Bento #133

Fried wholewheat pasta (was a leftover from dinner) with some leek, cabbage and chili, tamagoyaki, cherry tomatoes, sugar snap peas, Thai basil, some salad leaves, a piece of rhubarb cake and some grapes.
The BF gets the same. He doesn’t technically need to pack a cake because he’s at home and can steal as much cake [...]

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Mmm, Mozarella

I have a huge backlog of posts I didn’t get to write up recently. Hrm. I’ll try working on it in the next days.
This is some proper buffalo milk mozarella that I found in a supermarket catering specifically to foodies recently. To explain the difference between what is called “Mozarella” here and proper Mozarella, I’ll [...]

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Bento #132

Back to the pasta bentos – penne (actually girandole) with creamy sundried tomato sauce, pine nuts and rucola. Some more rucola and cherry tomatoes in the back, a fishy with balsamico vinegar and some grapes as dessert.
The recipe is stolen from a restaurant here – it’s one of my favourite dishes there.
You need (2 persons [...]

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Bento #131

Not as colourful today, but rather comfort food.
Tom Yum soup with prawns (I actually didn’t have the proper chili paste so it’s not as red as it should be), rice, some veggie wontons and a few sugar snap peas and a cherry tomato for decoration.

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Bento #130

I had some nice, traditional bento ingredients prepared since yesterday…
…but then I had absolutely NO appetite for them at all.
I’ll post a healthy, proper bento another day, promise!
This one contains crispy fishsticks in a tortilla wrap with salad, pickles, aioli and ketchup, salad hearts, a few curly fries leftover from dinner, some grapes and a [...]

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Bento #129 – Quiche and salad

Spinach and ricotta quiche on mixed salad, red grapes and a few pieces of Black&Green’s organic chocolate wrapped in gold foil to keep it from being soaked in vinegar.
Spinach quiche recipe:
Make a savoury pie shell (I used some olive oil instead of butter in a variation of my staple recipe, and it was rather nice). [...]

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Bento #128

Boiled wheat and peas, hardboiled egg, cherry tomates, chili cheese bits (ovenbaked), a mini Crème Brulee (made from a mix with the help of an eggcup as form) and frozen mango pieces, Thai basil as decoration.

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Bento #127 – spring lasagna

Mmm. Lasagna.
Vegetarian spring lasagna with zucchini, asparagus and feta, some extra pickles/salad containing feta, pea greens, sugar snap peas, an olive, a sundried tomato and some huge basil leaves, and chocolate pudding with a konpeitou.

Vegetarian spring lasagna
Filling: 1 layer feta and fresh basil, 1 layer asparagus (whole), bechamel and thyme, 2 layers grated zucchini, onion, [...]

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Bento #126

What a monday bento. I’m sure everyone has some of those days… but I needed a bento, I have meetings straight through lunchtime today!

I came home late from Aikido training last night and was glad I already had vegetable curry and some Naan dough leftover from lunch. Make space in the box, add some microwave-cooked [...]

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Bento #125 – teriyaki and wok

Salmon teriyaki with vegetable stirfry and steamed rice, tomato and pea sprouts decoration.
I make my teriyaki sauce myself with Mirin and Japanese soysauce in about equal amounts, a spoonful of honey (I think orange blossom honey would be phantastic! I have to get me some to try) and fresh crushed garlic and ginger. Instead of [...]

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