Presto pasta nights: Penne with mangold, feta, and onions

This is a dish that I forget about way too often. It’s not that it’s not delicious – it is exceedingly so! – but it’s just not… fancy. There’s nothing involved that makes me think “Yes, this really is haute cuisine” or even “There’s cooking involved”.
And that is sad, because it’s absolutely delicious, wonderful comfort [...]

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Bento #230

Big box (background): Farfalle with tomato, pepper and cream sauce, parmesan shaves and some parsley.
Small box (front): Broccoli, two falafel with flower picks, bear with hummus, cherry tomato, Babybel cheese and a mini Twix.

BF gets the same.
The sauce is just something I whipped up very quickly. I had made a big bunch of roasted tomato [...]

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So what is growing on my windowsill this year?

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Ada Lovelace Day

“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised.”
This is a sad state of affairs.
Almost all of the bloggers I know are female. All of them know how to use a computer, navigate the [...]

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Bento #229

Rice topped with scrambled egg, tomato and cucumber flowers, carrot flowers, stirfried bok choy, fried marinated tofu, and 1 1/2 chili cheese tops from McDo as dessert.

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Bento #228

Big box: Slice of quiche, carrot sticks, sundried tomato, cress, cherry tomato and olive.
Small box: Couscous (there’s more underneath the stuff in the big box), carrot sticks, cucumber, fishy with balsam vinegar, chocolate Cthulhu.

BF’s box.
And because I can never resist posting a photo of a quiche…

The quiche is filled with caramelized onion and feta, with [...]

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Go ahead, complete that cliché – Mini quiches

This is a guest post I wrote for Just Bento last month. Now that it’s up, I figure it’s OK to post on my ow blog as well!
(If you don’t know Just Bento yet, check it out – it’s a lovely site!)
“Go ahead, bake my quiche.”
Queen Magrat, Lords and Ladies
As a pescetarian leaning heavily towards [...]

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Bento #227 – more greenery

I’m continuing with the green theme this week – today stopping in the Mediterranean region.
Börek with feta and spinach, green olives, cucumbers and lettuce in the big box.
Green pasta with pesto, avocados, a lone red tomato flower and a chocolate frog who was probably attracted by all the lush greenery!
I’d have liked to put some [...]

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Bento #226 – supergreen!

Today I finally managed to get properly in on the green challenge!
Maki rolls with cucumber, avocado, leek and mayo, inarizushi, broccoli, lettuce and kiwis.

My own box.
When making sushi, I always hate that the rice takes so long to cool. I don’t premake the sushi rice, so it makes me seriously antsy having to choose between [...]

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Bento #225

I wanted to do a bento for the green monochrome challenge on Livejournal, but the menu for last night turned out to be pizza which is… not green XD
So we have red feta-and-sundried-tomato pizza slices with green sides consisting of lettuce, rucola (to put on the warmed pizza, mmm!) green olives with almonds, and half [...]

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