Invidious Quesadillas

The word 'invidious' comes from the Latin invideo, which means to envy or begrudge. The Latin verb is interesting to me precisely because it means more than just envy, although this indeed is its primary meaning. It means something like to cast the evil eye, to regard something with such negativity and ill-will as to transform the very passivity of perception into the activity of a curse, to lave the innocent object of regard in the poisonous apprehension which oozes from the glance of the basilisks that nest in the secret cockles of the heart.

Anyway, the reason I'm calling these quesadillas invidious is because I've always felt that black-eyed peas are watching me.

Recipe: black-eyed peas + tortilla (+ olive oil). I highly urge you to add cheese to this recipe. I didn't have any cheese at the time (HUGE OVERSIGHT).



Report: Without cheese, this is basically just black-eyed peas in a tortilla. Nevertheless, it was pretty good, but not great. 7/20.