Midmorning Snack

I'm sorry - lately life is getting in the way with my blogging. I'm both working and playing hard, so I often don't have the time and energy to plan and prepare something blogworthy.
Here I'm showing you the snacks I brought to the office one morning - a sandwich with a tomato spread and slices of tomato, soy sausages, radishes and homemade granola-chocolate-bits.

Lots of carbs

A big lunch with lots of carbs - just the way I like it! ;-)
I had spaghetti with soy sauce and fried vegetables as lunch, a sandwich with olive spread and some chocolate as second breakfast and sweet bulgur with orange slices and almond flakes as an afternoon snack.

Tomato Soup and Leek Pastries

For this lunch I brought a Mediterranean tomato soup that was absolutely delicious. I think the crucial ingredient was the spoonful of tomato purée, I really have to remember to add it in all my tomato dishes, it's just adds a much more intense flavour.
As midmorning snack and side dish I brought some vegetable pastries, which are becoming a real staple for me. This time they had a leek filling.
I also brought some radishes and a homemade "chocolate coin".

Pasta with Aubergine Pesto

What a pity that this lunch looks so colourless in the photo. Well, it actually was.
But nice though. I brought pasta with aubergine pesto and a kohlrabi salad. The dessert were pieces of tangerine with chocolate, an idea I got from Pinterest. My chocolate wasn't very liquid and just wouldn't stick, so instead of dipping the pieces into the chocolate, I kind of spread it on the slices with a spoon.
My midmorning snack was a bagel with vegetable filling - basically pureed white beans with finely chopped vegetables like a carrot and leek. So tasty!

Vegetable Lasagne and Chocolate Mousse

This looks a bit frugal, because I didn't bring a snack (I think I ended up buying something).
But the two things I brought along were both nice and filling. I made a individual serving of vegetable lasagne, which was delicious, and a chocolate mousse as dessert. The mousse is basically just melted chocolated blended with silken tofu. It looks a bit strange in the picture, because I had broken my immersion blender and was still waiting for my new mixer to arrive, so I mixed it by hand. Yes, the texture wasn't perfect, but the taste was as good as ever.

Curried Aubergine

I'm more or less into two weeks' worth of photos for this blog, and I'm already running out of ideas for new midmorning snacks. Sigh. So today I brought a very unhealthy piece of milk chocolate.
The recipe for the main dish comes from Majzlik's A vegan taste of East Africa, it's the Curried aubergine with kidney beans. I combined it with bulgur and caramelized mini onions.

Sweet pepper and corn stew

For this lunch I made three different recipes that were new to me - maybe not the best idea, but it turned out quite okay.
I wasn't keen on the wintery salad with sauerkraut and beetroot, but I loved the sweet pepper and corn stew from the book A vegan taste of East Africa. Okay, the original is probably not served with pasta, but for me the combination was perfect.
I also loved my dessert, a crunchy chocolate snack based on krispbread.
For my midmorning break I had little carrot-pumpkin-patties.
Apart from the milkchocolate dessert, today everything was vegan.