That's a Wrap!!!

A couple of Thursdays ago, I went to the Apples of Gold Bible study, my friend Heather was the "Cook of the Week". She had a recipe for wraps that she shared with us. Now, I have seen wraps at restaurants, but I had never had one. I just wasn't sure if I would like the combination of the taste of a tortilla with all that stuff that should be on sandwich bread. Needless to say, the mystery was over on this particular day, and this girl is hooked!! Thank you, Heather!!!!

When Heather made the wraps, she used a low carb, whole wheat tortilla and then we put spicy brown mustard on the tortilla, just regular old turkey deli meat, lettuce, shredded cheese and tomatoes. These were great!!! We also had raw carrots with dill dip, Waldorph salad, and a to die for strawberry ice cream pie for dessert. WOW!!!

This was all so good, I decided to try it with my Monday night Bible study gals. We take a break in the summer from our regular Monday night Bible study routine, because our families are so active it is hard to get even half of us there on a Monday night during the summer. Anyway, we usually get together once a month during the summer for lunch, to swim, etc. So, last Friday, I decided that I would invite everyone over for lunch and try the wraps with them. They were a hit with these gals as well!!!

We made our wraps just a little different. I gave them the choice of whole wheat or white tortillas and spicy brown mustard, mayo or ranch dressing. There was whole smorgesboard of fixings for the inside. We stuck with the deli turkey meat, but then there were three different types of shredded cheeses. There were little green onions sliced, olives, whole canned black beans, grape tomatoes, and raw spinach leaves or shredded lettuce. Then we had chips with homemade salsa that Ro brought, and Brenda brought a raw veggie tray with cucumber dip. Drink choice was water, Dr. Pepper, Diet Pepsi, or Crystal Light Green Tea with Mango and Peach.

Then I encouraged the girls to save room for the awesome strawberry ice cream pie!!! We had this with iced coffee.

It was a great afternoon of food and fellowship!!! Can't wait for our next time together!!!

Heather's Strawberry Ice Cream Pie

1 already prepared graham cracker pie crust

(or make your own as it is a lot cheaper for this recipe)

1 1/2 quarts Dillons Signature Mark Strawberry Ice Cream

(or your favorite ice cream with real fruit chunks)

1 cup Cool-Whip

3/4 cup chocolate chips

3/4 cup chopped peacans (or your choice of nuts)

about 8 graham crackers crunched up

(they should be in chunks about the size of nickels)

Allow ice cream to get soft and stir in all the rest of the ingredients. Then spread into

the already prepared graham cracker pie crust and place back into freezer overnight.

take ice cream pie out of freezer about 15 minutes before serving, this will allow for

easier slicing. ENJOY!!!

I have to tell you a story about making your own graham cracker pie crust. Our family has been feeling the economic crunch for quite sometime, and I have been trying to cut back in some areas. I guess Musician is starting to get the picture and so, being the wise Senior in high school that she has become!!!! She informed me when we were shopping for all the ingredients for the ice cream pie the other night, "Mom, don't buy the already prepared pie crust because your going to end up spending more. You have to buy graham crackers anyway to put into the ice cream and then they'll end up going bad in the pantry because no one will finish eating them. Just make your own pie crust, it will be better anyway!!" See how wise she is?!?!?!?

Here is the recipe for the homemade graham cracker crust. This was enough to fill my Pampered Chef stone pie pan. For those of you that aren't familiar this is about a 10 inch round by 3 inch deep pie pan. So, Musician was right, I would have just got a little scrawny already prepared pie crust that wouldn't have held all my ingredients. As it went, my stone pie pan held all the ice cream ingredients, less 2 cups. I took 2 cups of the mixture and just froze them out of the shell. In little one cup dessert dishes. Okay, sorry, back to the graham cracker crust recipe:

18 graham cracker squares crushed fine (I put in a gallon freezer bag and run a rolling pin back

fourth until they are crushed fine.)

1/3 cup sugar

6 T. melted butter

Mix all these ingredients together, press into your pie pan on the bottom and up the sides. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely, then fill.