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Painted Desert Salad with Maple Glazed Smoked Salmon

January 16, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 2 Comments

Painted Desert SaladI’m sharing one of my very favorite salads over on the SeaChange blog today. It has roasted red pepper, avocado, smoked cheese, walnuts, sage, and of course smoked salmon (of the delicious maple glazed variety!) along with an extremely wonderful chipotle-maple-balsamic vinaigrette. Check it out!

Filed Under: Recipes, Vegetables Tagged With: guest post, Rebar Modern Food, roasted red peppers, salad, SeaChange Canadian Gifts, smoked salmon

Ancho Chicken Quesadillas with Homemade Flour Tortillas and Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

April 11, 2011 By Korena in the Kitchen 9 Comments

Last Thursday I had the day off work, so I decided to cross something off my “things to make” list: homemade flour tortillas. I’ve had a hankering for quesadillas ever since I read a post on the Frugal Flambé about chicken quesadillas with roasted red pepper sauce, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone and make tortillas for quesadillas.

Apparently there are two main camps when it comes to flour tortillas: thicker, chewy, smaller Texas-style, or thin, crispy, larger Sonoran (Mexican)-style. After reading a post about the difficulties of trying to make the Sonoran-style, I opted for the Texas tortillas, using a recipe from the Homesick Texan blog. I also found a recipe there for Ancho-Chili Shrimp Quesadillas, which sounded so delicious that I ended up using the marinade for the chicken in my quesadillas.

Making these tortillas filled me with the same sense of accomplishment that I get when I make homemade scones – that feeling of having made something out of nothing. When the cupboards are bare of ready-to-eat foods, it’s great to be able to take basic, staple ingredients – flour, baking powder, fat or oil – and make something delicious out of them, rather than just saying that there’s no food in the house :D…

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Filed Under: Bread, Main Dishes, Recipes Tagged With: cheese, chicken, cooking, food, quesadillas, recipe, roasted red peppers, Tex-Mex, tortillas

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