Bento #250!

Finally #250! Not much in the way of charaben, but the celebratory autumn theme definitely is in the food!
Pumpkin soup is just a part of autumn to me. Then there’s a piece of stuffed butternut squash in the extra box, together with apple bunnies (apples are also very autumny to me), mozarella cheese sticks, bell [...]

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Bento #244

Fried sliced potatoes, red bell pepper, zucchini and carrot heart cutouts, half a sliced egg and a bottle of pumpkinseed oil for dressing in the box. This is all going to be tossed and make a side salad.
The thermos flask holds cream of pumpkin soup with some pumpkinseed oil and parsley on top.

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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 #131

Not as colourful today, but rather comfort food.
Tom Yum soup with prawns (I actually didn’t have the proper chili paste so it’s not as red as it should be), rice, some veggie wontons and a few sugar snap peas and a cherry tomato for decoration.

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Spring Fruit Sensations: Rhubarb (and asparagus)

I don’t know about you, but when I read “Spring Food Sensations” on Abby’s blog, my mind immediately sprang to rhubarb. Rhubarb is to me the ultimate spring messenger, and a delicacy to boot!
When I was little, I used to eat it in a preserve, or a sponge cake with rhubarb pieces on top (delicious!). [...]

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Comfort food: Potato soup

Why do so many people complain that when they’re home alone or cooking just for themselves, they never make anything good?
My mom never did that, and neither do I. After all, I count myself as the person who appreciates good food in the household (so does she), and why shouldn’t we make good food for [...]

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Bento #114 – Pumpkin, pumpkin, and pumpkin

With a title like this, what do you think the main ingredients of this bento are? *grins*
The small container contains wholewheat pasta spirals with pumpkin seed pesto (from a dry mix) and some crushed pumpkin meat. Parmesan and thai basil as decoration.
The thermos contains lovely pumpkin cream soup decorated with a splash of cream, a [...]

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Bento #102 – Lessons in Life are best taken from Bears

Pumpkin soup with bell-shaped pasta and vegetable “croutons” in the thermos container; mixed fruit in silicone muffin cups (for easier removal because I’ll use the container as soup bowl) in the bowl container.

Part 1 of my bento includes pumpkin soup that I had frozen last time I made soup and rewarmed for dinner. It’s poured [...]

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Bento #83 – Pumpkin soup, again!

I can’t help it, I made my favourite soup again. I just can’t pass by a butternut squash in the supermarket and not buy it…

Butternut squash coconut cream soup, condiments (cherry tomatoes, wholewheat toast croutons, grated carrots and leek, bell peppers, thai basil leaves).
Recipe reposted from Epicurean.com :
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1/2 large onion, chopped
2 cloves [...]

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Bento #74: I don’t drink… wine.

Half of this is still uneaten because the lady at the blood donor station I was scheduled at today took one look at me and told me to get a “proper breakfast and lunch while you’re at it”. Oh well, it was just leftover soup anyway.

Thermos mug: Tomato and cream soup with rice, onion and [...]

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