Mittwochsbox 9th of April 2014 - French Toast (and Pumpkin Gnocchi)

Today I'm participating again in the Wednesday blog-event by Mone from http://leckerbox.com/
This week's theme is breakfast, or more precisely a breakfast for celebrating the Easter days. I have to admit that I don't do anything related to religion on Easter, but I just love breakfasts in any form, so I still wanted to participate.
I made French toast, which interestingly is called "Arme Ritter" ("Poor knights") in German.
I wasn't familiar with this dish in my childhood and first heard of it when I watched the beautiful film "Kramer vs. Kramer" which I highly recommend to everybody, and in which father and son bond over preparing breakfast together (among other things).
French toast is usually made with eggs, but I substituted them by a mixture of ground hazelnuts and soy milk, an idea based on a vegan French Toast recipe from the wonderful German website
http://www.regenbogenkombuese.de/
I also prefer my French toast with salt and pepper instead of the sweet version.
And of course I also had lunch this day, this time there were homemade pumpkin gnocchi with blue cheese-sauce and a tomato salad.

Aburage and Strawberries

On this day I made aburage, Japanese tofu pockets filled with sushi rice. They were accompanied by a side dish of marinated champignons with cherry tomatoes. My snack / dessert was very strawberry-ish - I not only brought some berries, but also a piece of puff pastry filled with marzipan and homemade strawberry jam.

Pasta with Broccoli Sauce

This simple lunch consisted in a container with pasta plus a creamy broccoli sauce. As a snack I brought along some pieces of apple and little skewers with gouda cheese and cherry tomatoes.

Soup and Quiche

This was a big lunch and very yummy, I had pumpkin soup and a little leek quiche. My second breakfast was a simple sandwich with cheese, accompanied by yellow cherry tomatoes.

Spätzle and Beet Salad

For this lunch I made "Spätzle" (literally "little sparrows") , a type of homemade pasta that's typical for the German region of Swabia. It's usually made with eggs, but I've found a vegan recipe on the internet. I also fried it with vegetables instead of gratinating it with cheese, like it's often done. The side dish is a beet salad.
I'm not showing my midmorning snack because I went to the office late and had a big second breakfast with bread and leftover soup at home before leaving.

Salad with Asian Noodles and Toast Rolls

This was really nice. I had a salad with radish, bell pepper, champignons and Asian glass noodles plus a small side dish of cauliflower. The cauliflower recipe was from a book about Spanish tapas - I'm still looking for nice Spanish recipes, and this was really good.
The little snack box contained a collection of cherry tomatoes (a woman in the supermarket had asked me if those were plums) and toast rolls with homemade lemon pesto. Sometimes everything comes together nicely - just a couple of days ago I had read that it is easier to make these rolls when you put the toast in the microwave first, and then I found a packet of toast cut lengthwise specially for rolling. Of course after all this I had to try it and the rolls turned out really nice.

Bulgur and Baked Courgette

For this lunch I brought bulgur with bell pepper and slices of courgette that I had coated with breadcrumbs and baked in the oven. My midmorning snack was a burger with fried vegetable instead of a patty, and a greenish smoothie. I'm not into the traditional green smoothies, but this had a bit more of green stuff than usual, I added a bit of salad, avocado and cucumber.