Cheese Quesadilla

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These are as staple as the classic PB&J, in Mindy's kitchen. We hope you like them as much as we do!
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Ingredients:
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1 package (10) large Flour Tortillas

1 block mozzarella or cheddar cheese

Butter or Margarine softened

Sour Cream (optional)

Tools:

• Griddle
• Metal Spatula
• Butter knife

Heat griddle to 300 degrees. Grate cheese. Butter tortilla shells on one side. Place one tortilla shell (butter down) on hot griddle. Sprinkle with cheese, and place another buttered tortilla on top of that (butter up). Cook until it turns golden brown on the bottom, then flip and cook the other side. Remove from griddle. Cut into slices and dip in sour cream.

Yield: 5 servings

Be sure to try out some of these delicious variations. They're the BEST!

• Bacon & Cheddar - Crumble cooked bacon over cheddar.
• Ham & Onion w\Mozzarella - Add sliced or diced onion, and chunks of ham.
• Chicken & Garlic w\ Cheddar - Shred cooked chicken over the grated cheese and sprinkle with garlic salt.
• Salsa w\Cheddar - Simply add your favorite salsa to the original recipe. Or dip in salsa.

The no-mess Lunch

(Not even any dishes to wash!)

Here are some lunch ideas which can make the mid-day meal SO easy!

Mom often let us kids have "Paper napkin" lunches and we would get a kick out of it, plus it was a lot less for her to clean up.

Handing each of us a paper napkin, we would unfold it all the way and lay it on the table in front of us.

Then Mom would come by and place one food item on each of the four squares made by the creases in the napkin. All finger foods, which we loved!

Things like...

• Sandwiches
• Blueberrys, strawberrys or some such fruit
• Carrot sticks
• Celery
• Pretzels
• Peanuts or sunflower seeds

The list goes on.. we all have our finger food favs!

Then for cups Mom came up with a very simple solution so that we don't end up with a billion cups to wash after one day. Each of the children have a water bottle in the refridgerator, and even Connor can reach in and grab a drink anytime during the day. This works well at lunch time too. They all get their water cold from the fridge. No plates, no cups, no utensils. The table doesn't even have to be cleared! Everyone throws away their napkin and puts their water back in the fridge and lunch is over!

Variations on Peanut Butter Sandwiches

Here are the makers, testers and raters of the PB sandwiches... -

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Tropical PB Sandwich

Molly spreads the Peanut Butter (#1 ingredient)

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Anna adds a sprinkle of coconut

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Aiden scoops on some juicy pineapple

Eli places the marshamallows in his own special pattern

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Luke puts on the final ingredient, raisins; and we have a tropical PB sandwich.

Here are some other variations they tried...

Crunchy Honey-butter sandwich

• Peanut Butter
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• Honey


• Butter


• Crushed Saltine Crackers
  

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Cinna-Rais PB

• Peanut Butter
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• Raisins


• Cinnamon

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Honey-Marsh PB

• Peanut Butter
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• Mini Marshmallows
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• Honey

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Apple-Cinnamon PB

• Peanut Butter
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• Apples (sliced small)
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• Cinnamon
  

Even Connor got in on making this sandwich.

Why not let kids play with their food? It's fun!