Healthy Wrap Ideas

Memorial Day is fast approaching and I am looking for simple, healthy breakfast and lunch wrap ideas to help keep me from feeling deprived as I try to slim down a bit in preparation of swimsuit season. I always love a curried chicken wrap, but many of the other wrap combinations available to buy are disappointingly bland. I've been doing a bit of research and some thinking and have come up with the following ideas:

Sweet:

-peanut butter, banana and raisins
-peanut butter and apple slices
-apple butter, raisins and slivered almonds
-almond butter and chopped dates


Savory:

-pesto, sundried tomatoes, ricotta, arugula and pinenuts
-goat cheese and roasted vegetables
-hummus, cucumber, tomato and feta
-a fried egg, salsa, jack cheese and plain yogurt
-avocado, black beans, jack cheese, plain yogurt and salsa
-avocado, lettuce, tomato and crumbled bacon
-tofu, bean sprouts, shredded cabbage and sweet chili sauce
-chicken, chipotle mayonnaise, grated parmesan and lettuce
-chicken, artichoke tapenade and grated parmesan

There are so many other possibilities too... They can be rolled right up in a whole wheat tortilla as a to go breakfast or packaged in a lavash bread and cut on the bias for lunch.

Blue Hill at Stone Barns

I went to lunch up at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Tarrytown finally last weekend. The gorgeous locavore restaurant is in a converted barn on the former Rockefeller estate, now a working farm. The grounds have not only the restaurant, but also a café, a gift shop, a weekend farmer's market, a greenhouse, fruits & vegetables, and livestock - all of which are open to the public, but have classes and membership options for those who want some extra perks. The menu at the restaurant varies each day, and you order by telling your server if you have any dietary concerns, then the chef, Dan Barber, creates a tasting menu based on those specifications. We had:

-mini asparagus burgers
-mini polenta cakes
-potato bread with spring onions and fresh butter
-softshell crab with rhubarb and fava bean purée
-purple potato gnocchi filled with ricotta and served in a butter sauce with dandelion greens
-filet mignon
-a homemade chococlate crisp bar with cocoa nib ice cream and caramel sauce
-local cheeses with pickled fig and apple marmalade

It was an incredible, fresh Spring meal - now I'm dying to go back in the Fall to see the local offerings then...

http://www.bluehillfarm.com/food/blue-hill-stone-barns