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A few friendly office mates, a challenge, a LUNCH OFF!

Each participant brought a lunch today, and wrote a description of said lunch for your edification. Vote for your favorite below. Lunch descriptions are presented in alphabetic order of participants' first names. This entry is unlocked, so that anyone interested can vote.

Mariana:
Mediterranean Lentil Soup:

This is a apricot lentil soup made with French lentils. It has roma tomatoes, garlic, onions, thyme and dash of cumin. The soup has been pureed and will be served with a sprinkle of sesame oil.
Noemi:
First to land in my belly is my "one-thousand-stirs" polenta infused and topped with parmesan shavings. Very rich. This is sided by my basic veggie staple, lentils cooked with carrots and onion.

Next is eggplant sautéed in olive oil and cooked with fresh tomato, garlic, rosemary, quinoa, and rice.

For desert, vegan chocolate cake, silky with applesauce and maple syrup, pregnant with chocolate chips and walnuts and surrounded by fresh strawberries. Yum.

All of this is topped like a cherry, with beano, for my friends :-)
Can you tell I'm veggie *and* Italian??
Rahshia:
Tropical Island Chicken salad.

Marinated chunks of white meat chicken with Pineapples, grapes, celery and onion mixed in a peanut-curry sauce and served in a Pineapple-boat and topped with chopped nuts. Yummie.
Wendy:
First tier: raspberries, blackberries, and kiwi; ricotta with marionberry honey; filberts (you can call 'em hazelnuts, if you want).

Second tier: two onigiri with umiboshi and nori (so, short grained sticky rice, molded around a salty preserved plum, with a seaweed strip to keep your fingers clean); two hard boiled eggs, one molded into the shape of a bunny head, one into the shape of a fish; heirloom cherry tomatoes.

Third tier: salad consisting of: mache; fresh fava beans, shucked, blanched, and peeled; baby artichokes, trimmed, quartered, sauteed in avocado oil and deglazed with dry vermouth; freshly shaved fennel, and fennel fronds; matchsticks of yellow pepper; wedges of orange cherry tomatoes; curls of aged gouda.