Bulgur and Rice Paper Rolls

For this lunch I brought bulgur with ratatouille, my dessert was a vegan tarte tartin with peaches.
My midmorning snack were rice paper rolls filled with grated cabbage and carrots in a peanut sauce.

Brave New Food

Hm, strange new stuff today. First things first - I dreamt about my main dish the night before. It is boiled black quinoa arranged in layers with combinations of fried vegetables (pumkin, bell pepper and carrot for the orange layer, tomatoes, bell pepper and red beans for the red layer). I loved recreating in reality what I had seen in my sleep, but the taste was just so-so, so I don't think my dream was the presage of a big carreer as a famous chef...
I also brought an interesting dessert, it is an orange "pudding" made with orange juice + a bit of sugar that I boiled with agar-agar. Not bad, I might make something like that again.
My midmorning snack was a bagel with fried vegetables.

Thai Curry and Vegetable Pies

 For this lunch I made a kind of thai curry with curry paste and coconut milk. I used whatever vegetables were at hand. I'm quite proud of the rest of my stuff - a mango lassi made of soygurt and canned mango (quite okay) and those cute little pies. I just cut out circles of puff pastry, put them into a muffin mould and added of filling of finely chopped summer vegetables and tomato paste. Those looked cute and tasted fantastic, I think I did a good job!

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.

Rice and Raw Vegetables

I had a gestalt-workshop last Saturday and had to prepare my food for the day fast. Fortunately I still found a container with stirfry-rice in the freezer, which I accompanied by raw vegetables, a pretzel and a banana.

Rice with Vegetables, Lentils and Hummus Rolls

For this lunch I made a colourful rice with fried vegetables and accompanied it by a fruity lentil dish. My midmorning snack were carrot rolls filled with hummus. I wasn't to keen on the rolls because I had to precook the carrots to be able to bend them, and I don't really like the sweetish taste of cooked carrots, unless they are nicely seasoned or combined with something a bit stronger.
Today everything was vegan.

Couscous with Ratatouille

I prepared this lunch the night before and in a hurry, so I needed things that were easy and fast.
The main dish was couscous with a ratatouille sauce that was a convenience product, I just had to add vegetables and water.
I brought two different things as snacks - first little breadballs with nuts and seeds. They are quite simple - I unfroze a premade pretzel, cut it into pieces and covered those with the nuts, then I put them ten minutes into the oven - ready.
The strange white thing in the photo is a hardboiled egg. I usually don't eat many eggs, but I had bought some Japanese eggformers some time ago and never used them, so I wanted at least to try them. It didn't really work (the egg should look like a star, not like a blob), probably because my egg was too small. I think I'll try again and then I might pass the shapers on to somebody who eats eggs more frequently, maybe my little niece.

Fried Vegetables and Waffles

For this day I brought fried vegetables that I ate with white (soy) yogurt as a sauce. I wanted something a bit more juicy for a side dish, so I improvised a spicy puree with tomatoes, corn and pumpkin.
I'm quite proud of my snack, because this is the first time that I managed to make waffles without an egg (substituting it with soy flour), they usually fall apart when I try to take them out of the waffle maker. I read that you should allow the dough some time to rest so the gluten of the flour can develop and make the mix sticky enough. It seems to work!

Bulgur Patties and Marzipan Snacks

I had some leftover bulgur from my Curried Aubergie lunch the other day and found a recipe on the internet for bulgur patties. This one used an egg as a binder, next time I'll see if I can substitute it with soy flour.
As a side dish I improvised a mediterranean vegetable mixture à la ratatouille.
My second breakfast were puff paste sticks with marzipan filling.
When I moved to Spain from Germany, I suddenly found that I could not easily buy many ingredients that I had considered quite basic, for example marzipan paste. So now I make my own, you just mix icing sugar with almond flour and add a tiny bit of liquid - water, rose water or bitter almond oil, or a mixture of them. Easy peasy!

Another Asian Lunch

Today I had fried rice with vegetables and omelet plus mixed vegetables fried with garlic and almond slices. For second breakfast I brought little vegan potato snacks that I had baked in the oven, with a bit of ketchup. Yummy!