Mother’s Day (in Sweden)

Sweden is celebrating Mother’s Day a little later than other parts of the world, and it’s May 31st this year. Happy Mother’s Day, mom! *waves*
According to a survey done earlier this year, most moms wish for a dinner rather than fancy presents. So take them out to a restaurant – or dine in!
Here’s a lovely [...]

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Gardening update, May 27

Mm… there’s not really anything that beats food grown in your own home. Jalapeños, cherry tomatoes, rucola and basil, all homegrown. (Bought the mozarella and the baguette, due to a certain lack of buffalo around here and being out of flour :) )
I have a few old-ish pictures to post too, so keep an eye [...]

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Bento #191

Another bento for before art class – since I don’t get a microwave there it’ll have to be eaten cold.
Wholewheat pasta salad with feta, spinach, roasted pine nuts, sundried tomato and figs. Two Emmentaler cheese hearts (leftovers from McDo), jam in the bear cup for dipping, grapes, cherry tomato, some more vinegar and a stuffed [...]

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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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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 #129 – Quiche and salad

Spinach and ricotta quiche on mixed salad, red grapes and a few pieces of Black&Green’s organic chocolate wrapped in gold foil to keep it from being soaked in vinegar.
Spinach quiche recipe:
Make a savoury pie shell (I used some olive oil instead of butter in a variation of my staple recipe, and it was rather nice). [...]

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Bento #107: I’m back!

Long time no bento… I’ve been away too much. I barely eat at home these days – no leftovers, so no bentos! Since I will be going to an interview tomorrow at lunchtime and have no lunch break, though, I had a reason to prepare one!
This one contains leftovers from a tapas meal I made [...]

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Sunday cooking – mmm, organic veggies

This sunday was used to relax after a particularly nasty coding crunch until saturday – it’s not EA proportions yet, but still – and therefore, no fascinating culinary experiments were made.
Our dinner consisted of pitabread with Greek salad, hummus and baba ghanoush.
*whirls around* Did someone say “boring”?!?
Not my Greek salad!

My Greek salad, luxury edition, features [...]

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Bento #91 – Summer Salads!

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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Bento #84 – Starry

This week’s theme in Bentochallenge was “Stars”:

Wholewheat pasta salad with tuna, corn and jalapeños, carrot stars, a babybel cheese, tortilla star cutouts (idea from kopiikat) and some konpeitou because they also look like little stars to me.
Wholewheat pasta salad:
Cook pasta al dente and rinse cold.
In a bowl, combine dripped-off tuna from a can, sweet corn, [...]

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