Tiffin Tuesday - Small Pasta, Big Taste

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Posted by Petra Hildebrandt

While noodles make a great addition to your lunchbox, the choices seem to be somewhat limited - from spaghetti nests to farfalle, from soba to ravioli on a stick. But the noodles used in pasta salads were too massive for my bento purposes.

Lately I discovered small pasta shapes like mini farfalle, quadrucci, ditali - and in this case sorpresine noodles from DeCecco. They unfold to tiny little flower shapes and have the size of a small pea, which makes them just about perfect for pasta salad to be stuffed into veggies.




And with a colorful and tasty shell like roma tomatoes you'll add zing and nutritional value, too.

This pasta salad consists of sorpresine egg noodles, peas, some diced mortadella sausage, and mayo. For crunch and munch I've added a red radish and some cucumber on the side. Second tier: a peach, an organic kiwi, a handful of organic walnuts and an orange pudding from the Asian market.

Since I made the pasta salad the night before, all I had to do in the morning was scoop the seeds out of the tomato halves, fill in the pasta salad, and pack the fresh fruit - packing time 5 minutes, including peeling the kiwifruit.




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This Post was written by Petra from FoodFreak



4 comments:

Looks delicious. Where do you find such organized lunchboxes!? I need to get my hands on a couple of those!

June 24, 2008 at 9:54:00 PM GMT+2  

the yartym's: unfortunately I have no idea where to get this particular one, it was a gift from a friend who traveled to Tokyo, it is a Hakoya box - see pic 1 and pic 2 - but you can find a lot of cool bento stuff on ebay.com (worldwide shipping)

June 25, 2008 at 3:11:00 PM GMT+2  

The food looks pretty organized too and I love the combination of shapes, sizes and colours. I can almost taste it. That "almost" was your clue to say "oh, don't worry, I'll send it right over"

giz said...
June 28, 2008 at 5:30:00 AM GMT+2  

Beautiful presentation! So colourful and neatly arranged.

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June 29, 2008 at 6:41:00 PM GMT+2  

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