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Hi, I don't write much, but I have been reading this list for about a year
now. I really appreciate all the tips I've gotten that have helped me get
through...and even enjoy my new eating style! SO--THANKS!

Anyway, I was going to make my lettuce cups again, to eat instead of the
burritos, and I thought of collard greens as a wrap. They worked GREAT! If
you haven't tried collard greens, they are kind of like spinach in flavor,
but larger leaves. You have to cook them much longer and you have to cut
out the middle stem.

So, what I did was...

  1. Wash collard greens, cut out middle stem.

  2. Boil for approximately 20 minutes in good drinking water. You don't
want to overcook them because then they are more apt to tear, so watch them
and test after 15 minutes or so to see if they are tender (they are much
more tough than spinach leaves).

  3. Once they are done, carefully lay them out piece by piece on top of
each other on a plate, flat. Then drain any remaining juice from plate.

  4. Drink the juice from the pan!!! It is SOOO good--and filled with
nutrients. (Think of it as a spinach broth flavor).

  5. Lay out a leaf lengthwise, then lay another on top across it
(widthwise). Put in the filling. (I used ground beef with onions, garlic,
cumin, green chili strips, and feta cheese (careful of gf status) and brown
rice with wild rice). I topped that with some gf green chili sauce.

  6. Wrap with the top leaf first in one direction (this is to keep the
ends from emptying later), then wrap into a roll with the other leaf. You
should have a perfect little burrito that won't spill out.

They save easily also, and microwave in just over a minute.  I just had
them for leftovers for the 3rd day in a row! Yum!