When there was a warm summer night at last on July 25th, we immediately took off to our back garden the park to have dinner. Of course there were plenty of others who’d had the same idea, some of them BBQ-ing, others eating takeaway or -like us- having their own healthy homemade yummyness.
The large container holds the last spoonful of Lebanese bulghur and spinach pesto that I also had the day before. Next to it there’s the first dish I cooked from vegan goddess Isa Chandra’s bible Veganomicon: basmati rice with chard, chickpeas, dill and lemon. It was good cold as well as hot! A mixed salad containing marinated zucchini leftovers fills the other half of this box.
The medium box has half a veggie dog, ajvar (bell pepper relish), spelt crackers and red berries for dessert.
And finally the small side container holds some more crackers (olive and rosemary) to eat with both spreads and chilled soup: we brought green gazpacho in a thermos, a new recipe coming from Puur Plantaardig. In fact: I’ll be making the same soup again for my mother-in-law’s birthday tomorrow. Perfect in this tropical weather!
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vrijdag 17 augustus 2012 bij 18:44
Chinoiseries
Your picnic goodies look so tasty! This green gazpacho makes me want to peruse Puur Plantaardig now. Need to get it :)
vrijdag 17 augustus 2012 bij 18:58
bentobird jenn
So refreshing, your outdoor repast! The deep green of the spinach pesto really caught my eye. Happy and tasty weekend, Ms. Gnoe!
zondag 26 augustus 2012 bij 17:49
Chiara
I am following your blog sinds a lot of time. I also made bento for my lunches, I am not vegeterian but I find a lot of suggestion as alternative to the “boterham met kaas” ;-). I live in the Netherlands as well, zo may I ask where did you buy these containers?
vrijdag 7 september 2012 bij 17:29
Gnoe
Thanks Chinoiseries & Bentobird! :) I plan on sharing the gazpacho and spinach pesto recipes, prbably during Vegan MoFo in October.
And hi Chiara! Thanks for dropping by – I’d love to see your blog/bentos but the URL you registered does not seem to be correct. I bought these containers at Betsies Kookwinkel in Utrecht but I’m afraid they no longer carry them. I did see some of them on the german amazon.de site though, so maybe you can get them over there? They often have free shipping. Please check in again with your correct URL?!
vrijdag 7 september 2012 bij 18:30
Chiara
Sorry, I realize now I put a wrong url, now it should work! My blog (with my minimal bentos) is in italian, but some post are in english too. Thanks for your answer, I live not far away from Utrecht and I come sometime there, it is my favourite city in the Netherlands. I will for sure drop in the shop you mentioned, up to now I buy my boxes in the Xenos, the HEMA and something come from AH (plus a couple of order on line). Well, and just yesterday I made your poppyseed scones, delicious! I will for sure kepp following your blog!!!!