Wrap up a full lunch
Dec 31, 2011 Uncategorized
Greek salads are great, but sometimes they aren’t practical to take on the road. Take the salad, wrap it up and head out to run your end-of-the-year errands.
It’s a simple, healthy lunch that you can eat on the go. Better tasting than any drive-thru, this is a good-for-you lunch that you will not regret later.
This is either a great way to finish up the last of a salad or you can make the salad from scratch.
Greens, peppers, olives and feta cheese…how can you go wrong with that combination? Add a flavorful wrap and you’ve got a winning combination!
I like to put the cold salad in a warm wrap, but you could bake the whole thing together, making it all meld together.
Greek Salad Wrap
| 3 tomatoes, cut into wedges 1/4 red onion, sliced |
| 1/2 cucumber, sliced into thick half-moons |
| 1/2 green pepper, julienned |
| 4 ounces of feta cheese, cut into small cubes |
| 16 kalamata olives 2 spinach and herb tortilla, warmed
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Tags: Cheese, Cold Salad, Cubes, Cucumber, Drive Thru, Greek Salad, Greek Salads, Green Pepper, Greens, Kalamata Olives, Lunch, Moons, Nbsp, Red Onion, scratch, Spinach, Tomatoes, Tortilla, Winning Combination
New Foods: Quinoa
Oct 28, 2010 General
New foods don’t only happen to kids. I have a ton of quinoa in my cupboard. Why?
Um, I saw it at Costco.
(did you read that post where I said I was ashamed of myself for being such a corporate-struck foodie? Yesterday I was saying to myself, “FORGET BUYING LOCAL! Just give me a drive-thru supermarket!” It wasn’t one of my better moments after shopping with kids for 2 hours.)
I’d heard about quinoa, so I bought it, thinking, “This is so healthy. I will totally love this.”
Are you laughing yet?
I didn’t like it. It’s so… Crunchy. I like crunchy, yes, but it’s too crunchy. Even when I tried to cook it longer. With more water. And more. And more. It just tastes uncooked to me.
I’ve been ignoring it for weeks now (months?). I felt embarrassed when I was going through my cupboard and saw it was still there. Can’t it take a hint?
I finally decided to give it a go when I saw a recipe for a quinoa cake. I liked it. (plus gluten free!) I really would have never known it was quinoa. Fudgy and moist.
My mom told me that my dad likes it mixed with the regular rice in the rice cooker. I was skeptical but finally gave it a go.
I LOVED quinoa in the rice cooker. I put a ratio of 1 rice cup (if you have a rice cooker, I hope you didn’t throw this away) quinoa and 3 rice cups rice (duh) and filled the water up to “rice” line 4. The quinoa wasn’t overwhelming, and it was fluffy with just the right texture.
So I think I might venture even further and try this parfait.
Do you like quinoa? Send some recipes my way so I can like it too.
Tags: Costco, Cupboard, Dad, Drive Thru, Duh, Mom, New Foods, Quinoa Recipes, Recipe Cake, Rice Cooker, Shopping, Supermarket, Texture
The Coffee Bar opens in Burton
Jul 31, 2010 Bakery Prices
The Coffee Bar opens in Burton
The Coffee Bar, 4021 E. Atherton Road, opened for business recently and serves lunch at the counter or through a drive-thru.
Read more on The Flint Journal
Tags: Atherton, Burton, Coffee, Coffee Bar, Drive Thru, Flint Journal, Lunch, Opens
