Tuesday, June 10, 2008

How do you wrap a wrap?

My question is asked with utter humility. Whenever I try to assemble a wrap, the filling falls out.

Last night, for instance. Boo and I made a filling for flour tortilla wraps. It was sort of lumpy.


*recipe*

Squash and cucumber turkey wraps


Have on hand:
Flour tortillas (enough for your diners)
Fresh leaves of spinach

Mix together chopped:
cucumber
yellow squash
hickory-smoked turkey breast (precooked)

Season with:
mustard
mayonnaise
Italian salad dressing

Assembly:

We placed each flour tortilla wrapper on a plate and lined it with a layer of fresh spinach leaves, Topped the spinach leaves with the mixture described above. Okay . . .

Now the hard part: rolling up the wraps. They just don't hold together. At all. The mixture falls out both ends and it is hard to figure out how to hold the wrap with my hands so it has some stability. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Review:

Besides the structural defects, the wraps taste pretty good.



Rating: 4 forks for flavor
3 forks for presentation (because it looked funny)
3 forks for entertainment factor while eating

1 comment:

Mrs. K said...

fold in two opposite ends flat so that they cover the food a couple inches. Then lay one unfolded end over the rest of the filling and roll up to the final end.

...if that makes any sense, it always works for me :)

I think the key is to not overstuff the tortilla because then you just physically can't roll it.