tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853901438859372032011-07-30T21:34:49.178-07:00Mead Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00973616598785877735noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-785390143885937203.post-50513621449744104692009-06-08T21:09:00.000-07:002009-06-08T21:19:24.403-07:00

It's been a long while since I've posted a bento, but here are two I've made recently. Hopefully, I'll be more organized and back to making bentos regularly soon.Top: carnitas "sandwich" and sausageBottom: cherries and blackberriesTop: veggie curry, lamb, carnitas, and picklesBottom: mac and cheese with peas and bacon bits

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Top: noodles, teriyaki stir-fry, and there's ponzu in Pokémon's headBottom: cabbage and salsa, cheese, greens minieraCabbage and salsa is one of those things I picked up from my dad. He has a number of interesting food preferences left over from the days when he lost something like 40+ pounds (I'm not sure exactly how much since I was little when he started his weight loss). One of those is

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Top: greens miniera and riceBottom: radishes, teriyaki meatballs, sautéed cabbage, sautéed carrots

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Top: Strawberries, radishes (they are the braised ones again - tucked in with the strawberries), goat cheese, carrots, and cabbage, meatballs, and marinara.Bottom: Rice, avocado, greens miniera, and regular greens.I have one more day of regular greens, which is about all I can take of them. I like the greens miniera better, which is a good thing since I have a ton left. I am all done with the

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Top: strawberries, goat cheese, sautéed carrots, greens, and meatballs and cabbage and sauceBottom: braised radish, rice, and greens miniera

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Top: strawberries, goat cheese, sautéed carrots, forgotten vegetable kinpira, pickle!, greensBottom: greens miniera, rice (under the greens)Not pictured: two teriyaki meatballs that I forgot to fit into the top compartment (yes, there was room).It was really really yummy.

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Top Left: veggie stir-fry, carrot slices, and greens #1Top Right: greens #2, kinpira, greens #3Middle: salad with radishes, carrots, pot roast, and tomatoesBottom: cookie-brownie slices

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Here's yesterday and today's bentos.This is yeasterday's bento. Top: two kinds of greens, stir-fry, and cevicheBottom: leftover potatoes and onions from my St. Pat's dinner of Dublin coddle.Unfortunately, I didn't think to take pictures of the Dublin coddle, so I'll have to wait until the next time to post about it (over on M&OM).Today's bento. I was in quite the rush this morning, so its in the

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Tasty tasty greens. These are chard and radish greens cooked up with a bit of bacon grease, garlic, lemon juice and some random spices.Top: Stir-fried vegies, carrot sticks, greens (these were made last week with collards, kale, and beet greens with soy sauce and hot pepper paste), and ceviche.Bottom: radishes, cheese, strawberries, and the greens from the picture above this one.

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I found this salad bento on my camera. It's from a week or 2 ago. A hardboiled egg, a cheese quesadilla, and salad. Nice and simple, and in my new collapsible box.

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Top: beet and greens noodles, carrots, and teriyaki meatballsBottom: three tuna-salad stuffed ongiri (heart and star have prosciutto on top), broccoli, more carrots, celery, prosciutto, and celery kinpiraI was really stuck for variety today. I need to figure out more to do with my produce because I feel like I'm in a rut making mostly the same things every week. And I feel like I've got too

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A new Clickety Click box from my local bento store. I was actually looking for big egg molds, but they were out.....and they had cute boxes. And so I got this one and a collapsible one that I'm sure I'll use in the coming weeks.So I made a huge onigiri in the top (stuffed with tuna and miso) and added some nori to aid consumption, since my big onigiri usually fall apart:And then I filled the

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I tried planning, but I came up a little bit short today. I hadn't planned to need to include carrot sticks, celery, and cornichons, but I had more room than I'd planned and didn't want to pull out the panfried noodles when I already had a nice fat onigiri in the mix.So on top: hot cilantro sauce, teriyaki meatballs, plain onigiri, celery, carrots, cornichons.On bottom: roasted veggies, goat

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Soup today, followed by an unexpected delivery of treats leftover from a faculty reception, so no bento......that makes yesterday's my last for the week since tomorrow is a scheduled free lunch.

