| Lunch Box 576: Foodstuffs |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|07:30 pm] |
 Some of my lunches are more leftover-ish than others. This is one of those. I have chicken & vegetable yakisoba,with a little yellow container of yakisoba sauce. (the wheel-like thing is lotus root.) On the other side I have baked sweet potato - the regular kind, not the purple kind, for once! - steamed green beans, and purple imo-yokan, which is a dessert made with purple sweet potatoes.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 547: Curry is convenient |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|09:08 am] |
 I used to hate curry. That was before I understood that there was curry that would not burn the lining off the inside of my mouth, and which furthermore actually tasted nice. But now I like it, and furthermore appreciate its convenience. I stumble home and don't feel like doing fancy cooking, I can just stir-fry whatever I have handy, chuck in some curry mix, and I have a meal. So, here's some vegetable curry - in this case, an armload of vegetables that followed me home from the farmers' market - and baked Japanese sweet potato, corn bread, apple, and purple imo-yokan.
This is almost a vegan meal. I thought it was for a moment there, and then I realized that I'd put egg in the corn bread. Drat it.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 546: Nuclear sushi |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|09:05 pm] |
 Today I have some chirashi-zushi, which is sushi rice in a box with stuff arranged on top of it, rather than shaped into discrete rolls and rice blocks. I made it with shrimp, egg, cucumber, smoked salmon, and shiitake, some of which you can actually see in that photo and some of which you can't. On the other side I have a small forest of steamed broccoli, some corn bread (note to self: when testing recipes, make half batches!), and a chunk of purple imo-yokan.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 449: Lunch by Crayola |
[Oct. 15th, 2007|07:12 pm] |
 I was very brave this past weekend. I went, all by myself, to an Indian restaurant and ordered food I've never had before. The reason this is a big deal for me is that all my memories of Indian food are of the super-spicy food my mother liked - hot pink chicken and so on - which I could not eat. The spices were to the flavor of food as an air raid siren is to music. It takes a bit of work to overcome those kinds of memories and give something another go, but, what the heck, there's an Indian restaurant near me that I've never visited in the 10 years I've had my condo.
Anyhow, the food was good, I had mild chicken tikka masala with some fluffy rice. The bright orange of the sauce alarmed me initially - pushing those childhood memory buttons, you know - but it tasted fine. I also had some fruit-stuffed naan which was more like pastry than bread. (I did get ambushed by a pre-meal chiplike thing that was mild when I ate it but caused my tongue to burn afterwards. I'll know better next time.)
So! For lunch today, I have leftover chicken tikka masala over rice and some of my homemade naan, which I tore into bits because I like the look of torn naan, OK? I also have zucchini & onion stir-fry, and purple imo-yokan because I didn't have a leftover green veggie or dessert.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 442: Breaking bread |
[Oct. 3rd, 2007|07:59 pm] |
 Got some more new stuff here! I just made naan - East Indian flatbread - for the first time, and quite liked it, so here's a bit of that, torn into chunks and buttered up. Below that is some omelet with turkey bacon and mushrooms. Continuing counterclockwise, we find zucchini & onion stir-fry, baked eggplant slices, and purple imo-yokan. Imo-yokan is a jellied sweet potato dessert, and making it is so much work that I rarely do it, but once I got the idea of making it with purple sweet potatoes I couldn't resist.
I had planned to pack some roe in with this meal. I found a good recipe for broiled roe in The Joy of Cooking - and if you can't trust those recipes, what can you trust? - and gave it a go. And... well, the taste wasn't bad, but the look and the texture... I'm sorry, but it was too much for me. I threw it out and whipped up an omelet as a replacement. Most new recipes I try turn out well, but if you don't have a few failures you aren't taking enough risks!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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