Posted in bento, japanese, mediterranean, tapas, thai on May 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I found a new “bentobox” at IKEA! It’s not specifically made for food, but should take not-too-soggy food OK. It holds 2×380ml, which is a very nice portion size, does not lock tight by itself (so you’ll need a furoshiki) but does have a nice handle on top. Will report on how well the box [...]
Posted in asian (generic), bento, seafood, soup, thai on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not as colourful today, but rather comfort food.
Tom Yum soup with prawns (I actually didn’t have the proper chili paste so it’s not as red as it should be), rice, some veggie wontons and a few sugar snap peas and a cherry tomato for decoration.
Posted in bento, japanese, korean, thai, tagged blue food, blue sushi, food colour, maki, onigiri, pad thai, rice, sushi, yakinori on March 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I dyed more eggs yesterday… then the weird idea rode me to make blue sushi rice. Why, I’ll never know.
It became a LOT as well, so the freezer is full of blue riceballs now…
The rolls are wrapped in tiny seasoned nori cut in half, as that was all I had left, and filled with carrot [...]
Posted in barbecue, bento, thai, vegetarian on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I haven’t forgotten my intentions of working up my cookbooks over the vacation! Just before I left, I bought lovely baby eggplants in order to prepare them after a recipe I found in my Thai cookbook. Today I made them!
Upper layer: Grilled Thai eggplant slices with dipsauce and mint on a bed of mixed rice.
Lower [...]
Posted in bento, thai, vegetarian on June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I promised myself that I wouldn’t allow myself to buy any more cookbooks before I had tried out at least some recipes from each of the books I bought recently.
Sorry for the bad picture, the light was terrible this morning (as was the weather!) and my kitchen table where I usually light my stuff unreachable [...]
Posted in bento, curry, fish, seafood, soup, thai on December 20, 2006 | No Comments »
Guess who ordered herself an early christmas present from JList! It's the Totoro bentobox that comes with a bowl-shaped lid and a sealable container for soup and other liquid foods. So cute!
Upper tier: Curry cream soup decorated with fish, carrot and a thai basil twig.
Lower tier: Fried fish pieces (salmon, and two white fishes, no [...]
Posted in asian (generic), bento, curry, fusion, thai, vegetarian on October 31, 2006 | No Comments »
* Black rice with bell pepper and carrot Jack O'Lanterns
* “Orange” curry (red cocos curry with orange bellpeppers, carrots, sweet potato, red onions and tofu), Nori divider
* Roast Marshmallows because you gotta have some for Halloween! (okay, they were a failed experiment)
* Oreo cookies
* And Mango stars for no particular Halloweeny reason other than [...]
Posted in bento, fusion, potatoes, sweet, thai, vegetarian on October 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Thank you all sooo much for the sweet potato recipes!
I went to work on monday evening and made three batches, each in a different way, from the suggestions. The leftovers went into a bento for today!
Top tier: Cocos curry with sweet potato, eggplant and carrot; brown rice.
Verdict: The curry was great, but I cooked it [...]
Posted in bento, curry, thai, vegetarian on October 13, 2006 | No Comments »
* Top tier: Thai green cocos curry with cashews and veggies; slice of lime, thai basil and red chilies as decoration
* Bottom tier: brown rice with grape tomato tulips :)
* Dessert/Snack: Mochi, sliced plums
Photography worked better today :) I moved the bento to a lighter spot, as my kitchen table is pretty much the darkest [...]
Posted in asian (generic), bento, thai, vegetarian on September 14, 2006 | No Comments »
I was busy yesterday evening and forgot to post so today there's a double dose of bento goodness from me!
Bottom layer:
Rice and half a hardboiled egg, decorated with nori&carrots&furikake.
Top layer:
The other half of the egg decorated with nori on a bed of carrot strips, tomato flowers, veggie springrolls and gyoza, avocado cubes.
Minicontainers:
Dried papaya&chocolate with hazelnuts [...]
