Queso-nini or Pandilla ?

I’m stuck at Kendra’s house alone today. She borrowed my car and will be in town most of the day…. About 35 miles away. I’m here unsupervised….crippled with a mangled foot….. and nobody to tell me what to do. The possibilities are endless ! Woo-hoooo !

So I half crawled / half hobbled into the kitchen to see what mayhem I could cause. I can’t reach the cabinets very well due to my condition but the panini grill is accessible. So is the fridge. Oh yeah, let’s get the grub on !

What I came up with is something that I don’t know what to call. A Queso-nini ? Perhaps a Pandilla ? Either way it’s a combination of a quesadilla and a panini. What I did was what I do best. Just throw stuff at a fire warm enough to potentially kill the bugs, and then eat it. Looks like I’m doing up some hillbilly food fusion today. A bit of Mexico and a touch of Italy. Spanish-Italian….. “Spitalian” since if it doesn’t taste good you can just spit it out.

Beginning of something strange

I started off with two strips of bacon. Covered them with black beans (frijoles). Added some salami and prosciutto. Covered this in pepper jack cheese and sprinkled some Asiago on the edge.

Salami

Prosciutto

Ready to be folded

Rise of the queso-nini

I folded this over and cooked it in the panini grill with the left over bacon grease I didn’t bother to clean up first. I cut this thing up quesadilla style then topped it off with some pico de gallo and Dave’s Insanity Hot Sauce.

The Pandilla on the plate

Was it any good ? It was for me, because I’m not really too picky. It was quick, I was hungry, and it took me all of 5 minutes raiding the fridge for this stuff. The one thing I learned in the Marine Corps is that with enough hot sauce or sometimes sugar — you could potentially eat a turd if you’re hungry. The hot sauce just burns your tongue enough that you don’t taste anything terrible. How do you think we were able to live on MRE’s for so many months in the field ? Tiny bottles of Tobasco that come in each packet. These days I’ve graduated from Tobasco to Dave’s Insanity or to bhut jolokia or Trinidad scorpion peppers. The ghost peppers and garlic are my favorites. I can kill a vampire at 50 feet just by blowing my breath at it.

It’s also handy for keeping potential gold diggers away as well. Garlic, hot peppers, stale cigar smoke, and Skoal mint flavored dip makes a potent combination of breath guaranteeing no woman can get within 25’ of you…. Therefore saving your wallet and preventing heartbreak.