Recipes for Successful Nutrition and Delicious-osity (Part One)

I love making up recipes with ingredients that just seem to kind of go together naturally. Sometimes they don't even seem like they'll jive together but they totally do. It's all a part of getting really bored with certain repetitive foods, trying to dress up foods that I always have lying around, and trying to be healthy by avoiding dry and packaged foods...

I think I may start posting a couple of my recipes on here, just so I can remind myself what they are so I can try them again if I ever want to repeat them. Odds are, they're delicious! At least, to me. Yes, they may have already been made somewhere online or in someone's cookbook... but I've never had the pleasure of discovering them myself. So it feels like I did.

I made a delicious quesadilla today, but it had only one typical ingredient of a quesadilla.. the tortilla.
I normally HATE quesadillas (think they're TERRIBLE!) because of all the icky, fake, goopy, sticky, messy cheese in the center of it. It makes me want to hurl. But last week I was forced to eat a quesadilla with some nicer quality cheese and chicken at a party... and I got to thinking that they weren't really all that bad.

Melissa's quesadilla for those who hate quesadillas:
One tortilla
A handful of feta cheese (mine comes in little crumbly chunks)
A handful of sliced tomatoes (about a half of a tomato)
Lettuce (preferably shredded)
*optional* Chicken or other meat (I didn't put any in myself, but I imagine it would be pretty tasty)
Shred lettuce and chop up tomatoes anyway you like.
Stick feta cheese and tomatoes in the tortilla. Fold tortilla over the ingredients.
Roast the tortilla with feta cheese and tomatoes (and meat, if desired) over the stove quesadilla style. When the feta cheese has melted a lot but not to a sticky, goopy mess take it off the stove, open it up, stick the lettuce in, and enjoy!
I find it is a panini-like quesadilla that's not actually a panini. And isn't as spicy. It's actually pretty nice and sweet, especially if the tomatoes are ripe. Mmmm. And I don't even like tomatoes normally either! So this meal was a win-win.

Healthy tip: Eating more tomatoes boosts the Lycopene in your body. Lycopene is good for you because it reduces inflammation, fights zits, and creates healthier, clearer skin. You can also rub raw tomatoes on your face to clear pores, allegedly. Perhaps the phrase "tomato-face" could become a good thing in the future!