sauteed cucumbers in butter sauce

Cucumber saute ingredients:

oil
1 cucumber, sliced
lemon juice

Slice cucumber.
Saute in oil.
Splash lemon juice across the bottom of the skillet.
Simmer until cucumber slices tender.

Sauce:

Melt 1 and 1/2 sticks butter

Throw in:
2 tablespoons lemon pepper
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
2 teaspoons salt

Stir to mix.

Both the cucumber saute and the butter sauce go well over a pot of cooked pasta!

cucumber wrap

Hooray for Boo!

She prepared this easy summer entree for us

the afternoon our air conditioning quit.

For each serving:

• Put large flour tortilla on plate.

• Cover with fresh spinach leaves.

• Layer a slice of chicken deli meat on top of spinach leaves. (Omit if preparing vegetarian version.)

• Cover chicken sliced meat with thick layer of diced cucumber.

• Season with Ranch salad dressing and Parmesan cheese

Guten Appetit!

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Review

3.5 forks for presentation
3.5 forks for flavor

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