Easy Wraps & Pizza

Here are some ideas when you need an easy & quick to prepare meal.

Wraps are versatile as you can put in just about anything to make up a delicious & nutritious meal. Try a tortilla with a bed of greens & avocado slices, topped with chicken breast and mushroom, onion & mustard sauce; roll it all up and lunch is ready within minutes.

How about one with fish? Start by pan frying salmon burgers, onions & mushrooms. Assemble the wrap with salad leaves, add on sliced pieces of salmon burger, tomatoes, and finish with the fried onions & mushrooms.

When you are not in a rush, but don't want to work too hard for your meal, try a pizza. For thin crispy crust, you can use a tortilla for the base; otherwise you can just use regular pizza base.

I tried something a bit more exotic the other day - Escargot Four Cheese Pizza. First, mix escargot with garlic herb butter and stuff into button mushrooms; bake for 10 minutes. Spread a thin layer of Four Cheese pasta sauce onto the tortilla or pizza base, then slice up the escargots & mushrooms and distribute evenly over the prepared base. Sprinkle some diced tomatoes and shredded cheese on top and bake for 20 to 30 minutes. Not a lot of preparation required, and even had time to be a couch potato before dinner. Easy clean up afterwards as well, so all-in-all a lazy relaxed evening . . .

Herb Chicken & Super Size Strawberries

Visiting the markets in search of fresh ingredients to prepare dinner, we find plump fresh chicken breasts on sale, and stumble upon the largest strawberries I've ever seen.

So it will be oven grilled herb chicken with rice tonight. After trimming and cleaning the chicken, marinade it with some herb butter, Italian herb mix & extra virgin olive oil, then place it on a grilling pan. Cut and mix some cabbage & carrots with chopped garlic, crushed pepper, salt and olive oil. Add it to the pan and stick it in the oven for about half an hour.

When done, pour out the pan drippings and use this chicken & vegetable juices to cook the rice; this will impart a nice chicken flavor to the rice.

For dessert, it's fresh jumbo strawberries with ice-cream and pieces of dark chocolate; yummy.