Paris, my best friend and her meal

Dinner
-Red beans
-Leek and onion baguette
-Chocolate soya yoghurt

I was on a trip to Paris and my friend StL offered me to stay at her place. I have this incredible chance to know StL and her friendship. With my nomad life, I don’t have much opportunities to meet her though. Last time, I was explaining her my vegetarian diet and how to balanced it, and this time she amazed me with this welcoming vegetarian so well balanced meal!
She remembered that I missed French baguette and leek (Bear doesn’t like it so much) and she came out with this leek and onion baguette. This meal seemed to me the best meal ever, was it the bread, the leek or just sharing it with her? I don’t want to know, and just wanted to share this evening meal with you.
I believe that this post could be dedicated to strong friendships without borders.

Lemon jelly and potato and chick-pea roesti

Bento
-Lemon jelly
-Potato roesti
-Lettuce
-Carrot sliced cooked and carrot salad
-Cabbage yoghurt salad

I believe you have understood that lately, I’m stressed out, and that I have really few time to prepare meal or our bento lunches. So yesterday evening I quickly prepare some lemon jelly with agar-agar. It takes something like 3 minutes to prepare and then, I just have to let it set in the fridge.
It’s the same with these potato and chick-pea roesti. Quickly made and so tasty cold thanks to the garlic.
The cooked carrot slices were just some leftovers and so was the cabbage salad.
This bento asked for less than 10 minutes to put together and was really tasty.

Because sandwich can be vegetarian!

Bento
-Okara breaded broccoli
-Cucumber
-Carrot salad
-French vinaigrette
-Vegan lemon and kiwi pie
-Sandwich made of vegan pâté (black beans), spinach leaves, lettuce, cucumber, cheese.

As I told you I running all the time, I need to go quick. And as you know I still wanted to bake this vegan tort for our job meeting. Still, I had to prepare a bento and well, at some time, go to bed! So I quickly assembled this bento with breaded broccoli for the crunchy taste, raw vegetables for the fresh taste, this little vegan pie because I couldn’t present a pie that I hadn’t tasted before, and to complete a vegetarian sandwich. Yes sandwiches can be vegetarian! This one is filled with creamy cheese, vegan pâté (black beans), spinach leaves, lettuce, cucumber.

Tea break, one year of cooking with you

Thank you!
I was a little too busy lately to realise that it has been one year since I’ve decided to post my first bento. One year since I had the courage to speak out my recipes, one year since I decided to let you in in my kitchen, one year since I ‘m sharing my meals with you, one year more shared with Bear
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one year I’ve spent with you. I would like to thank you for all your comments , for your nice notes which kept me going , for your inspiring bentos and meals, your amazing photos or for your answers in forums or by mail, for your strong belief in vegetarianism and for your cooking skills that amazes me, for your creative recipes. I am grateful for making me smile while reading your daily post , making me dream or by surprising me when I realise that your blogs links to mine. I just cannot forget your comments on my photostream, for being inspired or asking me questions or just cheering me up with nice comments .
I have also to thank you for testing my recipes and for taking the time to give me some feed back or just for following me and for checking my updates.
I would also like to thank all the silent readers who give me the power to steal time on my sleep to find a little time to post in my so full life.
Thank you!

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153 posts,
214 recipes.

Vegan lemon and kiwi pie

Diner
-Palack paneer
-Basmati rice
-Lemon apple and kiwi pie.

I’m really busy lately but yesterday, we were having a meal together with my colleagues. As one of our colleagues has a broken leg, we had some Indian take away. And as I can’t imagine a good meal without a sweet touch, I decided to bake a pie. I was thinking of lemon pie. But well, I had to do it vegan, and without margarine to avoid palm oil.

Most of my colleagues are omnivores. When, I told them that I baked some vegan dessert, they joked about it: so we are eating flour and water? Bread? It can only be some sugary bread alike…Well, I really managed to amazed them with this pie!

I didn’t have any vegan recipe, and I was in a creative mood : I tried to create some lemon filling with lemons, apples and agar-agar (jelly seaweed). It took me something like one hour and a half taking into account that I did the soya milk on that evening for the sweet vegan crust pastry. Believe it was quite quick for a dessert. The lemon jelly is also really tasty on its own.

There were no leftovers…