Easy lunch

This is one of the lunches that you can prepare ahead of time and it will stay good in the fridge for the week (not saying you have to eat it all week though :) )

This is a very simple wrap. You can buy tortillas at Coop or Migros. I wouldn't use the El Maiz ones as though they are wonderful, they are too expensive to use for this. I will however post the recipe on how to make tortillas when it is a little cooler and I want to have the stove on for a while. Today is all about no cooking (except microwave!)
The tortillas you are looking for at Coop are the Mission Tortilla Wraps.  They are about 5 chf for a package of 6. The Old El Paso ones are ok, just do not buy the soft corn ones. They are horrible (especially if you are used to good Tex-Mex) Migros has Pancho Villa - and their flour ones are good (on sale this week!) but I have not tried the corn ones as the Coop ones put me off. (Also don't buy the jar guacamole - but that's also a post for later).

What you need:

Tortillas
Mayonnaise (or your Miracle Whip if you went to Konstanz)
Feta cheese - Coop or Migros
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Optional:
 Nussli-salat/Spinach/lettuce
black olives - just slice them into little pieces. Adds a good flavor, but I didn't have any this time.
If you want, you could also add some grilled chicken. (precooked and cold for the warm days)

Slice the cucumber, dice the tomatoes and crumble the feta. Put the tortillas in the microwave for about 10 seconds, just to warm them enough that they don't tear when folding.

Squeeze some mayo (squiggly line) onto the tortillas.  Add the cucumber, tomato and feta. If adding lettuce/olives/chicken, make sure that you don't put too much in one tortilla or it will split open. You can always have two!

To make this easy for the week - just place you cut veggies in a closed dish and put in the fridge. If you have room, you can put them in separate ones, but since I don't, I combine them - in sections, not mixed up - and they are fine for 3 days.

Enjoy!

Summer Dessert

Fresh fruit mini tarts. First time I've ever made these and they were wonderful for a hot day. No turning on the oven for me! And it seemed like something simple and pretty to take to our neighbor's bbq.

I found these tart shells at Coop - they were on sale for 1/2 off. Great! The original recipe called for raspberries, but since there are so many wonderful fresh fruits (on sale!) out now, I decided to use three. I kept them one fruit per tart, but you could easily do two. Three might be pushing it as they are a bit on the small side.

What you need:

1 package of 12 Tartelettes (or you can make your own)
75 ml of apple juice (apfelsaft)
195g of Mascarpone (available at Coop or Migros in different sizes)
3/4 of a vanilla bean, scraped (Vanilleschote, ausgekratzt)
3 Tbls sugar (zucker)
Peppermint leaves (pfefferminze)
Fresh fruit - I used strawberries (erdbeeren), blackberries (brombeeren) and raspberries (himbeeren)
150ml of cream (vollrahm - Coop/Migros)

Mix the juice, sugar, marscapone and scraped vanilla bean into a bowl.

Put the cream in a bowl and mix it until it is thick and starts to form soft peaks.  Slowly add the previous mixture in and whip until the peaks are formed (just fyi - I didn't quite get the peaks, I got tired of mixing, and it didn't get as firm as I think it should have, however putting it in the fridge for an hour after making it made it 'stick' together and all was good) :)

I also sliced my fruit up as it seemed too big for the tart 'shells' Also, take the peppermint leaves off the stem and wash them as well as the fruit.

I placed some fruit in the bottom of the shell and then poured some of the cream mixture on top. I then placed two pieces of the same fruit on top and topped with a mint leaf.

The vanilla seemed to stay more towards the bottom of the bowl, so be careful to mix thoroughly to get it back into the mixture.  Enjoy.