Posted in bento, thai, vegetarian on June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I promised myself that I wouldn’t allow myself to buy any more cookbooks before I had tried out at least some recipes from each of the books I bought recently.
Sorry for the bad picture, the light was terrible this morning (as was the weather!) and my kitchen table where I usually light my stuff unreachable [...]
Posted in bento, fish, pasta, salad on June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This week’s theme in Bentochallenge was “Stars”:
Wholewheat pasta salad with tuna, corn and jalapeños, carrot stars, a babybel cheese, tortilla star cutouts (idea from kopiikat) and some konpeitou because they also look like little stars to me.
Wholewheat pasta salad:
Cook pasta al dente and rinse cold.
In a bowl, combine dripped-off tuna from a can, sweet corn, [...]
Posted in article, review, vegetarian on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Interesting post and discussion.
My take (and comment) on it:
I know where you’re coming from - I’m mostly vegetarian myself and am always looking for vegetarian options at normal restaurants.
Should non-vegetarians review vegetarian restaurants? Absolutely. But as with every food style, you need to know what to expect before going in, or you will be guaranteed [...]
Posted in bento, soup, vegetarian on June 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I can’t help it, I made my favourite soup again. I just can’t pass by a butternut squash in the supermarket and not buy it…
Butternut squash coconut cream soup, condiments (cherry tomatoes, wholewheat toast croutons, grated carrots and leek, bell peppers, thai basil leaves).
Recipe reposted from Epicurean.com :
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1/2 large onion, chopped
2 cloves [...]
Posted in fusion, japanese, sushi, vegetarian on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
A discussion about nori substitutes made me run to the kitchen and demonstrate that eggplants (and oher things) can be used very well to roll sushi rice!
How to:
Cut an eggplant lengthwise into -very- thin slices. I made them only about 2mm thick. The slices I used for rolling were about 15cm long - if your [...]
Posted in bento, seafood, spanish, tapas on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Jumbled and mixed together Spanish-ish food, in no particular order:
Mini Spanish potato omelette wedges
Grilled prawns on spits
Feta-stuffed olives
Balsamico glazed roasted mushrooms
Grilled green asparagus
Raw yellow bell paper and grape tomato quarters
Aioli and salsa (both storebought, sadly! Homemade tastes so much better :( )
Grilled potato wedges (hidden under the aioli)
Salad leaf and spring onions as deco
*gasps for [...]
Posted in bento, italian, pasta, salad, vegetarian on June 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Copout or not, he still made me smile when I picked the box up in the evening to warm my bento during an overtime shift.
This was a superspeedy bento for my records. Leftover spaghetti quickly mixed with red pesto and tomato concentrate (I have a microwave at work so I don’t need to cook in [...]
Posted in austrian, bento, potatoes, vegetarian on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
The recipe for today is courtesy of my mom. You rock, mom.
Top: Potato latkes on salad, bear container with ketchup (latkes are pretty much the only thinkg I WILL order ketchup with), tsatsiki and a cherry tomato/basil deco.
Bottom: More fritters on peas, salad and frozen strawberries.
Latkes or as I know them “Kartoffelpuffer” are one of [...]
Posted in barbecue, vegetarian on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I admit it - I don’t like Tofu very much.
Neither (or possibly even less) do I like any vegetarian “meat” replacement product I have tasted to date - soyburgers? No, thanks. It’s… okay. I can eat it. But it has no specific taste, no texture, and seriously - I don’t miss meat. I don’t need [...]
Posted in asian (generic), bento, rice, seafood on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
There was a challenge on my bento community, and the theme was Sci-Fi TV shows. I love Sci-fi, so I had to participate - and not once, but three times even!
I was so impressed by the bento of Leiji Matsumoto’s character Queen Emeraldas posted on JList that I set out to do a Queen Millennia [...]
