Another lunch inspired by one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who. (Today is the 3rd Anniversary of its original airdate!)
The quote:
The scene:
The lunch -- a personal picnic of sorts with some macaroni salad and potato salad topped with a boneless pork riblet and cheese with cookies and yogurt in the side containers:
(Sorry for the "meh" quality of the picture. Lousy lighting and only my phone on me when I made it.)
Today John gets a fun little snacky Doctor Who lunch! I packed it in his blue Beaba tray. He as three small pb&j sandwiches -- one with a TARDIS and one with a Dalek. Grapes, LifeSaver Gummies (his Omega 3s are underneath), carrot sticks, Fritos, and colby jack "WHO." He also has a container of yogurt on the side.
Today the Bento Bloggers & Friends are having a Star Wars themed blog hop to celebrate May The Fourth (make sure you come back any time after noon to check that out!). Of course, being the mega Whovian geek that I am, every time I hear the words "May The Fourth" my mind immediately goes to this post from the official Doctor Who tumblr:
I had to. I didn't want to tarnish the Star Warsiness of the hop, though, so my Doctor gets a post all of his own. He deserves it. He is, after all, the definite article, you might say.
And now, the lunch.
Chicken parm and mixed veggies with provolone Doctor, words and 11 stars (for the 11 Doctors)
It's not so much that I don't have anything to say about today's lunch but that the feels are so overwhelming that I just can't. Those who know will know.
Eggplant parmesan on top of pasta with provolone sunflowers and mixed vegetables in cheese sauce with provolone letters
Van Gogh: They're not my favorite flower.
Amy: You don't like sunflowers?
Van Gogh: No, it's not that I don't like them. I find them complex. Always somewhere between living and dying. Half-human as they turn to the sun. A little disgusting. But you know, they are a challenge.
The Doctor: And one I'm pretty sure you'll rise to.
For all of the episode awesomeness, Netflix or Amazon Instant. For the trailer, watch this:
The Edible Geekery crew couldn't let the day go by without Doctor Who inspired lunches, now could we? The day, of course, in celebration of the first airing of "The Eleventh Hour" ... the lunch is a combination of that and the most recent episode, "The Bells of Saint John." Pretty timey-wimey of me, huh?
No actual custard was used in the making of this lunch. It was thrown together last minute and I wasn't about to go out in search of custard so as a stand-in I've got a side of greek yogurt (apple cinnamon flavored at that ... EEP!). From what I've read Matt wasn't actually eating fish fingers when the scene was filmed and I do have those so I'm calling it even. Along with the fish and yogurt I have a bed of alfredo noodles, and used provolone to make the wi-fi connection and TARDIS.
And because no Doctor Who lunch is complete without YouTubeage:
Happy Pi Day!!! Being a very important Geeky Holiday we're doing another Edible Geekery Blog Hop! After you take a look at what I've got, click the button at the bottom to hop on over to see what's next and keep going until you get back here.
Of course, I'm celebrating with a Doctor Who lunch. You should know by now that if there's something to be celebrated there's a very chance that I'll do so with Doctor Who. Or Supernatural. I was debating the Supernatural when I got a notification on my cell phone. My notification sound at the moment is The Doctor and Sky saying "RoseTylerMarthaJonesDonnaNobleTARDIS." That got me thinking of the episode it came from, "Midnight." One of the other tests of Sky's duplication skills came from the square root of Pi ... and roast beef ... and bananas ... and ...
Here's the lunch:
Roast beef with mashed potatoes, gravy and mixed past veggies with provolone cheese, banana chips, and Cheese Doodle-Os (just because) packed in an Easy Lunchbox with my favorite TARDIS napkin.
A HUGE thank you to our dear friend Erin from Feeling A Little Lunchy for offering to do a guest post for us today! If you don't already follow her blog (and her Facebook page) you really should! But not until after you see what she made for us here!
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I'm guest posting for What's in Our Lunch Bags today. So, in trying to keep with her awesome geekiness, I'm making an ode to Doctor Who lunch for my daughter.
"Are you my mummy?" lunch consists of wheat bread with nutella, bananas and raisins, roasted chicken roll ups with cheese letters. All packed in our Lunchbots Duo. It's a bit of a small lunch for a 10 year old, so she will get an apple and a bag of pretzels on the side too.
Hopefully my girl will eat it...she was a bit creeped out by this particular episode.
It's Politicians week over at Bento Blog Network and while I've already linked up my Abraham Lincon Vampire Hunter lunch I immediately started to think of some of my favorite fictional politicians ... which, of course, had to include Harold Saxon.
