Two in one day....

Here's yesterday and today's bentos.


This is yeasterday's bento.

Top: two kinds of greens, stir-fry, and ceviche

Bottom: 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 180mL and 460mL Lock&Locks. Ceviche on the left, then angel hair pasta with marinara and goat cheese in the middle, and then two kinds of greens on the right. Should be tasty.

A New Week

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.

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.

Top: beet and greens noodles, carrots, and teriyaki meatballs
Bottom: three tuna-salad stuffed ongiri (heart and star have prosciutto on top), broccoli, more carrots, celery, prosciutto, and celery kinpira

I 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 many carbs (mostly noodles and rice today).

New Box!

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 bottom with roasted veggies, two kinds of kinpira, and pickles:
tasty tasty

thrown together bento

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 cheese, celery kinpira à la JustBento, and broccoli stem kinpira à la JustBento.

Maki has really really good kinpira recipes. If you haven't tried them, do. Especially her recipe for broccoli stems. I left out the red pepper since I wasn't feeling it last night when I made the kinpira, but it turned out just fine regardless (actually, it was kind of like crack - I tried it just to see how it came out and miraculously, over half of my broccoli stem kinpira disappeared).

soup

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.