Bento #175 – something’s fishy…

Homemade potato salad garnished with red onion, crisp lettuce and a baby plum tomato in the smaller box.
Wholewheat-breaded fishsticks on brown rice, a yellow tomato slice, broccoli tossed in sesame oil and a slice of pomegrenade in the bigger box.
There’s another reason for the title than just the fishsticks, I wonder if anyone can spot [...]

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Bento #174

Three nests of spaghetti all’arrabiata with parmesan, scattered tamagoyaki for the proteins and broccoli for the vitamins, some organic tomato wedges and strawberries for dessert.
This is the BF’s version as I was not happy at all with how mine turned out on the photo. I also had forgotten my HK bento at work, so I [...]

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A lazy cheater’s Chanterelle Gnocchi

OK, when I said I was going to post a complete recipe I lied – I still haven’t gotten over my respect for making gnocchi myself, so those are of the storebought “fresh” variant. But the final dish is so infused with the delicious flavour of chanterelles I didn’t want to keep it from you!
It’s [...]

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Bento #173

Rapidly advancing towards 200!
This bento is another collection of weekend leftovers. The protein ratio is way off, but I really didn’t feel like more falafel, so this will have to do.
Top (big layer): Gnocchi with chantarelle mushroom sauce, rice decorated with a bell pepper on a lettuce leaf.
Bottom (small layer): Strawberries, breaded ovenbaked eggplant, fried [...]

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Bento #172

A mixed box of mostly freezer-stash staples.
Starting in the back, a mini feta/tomato quiche, half an organic tomato in slices, some mini falafel, asparagus spears, a bottle of balsamic vinegar for the tomato/lettuce, some pickled onions (the purple stuff under the bottle), a paper cup with baba ganoush, a blue onigiri and strawberries dipped in [...]

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Bento #171 – heart-y falafel

Top (small box): Couscous salad with parsley and mint (technically Tabbouleh with the couscous ratio cranked way up), two dates and a tiny radish.
Bottom (big box): Heart-shaped falafel on lettuce, organic tomato wedges, grilled Halloumi, Baba Ganoush with olive oil in a muffin cup.
The falafel are restaurant leftovers – I thought they were perfect for [...]

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Raspberry-almond muffins

Makes 6 muffins.
50g butter
0,75dl sugar
1 handful of grated almonds (or almond mass/marzipan)
2 eggs
2,5-3dl flour, e.g. 1dl Graham- and 1,5-2 dl plain wheat flour
1/2 tsp. vanilla sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
0,5dl milk
1 handful raspberries (frozen works very well for mixing them in easily)
butter and almond shaves for lining the muffin tin
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Mix [...]

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Bento #170 – vegan challenge(d)

I regularly cook vegetarian, but I very rarely cook vegan. Since this October is Vegetarian Awareness Month, I thought I would challenge myself to create a complete, nutritious Vegan meal.
The bento contains the results:
1 Tofu “yakitori” spit, 1 kimchi dumpling (egg-free), grilled zucchini slices, some tiny purple potatoes that grew on my windowsill, 1 slice [...]

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Bento #169 – soup and salad

It’s that time again – autumn and time for Pumpkin soup.
Lovely butternut squash soup in the thermal container, decorated with a cream and pumpkinseed oil swirl and some oregano.
The top box holds crisp lettuce, a whole organic/locally grown tomato (YUM!), and sliced bell peppers, a bottle of olive oil and balsamico vinaigrette, and a piece [...]

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Bento #168 – flowers

A pretty flowery box for Friday.
Starting from the top left, the bento contains boiled sweet corn flower-wheels, a rosette of veggie bolognese, rucola salad with red bell pepper and carrot flowers, something vaguely flower-shaped that’s really a sundried tomato mini quiche, a bottle of olive oil and balsamico for the salad and some pickled onions [...]

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