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Top: Mini Farfalle with bolognese and parmesan, pickles, and broccoli and bean salad.Bottom: more of the baked apples, and a sliced carrot.I'm looking forward to this bento because A) it has bolognese in it and B) it has my new salad in it. Hopefully I'll be trying some of maki's kinpira recipes from Just Bento tomorrow, since I have celery and broccoli stems.

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Obviously, I love me some baked apples. Of course, I probably should come up with something else to do with the apples I get in my CSA box, but I like my baked apples.On the bottom is more of the panfried noodles with beets, greens, and carrots, some grilled flap or skirt steak that found its way out of the depths of the johbisai in my freezer (it needs some marinade or sauce or something, I

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Left: two meatballs, peas, goat cheese, and baked applesMiddle: Satay flavored noodles with beets, carrots, and greensRight: Banana Chocolate Chip CookiesI made peas, meatballs, cookies, and the noodles this weekend. The cookies are a recipe I got from my mom, and the noodles were a variation on a panfried noodle theme. The meatballs were my regular ones.Not sure how tasty the noodles will be,

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Yep. I fell off the bento wagon again. But I did make some very tasty scrambled eggs.I started with a little butter....Then I cracked two eggs into the pan....I got them nice and solidly cooked so I'd have a good base when I flipped them....And when they were done, I sort of flopped sliding them onto my plate...But in the end, not much can't be fixed with the right garnish...

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Top Left: teriyaki meatballs and greens version 2Top Right: two inari with picklesMiddle: salad with lettuce, peas, tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots (and dressing that I added)Bottom: celery sliced to fit in the top case of my boxSo a return to bento-ing today. The goal is to finish the stuff I have in my fridge. So far I'm doing ok since this was the last of greens version 2. I don't have

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I haven't bentoed for the last few days, mostly because I've been home at mealtimes and it didn't make sense to make a bento to me.I'll be back to my normal bento schedule tomorrow. :)

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Top: Baked Apples, celery, pear tomatoes, tuna-stuffed inari, picklesBottom: Greens version 1, roasted veggies, greens version 2, celery, tuna with cilantro hot sauceDidn't have time to post this yesterday. And then after a week of bentos I wanted a day off today.

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Top: Tuna-stuffed inari (with spicy mayo and topped with sorrel), pickles, celery, pear tomatoes, and baked apples.Bottom: Roasted veggies, teriyaki-pineapple meatballs, greens version 1, and an onigiri with a surprise stuffing (in other words, I don't remember what I stuffed it with).One of my labmates saw this picture, and declared it to look like an adult Wall-E. At first, he just said it

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Top: greens version 2, roasted veggies, and three onigiri (teddy bear is filled with tuna and miso, star is filled with cilantro-pepper sauce, and heart has nori wrapped around it and is filled with tuna).Bottom: baked apples, celery, pickled ginger and peppers, and tuna topped with cilantro-pepper sauce. There's also a few folded sheets of seasoned seaweed under the pickles, but they didn't

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Top: greens version 2, tuna, cilantro hot sauce, pickles, and cold soba with ponzu.Bottom: greens version 1, roasted veggies, and baked apples.Greens version 1 are a more Mediterranean style with olive oil and raspberry vinegar. Greens version 2 are more Thai/Indo inspired using olive oil, fish sauce and sambal terasi. Both are pretty tasty, though version 2 would have benefited from sesame

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So, I fell off the bento wagon this week. I didn't get my johbisai done this weekend, and then I stayed home Monday because of the holiday so I didn't bento Monday. I actually had a sum total of one bento this week. And though I packed a huge salad today for lunch, it didn't get eaten. In my defense, salad when it's raining out doesn't seen very appetizing. Instead I went for something hot -

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Top: lamb chop, spinach, goat cheese, homemade spaghetti and marinara with parmesanBottom: leeks, acorn squash, two quail eggs, and some goat cheese shaped like an egg.Before I do more bentos I need to do some cooking. Looking forward to getting that done soon, though.

