In my quest for new lunches, I decided to make some of my favorite snacks into lunch. Meet the lunchables. Adult version.
2 French Meadow Sprouted Fat Flush Tortillas, baked until crispy, cucumber, lettuce, red peppers


home-made hummus, marinated artichokes & kalamata olive tapenade

oikos tzatziki

Voila! A quick to assemble lunch – extremely portable and most importantly?
Delicious! I was so excited for lunch this day!



Another twist on the lunchables:
home-made hummus and tapenade

Greek Salad (not pictured) and Quinoa Tabbouleh

Recipe for Quinoa Tabbouleh:
1/2 cup quinoa, cooked as directed
1 bunch of parsley, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
2 green onions, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 cucumber, chopped
1-2 Tbsp olive oil
juice of 1/2 lemon
salt & pepper

Toss all ingredients and enjoy. Easy and refreshing.


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This twist on my favorite spring rolls was inspired by a “Glass Noodle Stir-Fry” from the July edition of Food & Wine. I went from rice noodles to zucchini noodles in spring roll wrappers. They were great…the rest of dinner? Not so much.
The taster and I went to an Asian Market one night after work (complete with Wasabi peas, Nori wrappers and lychee fruit) along with some Chinese broccoli (my Chinese take-out favorite) and some calamari rings….neither of which I was very pleased with. But hey, the store was great and you never know what you are going to find!

Zucchini noodles and other veggies – stir-frying away

Recipe:
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp sesame oil
2 Tbsp rice vinegar
Squirt of sriracha
1/4 cup green onion, sliced
1/2 cup carrots, chopped
1 pepper, sliced
2 1/2 cup zucchini noodles
1 cup napa cabbage, shredded

Heat olive oil in a pan and add veggies (cabbage at the very end). Add the sesame oil, rice vinegar and sriracha and stir-fry until veggies are heated through. Add a pile of veggies to the rice paper, top with cilantro and roll!

Finished version…definitely want to make some more of these rolls- YUM!

Here is the not so great broccoli – it just needed a little something something – it was a little on the bitter side.

The squid? I had about one piece and was finished…it may have been better if we had sliced it into thinner rings, but I was not a fan.

Next time I’ll just stick with the spring rolls ;)


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