Buffalo Turkey: An All America Wrap

For this week's sandwich, I chose to pay homage to a place I would consider my second or third home, and that place is Buffalo, NY. Commonly known for many things (snowy weather, disastrous Super Bowl results in consecutive years), I think it's safe to say that the most well-known export out of the city of Buffalo is Buffalo Chicken. I decided to play off of this awesomely delicious food this week, and in order to keep it a bit healthy, I chose to replace the chicken with turkey, and to make it a wrap as opposed to a sandwich.

The wrap is surprisingly simple. I slap some oven roasted deli turkey meat (Courtesy of my local Wegman's), and top that with some crumbled bleu cheese, lettuce and tomato. On top of that I employ a generous lathering of Franks Buffalo Sauce, and wrap it up with the culinary dexterity of someone who has not only gone to Subway sandwich making school, but in fact someone who has graduated with honors from Subway sandwich making school.

The wrap ended up being mighty tasty. It takes a bit of time to construct, but I think the payoff is well worth it. I'm surprised as to how filling it is, considering that a bulk of the fill-factor is veggies. I rarely bring this topic up in my blog, but I have to point out the fact that I chose one of the worst pairing side dishes to go with this sandwich this week. Although the pears are delicious and perfectly ripe, they don't work well with the buffalo turkey taste. The pears are very bland when tasted in unison with the buffalo taste, and it's been somewhat disappointing. Welcome to Dustin's new blog -- 'Telling you how fruit you've had a million times before in your life tastes'

All in all, this wrap was a success. I wouldn't consider it the best or worst I've ever had, but it's been enjoyable all week. I'm surprised it's taken me this long to get around to making a wrap (about a year and half of this blog, really), but I do think I hit it out of the park. I'm also glad I was able to refer to Buffalo as an 'All America City' in a clever title-themed way. Arbitrary Scoring Scale? I think it gets an 8.5/10.

This weekend? JEOPARDY! And then a 70 mile ride. Things are heating up.