Tapas!

Ingredients:
anaheim peppers
goat cheese
queso fresco
tortillas
butter


Yesterday I hosted about a dozen friends for a tapas party, in honor of my dog's birthday. Sadly my camera is still broken, so no photos. This plate worked really well:

Quesadillas and Stuffed Peppers

Quesadillas:
Set a small thin corn tortilla on an ungreased tephlon frying pan and crumble a thin collection of Queso Fresco onto it. When the cheese begins to change shape, press another tortilla on top.
Wait a minute for them to merge, then flip. When it's all done - the cheese is binding the two together and is soft throughout, then rub a little butter onto each side of the quesadilla and let it brown up just for like 10 seconds.

Stuffed Peppers:
Cut the top off a long green anaheim pepper and remove the inner seed stuff. Use a chop stick to stuff cheese into the pepper. The best result was about half Queso Fresco and half goat cheese. They have very different melting behaviors. Put a little foil on the rack of a toaster oven, and lay the pepper directly on the rack, but with the unsealed tops laying over the foil. Toast for about 10 minutes, then wait five minutes before pulling them out.

Plating:
Cut the quesadillas into tiny wedges, and slice the peppers, leaving basically rings of pepper around blobs of cheese. Add some slices of avocado, and serve with toothpicks.

These were a huge hit, and my favorite part was that there were no utensils to wash.