Posted in gardening, plants, tagged gardening, windowsill gardening on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So far, only one zucchini actually is growing. I must have failed with the dusting on the others.
Still, a success! It should be ready to eat in a few days. Yay!
And - oh dear, the purple-rimmed bell pepper flowers…
…seem to make purple-black peppers! I didn’t expect that! I certainly didn’t buy black pepper seeds…
They’re pretty, [...]
Posted in bento, fish, japanese, tagged sushi on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Salmon roe and avocado slices on sushi rice (decorated with some spring onion and black sesame), soy fishy on top of wakame salad, a pickled ginger rose, and 2 inarizushi as dessert.
The BF gets the same and some leftover teriyaki salmon (smeared with a miso mixture before baking, which is REALLY delicious!) on a salad [...]
Posted in gardening, plants on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Base, we have tomato blossoms, I repeat, we have tomato blossoms!
Now how to support them?
Posted in italian, pasta, tagged lasagna on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mmm, lasagna. Nice, heavy, stick-to-your-ribs food for those cold winter days.
…right?
I love lasagna but I suck at making bechamel sauce. I am not particularly fond of the buckets of butter that go into it either. And since I’m vegetarian, fillings are a challenge… and take quite a bit of time to prepare, normally.
So because it’s [...]
Posted in gardening, plants, tagged gardening, growing vegetables, windowsill gardening on May 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This has been a productive month for my plants! Spring has finally come to Sweden and the biomass seems to be doubling by the week.
I’ve finally gotten around to replanting the tomatoes. It was high time, too. I felt sorry for them in their tiny pots of ground, but just didn’t have the time…
*mumbles at [...]
Posted in bento, cheese, greek, mediterranean, vegetarian, tagged bento on May 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This bento contains fried Halloumi cheese drizzled with thick balsamico vinegar, couscous and baby spinach salad, cherry tomatoes, ecological garden salad, a wedge of grapefruit and spices.
Mmm, lots of my favourite tastes.
The BF gets the same, plus some grapes and a Mr. WA Mozart chocolate truffle.
Posted in gardening, herbs, plants, tagged gardening, windowsill gardening on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some photos from my gardening diary in the last few weeks…
I found my first female flower, complete with a tiiiny little round zucchini on the bottom, this week. Today it opened (and got some pollen carried to it by me… I’m such a pervert).
There are two more lined up what I can see on that [...]
Posted in baking, bento, breakfast, japanese, sushi on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nigiri with salmon roe, tamagoyaki, avocado, enoki mushrooms and fried tofu on sushi rice.
The box held up nicely by the way :) It doesn’t seem to leak anything poisonous and was easy to wash.
The BF gets the same - and since he specifically asked me to buy more sugarpeas, he gets some more of those. [...]
Posted in bento, japanese, mediterranean, tapas, thai on May 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I found a new “bentobox” at IKEA! It’s not specifically made for food, but should take not-too-soggy food OK. It holds 2×380ml, which is a very nice portion size, does not lock tight by itself (so you’ll need a furoshiki) but does have a nice handle on top. Will report on how well the box [...]
Posted in asian (generic), bento, japanese, vegetarian, tagged bento on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Starting at the top: Tamagoyaki, a bottle with spicy soy and vinegar and one with fizz (another bento’er uses them for sauces but I have to eat the fizz first!), 3 inarizushi, 4 dumplings on salad and 3-color bell pepper and sugar snap pea stirfry.
BF gets the same plus half a donut. I ate the [...]
