Under The Dome Bento

This special box has a domed roof, so if your bentos are little tall, you don't have to squash them down. It is a single layer with a moveable divider, quite generous in space.

I filled it lots of rice, sliced chicken, cherry tomatoes from the garden, and jewel-cut carrots. And a sesame smile.

Bullet Train Bento

Protein: white chicken meat, roasted. Leafy green: organic water cress. Super food: blueberries. Crunchies: radishes. From the garden: tomatoes, Juliet. Orange container: sea salt. Bullet Train pick. Bullet Train container: shoyu.

My cute Mio box

Sly Cat and a Totoro Snack Pack Bentos

Cute little flap-down bento box that I'm calling Sly Cat. It's filled with cous cous with pine nuts and homemade kimchee. I always bring a juice and a piece of fruit with my lunch bentos that I end up drinking/eating at 3:00pm to power through the afternoon

I'll be working later starting this summer, so I might bring an extra bento. But the main problem is I need refrigeration. I like the "two hour rule" even with blue ice. It's just that it gets so hot around here!

This is my lovely Totoro snap bento. The pick and container are from Japanese planes, trains, and automobiles set that is perfect for a little boy (or a little girl if the little girl was like me). I still like to chase trains.

Sail On, Sail On, Sailor Bento

A midweek bento last week with a smoked salmon and cream cheese English muffin in the floater tray. Spinach with capers, red bell peppers with capers, heirloom green tomatoes, and a little pink pocket of walnuts in the main box.  

The lid of this box (and my current wallpaper) is a watery scene with demons on the horizon. I woke up last night with dreams of my death in the ocean. To all of those who have succumb to the kelp monsters, to the shadows of the deep, and to songs of the mermaids, my you rest in peace.

Deviled Eggs and Salad Bento

Rub a dub dub

New gear, new year!

I purchased some adorable little containers for bento and filled them with salad-friendly accouterments. 

chia, salad dressing, and cashews

Mixed organic salad greens, deviled eggs, a squeeze of lime in the yellow part. From the garden last summer some dried Juliet tomatoes, and cabot cheese with the animals in the green part. Honey crackers, and a couple of hard Jolly Rogers candies in the beige part. 

Put it all together and what do you got?

 

Deviled eggs and salad

All wrapped up in a Burger Box!

Hamburger Bento Box!

Meow Bento

Love my Sleeping Mio bento box. It reminds me of my Si and his little friends, the micey.

Top layer: Blackberries, tomatoes (out of picture), Cheddar Cheese, fat green olives (out of picture), and Japanese style KimChee!

Bottom layer: tuna with mayo and wasabi.

Separate Hello Kitty container: Saltines.

Antipasta Bento

So we got the Antipasta plate at Villa San-Juilette winery the other weekend. And I simply must re-create it for a bento.

Salami and olives, cheese, in this case Brie, with tomatoes (my addition), dried fruit, nuts, in this case walnuts and peanuts. All in my lock n load box. I even had a passerby compliment my "lunchbox."

Chips and Tomatoes Bento

Chips and dip, and tomatoes and mustard are in addition to a tuna salad on a homemade bun. I put wasabi with the mayo in the tuna. Pow!

Butter Sandwiches Bento

Butter sandwiches Bento, a photo by Judy's Notebook on Flickr.

A chicken drumette, Juliet tomatoes from the garden, sharp cheddar cheese cubes, wasabi mayo in the smiling apple, and Kyoto candy from Japan.

Juliet Tomatoes = Perfect Bento Food

I suppose this photo might be double posted to my other blog seeing how I grew these myself in my kitchen garden. And for those of you who aspire to grow your own grape tomatoes, but don't have piece of land to do so, these were grown in a pot, both of them, the Juliet tomatoes and the purple cayenne peppers. 

I am enamored with these little tomatoes. They are an abundant producer of sweet meaty tomatoey flavor. I must pick everyday now, but we will easily go through a small bowl daily. Eaten as snacks, in salads, in pasta sauce, the Juliet tomato is quite versatile. And they are the perfect bento food!