Newlywed Vegetarian: Recipe Post: Simple Wrap

I love wraps. I know a lot of people hear or see "wrap" and immediately go, "Ugh, health food. No one would eat one unless they were one of those health nuts." And to some extent it's true, because usually more health-conscious people will choose a wrap...but I also just like them and sometimes prefer them to a "real" sandwich. Is that weird?

Wraps to me are kind of like tacos. You start with stock ingredients and make whatever the heck you want out of it. I will probably add "fancier" recipes later on with more complicated or refined wraps, but this one may always be my favorite--especially because it's easy! They also remind me of tacos in the sense that you may say "Do you really need a recipe for this?" Oh, well!

This specific combination reminds me fondly of college. At my college, we had a fast food joint that we were allowed to eat 15 meals at per semester in lieu of eating at our dining hall, and I always got this combination of a wrap with onion rings and Oreos. I never got sick of it!

I didn't have any onion rings or Oreos in the house, and I didn't feel like trying to make either, but I did do the wrap last night.

Let's get down to it:

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: Zero!

Serves: 1 (or 2 if you feel like sharing)

Ingredients:

1 large tortilla
2 slices provolone cheese
Shredded lettuce
Sliced tomato
Sliced green pepper
Quartered black olives
Sliced onions
Mayonnaise

1. Start with your tortilla.

Rocket science, I know.

2. Mayonnaise.

Or miracle whip, if you're of the devil. ...I mean, you're entitled to your opinion. Go ahead and use the devil whip if you like.

...Okay, it's not that bad. I've just always strongly preferred mayonnaise.

Slather on the mayonnaise or miracle whip as thickly as you like. I like a lot. If you couldn't tell.

3. Slice up all of your veggies in whatever size chunks you want. The wraps that I had in college always diced up the stuff, but I find less of it falls out if you slice.

Somehow I missed getting a photo of the cheese. It's there, I promise. P.S., if you don't like provolone/like another cheese better, use something else! I won't tell.

3. Lay out your cheese slices down the center, slightly overlapping. Sprinkle the lettuce slices in a horizontal line, leaving a little bit of space at the ends for folding.

See the cheese under there? Told you it was there.

Tomato slices.

Green peppers.

Kinda looks like the top of a football to me, now.

Then onion.

Then black olives. You can leave them off if you hate them like half the people I know.

I only had this much stuff left so I just snacked on the rest of the green pepper slices and unceremoniously threw the rest of the onions and lettuce on.

4. Now to make it an actual wrap!

Fold over the ends of the wrap, on the horizontal where you left a little space earlier. This only shows one side, but I don't have three hands to fold both sides and take a picture, so that's all you get!