Slow Cooking

Unfortunately this post isn't about a great slow cooking recipe, it's more about the fact that I'm sorry I haven't had time to post any tasty delights yet, particularly my version of the Chicago style hot dog. Please stick around because it is coming, but just slowly. This entry is mostly about the fact that lately I've been so busy the only thing I've been really making is bagged lunches. But let me tell you I am THE connoisseur of the bagged lunch. My specialty you ask, wraps!

I know a cook isn't supposed to divulge their true pickiness, but I'm going to be honest, I do NOT like sliced sandwich bread. I blame it on the fact that as a child growing up I attended the only school district in the north shore of Chicago that did not have a cafeteria until high school. For some, this is unimaginable, I've heard of kids being fed mac 'n cheese and French fries since kindergarten, but not I. Our school district opted to spend their government tax money on fancy Mac computers and highclass dodge balls instead. So I grew up eating in the school gym, or in junior high an area they called "the commons". Back to my fear of sliced bread...everyday I was packed an almost identical school lunch: a honey ham sandwich on Mother's sliced bread with mustard (no cheese), a plastic bag full of cheetos, a juicebox, and either an applesauce or a Twinkie. When the lunch was packed the bread was normally at room temperature, the ham was usually cold from being in the fridge. By lunch time, the ham had transferred its moisture to the bread turning it to a slightly gluey consistency. But I still ate it, day after day after day. But as a grown-up I have the choice to not eat slightly moist, gluey bread, and so I chose not to.



Today's Simple Wrap-Up:

A small sized round tortilla (any brand will do)
3 slices of thin-cut honey turkey (Sara- Lee is my favorite)
A sprinkling of parmesan cheese (about 2 tablespoons)
Lingonberry preserves (about a teaspoon)

I prefer to package my wraps in tinfoil and chose not to refrigerate them (I figured this was safe due to the fact that every sack lunch I had in elementary school was not refrigerated and I didn't die from food poisoning)

If you work in an office, I'm sure you've been blessed my some sort of functioning microwave, I recommend heating your wrap before consuming, it tastes even better when the cheese melts and combines with the Lingonberry preserves. I enjoy consuming my turkey wrap with a juicy juice grape juice box, a snack bag of sunchips and some sort of fruit. Viola the perfect bagged lunch!