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Old 23-04-2008, 20:26
mad1
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I currently commute so in addition to taking a packed lunch - soup usually. I also need to have a packed dinner. As you can't really warm stuff up on the train I'm looking for suggestions of food that tastes good cold. I'm getting a bit bored of sarnies & I can't afford to keep nipping into M&S.

Any suggestions gratefully received.
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Old 23-04-2008, 21:25
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How about some sort of bento box, that would give you different compartments for various things? I take lots of different things for my dinner, and it's rarely bread-based. Cous cous or rice or quinoa salads with various different things in... falafel... wraps... I quite often have cold roast meat and cold new potatoes, or salmon fillets... In fact, lots of the things I have for my evening meal make it into my lunchbox and taste fine cold the next day. How about Spanish omelette, or frittata, or roasted vegetables?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginger_...7601368797142/ << not all of that would work on a train, but maybe some of it would?
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Old 25-04-2008, 09:39
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Pasta salads are wonderful cold. Basically you can cook pasta in advance, leaving it a bit "al dente" (that is, not completely cooked, but when it still has a bit of bite to it) and let it go cold. Then you can add lots of different things: in Italy, the traditional way is to add tuna, peas, bits of boiled potatoes, diced cooked ham, olives and mozzarella.
But basically you can add anything you fancy and you have at home: grilled vegetables from a jar, for ex. Any kind of leftover meat (roasted chicken or pork or beef), tomatoes, slices of zucchine (uncooked, wll rinsed of course), carrots, beans (cooked lentils, wonderful), any kind of preserved fish (how about cooked prawns?). A very simple one is pasta with sliced tomatos, mozzarella and basil.
The ideal would be to season it when you're going to eat it: salt, pepper, a vinaigrette, oil and balsamic vinegar, whatever adds best to the type of adds-on you've used. That's beacuse the seasoning, if left for long, will continue to cook the pasta and it will become soggy. You should get a lunch box and carry the pasta and seasoning separated.
Add a fruit and you'll be all right all day - the advantage of pasta is that it will keep you going for very long, because it's a long-chain carbohydrate sugar-release food.
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