Lotsa Bento!

Don't know why but this turned out to be a LOT of food.
I think I was pressured to eat/use up the leftover kimchi and seaweed and I wanted to have a fruit cup.

Rectangular Bento
Red Grapes

Round Bento
Left: Sweet Seaweed
Right: Mat Kimchi

Square Bento
Top Left: Yogurt Drink
Top Middle: Lemon Grass Beef with Bell Peppers and Shitake Mushrooms
Right: White Basmati
Bottom Left: Garlic Water Sprouts

Random Comment: This little bell pepper was so cute and it was the most perfect ideal bell pepper shape that I had to take a picture of it!

Mommy and Me Bento Time

Another quickie bento I slapped together for my mom and myself. We have lunch together about 2-3x a week and I brought this for us today. Mommy loved it! She thought it was so cute yet filling :)

Bento Items
Left: Rice topped with leftover 3cups Chicken
Top-Right: Stir-fry Bean Sprouts
Middle-Right: Edamame
Bottom-Right: Oden

Bento Numero Uno

Recently started to buy into the bento-mania craze. This a quickie first attempt with store-bought Gyoza and edamame. Hoping the visual gratification will help with portion control and weight-loss.

Bento Beginnings

My first memory of the word "bento" is an image of my Grandmother. She went to Japanese school as a child during their occupation of Taiwan and speaks Japanese fluently. In fact, her attempts at English speech is heavily accented with Japanese BUT I digress.

Lookie! My new bento supplies! I'm really excited to use them. Haven't really figured out how or when I'll use them. Kinda feel like I went overboard with rice molds (3 other molds are not pictured). Oh well, no time to wallow in buyer's remorse for now :)

Bento Supplies (Clockwise from Top-Left): Disposable Chopsticks, Bento box (650ml), Bento dividers, Rice Molds, Silicone Cupcake Liners, Disposable Dividers that look like fake grass.

Also wanted to brag about my bento box. It's NOT really a bento box. I swore off plastic tupperware for several reasons. I'd like to say the main reason was for health and the BPA scare, but that's just a mere 10% of the reason. THE main reason is that I like for things to retain that "new shiny" look. I'm really sensitive to that and plastics, even high-grade plastics always end up looking foggy. Another big reason is that I need my tupperware to be ovensafe and this one is up to 220 degrees (F) since it's made from glass.

My favorite plastic storage solution is the Lock n Lock collection and THIS bento box is from the Lock n Lock Glass collection made by Iwaki Japan. It also has a non-porous polycarbonate lid that won't stain and is shatter resistant. You can't really tell from the picture but the lid has a subtle raised design of flowers/vines and butterflies/birds. All I can say is....Eat your hearts out!

Corn Medley

2 ears corn
1 cucumber
1.5 c green beans
2-3 scallions
1 clove garlic
salt and pepper to taste
1 pat butter

*heat oil and saute green beans w/a bit of water. add garlic and saute until the aroma comes out and add the rest of the veggies. salt and pepper to taste. stir and cover with lid. when done add butter and pepper

Bread Pudding

1/2 loaf stale French bread
2 oz dried cranberries
3-4 eggs
1 c heavy cream
3 c milk
3/4 c sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
*set oven to 350 degrees. cut bread into cubes and place in baking dish. top with cranberries. mix all other ingredients and pour over bread. poke the cubes on top to make sure they're soaking up the custard mixture.

sooo yummy and easy to make! i overdid the vanilla but it turned out alright in the end. Mr. Stinky loved it and he doesn't like pudding textured foods (i know - weirdo). if a dessert needs to be made for a potluck - this is what i'm making!

Apologies

Been busy in the past few months and wasn't able to post. But also becuase PC and laptop both decided not to sense USB ports anymore. Will post ASAP - lots of new dishes and desserts made! and lots more yummy food to display!