Salmon Quesadillas @MaddieDayAuthor #giveaway

MADDIE DAY here, greeting you from the Malice Domestic mystery convention in North Bethesda, Maryland!

It's always exciting to be at Malice chatting with fans and author pals. 

I'm also thrilled that this year "While the Iron is Hot" is nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Short story!

The story, which you can read for free on my web site, opens with a woman ironing money. Fingers crossed I'll go home with an Agatha teapot. 

I'm also excited that A Poisonous Pour, the third Cece Barton mystery, releases next week. I knew I would be out of town today, and I wanted to bring you another recipe of something Cece would love to eat. She doesn't eat meat, and she loves any Mexican/Southwestern kind of dish, especially if it includes avocados (kind of like her author...).

Last week I had some leftover cooked salmon, so I thought quesadillas would be a perfect recipe to share here. It's super easy, and you can sub in cooked chicken or beef if you don't like fish, or refried beans if you're a vegetarian. Just make sure you have a ripe avocado on hand. 

Salmon Quesadillas

Ingredients

Flour tortillas

1/2 to 1 pound cooked salmon

1 teaspoon cumin

1 teaspoon chili powder

Juice of half a lime

1 tablespoon olive oil

8 ounces grated cheese (I used pepper jack)

Salsa of your choice

Sour cream

Ripe avocado, sliced

Shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes

Directions

Rough-shred salmon and season it with cumin, chili powder, and lime juice.

Heat olive oil in heavy skillet over medium heat.

For each quesadilla:

Place one tortilla in pan.

Spread half with salmon and grated cheese. 

Fold empty half on top. Cook until the bottom is lightly browned, then flip. (Sorry, I forgot to take a photo of the cooked quesadilla undressed.)

If your skillet size permits, do the same with another tortilla so you can serve two hot at the same time. Otherwise, keep the first one warm.

Serve hot with a dollop of sour cream, salsa, several slices of avocado, and a sprinkle of lettuce and tomato.

 

See how easy it is?

Readers: Do you like the ease of a simple recipe or opt for something more challenging? I'll send one lucky commenter a copy of A Poisonous Pour.

And if you're at the conference, please find me and say hi!

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Murder at Cape Costumers is out and available wherever book are sold!

Next up is A Poisonous Pour! This third Cece Barton mystery releases April 28.



My most recent releases are Scone Cold Dead, #13 in the Country Store Mysteries,

 Deadly Crush, 

and A Case for the Ladies.

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.