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Salad of leek, tomato, cucumber, gherkin, lettuce, grilled zucchini, red onion and parsley, to be topped with pine nuts & walnut from the other tier.
Houmous with harissa, yoghurt coated apricot, plum tomatoes, cucumber & carrot sticks, homemade parsley pesto with walnut.
Cracker and yoghurt with cooked red currants on the side.
I’m not superstitious and I don’t believe Friday the 13th means bad luck. Hey, on Fridays it’s almost W.E.E.K.E.N.D.! But Monday the 13th… Yaiks, that’s something else indeed! I don’t like Mondays… And now both July and August bring us that black day :(
Today I hoped to balance things out a bit by bringing bento #61 to work: 6 + 1 = lucky number 7! :)
First tier:
- bed of romaine lettuce
- pesto egg with sundried tomato
- carrot
- hot pepper (from the balcony) with houmous
- slice of cucumber
- cauliflower florets
- black olives
- pine nuts
I also added some walnut after making the picture.
Second tier:
- mexican nut mix (‘pepita mix‘)
- carrot sticks
- seedless grapes
- pasta salad (corn, hot pepper, (fresh & sundried) tomato, pine nuts, pesto, basil, red tofu)
This bento really helped me get through my busy day! :)
Of course macaroni rigate is a bit too large for a real pasta salad but I am not small-minded when it comes to using leftovers!
BTW: did you spot the 3 song titles in this post??? Answers behind the cut :)
Thursday and Friday were moving days at the office. For me, Friday was the first day in the new building. I brought a bento with side dishes since I didn’t know yet how hungry I would be from all the hard labour, nor if I would be able to buy any food in or near the office site (it’s not located near town anymore). But there seems to be a canteen that I can go check out next week.
Contents:
- corn with several herbs
- boiled egg
- pine nuts and sun-dried tomato for the pasta salad side dish
- carrot
- again a container of humus and mojo Palermo with capers (I am almost out of the mojo that my mother in law brought us from La Palma)
- mini crackers and bounty
- salt & pepper for the egg
- sesame nibbles
- nut mix
- and two pickles rolled in fake meat slice.
On the side some yogurt with prune jelly (homemade by my mother in law).
Contents of Thursday November 8’s bento:
- stir-fried spinach with corn and sesame
- pasta salad
- dried cranberries and bilberries
- mustard cheese cubes
- yoghurt coated dried apricots
- sesame nibbles
- smoked almonds
- small crackers
- a light coke
- and a smint for a fresh breath afterwards.
Notice the nuts, fruits and seeds theme?
I’m a bit slow in blogging but two weeks ago I made my first real bento to bring along on a 16 km hiking trip in the south of Holland (NS route Maas-/Swalmdal from Reuver to Swalmen, near Roermond). It was a picnic for two so it didn’t fit all in one box, but that’s OK, right?
What was in it?
- egg-filled tomato with pine nuts
- hummus and small crackers
- cherry tomatoes
- cashew nuts
- La vache qui rit cheese wedge
- puff pastry with paprika curry
- cherries (on the side)
Now I have to figure out which bento group to subscribe to… There are so many of them! Vegan Bento for example (but I am a vegetarian and not vegan so I’d have to take care which bento’s to post) or Lunchbox Recipes at Flickr. I’ll have to study them all and decide… Poor me ;)
BTW hiking was great as well: quite a varied landscape (& weather ;) It might be a nice trip to make with the Wandelgrrls some day.
