Bento #232

A very simple bento today. Leftover Flammkuchen – it’s kind of a German pizza but with sourcream on top (I left out the bacon to make it vegetarian), lettuce, carrot stars and two chocolate easter eggs.
If you’re interested in Flammkuchen, the lovely Meeta from What’s for Lunch, Honey? has a nice writeup about what it [...]

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Bento #224

Big box (top): Mushroom and leek omelette on homemade dark bread, carrot and celery sticks, cherry tomato decoration
Small box (bottom): Hummus to dip the veggies into, mini Kitkat bar, pickled beans and onions, carrot flowers.

BF gets the same in his usual box. He also gets some sundried tomatoes, and no beans because he hasn’t started [...]

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Bento #209 – pizza pockets

Homemade pizza pockets with mushrooms on lettuce, some spinach with garlic in a cup, sundried and non-dried tomatos, cress, grapes, a bottle of vinegar and a minimuffin.
The BF’s pizza pocket got prettier. I don’t know why mine fell in and didn’t get as nice and poofy!

They’re filled with tomato sauce (the best pizza sauce is [...]

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This is how I roll!

(Get it? Roll. Hur hur. I kill myself)
I somehow don’t think I’ll ever really understand baking.
You may have noticed that I’ve been trying to teach myself to bake recently. :) Although I haven’t been blogging everything yet (I’ve also been a bit too stressed to blog) I think I can say that I’ve made progress.
But [...]

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Pide on a Thursday!

To all my readers from the USA, happy Thanksgiving! We don’t celebrate it here, but my thoughts are with you. Mmm… a holiday dedicated to having delicious food… what’s not to love?
From my side, I’ll be sharing some baking love:
I love Turkish flatbread (Pide) and I couldn’t resist making it myself. I’ve been wanting to [...]

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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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Weekend baking: Ciabatta

Looks good.
Still filing on the recipe. The original recipe I had took what I thought was WAY too much salt (I was afraid it would kill the yeast). I halved it, but now it needed just a pinch more.
Also working on what would be the best way to preserve the lovely bubbles.
Oh, and eclipse pictures:
I [...]

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Bento #136 – sushi box

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. [...]

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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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Bread Baking Day #08 is up!

http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2008/04/02/bbd-08-roundup/
Look at all those phantastic breads from all over the world! I see a lot of experimental baking coming on in the near future…
(my Osterpinzen are in there, as is another Osterpinze, several Hot Cross buns and oodles of other spring celebration breads!)

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