Week 11

Liz made for het daughter's birthday party almost 35 cupcakes with flower lollipops. 

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Rose made for Liz a super healthy spaghetti bento made using the spiral slicer

Stewed beef with spaghetti made from carrot and winter radish (a.k.a.  rettich or daikon).

Spaghetti made from zucchini topped with egg-white omelet strips.

Spaghetti sauce made from celery, carrots and tomatoes.

In the plastic bag: home made pesto with basil, pepito mix nuts (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and pine nuts), olive oil and three types of cheese (dutch goat's cheese (young and aged version) and dutch cow's cheese, aged).

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Week 10

Rose made for herself (because Liz is on a businesstrip)

This bento box contains 2 types of broccoli, 2 types of stoofvlees (boiled beef?), and two kids of rice.

Methods of preparation 

Broccoli:

1) Steamed (added some salt and pepper for flavor).

2) Egg white omelet with broccoli. Flavored with soy sauce.

Rice:

1) Cooked in rice cooker sent from Taiwan by Chrisitne.

2) Risotto style rice cooked with white wine, brown beer, truffle and soy cream.

Beef:

1) Broiled beef in brown beer (Heineken Oud Bruin), flavored with onion, garlic, jenever berries, bay leaf and dutch ginger bread (crumbled). Recipe from nice woman at the supermarket.

2) Broiled beef in brown beer (see above), Indonesian boemboe (spicemix),  apple butter or apple spread, white wine, chili powdered, garlic, ginger (fresh, grated),  sereh stick.

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Week 9

Rose made for Liz a GIANT bento box.

This is too much too eat in 4 lunches, but anyway...

From top to bottom from left to right:

Row 1:
Dutch Sushi (salty haring) with beetroot and onion salad. Beetroot - haring: 3:1.
Piece of fried salmon. Beetroot cubes in balsamic vinegar. Zuccini with turkish spices, sliced fresh cranberries and juice from a, dutch style, poached pear.

Row 2:
Mixed diced nuts with dried cranberries. Chicory salad made with horseraddish and italian mayonaise (2x). White firm fish, fried.

Row 3:
Fried salmon. Beetroot cubes in a dressing made from poached cranberries, prunes and some sugar. A poached pear, dutch style. Beetroot cubes poached in ginger syrup.

Row 4:
Cherry tomatoes. Chicory salad with tomato caviar and pieces of fried salmon. (No dressing. Yummie 'cuz the little tomatoes are a burst of flavor!)

Close up of (going clock-wise starting upper left):
Chicory salad. Mixed nuts with dried cranberries. Haring-beetroot-onion salad. Fried salmon pieces.


Lunch Bento Box - revision

Because this bento was WAY to BIG, Rose selected some foods and created a smaller lunch bento box version.

Chicory salad with salmon and tomato caviar (half of the portion). Chicory-mayonnaise salad.
Row 2: Fried salmon. Beetroot cubes in balsamic. Nuts and cranberries. Fried white fish.
(The haring-beetroot salad on crackers needed to be eaten soon so I had it as a part of my dinneer.)

Close up of Rose's lunch from the left.

Close up of Rose's lunch from the right.
(Rose is experimenting with food photography - it is quite difficult to make the pictures look as good as in real life...)

And for breakfast: perfect!
Beetroot with ginger syrup. Beetroot cubes with cranberry. Poached pears. Zucchini salad! Yumm!

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Rose made a bento of normal size.

Rose made a very simple box. Chicory with dried cranberries. Garlic-Mayonaise

Vegetarian Meat Balls cut in four, also with dried cranberries. Romano tomatoes, small. Goats cheese.

It is a long day so Rose decided to add some typically dutch candy, drop, in a very special Hello Kitty bag brought to her by her good friend Ilonka! :-)

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Liz made for her daughter's B-day:

(The brown muffins - shaped like a flower pot - are missing. When the picture was made.)

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Week 8

Santa came to town this week ;-)

He came with some bubbly wine....

He came to party... he came to rock...

He came to roll...

He had a little smoke...

And then had to go...

HOHOHO

Week 7

This is the last week that we bento this year, 2011.

This week Liz is going to make 90 pieces of french toast for her kids to bring to school for x-mas lunch. So if she takes a picture of it, it will be posted!

Week 6

Rose made for Liz

Last week's bento box was a taste explosion. So this week Rose went easy on flavors.

 This box contains mini mushrooms with a tiny bit a sour flavor. And pesto.

This box contains spaghetti made out of leek, celery sticks and zucchini.  Hazelnuts and blanched basil leaves on the side. To be eaten together with the pesto and mini mushrooms.

 This box contains a vegetables made Maartje style. Eggplant and zucchini made in the oven with lots and lots of parsley. Also with some garlic, lemon juice, salt and pepper. And an extra wedge of lemon.

White fish (zeeduivel) made in a packet in the oven with leek, lemon juice, salt and pepper. On top some fennel sprouts.

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Liz made for Rose (in the same three layered  bento box)
Sugarsnaps with soy and lightly toasted sesame seeds. Yumm!

In a very cute see though plastic container: home made mayonnaise on a bed of sea salt.

A boiled egg, cooked broccoli with young goat's cheese.

Five pieces of sushi made with cucumber and surimi sticks, drizzled with soy and wasabi. YUMM!

 

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Week 5

Rose made for Liz

This "bento box" was found in a very common drugstore. So I had to use it immediately!
Inside are all experiments, I love to experiment.

This box is a fusion of asian, mexican and Rose cooking. So Week 5 Rose made for Liz:

From top to bottom:
1) sweet and sour beansprouts 2) spanish tortilla or omelet with shrimps, tomatoes and spring onion, beansprouts just steamed shortly (still crispy)

1) toothpicks 2) shirps cooked ceviche style 3) flavored sea salt 4) beansprouts with small fish fried in soy mixture

1) Sour bean strings 2) japanese wasabi mayonaise 3) spring onion 4) tomato flavored seaweed chips.


1) Sticky squid tentacles fried in soy, mirin, honey etc 2) steamed shrimps with sea salt and lemon juice 3) tomato/spring onion salsa 3) fish balls cut in 4, fried with oyster sauce and topped with japanese seawead.


Three times squid:
1) Squid cubes baked in soy but dusted with flour 2) grilled with soy 3) filled with a fishball and tomato and smoked with tealeaves.

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Since Rose does not have a steam oven - she created her own - to make the smoked squid filled with shrimps.

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Liz made this beautiful box for Rose:

It contained: 2 cookies and lemon wedges on the far left.
Two sushi burgers with sticky rice, cucumber and pata negra hamburgers in heart and flower shapes.
Indian chicken salad with masala spice and mayonaise.
Salad dressing in a see through thing-ma-dig.
Salad to go with the indian chicken and dressing.
Soy beans with cucumber and sesame seeds in a soy-based chinese dressing.
Very YUMMMY!

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