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So, I was incredibly rushed, both this morning and at lunch - I actually only wolfed down about half my bento before returning to work because that was enough to take the edge off. In any case, I didn't get a chance to take a picture. However, I used my natural lunch bento, which totals 580mls.In the top tier, I had a cupcake tin with homemade pasta and marinara with a sprinkling of parmesan,

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I planned a completely different bento for today, but didn't have time to prep sufficiently. I wanted a relatively low-cal meal for lunch, so I went with salad and a few things from from the freezer.Top Left: salad toppings - tomatoes, avocado, goat cheeseTop Right: teriyaki-pineapple meatballs, havarti cheese, lobster saladBottom: carrots and lettuce for my saladNot pictured: salad dressing

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I knew I was going to be having kind of a long day and exercising quite a bit (4.25 miles running and half a mile at the pool), so I packed a big bento today. I ended up not finishing the inari and not eating the two Pocky sticks in the lid of my bento at lunchtime because I got full, even though I'd just finished my swim. I'll probably eat all that later, though. Anyway, here's my bento:Top:

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I am participating in the Bento Challenge over at Just Bento. My goals for the duration are to make bento lunches more regularly, use all of my CSA produce during the week, and get better at making bentos, specifically to make cuter, more streamlined bentos. This week, I want to make lunch bentos every day this week except Friday, when I will be having free lunch at Journal Club. I will plan

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I managed to make things a little cuter today with carrot flowers and my little quail egg in its acorn squash "nest." Thankfully, the flavor combination worked well and lunch was tasty. Carrot flowers separating the cornichons from the pineapple was a total must.Top: green beans, steak, sesame greens, acorn squash, quail eggBottom: Cypress Grove Truffle Tremor, carrot flowers, paté, cornichons,

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I didn't do the best job on the photo, but since my camera ran out of batteries right after this, I didn't get to take a second photo. Anyway, it's mostly the same staples today. I was pressed for time, so it's not exactly a cute bento today.Top: Inari, teriyaki-pineapple meatballs, sesame greens, and homemade spaghetti and marinara.Bottom: Paté, Cypress Grove Truffle Tremor, cornichons,

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I love me some charcuterie. Always have, ever since I was a bitty little thing, having my first bite of paté. In truth, it could have been liverwurst, since I first remember having that as a small child. I've this vague memory of being between 2 and 4 years old, sitting on the kitchen counter, and eating a liverwurst sandwich with pickles, mustard, and mayo. I don't remember what kind of bread

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I had time to make some inari this morning! I made them with a half quinoa, half genmai rice mixture. When I first made the rice/quinoa mixture it was fairly sticky, but that's faded. I think from now on I'll make it and then make onigiri or inari immediately to preserve the stickiness.I also tried to make a molded quail egg, and I did get slight indentations for a chick face, but clearly I

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Top: Spaghetti with Mushroom Marinara and parm/romano cheese, steamed green beans, sliced steak, and cole slawBottom Left: carrot flowers, paté, Cypress Grove Truffle Tremor, cornichonsBottom Right: a whole lotta pineappleI had a slightly different lunch planned, but due to lack of time, I didn't get the inari made and then I forgot about my quail eggs.....better luck tomorrow.

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Top: Salad with carrots, tomatoes, and garlic cheese curds. The lettuce was separated from everything else during the day by virtue of a foil baking cup holding the other things.Bottom: Pineapple, sliced flap steak marinated in cholula chile-lime seasoning with lemon juice, paté, and roasted potato slices.Not pictured is my salad dressing and the cauliflower-cheese soup that I have been keeping

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Top: salad with cheese; tomatoes, mushrooms, and asparagus (mushrooms and asparagus are under the tomatoes) in a separate compartment to keep the lettuce from wilting.Bottom Left: roasted potato slices, peas sautéed with pancetta, delicata squash stuffed with ground beef/pork.Bottom Right: pineapple, carrots, tomatoes, and patéNot the most harmonious of lunches but it's tasty. I made some paté

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A small dinner bento.From Mead and Other MusingsTop: a salad with carrotsBottom: grilled flap steak marinated in cholula chile-lime seasoning and lemon, steamed asparagus, and pineappleNot pictured: Cauliflower and cheese soup, dressing for salad.

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