Lunch Log: Week 109
This week is a little more random as usual – no doubt strongly influenced by a short London “adventure” (hint: yes, beer was involved). Due to the growing distance that I find myself living away from ‘the big city’ these visits are becoming more rare, but the pushy crowds droning on and that familiar (awful) […]
Lunch Log: Week 108
This week I’ve considered adding potatoes to the ‘long lasting veg’ list – preboiling a large batch at the start of the week they can transform into mash or salad more quickly. After the delights of the slow cooked pork belly came to an end during the previous week, the comedown to mince was easy […]
Lunch Log: Week 107
Ok, let’s try this again. Redundancy is not generally the approach to optimise speed; I can’t wait to be able to sync things better (and securely). But, c’est la vie.. Early on into doing this ‘logging’ thing I wanted to publish a weekly summary for individual entries – but instead I’ll alter that strategy and […]
Lunch Log: Week 102 – 106 (January 2015)
Happy new year! It’s been an interesting ride – I had to look back when I started this lunch log that I’ve been fairly regular with entries since the start of 2013 – woo! The start of the year was a little slow to start with; surprisingly noodles weren’t more regularly appearing despite new year […]
Lunch Log: Week 98-102 (December 2014)
This month has been cut rather short – both by law (bank holidays), enforced leave (office Christmas closure) and taking a ‘personal holiday’ (helping out with events) has left December to be one of the shortest (and most tiring) I’ve taken. Being ‘the season’ there’s lots of store cupboard items like reconstituted mushrooms/fungus, frozen food […]
Lunch Log: Week 94-97 (November 2014)
Some interesting produce showing up at my local fruit and veg shop: small carrots in orange, white/yellow and purple. It’s hard to resist foods that are compact – it’s like they are bento-ready. In contrast, having a larger box may be problematic considering some of the tastiest foods I like involve deep frying. I’ve rediscovered […]
Lunch Log: Week 89-93 (October 2014)
If any observers would have noticed, October is punctuated by beer event that has become a regular annual ritual. It’s been its lucky third time in existence, and once again ‘home’ is a conveniently located hotel (same one every year so far!) for most of that week. The first year I was rather organized and […]
Lunch Log: Week 87-89 (Late-September 2014)
What a month! ‘Nuff said, really. I could count myself grateful that in the end, things did turn out OK but I can’t deny that the whole experience hasn’t been an emotional roller coaster and all those cliches. As consolidation I can say it wasn’t so bad from the comfort of the other end of […]
Monsoon Summer lunch
I’m not sure if I got household approval or hunger was to blame but it resulted in complete annihilation of the piri piri sauce. Lunch is late with pan fried chicken thigh pieces with piri piri, tomato & mint salad, stir fried yellow capsicum & onion and steamed runner beans. The onigiri are plain but […]
The tradional colours of Autumn
Autumnal Bento: too bad I’ve not foraged for mushrooms around here, so it’s store provided shiitake. Takikomi gohan (shiitake, carrot, frozen baby broad beans, kombu no tsukudani) with a soft boiled egg, tomato, runner beans steamed in dashi and salmon