Today's lunch wrap - Spicy Pumpkin Dip with alfalfa,capsicum, red onion and baby spinach
Anyway - instead of talking about grazing I am going to talk about my lunches while I am at home studying. During winter I would make a pot of whatever (usually lentils and whatever vegetables I had on hand) but during summer I don't often feel like hot stuff.
So what do you have for lunch thats healthy - but filling. I have found vegetable wraps are great because then I can graze later ;)
I always make them differently because I have different ingredients and varying levels of spare time. I usually have some form of dip that I use as a base then I pile on some home sprouted alfalfa, capsicum, cucumber, grated carrot, red onion, baby spinach leaves - roll it up and YUM!!
I saw an awesome quick recipe for pickled cucumbers and onions posted by Jessy at happyveganface. I love her recipes and I thought that this looked fantastic so I had to give it a go. Initially I was worried that I wouldn't use it up before Nat and I went to our parents place this weekend... how silly of me - I ate it within a day!!! It was fantastic!!
Because I wasn't thinking of keeping it for a while and because I am trying to not use extra oils/fats I ommitted the oil and sugar and just used rice wine vinegar (cause that is all I had) and salt and pepper. It was FLIPPIN AWESOME!!! I think that if your were not an oil-phobic like me you should definatly rock on to check out the Jessy' s recipe.
So I am sure that I will be posting more summer time lunches over the coming months. When I start working (and can only have one lunch) I am sure my lunches will be more substantial - so I guess these are really just a grazing snack ;)
6 comments:
i make this all the time using 1 part apple cider vinegar and one part water. it is super de-lish.
holy crap that wrap looks AMAZING
mmmm...that looks really good!
i looove wraps. i had a giant one for lunch today (but it had falafel in it, so it was quite substantial). it's fun to see you making summertime dishes while up here in the northern hemisphere we are all packing on the hearty meals for autumn/winter.
i'm so glad you enjoyed the pickled cucs 'n onions, Georgia! what a great idea on using a little salt 'n pepper. mmmmmmm! i'll have to give them a go with rice wine vinegar next time i make some. all we have in house is the rice vinegar, but i bet rice wine vinegar is sooooooo good! :)
your wrap looks so beautiful! the sprouts and spicy pumpkin dip sound like such a tasty combination. yay!
I love pickled...well anything! Thanks for sharing this and I will certainly be checking out Jessy's blog as well.
I love wraps too, for the exact same reason! Thanks for sharing. :)
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