Deliver me bento

This was last Thursday's lunch. The end of work in the merry month of May when just about everything went wrong. (Is Mercury in retrograde?)

Everything in work, that is. Home life was fine. Cooking meals and gardening were terrific, but work sucked. And I have to get over it and move on because it's a new month tomorrow.

I like to turn a new leaf.

A couple of bentos I made this week

I made the pork curry the night before with sweet peppers and shiitake mushrooms and carrots. For some reason Thai spiciness does not bother me like some other spicy cuisines. 

I really wanted a warm lunch, so I separated the curry and rice from snacks and raw vegetables using my ecobox. I was going to separate the curry from the rice with a lettuce baran, but that would make the lettuce all wilty and really wouldn't work anyways. So I used a little glass bowl instead. 

This wasn't a very successful bento at work. The whole thing was a bit of a mess.

Wednesday I woke up late and didn't have time to make a bento much less photograph it, but Thursday I put together a Mio Mio bento with my big and little Mio boxes. There's a half of a pita filled with Seal Cove brie, and the other half is plain to go with my hummus. Some radishes, blueberries, and strawberries with a sweet pepper flower, and a flower rice ball with a bottle of soy sauce.

Cute little green-eyed kitty probably wanted tuna instead.

Panda Canapes

For the rain, for the train I made a few of these dark rye, cream cheese, and smoked salmon canapes.

Bento at work

The inside of this bento was not particularly pretty. Bottom layer was chicken and rice and the top layer was cut veggies and a kiwi gummie. The ranch dressing was a side for veggies and rye crackers (not shown), and the seaweed WANT WANT crackers, V8, and rice candy filled out the meal.

That is my desk top, and this bento was consumed at work.

Chicken Salad Bento

Top box which is really the bottom box has rice that was left crusty from the rice cooker with soy and vinegar in blue and pink containers and kimchee furikake in the Hello Kitty canister.

Next box has radishes and roasted red peppers, pickles, carrots, and chicken salad with capers.

All in my lovely Sleeping Mio the Cat box from Japanistic.com. Cute pink miceys!

May 6 - A week of bentos for my inner child

I'm liking those crackers that Amanda gave me for my birthday. Yeah Amanda!

The little round Blue bento holds Neanderthal Gazpacho made by The Mister. Did I ever blog the recipe? Will check into that. He uses kiwis and it's quite delicious. Found it!

Happy Mother's Day!

May 5 - A week of bentos for my inner child

Okay okay so it looks a little similar to yesterday's bento. No chicken and I've added three milk duds and a couple chunks of double cream gouda. Still got the kim chee and berries and nuts. So let me expand on this morning process (since I almost always make bento in the morning and since I'm almost always in a rush).

I want you to see what I walk out the door with.

Starting in the top left, I put in a coldpac, that's the blue thing, spoon and fork, Yoplait key lime whip (that's in, not out), and the kim chee on the coldpac. Top right, I add the other two little round boxes, and a small container of hummus (yum!), and rye crackers. Bottom, my cowboy lunch box filled with bento!

So friends, is it a bento if it's put in a lunch box?

May 4 bento - A week of bentos for my inner child

I like my crackers to be crunchy, my kim chee to be cold, my chicken untainted, and my berries not fainted.

I'm using two of the new little round boxes purchased from Japanistic. The silver round came with my Eco Box probably meant for a side of sauce, and that glass dish is a Martha Stewart container for leftovers.

I decided the kim chee had to go in the metal container. It would wreck plastic, and indeed it did stain the plastic lid. Anyone know how to get that off?

White chicken meat was leftover from the dinner before.

Blueberries, radish, strawberry, and a grape tomato sit on baby greens.

Pistachios and snack crackers with one, and only one rice paper candy.