It's been beautiful outside lately, well here it has been (here as in Michigan) so I'm guessing it's been pretty awesome all around weather wise for everyone reading this blog? With that in mind this week I took my recipe to the grill and we made something on the healthy side. It's got romaine lettuce and lemon pita bites and we dusted off that grill and placed a boneless skinless chicken breasts on it to become reacquainted with it's old friend. Let's get this week's party started!
Caesar Chicken Wraps
Prep Time: 10 Min
Total Time: 10 Min
Makes: 4 wraps
1 bag (7.5 oz) complete Caesar salad mix
1 cup chopped cooked chicken
4 garden vegetable-flavor flour tortillas (8 to 9 inch)
2 tablespoons shredded fresh Parmesan cheese (1/2 oz)
DIRECTIONS
1) Crush croutons from salad mix; set aside. In large bowl, combine remaining Caesar salad mix ingredients and chicken; mix well.
2) Wrap tortillas in moist microwavable paper towels. Microwave on High 15 to 20 seconds or until warm.
3) Spoon salad mixture evenly onto center of warm tortillas; spread to within 1 inch of edges. Sprinkle each with shredded cheese and crushed croutons. Fold bottom of each tortilla up over filling; fold sides over.
You can use any type of flour tortillas--plain, whole wheat or flavored--in place of the garden vegetable tortillas.
Secure the wraps with picks and olives.
Use chopped cooked chicken from the freezer section or leftover chicken from your refrigerator to speed this recipe along. Or try chopped cooked breaded or grilled chicken.
This was good, I wasn't knocked off of my feet by it (I've had better chicken wraps) but honestly it was super filling and it was tasty. Enough for me to make it again? Absolutely BUT we have to come clean on this one. It wasn't cheap. It turned into this over $20 fiasco and it put our wallet's on life support as far as groceries go. Honestly, who has the cash or want to spend on this dinner for one night only? It's a tad on the expensive side. I dunno who invited Donald Trump or Vince McMahon but fellas this blog isn't for you guys but this dish sure may be with the price tag that came with it. We even broke it down, we could've got gourmet wraps for the same amount and saved the time outside as well as inside on making these things. So, we decided to show you how to get it for a tad cheaper than we did. The main expensive item was the Hidden Valley Caesar Salad Kit. It's nice for a small lunch but we thought it would save money and time with this dish. It ended up only having a tiny amount of the items we needed with this big price tag. Not good times.
Tid Bits:
*So wanna make this dish without handing over all your hard earned money to your local grocery store? You're in luck! Here's how:
First buy just a head of romaine lettuce, store brand Caesar salad dressing, croutons, chicken (Doesn't have to be breasts. You honestly can get whatever cut of the chicken you prefer), Parmesan cheese, & tortilla's. Simple, and no bagged salad kits needed.
*You can go really healthy and choose whole wheat tortilla's
Ma's Spot: I really enjoyed this dish. The chicken needed for this recipe, you can make a few different ways. You can put it in your slow cooker, grill it, or oven bake it just to name a few. I used the whole wheat tortilla's and really found it delicious. It's filling, we had fries with ours. It wasn't needed but I didn't know how filing the wraps would end up being. Like we said earlier I prefer to omit the salad kit so you can control how much dressing you put on these wraps. As for me, I'll definitely making these again. Great summer dish! What I would like to do is on one of my days off from work put a bag of chicken in the slow cooker, season it up, let it cool, put it in freezer bags, and then next time you want wraps you have chicken already prepared.
*SNACK CORNER:*
It's time for snack corner! Where we take new snacks in the grocery store and break it down for you. We tell you which are hot and which are not. Let's get to this week's picks:
Dinah: This week was also my pick for snack corner and we went with 2 of the new flavors courtesy of my fave ice cream duo Ben & Jerry. We chose "Last Night Snack" (inspired by one adorable, late night host Mr. Jimmy Fallon) and "Red Velvet Cake". Now, Ben and Jerry's can be a tad on the expensive side not only high on the calorie side but it's cool to splurge every once in a while. How did these play out? They were pretty awesome! Especially the Late Night Snack. The chunks of chocolate covered potato chips were odd but a freaking amazing kinda odd lol. I'm not a fan of red velvet cake. Yeah, I know the baker chick isn't a fan of a type of cake? Hey, it happens. I just don't think it has much flavor to it but good ol' Ben and Jerry have changed my mind...well at least on the ice cream part. The cream cheese frosting swirled in really makes this pint. So for me it was huge thumbs up. Try both!
Ma: I'm with Dinah, I never really liked red velvet cake but I have to say in their ice cream version it is DELICIOUS! I enjoyed both of them but my fave was the Late Night Snack. Anytime you put chocolate, Carmel, and vanilla ice cream together I'm there. So with or without a coupon I would definitely buy them both again.
And that's all she wrote guys, HA! get it? That's all she wrote....no? Aw, come on it was funny! Alright, that one was for the cheap seats in the back then lol. We'll be here next Tuesday with Ma's pick and it's another summer dish. Gear up guys, it's that time of year. We'll see you back here. Same time, same station. Have a great week guys!
Spoons & Spatula's
~Dinah & Ma
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