Lasagne bento

Leftover lasagne was the anchor dish in this bento. I make my own sauce with black olives and bell peppers, onion, garlic and herbs, and use three cheeses, ground beef, and spinach for the layers. The bundle of spinach that I purchased the very same day as I made this dish smelled off. So I tossed it out. If experience has taught me anything, it has taught me to trust my instincts and my nose.

The ham and cheese puff pastry was a fun addition. The mini sweet peppers were stuffed with shiitake saute in butter. Half mini bagel with cream cheese, dried apricots, radish, and two hard boiled quail eggs filled the second tier and were left out of the Mr. Bento thermos (because everything was hot in the thermos).

This bento serves as breakfast, lunch, and snack in a very cold building. Although the building does warm up with the heater blasting, it takes awhile.

Mini Tostados and Lemon Slice bentos

To the right here is Wednesday's lunch. I can see by adding the extra chips that one cannot tell that those were meant to be three mini tostados. But they were.

They were filled with refried beans and green salsa and topped with cheddar cheese.


On Thursday I did a little experiment with an artichoke heart leftover from the previous night's dinner. We eat a lot of artichokes. It's easy for him to make. The trick to keeping them is lemon juice as chokes oxidize to a rather unappetizing black color.

When I open the box at work, the lemon smell was powerful and I was afraid to taste the choke at first, but it was surprisingly delish.

A lot of bento - A lot of heart

This was Tuesday's bento. I need a lot of food when it gets cold. But especially some greens. Yessiree!

Even The Mister came out for a peek at the finish, but I had packed it up by then so I showed him some pictures on the camera playback. He was so cute.

"You included the cookie!" He said. I thought it was a muffin.
"Ahh yeah," I said.
"How cute!" He said.
"Really," I said.

Well the old man is like that sometimes. I told him ONCE in passing that when he shops, as he often does, to "think bento." Now he brings me mini shiitakes ( shown here ), dates - well he thinks they're bento ( shown here ), and tada - Quail Eggs! ( shown here ).

We are quite collaborative when we want to be.