Niet altijd een schoonheidsprijs… (bento #53)

Okee, niet iedere bento kan een schoonheidsprijs winnen ;) Ik moest vandaag weer aan het werk en had gisteravond opeens veel meer voor te bereiden dan verwacht… Bovendien is onze koelkast door de vakantie wat slecht uitgerust qua veggies en restjes. Bento #53 werd dus niet meer dan dit.

• plakjes radijs en augurk
• SkyFlakes crackers (verstopt)
• geroosterde amandelen met mediterrane kruiden (uit Madeira)
• humus
• mijn laatste geitenkaas babybel uit Frankrijk
• basilicum en mini pruimtomaatjes
• ontbijtkoekboompjes en honing voor erbij

Goed smaken deed het toch wel! :))

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Train treat bento (#31)

On Tuesday I was so busy getting my stuff packed that I only got to eating my bento in the train back home. My office is moving on Thursday and since I don’t have to work today I had to get it all done yesterday. Well, I was pretty hungry by the time I was on my way home again!

Contents of my bento (#31):

Left tier

• mini plum tomatoes
• sliced radishes
• little crackers
• Japanese cracker puppet
• Emmenthal cheese
• ‘griotten’ (licorice)

Right tier

• dried apricots (organic)
• container of humus, mojo Palermo (piment) and capers
• marinated olives
• nut-mix: sesame coated almonds, dry roasted peanuts, apricot seeds, roasted chickpeas and dried cranberries

On the side

• small container of potato salad (not shown)
• Japanese fried broad beans

Needless to say it was all very yummy ;)

No picture of bento #28… (October 1st)

No picture of bento 28 but a nice picture of grapes that we took with our new camera on our holiday in Cappadocia (Turkey). You see, our old photo camera broke just two days before our vacation! I discovered that while making photos of bento #28, the last bento I took to work.

Of course this bento contained some green grapes. Along side iceberg salad, wild tomatoes, cream cheese with herbs (Boursin), small crackers, green olives, some carrot, Italian nibbles (Genoa’s) and a vegetarian sausage. On the side I took an apple and some forest fruit yoghurt.

Première: bento #1

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.