Random Food Post

Sometimes, depending on my mood I guess, I like to cook like people on television, with their little bowls of ingredients.  It’s fun.  And pretty.  :)

We had a big salad for lunch one day.  This was Joanna’s:

I LOVE reading The Pioneer Woman’s blog.  Her photos and recipes (and other stuff) are just amazing!  I saw this recipe for tortilla rollups and they just spoke to me.

So I mixed up some herbs with my cream cheese and set to work!

I do not have a fancy gadget that juliennes veggies, BUT I have an amazing new knife, so my carpal tunnels and I were still on speaking terms after this event.

Anyway, I filled my rollups with turkey and veggies in varying combinations, and stuck them in the fridge overnight.   They don’t need to be in the fridge overnight, but it was night and I didn’t want to eat them until the next day. 

And normally I don’t use plastic wrap ever, but obviously I had some, and I like to follow the recipe pretty exactly the first time I make something.

Here they are the next day, all ready to eat!

Matt loved them.  I have texture issues with food, so I didn’t really go for the variety pictured.  BUT I loved the avocado and turkey version.  Yum!  The kids each ate a few bites, but I think there was too much flavor in the cream cheese spread for them.

I will totally make that spread again though, and just get box of wheat thins and go to town.  Yummo.

I pretty much always have the ingredients for my favorite cookies on hand any time I get a hankerin’.  Then I mix ‘em up, scoop them on a cookie sheet, freeze them, then put them in a ziplock in the freezer.  Of course, once they’re there, they call my name and don’t really last so long.  Oh well.

Aren’t they beautiful?

They have oats and peanut butter and freshly ground whole wheat flour in them.  They’re practically health food!  Anyway, I highly recommend them for your freezer.  :)  Here’s the recipe.