You can’t come up with an easier recipe. These pickles take as long as it takes to cut up a cucumber to make and then time does the rest of the work. Despite being only a few ingredients, the pickle packs a punch. While I think I like vinegar cured pickles more, these do in a pinch.
Andrew requested that I try to add a salad to every bento so you’re going to get sick of seeing all these side salads but I’ll try to keep things a little interesting at least so I don’t get bored either.
Vegetable Stir Fry, Side Salad with Cherry Tomatoes
Japanese Style Chicken Curry, Rice, Side Salad, Apple
Pelmeni, Caprese Salad, Apple
Chickpea Curry, Couscous, Side Salad with Chicken
A much simpler week after the four course extravaganza that was Thanksgiving. Just some nice, down to earth food that I’ve made before so I don’t have to get too stressed out about it.
Saturday leftovers
out @ Milan’s
Sunday eggs and toast
out @ Georgian Grill
Monday quiche, salad, fruit
honey and soy chicken, rice, snap peas
Tuesday red pepper dal, chickpea usali, salad, naan
trash casserole
Wednesday honey and soy chicken, rice, snap peas, fruit
quiche
Thursday trash casserole, salad, fruit
dal and chickpea usali
Friday pasta with vegetables, bread and butter, salad
take out :3
Recipes:
Quiche
Garlic Ginger Snap Peas
Honey and Soy Sticky Chicken
Chickpea Usali Salad
Red Pepper Dal
canned tomato
coconut milk
soy sauce
chickpeas
grapes
apples
oranges
red peppers
zucchini
salad
ginger
pasta
bread
eggs
museli
cat food
puff pastry
green beans (frozen)
chicken breast
frozen mixed veg
I don’t know how but Thanksgiving really snuck up on me this year so this is the last week before I totally buy every food on Earth and cook a ridiculous meal for just the two of us (they don’t do Thanksgiving here). Enjoy the week’s lunches in picture form in the meantime.
Double bean chili, cornbread, apple 
Aloo Puff, Salad, Apple, Carrots and Hummus 
Turkey Burger, Green Beans, Roasted Potatoes, Apple and Hot Sauce 
Chicken and Dumplings, Green Beans, Rice with Zucchini 
Turkey Burger, Spiced Potatoes, Green Bean, Chocolate
Gearing up for Thanksgiving so the recipes at the beginning of the week are really simple and then on Friday I’m going to make a full four course meal for the two of us to celebrate our first Thanksgiving abroad.
Saturday mashed potatoes and green beans
out @ Milan’s
Sunday eggs and toast
leftovers
Monday vegetable stir fry, kinpira, fruit
chickpea and vegetable red curry
Tuesday fajita burrito, salad, fruit
baked fish, couscous
Wednesday tortellini, caprese salad, bread
homemade pizza
Thursday chickpea and vegetable red curry
fajita burrito, salad, fruit
Friday eating out for lunch
Thanksgiving Meal:
Appetizer:
Potato Pancakes
Two Sauces (Pea Puree and Apple Chutney)
Soup:
Corn Chowder with Goat Cheese
French Bread Rolls
Main Course:
Oven Roasted Duck Legs in Brown Butter Sauce
Butternut Squash Puree
Pan Roasted Carrots and Brussels Sprouts with Breadcrumbs
Dessert:
Mini White Chocolate Cheesecake with Cranberry-Citrus Brandy Sauce
veg stir fry
chickpea and veg curry
fajita vegetables
Thanksgiving Recipes:
Potato Pancakes
Apple Chutney
Pea Puree
Corn Chowder
French Bread
Duck Legs with Squash Puree
Roasted Brussel Sprouts
White Chocolate Cheesecake
egg noodles
mixed frozen veg
chickpeas
zucchini
carrots
pepper
basil
tomatoes
apples
grapes
muesli
cat food
toilet paper
mozzarella
tomato sauce
pizza cheese
eggs
milk
salad
fish
couscous
rice
tortellini
bread
potatoes
frozen peas
canned corn
garlic
mustard
vinegar
flour
Thanksgiving Shop:
brussel sprouts (300g)
butternut squash (250g)
cranberries (200g)
onions (6)
fresh herbs (sage, rosemary)
raisins (50g)
white chocolate (50g)
graham crackers (100g)
goat cheese (150g)
heavy cream (100ml)
cream cheese (80g)
mascarpone (200g)
parmesan (50g)
duck legs (2)
This is a great recipe that uses pizza dough, cheese, and cold cuts to make something delicious and easy. You can serve it without or without a marinara dipping sauce depending on how you feel. I love the way it looks and how quickly it comes together.
