Last week?

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.

Falling off the wagon again

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...

No Bento today, but here's yesterday's

Top: lamb chop, spinach, goat cheese, homemade spaghetti and marinara with parmesan

Bottom: 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.

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, greens, and a lamb chop with chèvre. In the bottom tier, I had leeks vinaigrette and some roasted acorn squash that I shaped into a nest and filled with two quail eggs and some carrot pieces. I figured that was the best way to protect the mojority of the squash, eggs, and carrots from getting the vinaigrette from the leeks on them.

Monday Lunchtime!

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: two inari stuffed with rice/quinoa mixture and topped with a tsp or so of lobster salad, a quail egg, roasted acorn squash, and greens

Bottom Left: more lobster salad, and blanched leeks with some vinaigrette

Bottom Right: carrot flowers, paté, Cypress Grove truffle tremor, and pineapple

Fun on Friday Bento

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 egg
Bottom: Cypress Grove Truffle Tremor, carrot flowers, paté, cornichons, and pineapple.
Not pictured: two choc. chip cookies that I stashed in the lid/chopsticks compartment.

Another Day Another Bento

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 wasn't using hot enough eggs. It's a learning process, I guess.

Anyway, here's whats in the bento today:

Top: two inari, two teriyaki-pinepple meatballs, pineapple, and below the meatballs and pineapple is sesame greens.

Bottom: Paté, carrots, cornichons, Cypress Grove Truffle Tremor, steamed green beans, and the boiled quail egg.