leggo my obento! the bento blog

his bento

rice with furikake; sweet simmered shiitake; steamed baby bok choy; steamed green beans and simmered carrots rolled in thin sliced beef

simmered konbu and umeboshi soup base (just add hot water!)

edit: added a pic of my bento

hard boiled egg, beef rolls, simmered kabocha, cherry tomato, vegetable fried rice w/ nori flakes, doriyaki for dessert

i got some frozen kabocha and i don’t like it as much as i like the fresh stuff. the texture is too mushy maybe it got defrosted and refrozen. last time i made kabocha i made so much i couldn’t finish it all, so i thought this would be a good work around but i was MISTAKEN.

his bento

broccoli beef stir fry with chinese cabbage, green onion, and ginger, tamagoyaki with cheese

my bento

hard boiled egg, beef and broccoli stir fry with ginger, green onion, and chinese cabbage

his bento

left, from top: cucumber salad with dressing, meatballs, apple slices, broccoli, steamed carrots; right: rice with bonito flakes

my bento

back: rice with bonito flakes; front, from left: hard boiled egg, steamed carrot, steamed broccoli with mayo, meatballs, cucumber salad with dressing

he doesn’t like hard boiled egg, which is a shame since it’s such an easy way to add bulk to the bento.  that’s ok, more for me!!

his bento

from left: beef fried rice, steamed carrots and broccoli with mayo, chikuwa fritters, lotus root salad; not pictured: apple slices for dessert

my bento

right, from top: lotus root salad, steamed carrot and broccoli with mayo, chikuwa fritter, tamagoyaki, persimmon slices; left: steamed rice with furikake, salted salmon

ok so tomorrow is saturday and i don’t *really* have to pack a bento………… but i am anyways i think i’ve got an addiction.. a serious serious addiction..

his bento

sukiyaki, mandarin orange slices, chrysanthemum turnip with red ginger accent

i got him a new furoshiki today! it has the little sanrio monkey guy on it. the monkey is my favorite cuz he always has weird random stuff on his head.

my bento

sukiyaki, persimmon slices, chrysanthemum turnip with red ginger accent

i think the inspiration for these bentos comes from the idea of eating leftover sukiyaki in a more visually appealing way. i prefer to eat leftovers in a bento for some reason..

since the boy is still working overtime i realized i hadn’t really packed him enough food to get through the day… so i made an extra snack for him..

octopus wieners with tonkatsu sauce hair and japanese mayo faces (and a few simmered carrot flowers)

ooh this lunch is gonna be STINKY!!

his bento

top, from left: pineapple cookie, rice with sardine ginger sauce, sardine simmered in ginger sauce, niku jaga (minus the beef cuz he picked it out at dinner ); bottom, from left: sliced apple, cucumber sunomono with dressing in a heart shaped squeeze bottle, cabbaged stuffed with ground pork and beef and shiitake, quarter of a chocolate chip cookie

my bento

from left: cucumber sunomono with dressing in a star shaped squeeze bottle (i had the heart but the boy wanted it lol), sardine simmered in ginger sauce, persimmon slices, soft boiled egg, cabbage stuffed with ground pork and beef and shiitake, rice balls shaped in hearts and stars rolled in salmon furikake

i was having artistic issues with arranging mine i really needed a cherry tomato or something cute and small to go in the middle. at first i put the cookies but that wasn’t doing it, i knew that wouldn’t be a fulfilling lunch.. then this morning i thought of it! a boiled egg!! yum!!

today’s bento is lots of leftovers from the past week, plus a few items i made especially for lunch. the boy has the day off but wants to work a few hours, so i decided to make lunches for us. besides, i think these are the cutest lunches i’ve made yet! ;D

his bento:

right container, from top: tofu and pork croquetas with tonkatsu sauce, green beans simmered in soy sauce, kamaboko sakura flowers, asazuki with apples, green beans and carrots rolled in beef, tamagoyaki with kamaboko, chinese rice ball filled with sesame oil (too oily for me, but he loves them); left container: rice balls with beef (top two) and umeboshi and kombu (bottom).

it’s a lot of food, but he’ll probably eat one or two of the rice balls seperately. also, i just noticed, i almost had a horizontal stripe pattern going on with his bento!

my bento:

bottom layer: tofu and pork croqueta with tonkatsu sauce, star shaped onigiri with egg, persimmon slices; top layer: tamagoyaki with kamaboko, green beans and carrots rolled in beef, broccoli and apple asazuki; back: azuki bean doriyaki (i love azuki bean paste!!)