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A Double-Dip Worthy Weekday Lunch
by Amanda Hesser
• June 6, 2013
• 11 Comments
Every week we take a peek inside the lunches of the luckiest kids in Brooklyn. Read on, suppress your jealousy, and get a little brown bag inspiration.
A perfectly dip-friendly lunch, with an artistic touch by Addie, Amanda's daughter.
Kids love dipping things and I need to work on my dip-based lunches. Tara O'Brady came to the rescue with her addictive buttermilk ranch dressing. I poured some into containers, and then filled larger containers with sliced Israeli cucumbers, radishes, pea shoots, and asparagus for dipping, and a few slices of Serrano ham for eating however my kids want to. Over the weekend, I baked the Sunday Night Cake from Baked Explorations -- a cinnamon-scented sour cream cake with chocolate icing. That went in, too.
What's in your lunch today? See some of the twins' past lunches.
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Even though my children have long-since left home and I no longer pack lunches- I love this feature! I wish I had been so creative when I had the opportunity and I would gladly eat any of these lunches myself- Thanks for the great ideas!
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Thanks so much!
it wouldn't work if I used Palestinian cucumbers?
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
You can use any kind of cucumber.
ok so why do you feel compelled to mention the nationality of the vegetable?
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
Because this is how it is often labeled in grocery stores. I believe it's also sometimes called a Persian cucumber. Similarly the long hothouse cucumbers are also called English cucumbers. And there's a type of kale that goes by name Russian red kale.
Thank you for sharing these, it takes me back to opening up my lunch bag every day when I was a little girl to discover what wonderful thing my mom made just for me. No matter how old I get I still miss those perfectly imperfect (leftover filled!) delicious lunches.
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
How nice -- I hope my kids feel the same way when they grow up!
Krissy Cipolla...you just made me tear up an remember how incredibly creative my Mom was and had to be with our lunch boxes. Thank you. I am calling her tonight to thank her :)
Amanda, I think I'd like to pack this lunch for myself! What kind of containers are those?
Amanda is a co-founder of Food52.
They're called WeanGreen: http://www.amazon.com/Wean...
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