Posted in bento, curry, fusion, indian, rice, vegan, vegetarian, tagged bento, curry, indian, lentils, rice, spinach, tofu, vegan, vegetarian on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I seem to be on a vegan roll with my lunchboxes this week…!
The big container holds 1/3 spiced mixed rices (black longgrain, parboiled, red, white roundgrain, brown roundgrain), 1/3 red lentils boiled with turmeric and raisins, and 1/3 palak paneer tofu - spinach curry with tofu and green peppers. You can’t get paneer here and [...]
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I should use more leftovers for my bento. The sad thing is that I’m really picky when it comes to leftover food - I had some more things in my fridge that I had planned to pack but when the time to pack came, I looked at them and knew I wouldn’t want to eat [...]
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Summer salads! After a week of stressing and eating out way too often (very bad for my stomach!) I felt like a cold dinner for once. And I had this craving for salads…
The bentobox contains the leftovers:
Caprese: Mozarella, cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, extra virgin olive oil (I use “fruttato”, which means that it has a [...]
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A discussion about nori substitutes made me run to the kitchen and demonstrate that eggplants (and oher things) can be used very well to roll sushi rice!
How to:
Cut an eggplant lengthwise into -very- thin slices. I made them only about 2mm thick. The slices I used for rolling were about 15cm long - if your [...]
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Posted in bento, fusion, swedish, tapas on February 1, 2007 | No Comments »
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This bento is kind of Sweden-themed, but mostly showing how I love to have lots of mixed foods :)
Top layer (Breakfast): Soyghurt, some carrot-apple salad, 1/4 egg, 1/4 wild tomato, chocolate wheats, rye bread, one red dalahorse made of bell pepper and one chocolatey one :)
Middle layer (Lunch): Ovenbaked potato slices, fried [...]
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I finally figured out that a small bento at 11 could impossibly last until half past five in the evening (at least; I like to work late because I get really productive in the late afternoon). Mainly, because I never eat breakfast.
So I figured why not take two things in one and [...]
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Yesterday's bento (I was so busy with NaNo I forgot to post!):
Upper tier: Wholewheat tortellini pasta filled with ricotta and spinach; red bell pepper and tomato sauce; cucumber stars, some olives and basil leaves.
Lower tier: Peanut butter and lemon curd wraps around a banana with little thai basil clockfaces; apple stars.
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* Black rice with bell pepper and carrot Jack O'Lanterns
* “Orange” curry (red cocos curry with orange bellpeppers, carrots, sweet potato, red onions and tofu), Nori divider
* Roast Marshmallows because you gotta have some for Halloween! (okay, they were a failed experiment)
* Oreo cookies
* And Mango stars for no particular Halloweeny reason other than [...]
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Thank you all sooo much for the sweet potato recipes!
I went to work on monday evening and made three batches, each in a different way, from the suggestions. The leftovers went into a bento for today!
Top tier: Cocos curry with sweet potato, eggplant and carrot; brown rice.
Verdict: The curry was great, but I cooked it [...]
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I finally got around to actually make something in the evening that I could pack as a premade bento! But taking a photo in lamplight made the colors go all horrible ;_; I fixed it up as well as I could in photoshop (the original was MUCH darker) but it still irks me.
* Mezze [...]
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