14 posts categorized "Lunch Box"

Coco-Choco Pudding: March 3, 2011
Categories: Banana, Comfort Food, Dessert, Lunch Box, Season: Anytime, Snack
 The forces have been conspiring to get me to make pudding. First, Food 52 featured pudding in their recipe contest last week. I wanted to make an improved version of the Jell-O pistachio pudding that I loved as a...

Grilled Eggplant Baba Ganoush: October 20, 2010
Categories: Appetizer, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Party Food, Season: Autumn, Season: Summer
Eggplants get a mixed reception around here. They come in such beautiful colors and shapes that my children like to pick them out at the market. Instead of choosing the most perfect unblemished eggplants, though, the kids were drawn to...

Grilled Sweet Pepper and Feta Hummus: October 8, 2010
Categories: Appetizer, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Picnic Food, Season: Autumn, Season: Summer
A couple of weekends ago, Gabe and I were doing a little home improvement project. Those of you who know us know how unusual this is. Neither of us spends the weekends roaming around the house with a toolbelt looking...

Pea Shoot, Feta, and Olive Sandwich: September 21, 2010
Categories: Lunch Box, Season: Autumn, Season: Spring, Season: Summer
In addition to this blogging thing, I have a day job. I'll be hanging on to it for some time because this blog isn't exactly paying the bills. Scratching that creative itch, definitely. But bringing home the bacon? Um, no....

Edamame Rice Balls: September 21, 2009
Categories: Avocado, Beans, Lunch Box, Party Food, Picnic Food, Rice, Season: Anytime
Sometimes a recipe comes together on the first try, and sometimes it seems that it never will. This recipe fell into the latter category. I had been wanting to come up with a simpler variation of sushi to put in...

Bean Quesadillas with Avocado Salsa: September 17, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Avocado, Beans, Condiment, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Party Food, Quick Meal, Season: Anytime, Tomato
Some weeks we are very organized about the children's lunches, shopping especially for them on the weekend. And some weekends are chaotic and we don't get our planning done. Quesadillas are one of those lunches that we usually can pull...

Wacky Sandwiches: Don't Knock Them 'Till You've Tried Them: September 14, 2009
Categories: Lunch Box
Now that the children have headed back to school, we'll all be making more sandwiches. We try to venture away from the daily sandwich, sometimes sending some basil hummous or edamame dip with fresh veggies or pita. I have a...

Edamame Dip: August 6, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Beans, Lunch Box, Party Food, Picnic Food, Season: Anytime, Snack
Our children love edamame. My theory is that any food that they can eat with their fingers is immediately enticing. And not only do we eat edamame with our hands, we also separate them from the pods, which requires squirting...

Lentil and Feta Salad: July 2, 2009
Categories: Entree, Feta, Lunch Box, Picnic Food, Potluck Dish, Salad, Season: Summer
Sometimes a combination of simple tastes adds up to more than you would expect. This salad is one of those dishes. It has very few ingredients, but somehow the flavors work extremely well together. The chewy earthiness of the lentils...

Radish Tartines: June 4, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Out of the Mouths of Babes, Picnic Food, Radish, Season: Spring, Snack
This time of year, radishes are abundant at the farmer's market. Some have a kick to them, and some are mild, like my favorites, the white-tipped French breakfast radishes. We eat them in salads of course, but one of our...

Minted Bulgur with Tomato and Roasted Chick Peas: May 28, 2009
Categories: Bulgur, Entree, Lunch Box, Picnic Food, Potluck Dish, Salad, Season: Summer, Tomato
I have been wanting to include more grains in our meals so when I heard a discussion about bulgur on NPR's Splendid Table, I was intrigued. Janet Fletcher, who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle, traveled to Turkey and delved...

Basil Hummus: May 14, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Beans, Lunch Box, Potluck Dish, Season: Anytime
When it comes to hummus, we are a house divided. Olivia and Chloe are fans, and Chloe in particular is loving her hummus lately. Oscar has just decided that he doesn't like it. We have tried many varieties of hummus...

Egg Salad with Tarragon and Shallots: April 13, 2009
Categories: Egg, Entree, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Picnic Food, Quick Meal, Salad, Season: Spring, Shallot
Now that Easter has passed and our eggs have been decorated, hidden, and found, we have a refrigerator full of eggs. Fortunately, we all like egg salad. We found a delicious recipe in the Gourmet Cookbook a few years ago...

Mom's Cheese Spread: March 7, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Lunch Box, Party Food, Season: Anytime, Snack
As long as I can remember, my mom has made a delicious cheese spread. It is a richly flavored, creamy spread for bread or crackers. I have never been able to distinguish the individual flavors of the cheeses, but they...