These quesadillas are delicious. Summer is right around the corner, at least by the calendar, and the leeks in my garden are close to going to seed. I wanted to use most of them before they go to seed (they taste more tender before) so I came up with this recipe. I cook the corn tortillas with jack cheese on the stove top and in a separate pan I cook the leek and ground turkey. This is great with guacamole and green or red salsa and shredded romaine lettuce. You can keep it simple and quick or add lots of toppings. Here goes!
Turkey-Leek topping:
1 pound of ground turkey
1 leek, use the green and white part, slice thin
2 TBS butter
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp powdered garlic
1/2 tsp mild red pepper
salt to taste
Heat the pan up with butter and add the leek on medium heat. cook for 5 minutes , stirring once or twice. Add the turkey and stir. Then add the spices (garlic, cumin, red pepper salt), stir, cover with a lid and cook until turkey is done, 5-10 minutes.
Meanwhile . . .
Cheese Quesadillas:
5 corn tortillas
1/4 pound jack cheese
We use small corn tortillas, add them to a buttered heated on medium pan. Place grated cheese on each tortilla, cover pan and let cook until the cheese has melted. Place each finished tortilla on a plate and add toppings as you like.
Here's a wonderful and easy guacamole:
2 avocados
1/2 small lime
salt to taste
pinch of cumin
pinch of powdered garlic
Mash avocados in a bowl, add 1/2 squeezed lime juice and spices, stir and serve with quesadillas.
Flowers in the garden
Chard stem, up close
Chard, leaf
Above & below: potato bed is flowering
Lettuce & peas, peas climb up old raspberry canes
Above: Marina's flower bed
above: drip irrigation, and nice moist soil
Recently planted squash starts, above
Above: planting starts
I think this one, above, is a pumpkin start
Colorful lettuce
Some of my many June starts, above
I have never celebrated May Day, also known as Beltane, the way I did today. Usually I get a bouquet of flowers at my doorstep and if I am really organized I leave one at somebody else's doorstep. This year I opted to study up on what the celebration is all about.
The girls' May Day baskets from "the Garden Faeries" filled with moss, flower petals, blue bells, and camellias, as well as a small note with each girl's name on it and a little message.
Stella's May Day Note, from the faeries
Marina's May Day Note, from the faeries
The girls surprised me with homemade baskets decorated with pen drawings and fresh flowers at my doorstep while they were spending time with grandma. How sweet!
Marina's birth tree: Magnolia blooms for the first time this year! Just in time for May Day
The Maple tree shows it's colors today for the first time this year, yea! Leaves!
Little Stella notices and enjoys the newly blooming rhododendrons.
celebrating with flowers on the front step
Marina probably tried on 5 different fancy dresses to dance in. This is a skirt as shirt, with Stella and the May poles in the background.
The may pole, our new archway from the parking area to our house. I just dug the poles in today and tied them at the top. They make a great may pole.
Stella enjoys the celebration with her butterfly doll and her sunflower doll
Our May poles are decorated with colorful scarves from Emily Day's Dancing colors studio
Dancing around the poles
Admiring the pretty colors dancing in the wind!
These quesadillas are delicious. Summer is right around the corner, at least by the calendar, and the leeks in my garden are close to going to seed. I wanted to use most of them before they go to seed (they taste more tender before) so I came up with this recipe. I cook the corn tortillas with jack cheese on the stove top and in a separate pan I cook the leek and ground turkey. This is great with guacamole and green or red salsa and shredded romaine lettuce. You can keep it simple and quick or add lots of toppings. Here goes!.jpg)
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