Spring Feelings: Pancakes with Spinach and Pesto

Because it is almost Easter, I have another Spring recipe to share. Budget friendly and you can have it for lunch or a light dinner after the filling Easter brunch that most people in the Netherlands enjoy. We made this as a weekend dinner, a couple of weeks ago and I plan to make it more often when the Spring weather returns. The original recipe is from Lekker en Simpel.

Pancakes with Spinach and Pesto (serves 2)
- 150 gr spinach
- 100 gr pancake mix
- 150 ml milk
- 1 tbsp green pesto
- 1-2 eggs
- 65 ml creme fraiche
- 125 gr mushrooms

Mix in a bowl the pancake mix with milk, a pinch of salt and eggs until there are no lumps. Set aside. Clean and slice the mushrooms. Heat some olive oil in a pan and bake the mushrooms for about a minute before adding the spinach. When the spinach has wilted add pesto and creme fraiche to the mix. Stir through and let it simmer.

In another pan heat a bit of butter and bake a pancake from about 1/4 of the batter golden brown. About 2 minutes on each side. Bake 3 more pancakes. Serve them with 1/4 of the mushroom mixture on each pancake.

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Easter Lunch: Avocado and Egg Pitas

We ate this dish when it was Ostara for lunch. It was on a Saturday so it was perfect  to make a more luxury lunch then we normally would. Of course this recipe is also perfect for Easter Sunday. So if you still need to do some last minute shopping tomorrow, pick up the ingredients and serve this easy but tasty dish. The original recipe comes from Jungalow, and she presents it as a breakfast dish, so that is a possibility too.

Avocado and Egg Pitas: (serves 2)
- 4 pitas
- 2 avocados
- 2 eggs
- lemon juice
- olive oil
- cumin
- salt and pepper

Toast the pitas. Boil 2 eggs. Remove the pit from the avocados and mash them up with some lemon juice, cumin and salt and pepper. You can either mix the egg with the avocado spread or serve it on top. Spread the avocado mash on the whole pitas and drizzle with a bit of olive oil.

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Ostara: Vegetarian Scotch Eggs

This will be the last Ostara recipe of the bunch. I saw these eggs on Pinterest and they seemed interesting to make. Of course Scotch eggs are normally made with minced meat, but it was easy to find a vegetarian recipe. This tastes a bit like falafel but then with an egg in the middle. It is a bit of a fuzzy recipe, because wrapping the chickpea mixture around the eggs is not as easy as it sounds. But when celebrating, we don't mind taking a bit extra time. This is also a great dish to bring to an Ostara potluck.
The original recipe comes from Daily Fix.

Vegetarian Scotch Eggs (serves 4)
- 6 large eggs
- 25 ml olive oil
- 2 spring onions, finely chopped
- 1 clove of garlic, chopped
- 2-3 courgettes, grated
- 400 gr canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 100 gr flour
- 150 gr white breadcrumbs
- sunflower oil, for deep frying

Boil 4 eggs for 8 minutes. Remove from the pan and put under cold water. Once cooled, peel and pat dry. Heat a little oil in a frying pan and add the spring onions, garlic, courgettes and cook for a few minutes. Put the mixture into a food processor with the chickpeas and garam masala and blend. Wrap the mixture around the cooked eggs. Make sure you put some flour on your hands, but this will be very messy. Beat the remaining eggs. Dip the covered eggs into flour, then into the beaten egg and then into the breadcrumbs. Refrigerate the covered eggs for 10-15 minutes. Deep fry them until golden.
We served them with a potato-avocado salad with cucumber.

I blogged 3 new Ostara recipes this year, which can all be found, under the tag. I am not sure if I can keep this up for Beltane, but we will see ;) Beltane is all about red fruits, honey and edible flowers. I guess there will be some baking ;)

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Bento #30 - Easter day bento

This is the first bento of this week and with this post I am back on track! I have been rather sick last week and tired, that is why I post all of the bento I did on one day. Anyway, since the boyfriend has to work today (2nd Easter Day), I tried to give him a bit of a treat. All though it is a speedy bento.

In this speedy bento there are apple and cucumber bunnies, easter eggs and some laughing cow cheese. Last there is some special Easter bread with butter we serve here in Holland with x-mas and Easter. It has raisins and other dried fruits mixed in together with something really sweet almond paste in the middle. I honestly don't know the English name for it, but we call it "spijs".

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Bento #26 - Leftovers bento with a touch of bunny

Todays bento isn't that spectacular since I only have some leftovers and I have to make due until we go to the market again on Saturday.

The bento contains heart shaped onigiri, a rice dish with cashews, sugarsnaps and mushrooms. Further some edamame, an apple, cucumber and a bunny shaped egg. You can't see it all that will on the pictures, but a little bit better on the closeup below.

Today I have to see if I can make a dinner bento for the boyfriends late shift from leftovers since market day is still one day away. Oh well, I manage.

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Bento #25 - Bunny sandwich bento

Inspired by the BOMB challenge at Hapa Bento I made this bunny themed bento:

It is a rather light bento for the boyfriends early shift. It contains some chili sin carne with potatoes, clementine, cucumber and of course the bunny sandwiches. The sandwiches are ham and cheese on white and pumpernickel bread. I think it turned out cute :)

I am planning to do more bunny bento's but need to plan stuff to see how I will do it. I am not that good at charabens, so it will probably be simple ones like this.

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