Quick update

Notexactlybento.com’s photo contest is up for voting now!
Go give it a look and vote (and of course I’d be happy if it was for me! *grins*)
For the record, my entries are this and this.
;)

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Bento #157

I finally cracked and made my own potato salad and “meatball” bento – looks Scandianvian, doesn’t it?
Homemade potato salad though, and the “meatballs” are falafels. They come pre-fried and just need microwaving – very handy! Then there’s some gardengrown salad and some cherry tomatoes, a skewered pickle and some red beets (which were the last [...]

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Bento #156

Top: Rice with a dab of sambal oelek, stirfried tofu and green beans.
Bottom: Leftover teriyaki salmon, bottle of teriyaki sauce, blue/lingon/raspberries, bear cup with pickled ginger.
The colours are kinda meh… it’s all leftovers, anyway. The tofu and green beans are really tasty, I had this craving for a dish like that so I had to [...]

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Bento #155 – the cake is (not) a lie

More leftover caponata with a tomato, four homemade 4-cheese ravioli, steamed asparagus, fresh rucola and a fishy of balsamico, and a zucchini-chocolate muffin/cupcake with creamcheese glazing.
The muffins are adapted from this recipe (a third makes 6 muffins).

BF’s box, similar arrangement.

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Notexactlybento.com 2008 photo contest

Not Exactly Bento is holding a bento photo contest, and of course I couldn’t help entering.
The premise is simple and one that I heartily agree with:
The purpose of this contest is to share with everyone what you feel is your most visually appealing bento…the bento picture you’ve taken! This is the bento you sometimes think, [...]

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Bento #154 – couscous and caponata

Upper layer: Couscous with curry powder and spring onions sprinkled on top
Lower layer: Eggplant caponata (with white eggplant!), a bundle of yellow bell pepper, a bundle of rucola, tiny fishy of balsamico for the greens, basil as decoration.
And some hidden dark chocolate almonds :)
The couscous is organic and local-grown. Really nice.
The rucola and basil are [...]

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Bento #153 – rainbows in my box

There’s a rainbow in my lunch!
I had some zucchini quiche left from last time (rewarmed from frozen). The rainbow consists of homegrown rucola, yellow bell peppers, carrot slices, strawberries, blueberries and a plastic berry with mustard dressing for the vegetables.
Pretty strong colours and healthy food – guaranteed to let the sun rise for me when [...]

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Bento #152

Left side: Homemade veggie wontons and one storebought veggie dumpling, tamagoyaki with nori wrapping, a condiment cup of wild raspberries, blueberries and lingonberries* and a tube of organic fairtrade sugar for the berries.
Right side: Two onigiri (one with mixed rice and furikake, one with plain white rice), raw red bell pepper slices, and some chanterelle [...]

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Bento #151

Crispy fishsticks, a cherry tomato, a skewered pickle, a mayo cup with aioli and ketchup and some strawberries in the top layer. Black longgrain and jasmine rice in the bottom layer.

Packed for transport.

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Bento #150 – pink and red

Two identical boxes of vegetarian zucchini and leek quiche on rucola, vinaigrette in the berry containers.
I must have been channeling a Frenchwoman yesterday, because I had this urge to go and unpack my acrylics paints, and then bake a quiche.
The quiche is adapted from two recipes I read online recently and contains shredded zucchini, leek [...]

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