I may be late in posting my bentos but I try to keep up the pace of a bento a week.
Here are my latest bentos — both office lunches — dating from Thursday November 10th and Tuesday the 15th.
Bright Bento (#163)
Bento #163 was full of seasonal colours. Some hearty fall food! From left to right (a click on the pic will bring you to Flickr where you can look at a larger version):
Tumbler
Garlic-sunchoke soup with parsley. Toasted rosemary bread (two slices shown, the rest packed in my SnackTaxi bag). I wanted to try bringing toast but I’m not going to do it again because it doesn’t hold well.
Left container
Radish flowers, a scoop of Ethiopian lentil dish with faux sour cream and cucumber slices.
Middle container
Two kinds of hummus (beetroot and pumpkin) with veggies to dip: the beforementioned cukes & radishes, gherkin, carrot and lettuce. Next to that some spicy kabocha pumpkin and sundried tomato.
Right container
Sweets: a stewed pear, dried apricot, cinnamon almonds and a ‘beach ball’ apple.
I figured you might want to have a better look at the paper cups MaaikeB brought me from Japan… You ask, we deliver! Cute stuff eh?
Jumble Bento (#164)
Bento #164 contained another mix of leftovers, most of which you already saw in Bright Bento.
Top tier
Stewed pear, red beet hummus, lettuce, Ethiopian lentils and faux sour cream.
Lower tier
Veggies to dip: gherkin, carrot, cucumber, red paprika, radishes and steamed green beans. Some mini Zaanse kermis biscuits for dessert. Just because I find them so cute!
The photo below shows my side container with pandan rice, Thai green curry and steamed baby cauliflower.
Did you notice I’m using even more new bento gear? I found these kawaii mini loaf cups at Xenos!
My BX bookshelf
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zondag 27 november 2011 bij 07:11
Judy
I love the poached pear. If you have a recipe, I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only one to eat it up.
zondag 27 november 2011 bij 11:56
Uniflame
So how does Faux Sour cream taste? Is it a lot more expensive than the real thing? I am still looking to make substitutions where I can :)
I have convinced my BF of soy butter, but not of soy milk, but maybe faux sour cream, is something that we can try substituting :)
zondag 27 november 2011 bij 18:18
Gnoe
@Judy: I thought everybody knew how to make stewed pears?! Which are called ‘poached pears’, as I now understand. ;) Posting a recipe goes on my todo list, but the important thing is: are cooking pears common in the US?
@Uniflame: first: you shouldn’t expect faux sour cream to taste like the real thing because it doesn’t. But it is a good substitute for dishes that call for an addition of sour cream, like chili or when you make guacamole etc. I haven’t seen it in the shops yet so I make it myself. I’ve got a recipe from La Dolce Vegan! which contains (from the top of my head) soy milk, apple cider vinegar and tamari. But it doesn’t really taste like soy milk if that worries you. I usually don’t drink soy milk (or any other plant milk) as a sub for cow’s milk either btw, only in my coffee.