H sent me a lot of bento stuff from Japan at my request, and I have fallen in love. The dangerous thing here is the amount of money I could (and have already) spent on supplies. I will make future posts about what tools I have and like, and what I've improvised. Anyways, you might notice that I start listing around Bento #6. I did not take photos of Bentos 1-5. However they weren't that interesting, and did not include recipes you won't see posted here for later ones.
You can check out the pictures of the bento goodies I got and some of the in-cooking progress at my flickr account. Anyways, here's the photos of bento #6, which was intended for lunch and 2 snacks for a long day at work.
Bento #6
Carrot Kinpira
Tip: Make as spicy or not spicy as you like by adjusting the pepper. Watch out for how oily it is though, it CAN stain your bento/lunchbox if you are not careful!
Starbuck's Passion Chocolate - 4/5
Ghanna Lotte Black Chocolate - 5/5
Dijon Sauce - 4/5
Recipe: Stone Ground Mustard (I use the german named kind), and a SMALL amount of light mayo (Hellman's).
Overall - 4/5.
If you think I packed too much food. You're 100% right. Not all of this was eaten, so 4/5 on the actual lunch for that.
A hurried lunch. Edamame, Steamed Dumplings (from Grand Asia), leftover carrot kinpira, leftover steamed rice, and dumpling sauce (purchased) in the piggies. Can't say there was much cooking going on here.
SparkleFox's Rating 3/5
Ok in a pinch, but the dumplings/sauce didn't go well with the kinpira. Too much bread overall between the dumplings and the rice. Although points for me for making the irish flag. :D out of japanese food. I'm already damned, may as well have fun with it.
No photos of this bento. It was a pretty pathetic one because I was in a hurry. However, I'm listing it here because I learned a couple of useful tips from it. #1. Fruit can take up way too much room in your bento if you aren't careful. I packed some apple slices for this one and that definitely took up too much room for how much you'll wind up eating. Fruit if it's not dense /small should go to the side. I have used pineapple/banana/kiwi with better luck. #2. The Teriyaki recipie from Just Bento DOES NOT SCALE WELL. I tried to make more the night before for 2 people to have a large dinner and it did not work out right. This had the leftovers of that and it was VERY dissappointing compared to the first time I made it.
Bento #9
Shrimp (cooked with a little soy sauce), stir fried zucchini and onion, chopped up banana, and onigiri with ebi furikake.
Sparkle Fox's Rating 4/5
No recipies, this is a very simple bento that was leftovers from dinner last night. Cooking Cute has an onigiri tutorial if you don't know how to do that, google works as well. Don't know yet how to make the banana's not brown, but they were still tasty. Also still working out how to do eyes/whiskers etc out of nori. I have cutters for ham/cheese etc but they won't work. Debating a nori punch. If you know how that doesn't involve wayyy too much time with scissors, please let me know!
Tips: I used wax paper to hold the bananas away from juice, this worked very well and was a better use of space than the shaped side-dish cups I have. I see why the paper cups are popular.
Onigiri that is not nori-wrapped will break apart when re-heated when you try to eat it. That was fine in this case, but lesson learned.
That's all for now, next time more interesting stuff and recipes, promise. I'll be doing 1 lunch per post as well in the future.
Sparkle Fox's Rating 4/5
No recipies, this is a very simple bento that was leftovers from dinner last night. Cooking Cute has an onigiri tutorial if you don't know how to do that, google works as well. Don't know yet how to make the banana's not brown, but they were still tasty. Also still working out how to do eyes/whiskers etc out of nori. I have cutters for ham/cheese etc but they won't work. Debating a nori punch. If you know how that doesn't involve wayyy too much time with scissors, please let me know!
Tips: I used wax paper to hold the bananas away from juice, this worked very well and was a better use of space than the shaped side-dish cups I have. I see why the paper cups are popular.
Onigiri that is not nori-wrapped will break apart when re-heated when you try to eat it. That was fine in this case, but lesson learned.
That's all for now, next time more interesting stuff and recipes, promise. I'll be doing 1 lunch per post as well in the future.
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