Thursday, January 28, 2010

What I had for lunch today

Yes, that's right, I'm back. If you missed me and thought I surely must be dead, well it's quite the contrary, but not for lack of trying. Despite my illustrious pretensions of foodiness, in the real world I work in retail. And, as we all know, in the retail world the holidays are a big black hole that suck you into them sometime in November and spit you back out sometime around now, once the after-Christmas sales are over.

What that being said, I will stop boring you with my real-world life, and tell you what I'm eating for lunch today. This recipe, like so many others, is an excuse for me to showcase an exciting new item I discovered today. That item is goat's milk cheddar. I love goat cheese, of any sort, so when I was at Trader Joe's today, poking around the cheese section, I couldn't resist this. It was like the old Reese's commercials...only with goats and cheddar, instead of peanut butter and chocolate. Point is, it's delicious. Try it. And if you don't know what to do with it, make one of these:

Veggie Wrap

1 tortilla, of whatever variety you like (I had plain boring flour)
1 roma tomato, thinly sliced
~1/2 a haas avocado, also sliced
assorted greens (lettuce, spinach, whatever makes you happy. I used green leaf lettuce)
1 sandwich-shaped slice of goat's milk cheddar, cut in half rectanglewise (as opposed to trianglewise -- sandwich fans, you know what I mean)
mayo to taste

This part is really hard, so focus: put the ingredients on the tortilla. Wrap it like a burrito. Eat.

Try the goat cheddar! You won't regret it, I promise. If you find it in any other grocery stores, let me know.