The first is rice noodles with prawns, mange tout, and seaweed with a soy sauce, sweet chilli and lime dressing, with steamed pak choi with soy and ginger and gyoza with gyoza dipping sauce



The second is egg fried rice with chicken tenders, a rabbit of tonkatsu sauce and soy and ginger courgettes




( Pak Choi Recipe )

Hi folks, here is a bento I posted on bentochallenge. This week's topic is to make a bento that recreates a famous work of art. And what work of art is more famous (or awesome) than the Dogs Playing Poker? It's very crude but I had fun making it.



Background is bread with pasta sauce. Table is spinach leaves over cheese slice. The rest are made from various bits of cheese, radish, carrot, dates, almonds, grapes, red cabbage and a Triscuit.

Black rice musubi and chikuwa bento box.

Read the step by step assembly on today's hapabento blog post.

I'm quite impressed with myself. I made today's bento (# 554) after coming home from the company christmas drunk feast party and all things considered I think it came out quite nicely...

Bento # 663 Potato/pork stew topped with carrot Kitties and mini corn cob flowers. Fish Fingers. Satsuma and kiwi.

Bento # 664 Pasta with ketchup and parmasan, adorned with carrot. Dates. Onigiri-shaped egg. Corn cob. Broccoli. Ramune-candy.

Turkey in a bento with no turkey! Read about it on AiB!

I have rediscovered wax paper recently and some how find it more bentoish than other wraps. In this bento: simple and healthy... mini sammies, pickled okra, grape tomatoes and a sugar free peanut butter cup, cause I stopped eating sugar. If you are hanging onto your sweet tooth, you might enjoy this non-bento but very chocolaty blog post.

Breakfast and lunch for tomorrow

From Bentos

Rock n Serve: Bean quesadilla, gummy candy, banana, tomato, guacamole, barley with dried,tropical fruit, brussell sprouts and tomatoes with card suit themed comte cheese.

x-posted in foodiepatootie

Leftover Chilli Con Carne on the left on top of rice with creme fraiche in the middle, pasta salad on the right with some tomatoes and fruit gummys. Simple!

I've got a little pilgrim lady in my bento today. Read about it on my blog.

Seasoned White Rice
Soy Pods
Baked pork Chop thinly sliced
Pork and Spinach steamed Dumplings w/ Low Sodium Soy Sauce
Tangerines
Concord Grapes
Fat Free Strawberry Banana Yogurt

Fake Curry with white rice

Having never had real curry before, and not knowing what it tastes like, I'm only guessing that the recipe I use is halfway decent. I like it though..

I'd like to thank you guys for answering my earlier questions. :-) And if my image is too large, please let me know.

Grape Tomato and Cheddar picks
Veggie Goyza, Sweet Mung Bean Bun, Broccoli and Grape Tomatoes
Sweet Peppers filled with Herbed Goat Cheese, Kiwi and Blackberries

Foreground: Hardboiled egg on lettuce, unpickled tiny cucumber, cherry tomatos.
Background: Falafel, potato salad and a container with yoghurt-parsley dipsauce.

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My bentoblog: http://wererabbits.wordpress.com

I was asked to make a sandwich for mum's lunch tomorrow... there is a sandwich in there! Ham and mustard to be exact, then I got a little carried away. She also has pasta salad, some tomatoes, an Italian Stuffed Dough Ball, some carrot and pepper sticks and some dried apricots, dried cranberries, almonds and two fruit gummys. However, I'm pretty certain she just wanted the sandwich. Oops!

Recipe for this traditional Japanese dish is posted on today's hapabento blog post.

For once a bento of mine with actual onigiri *L* Mostly because I had some leftover rice and my kid is totally mad about this "russian salad" which is basically pickled beet root in mayo. Great as a sandwich spread so now I'm giving it a go as onigiri-filling.

Bento # 662 Ovenbaked beet roots, carrots, squash and potatoes, adorned with a little steamed broccoli and some carrot-Poohs. Kiwi slices, chicken hotwings, onigiri with pickled beet roots and mayo and mini corn cobs.

Well.. There IS a reason why the first one didn't get posted. We had a local election here on Tuesday and I was participating in that all day (first handing out the voting bills and later counting the lot) and tbat's why it's a sandwich bento, we had sandwiches there and I managed to squirrel a few away for bento use *L*

The rest is a mix of working late and general procrastination *L*

Bento # 659 Ham- and chicken sandwiches. Satsuma wedges. Banana.

Bento # 660 Orzo adorned with beet stars and -moon and a carrot UFO. Stuffed pepper. Mixed vegetables. Cherry Tomato. Various Japanese candy.

Bento # 661 Cheddar Hearts. Mini corn coba. Mini carrots. Cherry Tomato. Bear-shaped egg. Macaroni bites with ketchup and chili sauce. Topped with flowers made of spring onions, cherry tomato, mini corn cob and striped- and yellow beet root.

Nimono, boiled eggs with black fungus, cukes, brown rice and umeboshi.

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My friend just bought a To-Go Ware Set at Whole Foods and I thought it was so cool. So I thought I would share their site and a few pictures.

I love my metal bento, so I am excited about these. Now I just need to get a little extra cash for this one.

Here's the site: http://www.to-goware.com/



It's all a little pricey, but it might be worth it and you could see it as one of your investment pieces. I know if I get one, I'll definitely look at it like that.

Also, please Mods, please feel free to delete this post if I am breaking any rules.

Gonna eat this before aikido practice tonight.
Rice with furikake, vegetarian dumplings, broccoli, tiny cherry tomatoes, a zucchini quiche and Pez on a lettuce leaf.

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My bentoblog: http://wererabbits.wordpress.com

I made this earlier this week. Winter and darkness and bad weather coupled with stress are having a bad impact on my cooking habits - I feel tired and lazy and just throw something together, or decide I'm too tired to make a bento and eat out for lunch. Not healthy!

This is a quickie, but tasty - stirfried carrot flowers, zucchini leaves, mushrooms and leek with tamagoyaki and some of the tiniest cherry tomatoes ever on noodles with sesame oil, mirin and soy sauce.

A note on the sesame seed decoration: How do you find the patience? They wouldn't stick, were horrible to handle and if you so much as look at them funny, the black peel comes off. I don't get it!

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My bentoblog: http://wererabbits.wordpress.com

I feel like I've been getting off track lately in making bento but also in cooking for myself and eating healthy in general. Things such as illness and job craziness have been getting in the way. So, as I share this week's bento with you all, I'd like to pose a question: What keeps you "on track" with bento (and healthy eating in general if you'd like to comment on that as well)? How do you motivate yourself to keep making them when life starts to get in the way?

For your viewing pleasure:


Top: yogurt with pecans and dried cranberries
Bottom: broccoli, mushrooms, rice
Not shown: supplemental beef patty I bought at the corner store because I was feeling down ^^;

I had to order a new bento. I dropped the top to one of our plastic bento and the top is cracked nearly in half. Now I know I can still use the rest of the box, but it was a good excuse to order a couple of new stainless steel bento. Well, here is Baby Girl's lunch today:




Girl Scout Cookies
Mango, Kiwi and Pomegranate fruit salad
Rice with Fried Tofu, Sweet Potato and Chestnuts

Sorry part of the picture is out of focus. Still learning this new camera. I miss my old DSLR :(

possibly too small for lunch, i think i will have to bring some fruit outside of the box, but i managed to fit more in then i expected to. i know "free" things are not "free" when they require a minimum purchase, but i am still amused with this extra small box.



zucchini sauteed with cherry tomatoes, garlic, and herbs. smoked chicken apple sausage. roasted acorn squash with walnuts.