Blake Makes

Every now and then, you stumble upon something simple and amazing in your kitchen. Discoveries like these used to happen all the time in mine, but my food muse has been conspicuously absent lately. However, I learned today that a good cookbook can bring it all back.

I’ve written several times before about our Gourmet cookbook (Patrick’s wedding present to us), and today we cracked it open in search of something healthy and lite. This wrap looked promising.

I hate to bury the lead, but this wrap was SCRUMPTIOUS!

It’s got pickled red onions, and an amazing spicy mayo concoction that I literally ate by the spoonful.

First, I had to make the onions. I sliced a red onion and blanched it for 60 seconds in boiling water.

The deep purple rings went all pale pink, and when they did, I drained them.

I returned the onions to the pan, and added 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar, 3/4 cup water and 1 tsp. salt.

I brought it all to a boil, and simmered for another 60 seconds. By this time, the onions looked a bit like candy (which is my way of saying they were hard to resist).

I set the pan aside to cool. After a bit, I poured its contents into a bowl and let it chill in the fridge for a couple of hours.

Next, I made the mayo. For this you’ll need to buy a small can of chiles in adobo sauce.

Combine 1/4 cup mayo with 2 tsp. of chopped chiles in adobo. I did this in my little food processor, but you could do it by hand.

Finally, assemble! Heat the tortillas (we used whole wheat ones, and I heated them right on the smooth, glass cooktop). They bubbled and scorched a little in a few places - about 40 seconds per side.

Spread the tortillas with the spicy mayo, then layer on thin slices of turkey. Add four or five ringlets of the pickled onions. We adapted this recipe by next adding alfalfa sprouts and crumbling on some goat cheese. Wrap it up and devour!

For some reason, we only bought a few slices of turkey, so after three wraps (1 for Beez, 2 for me), we were all out. I wanted more, so I made another one with just the mayo, onions, cheese and sprouts.

I never missed the turkey.