Bento 24 - 27

Here are last week’s bento’s

Bento 024

1) Pasta salad with spinach, cream cheese and cherry tomatoes
2) Some red curry sauce to go with  the snacks in the bottom tier
3) Various vegetarian snacks. I really liked the triangles and the round ones
4) Cheeses

Bento 025

1) Rice with added nuts
2) Quorn  curry with coconut on top, added some cashews in mine
3) “Kroepoek” (no idea how that is called in English)
4) Filled mushrooms (will post the recipe on the forum)
5) Cucumber and cheese flowers, cherry tomato

Bento 026

1) Roti wrap (filling: Potatoes, beans, tomato, paprika, quorn)
2) “kroepoek”
3) Corn with handmade sauce
4) Laughing cow cheese cubes
5) Cucumber stars

Bento 027

1) Spicy wieners (for the boyfriend)
2) Corn
3) Handmade sauce to go with corn
4) Pasta salad with mushrooms, mozzarella and spinach (recipe on the forum)
5) Somewhat too soft boiled star shaped eggs and laughing cow cheese cubes

Thats all folks!

June 24, 2008 :: Bento, Vegetarian :: No Comments »

Bento 20 - 23

Here are the bento’s I made last week:

Bento 020

1) Sweet potato croquets
2) Rice
3) Cheese cubes
4) Cherries and a yellow cherry tomato
5) Cream cheese and surimi onigiri
6) Octodogs
7) Vegetarian quorn teriyaki

Bento 021

1) Noodles with quorn, yellow paprika and sugarsnaps
2) Indonesian cake
3) Cheese cubes
4) Zucchini flowers with cream cheese and Italian herbs

Bento 022

1) Bunny shaped egg
2) Rice
3) Quorn madras (with apple, paprika and broccoli)
4) Octodogs
5) Cheese and strawberry jam dinosaur sandwich

And snackbento’s for the huge book festival Mark and I went to! It gave me the chance to use my newest Cheshire Cat bento and the bunny one who I havent used before. They are both on the small side but left us more satisfied then expected.

Bento 023

1) Bear shaped egg
2) Rice (marks has an octodog on top)
3) Quorn chimichurri
4) Heart shaped cucumbers with cheese in between
5) Angelpig sauce bottles containing the spice sauce for the chimichurri
6) Octodogs

June 16, 2008 :: Bento, Boxes, Vegetarian :: No Comments »

Bento 019

Yesterday I didnt have leftovers from dinner which resulted in a smaller bento. But it gave me the chance to try out my new strawberry bento box which can hold only a littlebit more then a kitty bento even though it had two tiers.

Strawberry bento

Bento 019

1) Oreo cookies in the lid
2) Octodogs for Mark (I wanted to try making those for ages but since I’m vegetarian I cant eat them)
3) Sesame sticks
4) Sweet potato croquets
5) Cherries
6) Strawberries (and some yellow cherry tomatoes and cheese cube)
7) Rosemary potatoes in sour cream

This is the first time Marks and mine bento differ so much. This is because Mark doesnt eat fruit!

June 5, 2008 :: Bento, Boxes, Vegetarian :: 3 Comments »

Bento 18

Bento 18

 

1) Potato salad
2) Corn with homemade sauce
3) Sour cream in Stitch cup and cherry tomato and soft cheese cube
4) Coconut rice with added nuts
5) Tomato cream sauce with quorn, zucchini and fresh tomatoes decorated with a moon and star shaped coconut slice
6) Blueberry pocky
7) Chocolate pocky

 

I will post the recipe for the corn with homemade sauce on the forum :)

June 4, 2008 :: Bento, Vegetarian :: No Comments »

Bento 15, 16 and 17

First of we have a snack bento I made for a break in traveling. The bento was made for 3.

Bento 15

1) Salmon & cream cheese wraps
2) Yellow cherry tomatoes
3) Cheese with herbs
4) Soft cheese cubes
5) Wraps with chicken and cream cheese for the boyfriend ;)

Bento 16

1) Soft cheese cubes
2) Potato salad
3) Cherry tomatoes
4) Cheese with herbs
5) White rice
6) A vegetarian sateh like sauce, containing corn, beans and yellow paprika topped with a coconut duck

Then my new bento boxes arrived. I ordered a couple of 2-tier boxes because it would allow me to make bigger lunches for Mark to bring to his work.

 

New bento

 And see what is inside:

Bento 17

1) Potato salad with flower shaped cucumbers
2) Soft cheese cubes
3) My first egg chick, the beak is tomato and the eyes are coconut. It is supposed to be winking.
4) Tomato slices
5) Pasta sauce based on sun dried tomatoes with fresh basil, zucchini and mushrooms
6) Ravaolli, a pasta filled with cheese
7) Sesame sticks and blueberry pocky in the lid.

Close up from chick-egg:

Chick in egg

June 3, 2008 :: Bento, Boxes, Vegetarian :: No Comments »

Bento 011

Todays lunch will be:

Bento 011

Bento contains:
1) Yellow cherry tomatoes
2) Grapes
3) Leftover quorn palava
4) Rice with corn
5) Curry puffs (recipe can be find on the forum!)
6) Mediterranean crackers

May 19, 2008 :: Bento, Vegetarian :: 2 Comments »