Blue Cheese & Red Onion Quesadillas
Serves 4 as an appetizer
Think about this - melty blue cheese married to caramelized red onion that's been sweetened with a little brown sugar. On second thought - don't think about it - just make it.
Ingredients
- 1 large red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2-3 ounces crumbled blue cheese
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 8 corn tortillas
Steps
- Cook red onion in a non-stick pan over medium heat until very soft, then stir in brown sugar
- Add blue cheese and mix until cheese is melty
- Divide onion and blue cheese mixture between 4 tortillas, spread out and top each with another tortilla
- Cook in non-stick pan until both sides are lightly browned, remove, cut into wedges and serve
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Dirty Gin Martini with Blue Cheese Olives
Makes 1
The olive juice and the blue cheese olives make this.
Ingredients
- Ice
- 2 ounces gin
- Splash of vermouth
- Splash of the olive juice from the jar
- 2 blue cheese stuffed olives - you buy them already stuffed or simply cram crumbled blue cheese into a couple olives
- Bamboo skewers
Steps
- Put ice into a cocktail shaker
- Add in the gin, vermouth and olive juice
- Skewer the olives on the bamboo skewer
- Shake the cocktail well to chill
- Pour and strain into a martini glass, add olives and enjoy
