Century Corned Tuna: Tasty and Healthy Alternative
This is the Quesadilla that won the contest. I was part of a six-person blogger team that went against another blogger team in a cook-off that frayed nerves, puzzled minds, tickled palates and made us victorious. By the way, here’s the winning team picture.
That’s me with the bib.
Century Corned Tuna is the secret ingredient
Contest rules were fairly simple. Cook up one pasta dish and one appetizer using the Century Corned Tuna. We had a swirl of ideas and finally we decided to make a nutty pasta dish using fettuccine, spinach and toasted almonds. For the appetizer, we decided to make quesadilla. Quesadilla is a snack food that is made of wheat or corn tortilla stuffed with cheese. It is essentially Mexican, though other parts of South America and even the continental United States have their own version.
Our version of this Mexican treat was made more special with Century Corned Tuna. All we did was take a flour tortilla, halve it, then stuff it with cheese, Century Corned Tuna and some peppers and celery. You can try this with cilantro too! Flatten the tortilla and cook it on a Teflon pan with very little oil, just enough to prevent the quesadilla from burning. Just toast it on both sides and cut into slices. It was so good that the judges managed to finish it! There were people who were still asking for more but we only made 2 tortillas. I highly urge you to try this at home!
A little salsa on the side may this dish more inviting.
The pasta that we did was the bigger winner. AJ and Erlyn did a wonderful job in doing the actual cooking. Ohmski, Jane and Annalyn came up with the cool ideas for our winning dish. Check out pictures of our “great victory”.
Thank you Century Corned Tuna! I’m replenishing my pantry soon and cans of corned tuna are at the top of my shipping list.
November 15, 2009
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Arpee · 
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Tags: century corned tuna, corned tuna, pasta with corned tuna, quesadilla with tuna · Posted in: events
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congratulations for the win! i was one of the judges who was lucky to taste your team’s wonderful dishes. i also made a post regarding the event. hope to see you again in other bloggers’ events in the future as i am one of your (silent) followers;
i’m keeping your link in my blogroll for quite some time now. congratz again, arpee!
Hi – Thanks for recommending using a Teflon pan while making your quesadilla (it looks delicious
. I represent DuPont and it’s always a pleasure to see people recommending our products in their recipes.
If you are interested in some other recipes or great cookbooks to look at for your blog, drop me an email and I would be glad to help you out! Thanks. Cheers, Ross
I love century’s corned tuna. The quesadilla looks delicious, i’ll try it this weekend
it looks fantastic. you could see the cheese melting in the fourth photo. sarap sarap. i tried century corned tuna with diced bread stuffing and lots of cheese. winner eh. but flour tortilla, this is definitely a must-try. hope to try this one soon.
what a mouth-watering post! congratulations for winning! i simply can’t wait to try this on my own but i’m afraid i’m not that into cooking. anyway, about the secret ingredient, I agree with your choice of century tuna. imagine a quesadilla with less fatty ingredients, heaven, isn’t it?
Yummy! I’ll try it, I love quesadillas. :O Congrats!
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