Bento #243

Sorry about the horrible lighting in this one – I was zoned out on cough syrup in the evening and had to make this in a hurry in the morning, no time to fiddle around with the camera!
Plain onigiri, homegrown cherry tomatoes and a toffee in the big compartment, a mini quiche, broccoli and a [...]

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Bento #197 – kitties!

Inarizushi kittens playing in a broccoli forest! And carrot flowers, a fishy of soy (fits the kittens), three pieces of egglog and some grapes.
We’ll see if I can eat them. I don’t often do charaben – well, actually that’s because I really have no patience, but the few I made I had *serious* problems eating! [...]

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Bento #194

Happy 2009!

Back from vacation!
Stirfry with scrambled egg, Turkish bell pepper and eggplant, some raw carrot slices, a cherry tomato and two dumplings with soy sauce in the lower layer.
Mixed grain rice with ume furikake in the upper layer.
The sauce is a simple Chinese stirfry sauce paradoxically containing ketchup. That stuff does go around the world…!
The [...]

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Bento #192

Simple food but in a pretty box!
Fishsticks (halved), peas, broccoli, purple potato flowers, a bear cup wtih mayo&ketchup and a marzipan heart. Rice.

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I love the internet

Because when Dad randomly sent me a Google doc with Jamie Oliver’s Pumpkin á la Hamilton recipe, it took me about five seconds to realize “Hey! I have all the ingredients for that!”
And then half an hour to prepare and snap photos before it went into the oven!

And 75 minutes later, there was a delicious [...]

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Bento #182 – Bibimbap

Bibimbap with various veggies, egg and pink-dyed tofu, left over from dinner.
Hmm, my picture quality has been better.
Clockwise: Pink tofu, egg, spinach, carrot kinpira, sweet cabbage, mushroom and leek, corn, mungbean sprouts. BF gets the same but no cabbage as he didn’t like it. :P

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Bento #178 and TGIF!

More mushroom risotto decorated with parsley, snow peas and carrot flowers, cup of corn and peas with carrot flowers poking out, bear cup with baba ganoush, fudge candy, baby plum tomato, carrot sticks and asparagus spears.
TGIF!!!!!

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Bento #177 – mushroom risotto

Pretty simple box today (I left my other box at the office in a hurry…). I’m almost out of veggies but I had a bunch of different mushrooms to use up, so the main attraction is mushroom risotto. I mixed some carrot from the broth in for me, but not for the BF (he hates [...]

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Bento #145 and a new box!

Back from vacation with a bento to sweeten my workday tomorrow in a pretty new box!
The upper layer (in front) contains stirfried Japanese broccoli in soy and pad thai sauce, miso flavored tamagoyaki with spinach, breaded tofu and a fishy with chili, vinegar and soy dressing for the tofu (which didn’t get salty enough in [...]

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Bento #126

What a monday bento. I’m sure everyone has some of those days… but I needed a bento, I have meetings straight through lunchtime today!

I came home late from Aikido training last night and was glad I already had vegetable curry and some Naan dough leftover from lunch. Make space in the box, add some microwave-cooked [...]

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