Posts Tagged ‘carrot’
June 29th, 2011
Wow, I can’t believe it has been nearly five months since my last blog post. How absolutely shocking! They say time flies when you’re having fun, but I can’t say that these past few months have been that exciting. Maybe it’s just a sign that I’m getting a bit older? My return has been somewhat inspired by an invitation to a bloggers get together being organised by the lovely Betty Bake and Being Brazen. The invitation got me thinking, if I want to be thought of as a blogger then I should blog right? So, I’d like to renew my blogging license and here is a blog post to prove it.
Today’s Lunch:
- Chicken cooked in a sticky plum sauce,
- stir-fried carrot, courgette, mange tout, spring onion and fresh corn kernels and
- egg noodles.
carrot, chicken, corn, courgette, mange tout, noodles, spring onion
Packed Lunches
February 2nd, 2011
As much as I try to keep my lunches healthy and lean sometimes it’s nice to break the rules a little. Who can resist a piece of yummy bacon anyway? I think I struck a nice balance between the sweet, smoky, crispy bacon and the lentils and other crunchy veggies in this salad.
Today’s Lunch:
- Lentil and bacon salad with mixed lettuce leaves, red onion, carrot, mange tout and baby tomato,
- some grapes and
- a plum.
bacon, carrot, grapes, lentil, lettuce, mange tout, onion, plum, salad, tomato
Packed Lunches
October 25th, 2010
This lentil soup makes for a great midday meal. A sweet spicy twist comes from the addition of carrots roasted with lemon, cumin and a touch of cayenne pepper. It’s not going to win any beauty prizes but sure does deliver on the flavour front.
Today’s Lunch:
- Lemony roast carrot and lentil soup and
- a few strawberries.
carrot, lentils, soup, strawberries
Packed Lunches
October 8th, 2010
Sandwich and salad. It’s the combo I usually fall back on when I don’t have sufficeint leftovers to fill my lunch box. I try to keep the flavours interesting so that I’m not too tempted to head down the road to Cookshop for a plate from the daily buffet.
Today’s Lunch:
- Gammon steak and wholegrain mustard on brown sead loaf with lettuce and radicchio and
- some cabbage, carrot, fennel and orange salad.
bread, cabbage, carrot, fennel, gammon, lettuce, mustard, orange, radicchio, salad, sandwich
Packed Lunches
October 5th, 2010
I’m getting back onto the lunch packing horse again. I’ve been very naughty lately and eating convenience food or (even worse) not eating at all at lunchtime. After a phase of not doing something the anticipated chore always seems worse then the actual undertaking. So here I go again…
Today’s Lunch:
- Japanese Curry with carrot, potato, sweet potato (those delicious orange fleshed ones), onion and strips of beef,
- short grain brown rice and
- mangetout
I didn’t like how the curry looked in my bento, so I took another photo after warming it up at work. Much more appealing do you think?
beef, carrot, curry, Japanese curry, mangetout, onion, potato, rice, sweet potato
Packed Lunches
August 6th, 2010
The contents of today’s lunch are mostly a remix of yesterday’s Smoked Chicken Salad and it’s has me thinking about other meal remixes. In particular the meal reimagining mastery of Fancy Food Fast, my remix doesn’t even come close! I’m interested to hear how you deal with leftovers and surplus ingredients to make it feel like you are eating a different meal. Whether it turning a salad into a sandwich, pasta sauce into a soup or roast meat into a pie leave a comment and let me know.
Today’s Lunch:
- Smoked chicken, rocket and red onion sandwich on multigrain health bread,
- carrot sticks,
- an orange cut into eighths and
- a mini soccer ball cheese.
bread, carrot, cheese, orange, red onion, rocket, sandwich, smoked chicken
Packed Lunches
August 5th, 2010
This past weekend I had the privilege of watching Christine Stevens prepare a few recipes from her book Harvest at the Cape Town Book Fair. One of the dishes she prepared was a winter salad containing cabbage, carrot, celery and onion dressed with an orange juice vinaigrette. She explained that she thought cooking was all about adapting and that the original recipe in her book used fennel, but since she had none on hand she’d substituted onion instead. The combination of fennel and orange was the inspirational springboard for this salad lunch.
Today’s Lunch:
- Mixed salad leaves topped with
- carrot, red onion and fennel marinated in a little orange juice topped with
- sliced smoked chicken and
- orange segments with feta cheese.
carrot, cheese, chicken, fennel, feta, lettuce, onion, orange, orange juice, salad, smoked chicken
Packed Lunches
August 4th, 2010
Recently Cape Town became one of a handful of cities worldwide to endorse a weekly meat-free day. I’ve blogged previously about the Meatless Monday movement and my strange mental block when it comes to creating a meat-free meal on a specific day of the week. So I’m happy to follow the City of Cape Town‘s example and enjoy a few random meatless days a week.
This simple vegetable soup is a great vegetarian option for your chosen meat-free day. Cubed celeriac, carrot and any other vegetable odds and ends you’d like to make use of, cooked with lentils in a vegetable stock and served with a generous spoon of flavoursome pesto.
Today’s Lunch:
- Vegetable soup topped with a spoonful of pesto and
- a slice of olive ciabatta.
baby corn, bread, carrot, celeriac, lentl, pesto, soup, sugar snap peas, vegetable soup
Packed Lunches
July 14th, 2010
Leftovers from this month’s Daring Cooks challenge made for an excellent lunchtime treat, especially with the freezing rainy and snowy weather we’ve been having in the Cape recently.
Today’s Lunch:
- Butter chicken,
- basmati rice with fried onions,
- carrots and
- green beans.
butter chicken, carrot, chicken, green beans, onion, rice
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February 22nd, 2010
Today’s Lunch:
- Wholewheat penne tossed with tomato sauce and crumbled feta and
- a salad with baby cabbage leaves, mixed sprouts, cucumber, tomato and carrot.
cabbage, carrot, cucumber, feta, pasta, salad, sprouts, tomato, tomato sauce
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