if I'm in the mood that Curtis Stone loves to be in, I feel full, is that his favorite mood?

Cheers everyone... Until next time...

Colleen