Bobby Flay Everyday!: Breakfast Quesadillas

Welcome to Bobby Flay Everyday!

I am not an expert. I have never even taken a class. I have no formal training - but I love to grill. I love the food off the grill and I just like the idea, the fun and the relaxation of grilling. So naturally Bobby Flay is a hero. I have his books, I watch his shows and I try out his recipes. So my idea is to grill one of Bobby's grilling recommendations everyday and see how it goes. Bobby Flay Everyday!

The idea to grill and blog is not original. Julie Powell wrote a blog that became a book and then a movie when she cooked all 524 recipes from Julia Child's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. But this is not French Cooking - this is backyard, after work, tailgate, American male grilling. I grill outside in a man-cave in every kind of weather. There is no "grilling season" for me - its everyday, year-round. We will skip around through Bobby's books and TV shows and grill what we like. But grilling is more than food, its an experience - so we will also report on what music we listened to or what ball game was on while we were grilling. We will keep track of what we were drinking during the grilling and later with the food. I'll try to figure what went wrong when we fall short of Bobby's perfection and pass on any tips I know about or discover along the way. Maybe it will give others some ideas as well.

The photo is of me and two of my brother-in-laws roasting the Thanksgiving turkey on the grill last year. That's me on the far right. In real life I am a college professor and pilot. I have written 12 books, but they were all about flying - here we write about grilling. We write about Bobby Flay Everyday!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Breakfast Quesadillas

From the Mesa Grill Cookbook (page 256) here are some breakfast quesadillas with grilled ham, Colby-Jack cheese and home fries. Grilling a breakfast and still getting to work has its challenges - but this was very fast. I grilled a ham steak under a brick and then sliced it into strips. The potatoes were in a pan over the grill with some canola oil, salt and pepper. When I got the eggs scrambled, I constructed the quesadillas into whole wheat tortillas and wrapped them up.

Weather Report. Gloomy. I don't think that the term "gloomy" is an official weather service descriptor, but it still fits. The only way to have seen the Sun here in what seems like weeks, would have been to file an IFR flight plan to "VFR Conditions on top." That flight plan request is risky however in a small airplane because the clear skies above the clouds may be higher than a light airplane can climb! You could reach the highest altitude your airplane could achieve and still be in the clouds on a day like today. That would really be gloomy! So I guess we will stay on the ground and wait it out.

You can't depend on the clouds to break, but you can depend on the grill to light.

Paul