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| Lunch for today: mini meatball sub. Dang... As soon as I ate it and saw the photo, I knew it would have benefitted from something green. But it was tasty...  Meatball, sauce and mozzarella on bread, apple slices, apricots and a Reeses cup. :-) - Location:home
- Mood:sleepy
 - Music:Bing Crosby - White Christmas
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|  Bucking tradtion, we ate Chinese food for Thanksgiving and packed the leftovers for a bento box lunch. Read more on today's hapabento blog post. | |
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| Something simple  Broccoli, penne pasta in a tomato sauce with italian sausage and zucchini Grapes
Leftovers FTW
 Broccoli, Cauliflower, carrots, turkey, cranberry sauce (why is it a sauce when it is clearly jelly?), deviled eggs, roll.
Hope everyone who celebrates thanksgiving had a good one! :3 | |
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| We didn't have any leftovers from our Thanksgiving dinner (sniff - it was at someone else's house) so all I had to contribute to today's bento was the pie. But is was still yummy!  Spinach & red pepper quiche, cucumber weave, homemade bread with spinach and parmesan ribbon, radishes and pumpkin pie with crust squiggle. | |
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|  Vegan Orange "Chicken" with fried rice, cukes, sweet potato and radish. The recipe for the vegan orange chicken is provided on today's blog post. | |
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| because really, after all the cooking i did today i am not making different food for my bento.  pumpkin pie with whip cream and drunken cranberry sauce on top steamed green beans with slivered almonds, turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy on bottom. somewhat drunken bento/picture/post. happy thanksgiving everyone who celebrates. | |
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| So.. I hope I am not offending anyone.. but since it was # 666 and that number is.. well.. the number of the Beast.. I thought I'd do a devilish bento to celebrate it. As an added, and unexpected bonus, I happened to find chili spahgetti today in an arab grocer. It is HOT! I bought it because it was red, but it also tastes differently than "ordinary" spaghetti. Definitely hot as h... ^_^
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Bento # 666
Corn cob. Broccoli. Chicken Chunks (breaded chicken). Kiwi.
Chilipasta with ketchup, decorated with bell pepper and carrot. |
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| The world's fastest bento *L* Or at least close. All this is, is leftovers from dinner - pasta and bolognese sauce. I tried to spruce it up a little with some moon-watching rabbits, but it's still ... pretty simple. But at least it'll be served hot as it's in a thermal container :)
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Bento # 665
Bolognese with yellow pepper stars and -moon. Pasta with parmasan, hidden under some carrot rabbits and broccoli trees. |
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| 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 ) | |
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| 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. | |
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|  Black rice musubi and chikuwa bento box. Read the step by step assembly on today's hapabento blog post. | |
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| 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...
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Bento # 663
Potato/pork stew topped with carrot Kitties and mini corn cob flowers. Fish Fingers. Satsuma and kiwi. |
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Bento # 664
Pasta with ketchup and parmasan, adorned with carrot.
Dates. Onigiri-shaped egg. Corn cob. Broccoli. Ramune-candy. |
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|  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. - Mood:hungry

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| Breakfast and lunch for tomorrow 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 | |
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|  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! | |
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|  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 | |
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|  Fake Curry with white riceHaving 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. | |
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|  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 - Mood:exhausted

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| Foreground: Hardboiled egg on lettuce, unpickled tiny cucumber, cherry tomatos. Background: Falafel, potato salad and a container with yoghurt-parsley dipsauce. ;) My bentoblog: http://wererabbits.wordpress.com | |
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|  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! | |
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| 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.
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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. |
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| 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*
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Bento # 659
Ham- and chicken sandwiches. Satsuma wedges. Banana. |
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Bento # 660
Orzo adorned with beet stars and -moon and a carrot UFO.
Stuffed pepper. Mixed vegetables. Cherry Tomato. Various Japanese candy. |
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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. |
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