All five of the lunches were amazing, if you ask me. Let's look back.
Monday - Jane
Vegetable lasagna and chocolate pudding with whipped cream. The secret ingredient in the lasagna is nutmeg!
Tuesday - David
Spicy curry with broccoli, tofu, potato, bell pepper, peanut, onion, and red/brown rice.
Wednesday - Dave
Penne with tomato sauce and roasted vegetables, served with Parmesan cheese.
Thursday - Jeff
Sandwich of tomato, mozzarella cheese, basil, and garlic dressing.
Friday - Me
Bouchons au Thon (meant for the four non-vegetarians, though one of us was not interested); tomato stuffed with corn, jalapeno, and buttermilk dressing (this recipe, without bacon, for our vegetarian member); green bean salad with soy-glazed almonds (recipe in this post), onion bread from the corner store, and Jimmy's Pink Cookies.
The bouchons and the cookies were made with recipes found in the book A Homemade Life, by Orangette's Molly Wizenberg. I've mentioned this book before. Delicious! I'll be making both of these recipes again. And again.
2 comments:
My boss and I have done this in the past - on Wednesdays, when we go from one meeting to another with barely time for a pee-break in between. He's a vegetarian/sustainable food guy, and cooking for him has definately spurred me to try new recipes and cook new things. (Embarrassing confession - since he's a great appreciator of food, and a lovely person, I have this need to show off for him. Oddly, not so mcuh of the showing off is in areas covered by my job description, but in lunch-making and birthday-cake baking.)
I like the idea of doing it on a specific day. It was hard to do a whole week of it because I had leftovers languishing at home that I should have been eating. But it was really nice not to have to carry my lunchbox every day!
I often enjoy the baking showing-off at my job more than my actual work. ;)
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