Molly requested just a mustard sandwich for lunch tomorrow. Just mustard, maybe some pepper jack cheese, but just plain yellow mustard. The sophisticated palate of a 6 year old never ceases to amaze me. ☺ I said that I would be happy to make a plain yellow mustard sandwich, maybe with some pepper jack cheese, but I also had another suggestion up my sleeve. I let her know that I had purchased some whole grain tortillas at Trader Joe's today and that I'd be happy to make a pinwheel sandwich for her instead. This suggestion was greeted by a giant smile and a small amount of jumping. Hence, "pin"wheeling Wednesday.
Our main entrée is a delicious and colorful pinwheel sandwich. We flavored some light cream cheese with the Dried Tomato and Garlic Pesto mix from Tastefully Simple. We spread some of this cream cheese on a Trader Joe's whole grain flour tortilla with flax seeds, then added some baby spinach and thinly sliced turkey. We rolled up the tortilla and then sliced it into small pinwheels.
The veggie side is sugar snap peas. This is such a versatile vegetable. It can be eaten raw or steamed. There is a very different flavor depending on how it is prepared. The raw preparation yields a very sweet, crunchy and juicy flavor. The steamed version makes the sugar snap pea nice and soft with just a little bit of crunch. It is still sweet but a much more mild flavor.
Molly requested just pineapple for her fruit. We skewered some fresh pineapple on reusable plastic lollipop sticks so that Molly could have her other "just" request. (Hey, its yellow like mustard and its "just" pineapple, so I think she'll be pretty happy.)
For dessert, we added a few Cinnamon Schoolbook Cookies from Trader Joe's. These cookies are not only cute, but very tasty. We made sure to put the "M" right on top so that Molly could see her favorite letter.
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