I’ve been slacking blogging for the past few days, so today I woke up with a mission to cook some incredibly delicious and blog worthy food!
First thing I did when I woke up this morning was turn on the oven to make some chocolate chip cookies. I’ve been wanting to make this Smitten Kitchen thick chewy oatmeal raisin cookie recipe for a while now, and we had a bag of Ghirardelli chocolate chips that have been begging to be eaten, so I decided to use the Ghirardelli chocolate in Smitten Kitchen’s recipe to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies…my favorite!
mmm...cookie dough
fresh out of the oven 
Besides using chocolate chips in place of the raisins, I also subbed whole wheat flour for the white flour and added a handful of dried cranberries.
yum! these won't last long...
Even better than the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies was the quesadilla I made for lunch today!! The star ingredient was fresh mango!
I also used some salsa Monterey Jack cheese I discovered at Publix:
this was so flavorful!!!
And I sauteed some onions, red bell pepper, and spinach:
i love veggies
I also cooked some chicken tenderloins to make the quesadilla more filling and to add some protein, but these would have have been delicious vegetarian (maybe with black beans??).
veggies, chicken, mango, and cheese on a wheat tortilla all ready to be cooked!
served with avocado slices, of course
Maybe I should have called this blog the Avocado Athlete instead of Raspberry Runner…. I eat avocado almost every day, and I actually rarely eat raspberries…..especially when they are $6 for a little container that I could eat in a handful! Maybe you will see more raspberries featured on the blog when they are in season and I can afford them
Anyway, this quesadilla is the best meal I have had in a long time, and it was so quick and easy! Sometimes I forget that I usually like what I cook more than what I can get in a restaurant… Not that I have incredible cooking skills, but I know what I like, and I can cook my favorite foods my way What are your favorite things to cook?
