Tackling my back(b)log with a double bento post.
Sunny Gado-Gado Bento #155
I left summer in style with a Sunny Gado-Gado Bento. It was a lousy summertime — the more reason to brighten up my working days with a colourful lunch!
Gado-gado is eaten at room temperature so it’s perfect for bento, as I’ve shared before. I bring it every once in a while; easy, ‘cause it’s made quickly steamed or cooked veggies. My only condition is that I have some leftover peanut sauce. :)
In this case there’s purple potato, cauliflower, green beans, carrots and baked plain tofu. I like to have something sour with it, hence the gherkin slices pushed aside in the corner. A cute curly chili pepper harvested from my balcony is resting on a dollop of compulsory peanut sauce.
Salad vegetables are corn on the cob, yellow bell pepper, red and orange cherry tomatoes & lettuce. More peanut sauce in the little container and homemade sambal bawang in a small holder of The Body Shop. I’ve almost ran out of my shallot sambal and got a huge harvest of peppers so I plan on making some more sambal upcoming weekend. Yay!
The SnackTaxi bag contains emping and cassava krupuk. Oh I felt like such a lucky grrl on September 1st! I just looooooove Indonesian food. :)
Fall Picnic Bento #156
The first bento of fall came along for a picnic in the park on a suddenly gorgeous autumn day (September 25th). Still, the flavours of this snack-for-two are obviously earthier in accordance with the season. It’s quite the carbo-bento!
Upper tier
Radishes with skordaliá (Greek garlic-potato dip) from the Ecofabulous cookbook I borrowed from the library, on a bed of lettuce.
Lower tier
Sundried-tomato hummus for the rosemary & thyme crackers on the side, pesto and cucumber slices to dip, a few pieces of apple.
On the side (next to the already mentioned crackers): cashews and a bottle of bubbly (not shown ;)
The skordaliá was nice but a bit weird as well. It had a gooey texture and tasted VERY strongly of garlic. That did go well with the radishes but I had much left and I threw it away (which I don’t like to do) so I’m not sure whether I’ll make this again. Could be that I did something wrong though, because I didn’t make the full recipe. One should never gamble with ingredients. ;)
Anyway, it was a yummy picnic and I got to bring it in my new carrier bag that I really like! Do you?
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woensdag 12 oktober 2011 bij 23:16
Bonnie
Everything looks wonderful. I’ve never actually made gado-gado myself, it does sound really good for a bento!
This post makes me wish I could go and have a picnic! not in this rain, though…
vrijdag 14 oktober 2011 bij 14:33
Uniflame
Lovely bento’s :) I really love gado gado myself! That brings me on an idea for dinner next week since it had been a while. I really need to include more nuts in my own bento :) Nick doesn’t like it so I kinda forget to buy it, but I love nuts and they are good for me :)
BTW: Where do you buy those purple potatoes. I haven’t been able to find them anywhere. What kind are they?
zaterdag 15 oktober 2011 bij 10:46
Gnoe
@Bonnie: Well, you can’t complain about the weather this weekend, can you?! *hint* ;P
@Uniflame: Doesn’t Nick like any kind of nuts??? He’s nuts! ;P
I buy the purple potatoes from a local organic garden called Groenekans (which delivers to an adress in the neighbourhood on Fridays) or sometimes ge them in my weekly bag of Amelishof vegetables on Wednesday. But they’re also sold in your ordinary organic store with a good selection of fresh produce. These are called Violetta potatoes but there are several other varieties.
zaterdag 15 oktober 2011 bij 14:32
Uniflame
I will keep an eye out for them because I really want to try them :)
zondag 11 december 2011 bij 20:56
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