Comfort Food on a Cold Wintry Night!

I did not know it gets this cold in Irvine.  I thought So Cal was suppose to be nice and sunny all year long.  This was the first holiday break that I spent in Irvine after 2 years and may be that's why I feel like this is not normal (a side tangent: I got back to work on Tuesday).  In 2010, I was in India for my Mum's retirement party, and in 2011, I was in Hawaii, where the weather was just awesome!  And this year, I was in Irvine where temperature dropped to as low as 2 degrees Celsius (35F). Cold cold cold!  I know my friends on East Coast are like, oh Comeon!, but what to do?  We SoCal people are always complaining, less sun, more sun, no sun, rain, we always cry and complain :D (by the way it was nice today and is expected to rain over the weekend again).

The Best Veggie Wrap Ever!!

I made a veggie wrap last week and it was the best veggie wrap I had ever had!!! And the best part about this veggie wrap was that it took me just 15 mins from start to finish to make it....

I am sure you can find this recipe at a number of different places, but I did not look it up.. I guess its pretty simple so I just didnt need to...

Ingredients


1. Whole wheat wrap bread
2. Vegetables that I had at hand - Bell Peppers, Lettuce leaves, Avocados, Tomatoes, Onions, and Cucumber (as I didn't have zucchini)
3.  Plain Hummus

Salt & Pepper to taste

Method

I used a griddle pan to grill tomatoes, onions, avocados, bell peppers, cucumber, and the wrap bread.  I love grill marks on my food!!! Thinly slice the vegetables (except lettuce leaves) and scoop out avocado and slice.

Spread a layer of plain hummus on the wrap bread.  Add lettuce leaves and then vegetables.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper and Enjoy!!

I loved this so much that I ate this wrap for lunch and dinner and know that It will be one of my most common lunch items soon!!

You can add fish sticks or anything else also to this wrap.. Customize and enjoy!

 

Vegeterian Puff

I have mentioned this at numerous occasions earlier how I love watching The Food network Show. Yesterday, on one such cooking show, they showed making Apple Turnover.  Now I am not a big fan of apple pie or anything similar, but an idea cropped in my head.  I suddenly had this urge to make vegetarian patties using puff pastry sheets.  I have never seen one of those here in the US, so I had a good reason to make them aswell.