24 Apr Sunny Springtime bento plane lunch
Posted at 20:09h in Uncategorized
As I’ve been on the road recently I haven’t been cooking much, but I would like to show off this bento I made for my mum (and myself) for our plane journey to Gdańsk. When I was a child I used to love plane food. Probably the fact that I came from a communist country where shops often only had vinegar helped. But also aesthetically – I liked all the small compartments full of different kinds of food – and the spirit of adventure that accompanied it. You don’t get these on shorthaul flights anymore, so rather than buying some soggy, half-arsed sandwich, it’s more fun to eat a meal that brings back that sense of something special about to happen
So please meet my Sunny Springtime bento! For the main dish I sautèd some kale with garlic in a mixture of olive and pumpkin seed oil, grated some nutmeg over the top and added the cooked pasta.The salad on the side is a mixture of chickpeas, cherry tomatoes, chilli, coriander, lime juice and olive oil. So it’s all really simple, healthy stuff and super easy to make. It’s only about the fifth bento that I’ve made in my entire life, but I can really see myself getting into this