Last week has a huge downer and I feel like you can actually see that in my food. Even though I managed to make a whopping all five lunches I feel like they’re less cute and less interesting than they had any right to be. Also, so many apple. So many.
Caramelized Onion and goat cheese tart, side salad, tomato soup, apple 
Baked Chicken with Apple and Rosemary, Spiced Rice, Carrots and Hummus, Kiwi 
Lentil Falfel, Yogurt Sauce, Couscous, Apple 
Vegetable Lasagna, Side Salad, Apple and Kiwi 
Squash and White Bean Saute, Cornbread, Apple
So my freezer is full of ice because of a variety of reason and I’m trying to use up all the stuff in it so that I can flush the whole thing out and basically hit a total reset of the ice level in my freezer. This actually helped me make a menu (restriction really does help with creativity I guess).
Saturday leftovers
eating out @ Georgia Tavern
Sunday pancakes and eggs
vegetable pizza
Monday black bean chili, cornbread, salad
chicken and dumplings
Tuesday aloo puffs, baked green beans, fruit
pasta with vegetable sauce
Wednesday turkey burgers, french fries, salad
salmon, couscous, roasted veg
Thursday chicken and dumplings, fruit, baked green beans
black bean chili, bread
Friday out with coworkers
turkey burgers, french fries, salad
chicken and dumplings
vegetable pizza
aloo puffs
black bean chili
turkey burgers
french fries
black beans x 2
apples
grapes
zucchini
carrots
onions
potatoes
peppers
salad
pasta
flour
bread
burger buns
milk
pizza cheese (200g)
cream
cat food x 2
frozen green beans x 2
frozen corn
frozen green peas
chicken breast
ground turkey
I added a new category for “vegan” recipes.
I pretty much never intend to make vegan food but in the course of making vegetarian food I do make plenty of vegan food as well. This tag will include recipes that are vegan (naturally!) or ones that would easily be vegan by replacing the cooking fat (usually butter) with oil or honey with sugar in places where it won’t too significantly change the recipe at all. Most of these don’t EXPLICITLY say to replace these products so but I will attempt to suggest it in future posts I plan to tag as vegan.
While in a technical way you could make my Broccoli-Cheddar Soup with vegan milk substitutes and vegan cheese, the consistency of the recipe would likely be pretty heavily changed and you’d have a way better time finding recipes already geared around those ingredients.
Most recipes of course can be adapted to be vegan, some by simply removing meat or replacing it with a meat substitute or by using vegan substitutes for butter, milk, and eggs but you might notice I don’t really eat meat substitutes and I’m not a fan of things like seitan and tofu in place of meat so I’m going to just trust you’ll make your best judgements about recipes and I’ll keep trying to helpfully tag recipes.
Happy cooking!
This week the theme was basically just nice hearty comfort food to herald in the cold weather. There’s plenty more delicious comfort foods in our future, chicken and dumplings comes to mind but that’ll have to wait for another week.
Breakfast Roll Up, Roasted Sweet Potato, Side Salad, Apple
Homemade Spaghettios with meatballs, salad, bread, apple
Baked Chicken, Green Beans and Tomatoes, Spiced Rice, Chocolate and an Orange
Spinach Mac and Cheese, Sliced Orange, Coleslaw