Bento (Japanese style) packed, vegan meals

[jamboxrock]

What's in the potato? it looks gooood

Cheesy sauce and steamed kale, with paprika on top.

[vegcurry]

That looks absolutely delicious, vegcurry
Any chance of posting the sosmix and pecan nut roll and the satay potato cakes recipes? I'd love to have a go at making them.

Well there's not too much to it tbh.

I made up some sosmix, added finely chopped onion and roughly chopped pecan nuts to it. Rolled it up into a big soysage roll shape with some puff pastry and sliced it into decent sized portions and baked them until done.

The satay potato cakes were some left over mashed potato (with herbs) mixed up with some satay sauce, then topped with satay and baked at the same time as the sosmix rolls.

[emmapresley]

i made a lovely lunch today..one that i took ages making last night, then i went and dropped it on the floor and the floor wasn't right clean so i ended up having a bag of ready salted hula hoops. i was really gutted.

[vegcurry]

FRIDAY. Clockwise from top left:
[1] Ebly Wheat with mixed beans, sundried tomato, and baked chestnut mushroom. Tempeh baked in chilli sauce.
[2] Mange tout & Carrot Sticks with Lemon.
[3] Cheezly Mozarella, mini Cretan Breads and Peanut Butter.
[4] Baby leaf salad [underneath], cucumber, radish, chilli marinated olives, cherry tomatoes, red grape and baby sweetcorn.
& Dried Apricots in with the fork.

[applepie]

Aaaaawww, Emma!!!!! Guess what the postman brought me today?!
THANKS A MILLION, you're an absolute star!
I can't wait to use the little cuties tomorrow. I couldn't stop grinning when I unpacked them, they're tiny! Although I'll be studying at home, I NEED to put together a bento box tomorrow to do justice to your kind gift.
I'll post pics in due course.

[vegcurry]

i made a lovely lunch today..one that i took ages making last night, then i went and dropped it on the floor and the floor wasn't right clean so i ended up having a bag of ready salted hula hoops. i was really gutted.

[emmapresley]

yessss...

*sniffles*

oh ace applepie!
glad it got to you safely

[bryzee86]

poor emmap!

[applepie]

Oh, btw, the smileys were not intended to make fun of your lunchtime accident *hugs* - I was merely expressing the excitement about my cute new bento accessories before having read your post.

[emmapresley]

it's fine! i didn't for a minute think they were. am really spacey tired so probs wouldn't have thought?? just do us some cutesy pics!

[Roxy]

That sucks Emma (((HUGS))). I probably would've cried if I did that.

[applepie]

My brand new Bento accessories have to be used today - thanks to Emmapresley who kindly gave them to me
Top: salad (dressing in the little bottle) and gherkins
Bottom: sesame and poppy seed crackers with mango chutney in between, salt & vinegar crackers, and dried apricots

[eco]

Well there's not too much to it tbh.

I made up some sosmix, added finely chopped onion and roughly chopped pecan nuts to it. Rolled it up into a big soysage roll shape with some puff pastry and sliced it into decent sized portions and baked them until done.

The satay potato cakes were some left over mashed potato (with herbs) mixed up with some satay sauce, then topped with satay and baked at the same time as the sosmix rolls.

Thanks
I like sosmix and am always looking for new recipes and I think the satay potato cakes are very inventive.

[bryzee86]

woah those bento accessories are fantastic applepie!

[jamboxrock]

today: split pea soup, rice noodles leftover from dinner out, squash pickles, carrot raisin salad, dried pineapple

[emzy1985]

Mmmm yummy stuff!

[pavotrouge]

because vegcurry encouraged me to... some of my recent bento (more info, as always, on my blog), pretty self-explanatory.

[emzy1985]

Pav what's your blog girl?

[pavotrouge]

it's www.applesntwigs.blogspot.com, but it's also linked on my profile site.

[vegcurry]

@ pavotrouge

That's some seriously tasty looking munchies in those bentos.

[cobweb]

here's my husband's laptop lunch for tomorrow (it's our first one!)

[vegcurry]

What's in it cobweb?

[vegcurry]

MONDAY 14-04-2008. Clockwise from top left:
[1] Brown rice with 'chicken' and spinach curry.
[2] Sosmix (with Brazil nut, Pecan nut, mushroom and apricot) rolls
[3] Rhubarb and apricot crumble with soya creem.
[4] Green leaf salad, cucumber, radish, mushroom, cherry tomatoes, mange tout, red grape, carrot and baby sweetcorn.

[cobweb]

What's in it cobweb?

sorry, was trying to post contents when forum closed again. For some reason i find it REALLY hard to take clear pics of food

well there's a small piece of LM country pie, some roast potatoes, some cheatin' beef, slices of tomato and a chunk of cheezly cheddar, cooked carrot rounds, and some tartex sarnies. Oh, and kettle chips.

