Meatless Monday's... Quorn Chik'n Quesadilla's

*To those of you that our following my journey through ACIM have no fear... I will be posting my notes from lesson 9 tomorrow along with my notes from lesson 10. I'm trying to branch out my blog without making it to cluttered with multiple posts a day.*

Meatless Monday's doesn't really mean or do anything for me as every meal of every day is already Meatless Monday (i've been a vegetarian for a number of years). But i figured since i am vegetarian, once a week i could share a meal that i ate (and really enjoyed) to possibly inspire non vegetarians to go meatless on monday's or just try out something veg friendly.

Today's meal (as in i actually ate it for lunch today) was a Quorn Chik'n Quesadilla...

The first thing some of you may be thinking is, "What the hell is Quorn?"

"There are believed to be over 600,000 varieties of fungi in the world, some of which are the most sought-after foods, such as mushrooms and truffles. The principal ingredient in all Quorn products is mycoprotein (“myco” is Greek for “fungi”). The mycoprotein comes from Fusarium venenatum, which was originally discovered growing in a field in Buckinghamshire, England. In the late 1960s, initial product development began, and mycoprotein’s potential as an efficient and nutritious protein source was soon recognized."

Now i know the description kind of gives it an "ick" factor but it is actually quite tasty. For todays meal i sprayed it with canola oil and sprinkled it with sea salt, pepper, and chili powder. Cook it in the oven at 400 degrees F for 18 minutes (turning over the patty after 9 minutes) and voila! You have the chik'n part of the meal.

Everything else was really quite simple. While the chik'n was cooking i shredded the cheese (i love Cabot seriously sharp cheddar) and lightly toasted the tortilla shells in a frying pan on the oven. (If i had any peppers i would have chopped them up to throw in the mix as well). After the chik'n was done i chopped it up, mixed it up with the cheese, tossed it in between two tortilla shells, and cooked it for about a minute on each side before it was done.  The end result being what you saw in the first picture of this blog...

Also in somewhat related Meatless Monday news...

My roomie gave me her old juicer (how did i not know she even had one?) I am very interested in making fresh juices and green smoothies so now im looking for awesome recipes for both. So if any of my lovely readers have ideas of websites or books i should look into please leave a note in the comments section and i will be extremely grateful. 

~Torri