Packed in my new monbento box, I have ravioli in the top layer & mixed vegetables in the bottom.
My TARDIS napkin fits in the lid.
And because no Doctor Who lunch is complete without at least one clip:
I love a good love story. When that love story happens in the Whoniverse it's even better! One of my favorite couples is Madame Vastra (a Silurian) and Jenny (a human).
John picked out the YouTube clip for the post:
I made the lunch:
Packed in EasyLunchboxes Brights with a Mini Dipper for dressing.
FunBites Luv-It was used to cut the cheese hearts scattered here and there.
The Victorian gas-lamp picks holding my tomato chunks were a gift from a friend.
I find it more than slightly annoying that I can draw aliens better than humans ... but it is what it is.
So how does a geek celebrate the birthday of A. A. Milne -- creator of Winnie the Pooh?
With a Doctor Pooh lunch, of course!
The close-up:
The full lunch! Rotini with pepperoni & provolone packed in +EasyLunchboxesBrights, with blueberry yougurt in a Mini Dipper and mini peanut butter cups on the side:
Happy Halloween!!! Since we are far from being traditional, John's Halloween lunch is a bit ... well ... us.
It's a light lunch since he's going to be having LOTS of snacks at school for their party and then probably a pretty big dinner when we go trick or treating tonight at the mall. Ham & cheese TARDIS, colby jack words, provolone trick-or-treater, grapes and Halloween LifeSaver Gummies.
John decided months ago that he wanted to be the Doctor for Halloween but kept flip-flopping between wanting to be "Doctor Ten" or "Doctor Eleven."
He's going to be both.
In the picture above is his "Doctor Ten" (with Adipose) for trick-or-treating tonight and for his party and parade at school today he'll be "Doctor Eleven" :
Ahhh The Doctor and Rose. While not my favorite companion of all-time (that has to go to Sarah Jane), or even of the New-Who (that's Donna Noble), she and The Doctor certainly had something remarkable together. Back when I first joined Pinterest I stumbled upon an image from The Idiot's Lantern that is just so them ... and had to become lunch.
I couldn't think of anything much more vintagely "domestic" for dinner than meatloaf, mac&cheese and broccoli. It was 1953, after all.
In case you didn't know:
The quote "the domestic approach" comes about from the episode. It was first uttered by Ten at the very beginning of the episode (in the scene immediately following the opening credits ... which is oddly absent from YouTube), and again by Rose at the very end:
Until then I've got a lot of bits and pieces from episodes that I haven't covered yet.
You know, almost fifty years worth.
From the first time we saw The Statue of Liberty in "The Angels Take Manhattan" ...
Flax seed bread covered with pasta sauce and provolone, a colby jack stick, pepperoni slices and a not-quite-so-big apple. Yeah, I'm totally thinking pizza .... and an apple.
Before the seventh season of Doctor Who began there was an online series of mini webisodes about Amy and Rory and their life at home that was aptly named "Pond Life." It was suggested that I use one of those as inspiration for tonight's lunch!
The complete set of clips (plus a pretty spot-on countdown of things learned from them) can be found at Den of Geek, but here's the specific webisode being used:
All packed up in my great new set given to be my one of the most awesome friends a girl could ever ask for:
(screen cap/calorie count from MyFitnessPal -- add me if you're on it, too!)
The mid-season finale of Doctor Who aired this week. It was amazing and heart-wrenching and hilarious and all of the things a great episode is.... including excellent fodder for lunch!
No spoilers because there are still those who have not had a chance to watch, but the "lunch" for tonight is based on the book above and the phrase repeated several times while the Doctor read it to Amy.
And lest ye think I forgot about John, he just wanted a "snacky lunch" for Monday:
This week saw the re-introduction of U.N.I.T to the Whoniverse. Leading it up now is Kate Stewart, the daughter of The Brigadier -- one of my favorite characters from Classic Who!
Fish Sticks and Honey-Nana Yogurt (standing in for custard).
"Science leads" were the words of wisdom The Brig gave his daughter.
Beret & mustache provolone on mashed sweet potatoes.
LifeSaver Gummies are my sweet treat.
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John decided that he wanted a Tardis for Tuesday:
Peanut Butter & Jelly on whole wheat. Grapes. Space Adventure Goldfish. LifeSaver Gummies.
My friend Jenn also did a great lunch based on the episode The Power of Three over at Bento for Kidlet!
I'm guest posting for What's in Our Lunch Bags today. So, in trying to keep with her awesome geekiness, I'm making an ode to Doctor Who lunch for my daughter.
