Bento: Stir fried fever

Alright so I may be going overboard with the stir fried stuff, but I'm currently heavily addicted to hoisen sauce so forgive me.
Onto the bento!
It's a simple one. I was tired. Hoisen chicken stir fried over vegetable fried rice. Next to it are baby red and orange bell peppers, a hard boiled egg and some grapes. Was simple and tasty!

BENTO: Connecticut bound and back again!

Hi! This past Friday I got the opportunity to see some lovely friends of mine in Connecticut! I was really excited to go, and packed a lunch to eat during the day and of course a lunch to eat on the train up there. I didn't get to eat the bento on the train, unfortunately, because it was all over the place! So I saved it and ate it a bit later.

This lunch was a big one for during the day Friday. It's pretty simple: veggie noodle soup, asparagus, tuna salad sandwiches, grapes, hard boiled egg & some kiwi!

I love the LunchBots box that I got at Ohayo Bento! Please check out her store if you're looking for great quality items for not a great amount of money ;) The sandwiches are just tuna with mayo between Jamaican hard dough bread.

My second box was for eating on the train, which was just not in the cards for me at all. That's okay, because it was still delicious!

More soup! I'm souped out.

The bottom was simple. More tuna wraps with kiwi, asparagus and grapes on a bed of lettuce. I'll be cooking more exciting things, I swear. I'm pretty sick of the same thing every day!

I had a great time in CT! I got a tan playing four square, had breakfast with new friends and old friends, took a capoeria lesson (and my muscles STILL hurt), played war, went to a brewery and watched quite possibly the saddest movie in existence. It is so sad, I will not mention it here. But the weekend was GREAT and thanks to everyone who spent it with me!

Until next time, enjoy!

RECIPE: Faux potato curry from leftover samosa filling

Good morning! The past week I've been eating enough potato curry to curry myself out. So I figured I could share how I made it and others can try this easy way to use up some leftovers!

A bit ago I made veggie samosas. They consisted of 1 carrot, 1 potato, 1 onion, 2 cloves garlic, some peas finely chopped mixed with curry powder, S&P and sauteed. Then you add ~1/2c veggie stock and let it simmer down to thin it out. Afterwards you just add it to filo dough - and bake! I had a ton of filling leftover!

A girl simply doesn't need to eat THAT many samosas. Leftover filling!

As you can see - holy tons of extra filling, Batman! After thinking for a bit, I decided to make a faux potato curry with it.

I chopped up two more red potatoes

I removed the skins because they taste funny to me.

They went into the sautee pan with a spot of oil to soften a bit, then I added the leftover samosa filling, some more veggie stock, more curry powder, S&P and covered it to let it simmer for a while. "For a while" I mean about 20-25 minutes. I stirred it pretty frequently - once every 7-8 minutes to make sure nothing stuck to the bottom.

The water in the pot in the background is for blanching asparagus!

Afterwards it was a delicious, hearty faux curry that I really enjoyed! It packed wonderfully in my bentos for the week and tasted just fine warm/room temperature/or cold!

Hope you enjoy!