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:
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:
Who doesn’t love a plate of sausage and mash? It’s the quintessential pub meal full of calories and comfort. In my lunch box it may not look so pretty, but it sure does taste good.
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Tagged apple butter, beef bangers, cheese, feta, gravy, mashed potato, onion, onion gravy, potato, sausage, swiss chard, tomatoes, yoghurt
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…
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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?
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Tagged beef, carrot, curry, Japanese curry, mangetout, onion, potato, rice, sweet potato
I was recently asked to write a guest post by the lovely Lady Raven for her blog Add to Taste and it was published this past Friday. My very first guest post! Be sure to check it out and then come back to see what is on the menu today.
Today’s Lunch:
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.
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Tagged bread, carrot, cheese, orange, red onion, rocket, sandwich, smoked chicken
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.
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Tagged carrot, cheese, chicken, fennel, feta, lettuce, onion, orange, orange juice, salad, smoked chicken
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.
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Tagged baby corn, bread, carrot, celeriac, lentl, pesto, soup, sugar snap peas, vegetable soup
This lunch is my entry into the My Easy Cooking Thai themed first blogging event. After my success with nut butter in the last Daring Cook’s Challenge I though I might try my hand at making satay from scratch, but after picking up a small brick of tamarind pulp at the New Asian Spice Supermarket in Sea Point I finally decided on Pad Thai. For inspiration I turned to Chez Pim and her method of making Pad Thai.
Today’s Lunch:
The first step is to prepare the Pad Thai sauce, but before I could do that I had to process my brick of tamarind pulp. For 250g of tamarind I used two cups of warm water letting it soak for a little while, then working the seeds and fibres from the pulp and finally straining the soaked tamarind to catch any bits I might have missed. This is the fun messy part 🙂
Once I had my tamarind paste I heated a 1/4 cup each of fish sauce, tamarind paste and unrefined brown sugar and 1 tsp chilli powder over a low heat until the sugar melted. This was enough for three portions. Now the sauce was completed I could move on to preparing the rest of the ingredients.
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Tagged baby corn, chicken, egg, garlic, lemon, Pad Thai, peanuts, prawns, rice noodles, spring onion, sugar snap peas, Thai basil, yellow pepper
If you follow me on Twitter you probably read my tweets about my newly acquired bento from The Crazy Store. Fellow Tweeter and bento fan Amanda pointed it out to me and I’m so glad she did! It’s a great little set and I got to take it out on it’s maiden voyage today.
Today’s Lunch:
I received a jar of Kara’s Original Greek Herb Dressing in my goodie bag at the SA Food Bloggers Conference earlier this year and since the conference I’ve used it to dress leafy salads and steamed vegetables with great results. Here is my simple recipe for a Greek flavoured yoghurt dressing using this herb mix.
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This is enough to dress half a packet of pasta (250g dried). I think it would also make a great marinade or dip, although if you plan to use it as a dip you may want to use less salt.
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Tagged almonds, apple, cucumber, feta, garlic, pasta, pea shoots, tomato, wasabi peas, yoghurt
