by mouche » Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:37 am
I cook everything on Sunday evening, as I know if I leave it for the week I won't do it (and I can't trust myself to leave leftovers). We have a microwave so I normally throw together some concoction of vegetables, quinoa/rice/pasta/sweet potato, and tofu/frozen soy mince. Sometimes the concoction revolves around chopped tomato and paprika and chili powder etc - sometimes it revolves around coconut milk and madras curry powder. I basically have those two "templates" and just vary the specific ingredients.
I quite often make my vegetable mixture on a Sunday, then throw a sweet potato in the microwave at work and use my vegetable mixture as a topping - saves me having to use another saucepan to cook quinoa/rice/pasta on my Sunday evening.
One of my favourites lately is red lentils cooked in coconut milk, then throw in some mince, frozen okra (could also use edamame, broad beans, peas, spinach, whatever really), season with cumin, cinnammon, and soy sauce/salt. All cooks in one pot, really filling thanks to the coconut millk, and goes really well with sweet potato and chutney.
I'm only working two days this week though so couldn't be bothered to cook anything, so today and tomorrow I will be having rye bread with tofu spread and some chopped bell pepper and probably other nibbles - plus soy yoghurt, chocolate, etc.
People here always go nuts for my lunches, they seem to think I'm like some lunch guru, I think the trick is to make your lunch as colourful as possible and then people automatically assume it's delicious and healthy.