Turkey Wrap for Lunch - Now that’s Hot
Apr 15th, 2008 by Marilyn
I have a love-hate relationship with lunch. I love going out to lunch, but I hate making lunch. All because I can’t just make whatever and it winds up a whole garnished and plated affair. Greg benefits from this, but insists he’d be happy with whatever. He descends from his second-floor office like clockwork, then sits at our old oak table with a picture-perfect meal, reading exactly three pages of some recently arrived publication - New York Review of Books or American Girl, three pages. Then he does the dishes and returns upstairs. What is whatever? When I worked in restaurants, he would eat microwave burritos, pieces of cheese on a tortilla. He and Josie loved those microwave burritos - grrr. I suppose if I rid myself of kitchen crazies I too would eat whatever, but at least he’s not fussy, we have a lot of together time, and he does do dishes. Here is yesterday’s lunch. 
It’s a whole-grain wrap filled with smoked turkey, Genoa salami, cheddar, spinach, and tomatoes, a delightful lunch by any measure, but what’s significant here is not on the plate - it’s the jar on the side. As long as it’s got Beaver Extra Hot Chinese Mustard, I could fill a wrap with shoe leather and tea bags. I spotted Beaver Mustard in the condiment aisle one day and was intrigued by its mixed signals. Think of Chinese mustard and you’d normally reach for fried won tons, not turkey, but…look at it. Would you turn down Wall of China letters and a chef-hatted beaver? I think not. I tossed it into the cart and it’s been a staple ever since. Everyone loves it, on sandwiches, in dressings, mixed with honey, whatever. 
Chef Bucky up there’s not kidding - it’s extra hot. And that’s one more reason to love this stuff, because let’s face it, something about beaver and condiment and extra hot - oh, it’s all just too much. I’m sorry, Mom and Dad, for this grocery gutter talk, but I’ve been driving a lot of goofy middle school kids lately and…oh, whatever.
marilyn, how i would LOVE for you to make me lunch every day. wow!! it makes me hungry just looking at that wrap. yum-
natalie
Does it have that funky “dusty” mustard texture? If so, I’ll be gettin’ some asap. The Fiance usually stocks the house with Stage Deli branded mustard.
This has got me all craving a hot dog…and it’s 10:20AM.
Natalie, I’ll send a wrap right over. Chips or pickles with that?
Reno - if you mean the kind of mustard that spreads a little “drier,” that’s it. It’s hot and it’s good - but Ingelhofer Sweet Hot is still my favorite, and now comes in a squeeze bottle, which makes me love them even more. Now I want a hot dog, too, but I’ll have to fly to Chicago. D’oh!
Sounds like a junk foodie road trip. Philly for pretzels and cheesesteak, then on to Chicago for hotdogs and maybe some deep dish. Where next.. LA for some fish tacos?