Showing posts with label sandwich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sandwich. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

How To Caramelize Onions & An Easy, Healthy Quinoa, Beet and Onion Wrap Recipe (Vegan)


Each January I put a renewed focus on healthy eating, primarily by increasing my intake of fruit and vegetables. For the most part, though, I try to eat healthy foods all year round, and I don't like to create stress around eating. I believe that nutritious food can go hand in hand with delicious food. Take this easy, yummy sandwich wrap, for example. This recipe makes for a simple-to-prepare, healthy lunch or dinner option.

This easy quinoa wrap requires only a handful of ingredients - the key to its delicious flavour is caramelized onions. Truth be told, I use onions in almost every dinner recipe I make. In fact, my son says my hands always smell like onions. I’m not offended - onions make every meal better. (You can always dip your fingers in lemon juice if the smell bothers you.) This month, I'm bringing you two ideas for simple, healthy meals to make with Idaho-Eastern Oregon Spanish Sweet Onions, beginning with this tortilla sandwich wrap. I'll have another delicious recipe for you soon.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

What’s for lunch?

“Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.”—St. Thomas Aquinas

I believe that this particular philosophy applies nicely to lunch. A lunchtime meal should be simple to prepare, but just as delicious and satisfying as a more complex dinner.
Sometimes it is dinner, re-heated the next day. Those are my favourite lunches—a nice warm meal with almost no effort at all.

On those days when leftovers are not available, I sometimes turn to my panini press. Whether you prepare a sandwich using bread, a bun, a pita or whatever else you have around, the panini press makes any kind of sandwich feel a little fancier.

Yesterday, I decided to make my lunchtime sandwich using a wheat-free tortilla, as I am still keeping up the cleanse (except for one delicious encounter with maki sushi made with tempura veggies inside). My stomach is feeling good, so I am sticking to lots of fruit, veggies, legumes and rice, along with dairy-free chocolate and spelt flour goodies for treats.

My sandwich was a whatever-is-in-the-fridge kind of a deal. It happened to be mushrooms, peppers, tomato, avocado, spinach and some Daiya vegan cheddar cheese. I am not a big fan of vegan cheese, but I decided to give this a second chance, and I found that it was pretty good. It did actually melt, and acted as the “glue” to keep the ingredients together.
I topped it off with a little fine sea salt and some pepper and it was good to go.
Next time, I would like to add some hummus or maybe some pureed black beans.
What are you having for lunch?