A berry nice bento & oodles of noodles bento

A couple of bentos from last week. The top one is mini pita bread with cheese and salami slices. The little bear dispenser holds dijon mustard. The other level is strawberries, blackberries, and a small dish of hummus. Tasty!

The bottom bento is my oodles of noodles attempt. So good. Somen noodles in a vinegar, sesame oil, and soy sauce mixture with a little bottle on the side and sliced pork. The other level is tangerine and kumquat slices, strawberries, and blackberries, and a goofy panda pick to make me smile, although this box helps with that.

New Bento Gear

Kokeshi Bento Boxes

Kokeshi Beckoning Cat in parts

Sakon Bento Box

A card that came with the bento box

Sakon looks like Clancey

Dog and Elephant touch noses

Dog and Elephant bento box by Katoh

Pretty blue band

Rabbit Snack Attack

Three rabbits drive on route601 and Judy attacks 6 blackberries and 100 pom seeds.

Pom looks like porn when you're hungry.

chips and dip bento

Dear Blogger, 

You have been giving me a headache lately. I try and try again and try a few more times to download pictures to no avail. So I try again next week and the week after, and yes finally the pictures appear. But now this bento is ancient history. Don't do that again.

Your faithful bogged down blogger,

J

Dear Bento People,


How's life? Did you know I actually eat green salads? I do. Even with chips and dip bento, I eat a large strawberry and baby greens as organic as I can find them.


The nomade bear reclines for me as I cannot whilst working my fingers to the bone. The bear says time for nap and I say time for a snack. 


Power up it's 3 p.m. I'll see you on the flipside.


Cheers!


J

I wanna go home.

Don't be gone forever road trip bento

Some handy finger food for a road trip. 

Fried chicken sliced into bite-sized pieces.

Oh my darlin' Clementine tangerines.

Rice flowers with carrot trim.

C'est un nomade...

This is a wonderful little box. I love the pale turquoise and yellow combination and the little backpack the bear wears. The bear is not happy or sad, just traveling dot dot dot.

I used to walk everywhere when I was a child and young adult. That's quite an accomplishment growing up in Southern California. I knew all the routes that didn't have mean dogs. I'd strap on the pack, wear comfortable shoes, and get cruising dot dot dot

Here's one of my lunches last week. Ham and cheese on baguette, lettuce, mango, radishes, celery, and a plum.

Three Amigos Bento

Last Thursday I took this nutritious lunch to work with me. It really was a jungle out there!

The sandwich box, the yellow one with the holes, had whole grain crackers, whole wheat bagel with PB, a donut peach whole, donut peach cut up, and a piggie in a blanket.

The front box had pickles, carrots, celery, jicama, hummus, pecans, and my three amigos holding pieces of white cheese in the shape of a star.

They're really cute with their covers, aren't they?

Shinzi Katoh's Alice in Wonderland nesting bento box

This is the latest addition to my stash of bento boxes. Along with some other adorable panda picks and chopsticks, I scored these goodies at JFlair dot com. What a fun place to shop!

I had seen a Shinzi Katoh box that had bunnies riding in a car, and I thought How Cute! So I started hunting around for anything of his and found the very current Miss Alice and the grumpy Queen.

(I haven't seen the movie yet, but I will soon.)

They are really quite charming and the lids snap firmly into place. I don't think they are microwaveable, but that doesn't matter since I don't nuke any of my bento boxes.

They do need a bag however. They only nest when they're empty. And I saw some Alice in Wonderland fabric at my local sewing shop the other day, but I would loathe to battle the traffic this weekend as we are in the middle of yet another wine celebration, the Zin Fest.

For those of you that don't know - I live in the Central Coast region of California and vineyards have taken over. Every direction I look grapes are growing. What use to be cattle and hay fields, now cab, zin, syrah, etc.

So wineries throw festivals and everyone (in the world) comes here and gets drunk. (And the coppers make some dough too.)

I wait till they all go home.

Not that I have anything against wine. I am enjoying a glass of 2003 Brunello di Montalcino this very moment while I cook up my pizza. ( Guess I'll blog about that over on Foodie. )

Look what else I found at JFlair! Due Mugs! by Shinzi Katoh. Tea kept warm with dish for snack. Love the birdie on the branch!

Welcome Spring!