| Lunch Box 643: You can get anything you want at Dot's Diner |
[Apr. 14th, 2009|10:52 pm] |
 Sometimes I have a theme to my lunches. It may be an image, it may be a color or a type of food. Today it's a shape. Seems everything I have today is round, so it looks like Little Dot packed my lunch. (Please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers that character.)
Anyway, here I have a mini-hamburger, or perhaps a very large nanoburger. Then there's a big helping of steamed carrots & squash - zucchini and crookneck - with butter. A single broccoli stem star snuck in, so I guess that clears Dot. Lastly, there's dry-roasted edamame and sakura mochi (onigiri type).
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 575: Pride in my lunch |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|07:15 pm] |
 I will eat the rainbow today! Red cherries, orange & yellow steamed carrots & yellow squash, green edamame, blue country cornbread, and baked purple sweet potato. And lest anyone forget the earth tones - representing the end of the rainbow or something - some mushroom turnovers.
How about that, I packed a vegetarian meal. Not vegan, however, as there are dairy products in the cornbread and turnovers. I'm not quite that hardcore.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 543: Kahunmi |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|08:32 pm] |
 Spring is here! In Japan one of the Springtime events is hanami, a flower-watching party, when people picnic under cherry trees in bloom. They eat, among other things, sakura-mochi, which are pink rice cakes filled with sweet red bean paste. Well, down here in Georgia we don't have many cherry trees. What we do have is dogwoods, and they're blooming right now. And so are lots of other varieties of trees, releasing a lovely saffron mist which tints everything yellow, including our lungs. So, I've made sakura-mochi for a new tradition I'm starting right now: kahunmi, the pollen-watching festival. Sit under the dogwoods, gaze at their flowers, and take your Claritin.
What I'll be eating as my lungs fill with microgametophytes includes takoyaki; beef & broccoli stir-fry; steamed squash, carrots, and purple potatoes with lots of butter; and sakura mochi (Easiest version). This is a new recipe for sakura mochi, my fourth, and the easiest one so far. I basically adapted the dough from my kushi dango recipe, since it's so easy to handle and shape, and found that I could whip out a batch very quickly and easily. Why haven't I been doing this all along?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 386: Shout out to my homies! |
[Jun. 22nd, 2007|07:34 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | baked purple sweet potato, box, chicken salad, fruit salad, grapes, lychees, mini-pita sandwiches, persimmon, steamed carrots, steamed vegetables, steamed yellow squash, steamed zucchini | ] |
 This lunch is dedicated to Maria, one of my coworkers. See all that pretty steamed carrots, zucchini, and yellow squash? The zucchini and yellow squash came out of her garden. She gave me a bag of homegrown produce after I gave her a purple sweet potato. (She ate it raw. Don't make that face - sweet potatoes are actually pretty good raw, as she proved to me. The orange ones taste and crunch much like carrot.)
I also have chicken salad mini-pita sandwiches. Saw cute little mini-pita breads, bought a bag, and decided to make teeny two-inch-diameter sammitches with 'em. The chicken salad doesn't have a lot of mayo, so as not to turn the pita all soggy. Then there's the everpresent baked purple sweet potato, and a fruit salad made with persimmon, grapes, and lychees. This fruit salad looks a little like a Sesame Street monster, admittedly not by accident.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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