Sitting in the parking lot of my work eating an egg sandwich, I watched this crow descend upon this mislaid bag that contained someone else’s egg sandwich.

Last month I brought my friend Nick to a local Italian deli for one of their amazing roasted marinated vegetable heroes after talking the place up for an hour. We’re both vegetarian and we had some difficulty conveying our sandwich orders to the guy behind the counter because they ended up having a grilled chicken breast stuffed into each one. We saved the chicken and fed it to the cat but the need arose to trump the local deli. Nick is now back in his home country, but here it is anyway. I think it’d be worth trying again in the fall and roasting the vegetables, because turning on the oven in the summer is a bad idea in our tiny place with few windows.

• 1 good sized eggplant, sliced into strips
• 10 large leaves of swiss chard, sliced into strips
• 1 pound of mushrooms, sliced into chunks
• 2 large onions, sliced into strips
• 2 tomatoes, sliced
• fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced
• 5 cloves of garlic, minced
• olive oil
• basil
• oregano
• thyme
• red wine
• salt
• 10 inch flour tortillas

Saute all the vegetables, oil and spices until soft and caramelized. I had to break the eggplant into two waves and the chard and mushrooms each into their own waves dividing the onion and garlic evenly between them all because my skillet wasn’t big enough to hold it all at once. You may choose to saute the tomatoes or leave them fresh. Start the pan at a medium temperature and then add the wine towards the end and crank the heat up to reduce all the juices together with the wine. If you’re concerned about all the salt, you can leave it out of everything but the eggplant waves, the salt helps draw the moisture out of the eggplant making it less slimy in the end.

In a different skillet, heat up the tortillas and melt the sliced mozzarella on one side. Lay the sliced tomatoes in and wrap them up tightly. Slice into four equal pieces and arrange edgewise on a plate like sushi.