Today's bento's main feature is a traditional South African dish, which we had for dinner yesterday : Bobotie.  It is an oven dish made up of mainly of ground meat (pork/veal in my case), green beans and apple. I didn't make it from scratch but used a spice mix I had in one of my cupboards. However you cqn fnd many different recipes around the net, if you want to give it a try.

The bobotie is accompanied by rice cooked with raisins, a carrot baran and some steamed brocoli.

And as they say in Afrikaans "Eet smaaklik". :o)


And to get you in the right mood :

Running out of time so the post will be very short.  I tried the duo lunchbots today to pack my bento.  Not completely convinced by this separation, but I'll have to try a few times to get the hang of it.

In the left part I have a small cordon bleu, with snowpeas and carrots, covered with brocoli rosets. On the right side, I have some basmati rice covered with a mushroom stew (brown mushrooms and shitake, apple and a bit of goat cheese), decorated with asparagus, carrot and yellow cherry tomato.

Bon appetit.

Yesterday was a bentoless day, but today I am back in my routine ... and **rolling drum** I am packing one of the coveted Lunchbots :o)  I found them all on amazon.uk, including the trio and insulated bowl, but for some odd reason they refused to ship it across the Channel.  So, I had to continue the search and I found some on a Dutch site, specialised in organic stuff. I still want the trio and quad ones as well as the insulated bowl, but I have a few new boxes to work with now. And did you see?  The cover is purple <3.

Today's bento main ingredients are polpette, italian veal meatballs, which are accompanied by some black rice, brocoli, carrots, snowpeas, green asparagus and mini corn slices.  I need to buy more fruit today, so I just have an apple for dessert.

Bon appetit.

Today's bento is composed of yesterday's leftovers so there isn't too much to describe : boiled potatoes, garlic chicken and green beans with a tiny bit of bacon in it. For dessert, I have black and blueberries, grapes, apple and for once, a little piece of dark chocolate.


Have a great weekend everybody and see you back on Monday.

Another day, another bento ... more noodles and more shrimp. Comfort food par excellence :o)

Today's noodle dish is Shrimp Pad Thai : rice noodles, shrimps, carrots, cabbage, peas, chili and sprinkled with peanut brittle.

Bon appetit.

Quick bento for today : rice noodles with garlic shrimp, carrots, shitake and baby pakchoi in the lower tier and grapes, blueberries, blackberries, clementine, apple and a little goat cheese in the top tier.

Bon appetit.