[cobweb]

here's mine - i have a piece of pie, roast potatoes, carrot sticks, mixed raisins, cranberries, seeds and nuts, and plamil mayo. Oh, and a crispie cake.

[Astrid]

Very cute lunchbox, cobweb. Btw, I now know your real first name (from following the link you posted before changing your post).

[cobweb]

Very cute lunchbox, cobweb. Btw, I now know your real first name (from following the link you posted before changing your post).

VF was going funny there - i was trying to post my pic and it put up links instead, then a picture of an old viking village i have on photobucket, that's not even on the same page in my album as the laptop lunches!.

are you going to stalk me now astrid?

what else did you see btw?

[Astrid]

Yes, of course I'm going to stalk you! Now I have all the information I need to find you.

I just saw some pics of that village and you and your hubby's lunchboxes. Did I miss something exciting?

[emmapresley]

here's mine for tomorrow../

pistachio halva, dried papaya and sesame nibbles
couscous and stir fried veg and bunny is guarding the tamari
strawberries guarded by small animal friends, raspberries, grapes, goji berries,raisins, nibbly trek bar, tiddly cupcake, pecan nuts.

hopefuly i won't bloody drop it

[cobweb]

Astrid - sadly no . That's just about as exciting as my life gets - neolithic artefacts and lunchboxes . Have you been to Orkney, Astrid?.

[cobweb]

teehee emmap those animals are cute.

[Astrid]

Nope. Is it worth a visit?

EmmaP - you are really getting into the kawaii bento thing I see. I love the little animal friends.

[cobweb]

of course it is!. I just wondered as we have a lot of ties with Norway, like the Christmas trees that are gifted each year by Norway, and the bands and poets come here to do tree lighting services, for instance. So in Orkney we sort of feel related to Norway.

[Astrid]

I just now read up on Orkney on wikipedia. Your flag looks like ours only with yellow! Do you know if you are of Norwegian descent? Do you speak Norn?

[cobweb]

i'm not, Astrid but the local dialect was Norn here til the end of the 1700s i believe and still contains some Norse words. Orkney used to be a Norwejan earldom.

[emmapresley]

come now ladies...you are taking the bento thread off topic

[cobweb]

soz. I did post pics of my laptop lunches though so will you let me off if i shuttup about orkney right now?.

[emmapresley]

aye, alright then

[Roxy]

Here's mine for tomorrow:

Home-made jasmine rice pudding.
Organic strawberries.
Organic salad: shredded romaine, cara cara orange, poppyseed dressing.
Whistler's Own Bakeshop Skookum Bar.

[Glossgirl]

of course it is!. I just wondered as we have a lot of ties with Norway, like the Christmas trees that are gifted each year by Norway, and the bands and poets come here to do tree lighting services, for instance. So in Orkney we sort of feel related to Norway.

Cool. I had a teacher with orkney and english heritage ... I think that 1/10 of my english lessons were about the orkneys. It almost feel as I been there, lol.

[jamboxrock]

today: wheat rotini w/ cheesy sauce & broccoli, kale chips, carrot raisin salad, pickle, sliced veggie dog (got ketchup from the canteen), dried mango, prunes

[Roxy]

Here's what I'm having tomorrow:

Eggless egg salad on top of organic romaine leaves.
Roasted organic potatoes.
Chopped organic strawberries
Skookum bar.

[cedarblue]

what the toot is a skookum bar roxy?...looks tasty though!

[Roxy]

http://whistlersownbakeshop.ca/productsbarsskookum.html

They're something new.

[sponge]

Those lunches look so good.

[Astrid]

Yesterday:



Mediterranean style butter beans with zucchini and aubergine. Tofutti sandwich, PB sandwich. Walnuts and almonds. Dried cranberries in the smallest container.


Today:



PB sandwiches. Carrot and celery sticks. Corn and edamame salad. Almonds and dried cranberries in the smallest container.

[vegcurry]

http://whistlersownbakeshop.ca/productsbarsskookum.html

They're something new.

I like the name of the ... Hippie Bar

[vegcurry]

TUESDAY 15-04-2008. Clockwise from top left:
[1] Macaroni Scheese
[2] Crackers, Brazil Nuts
[3] Peanut Butter, Fry's garlic Poloni, Redwood VegiDeli Sage And Onion
[4] Rocket, Sugarsnap Peas, Carrot sticks, Radish, Red Grapes
& Dried Apricots in with the fork



WEDNESDAY 16-04-2008. Clockwise from top left:
[1] Rice Salad
[2] Sugarsnap Peas, Carrot sticks
[3] Crackers
[4] Sosmix (with Brazil nut, Pecan nut, mushroom and apricot) roll, Hummous in the green pot, Red Grapes

[pavotrouge]

I love the look of that Mac & Scheese And sosmix rolls... only 24 hrs until I'm near sosmix ^^

[vegcurry]

^ hang in there Pavotrouge. How many crates of it can you carry back with you?