This for me has been the year of the cucumber, and considering how hot and dry it has been this year I am amazed by how many cucumbers I have managed to get off just one plant.
As fast as I pick them another takes it's place, growing like an alien under the cover of the leaves, surprising me a few days later by already being ridiculously big. They are tasty thank goodness, and have been my snack of choice whenever I get the nibbles, well it saves on buying any biscuits.
I have a confession to make ... I have never actually made a wrap!!
I always make sandwiches, I do buy wraps but I use them as thin pizza or quiche bases or to make homemade 'nacho style' crisps, never have I made a wrap in place of a sandwich until this week that was.
I had run out of fresh bread and needed to make Alan's lunch, the thought of driving backwards and forwards was too much so I got some wraps out of the freezer, thawed them to warm them and make them more pliable, and had a go. The one you see on the plate with a bite out of it was my trial wrap ... it worked, although I struggled a bit with the folding at first.
I loved it. Now I don't usually buy them for me when we are out and about although Alan has them regularly, I find the ones you get in the shop seem to be all bread and hardly any filling, mine were much more filled and so much more balanced.
I also have to confess that the 'chicken tikka' flavoured pieces of chicken that I used in Alan's wrap had been bought in error for Ginger, he has the plain chicken regularly but I doubt that's he's a chicken tikka flavoured kind of cat. 🐱
Alan had no qualms in using up the chicken, I had already admitted to the error of my ways.
Two wraps for Alan's lunch and I made another one for me while I was practising my new found rolling techniques. As you can possibly just about see, I got super good at it by the time I made Alan's. 😄
Sue xx
Our cucumbers have been the same - we thought the plants weren’t producing any fruit, but in fact both were quietly working away producing “stealth cucumbers” lurking behind the leaves - having found the first few we have had plenty more to follow!
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