Lunch Box Idea: Crunchy Healthy Salad

Eating in the office could be extremely depressive, especially if you are stuck inside the building's premises because your office is in the middle of nowhere, you don't have a car and you only have 1 hour break anyway... Eating outside is also too expensive to do it regularly, could be heavy to digest and ticket restaurant are bullshit. Let's face it, what the hell can you buy with 5,29 euro worth of ticket restaurant for lunch??  not to mention that you have to go on a scavenger hunt to find where they even accept those stupid pieces of paper. I personally buy fresh food at the farmer's market and get the rest of the grocery at the local supermarket where of course they don't accept tickets restaurants for almost everything that I need except beer. I guess beer is more necessary than coffee, oil and maxi pad....according to the stupid team behind ticket restaurant. Here is a great lunch box idea that will let you forget about those stupid ticket restaurants and will make you happy. 

Ingredients for the Crunchy Salad:

Arugula
Cherry Tomatoes
Carrots
Fresh Fennel
Cooked Soy Beans
Cucumber
Canned Tuna

Dressing: Soy Sauce, extra virgin olive oil and sesame seeds

Dessert: Banana and Strawberries with a squeeze of a lemon 

Honey Roasted Carrots

This is a great snack treat that you can you can serve as a side dish and to garnish the plate at the same time.  Very easy to make, this treat had a bag of flavor.

You’ll need:

·      5 or more carrots

·      2 Table spoon of Sesame seeds

·      3 table spoon of Olive oil

·      2 table spoon of Honey or golden syrup

·      1 table spoon of Balsamic vinegar

·      Salt and pepper

How to make it:

Cut the carrots in long stripes. Prepare the marinade by whisking the ingredients. Brush the carrots with the marinade and sprinkle the sesame seeds over. bake it at 220 °C for 20 minutes

Honey-Mustard Bangers and Carrots Mash

I am not a fan of British cuisine. I don’t even think that British are fan of their food either. But when it comes to bangers and mash, they really know what they are talking about. This is a new version of the traditional banger and mash that I found from the recipes of my beloved mentor, Nigel Slater.

For the glaze you’ll need:

·  A tablespoon of whole-grain mustard

·  A tablespoon of Dijon mustard

·  A tablespoon of honey

·  2 tablespoon of lemon juice

·  And 6 Pork Sausages

·  Olive Oil

Place the Sausages in a deep baking tray with some olive oil and put them in a hot oven (200 °C). Bake them for about 10 minutes on each side.

Take the sausages out of the oven and pour over the marinade. Make sure that the sausages are well soaked in the marinade.

Put them back in the oven for 15/20 more minutes.

For the Carrot mash to serve with the sausages you’ll need:

·  6 carrots

·  20 g of butter

·  Salt and pepper

Steam the carrots. Once they are tender, smash them with a fork or with an actual masher. Don’t fully mash the carrots but leave few chunks in it. Mix the mash with the butter and season with salt and pepper.