seasoned chicken
his bento
upper left: simmered shiitake, hijiki with aburage and carrot; lower left: seasoned chicken (ginger, negi, deep fried), steamed broccoli with mayo; right: rice with umeboshi furikake and an umeboshi.
my bento
left: rice with umeboshi furikake and an umeboshi; right, from top: seasoned chicken, broccoli with mayo, simmered shiitake, hijiki with aburage and carrot.
teriyaki chicken + chicken stir fry
the boy worked from home today and i had practice tonight, so i made bentos for dinner. had some serious insomnia and a fridge full of items that were about to go bad, so i decided to do some cookin’!
my bento
left, from top: soy sauce egg, salt broiled squid, chicken stir fry with lotus root, green beans, and carrots, simmered freeze dried tofu; right, from top: salted cabbage, umeboshi, daikon greens with shirasu.
his bento
clockwise from top left: salted cabbage, tamagoyaki, hijiki, salt broiled squid, lotus root kimpura, red pickled ginger, teriyaki chicken (all sitting on rice)
the curry of life!
packed in a hurry cuz of the sleater-kinney and quasi at the showbox. looking back i could have arranged his bento waaaay better.
tonight, i made a very mild japanese curry (S&B Golden Curry in Mild flavor). the boy can’t handle spicy foods (but i love them!). my mom used to make this brand and she is also sensitive to spicy foods, so i figured he could handle it. and he liked it. yay!
clockwise from left: kiwi and mandarin oranges (to be removed when re-heated, i mean who likes cold curry.. not me), pork tonkatsu (attempted to draw a heart with tonkatsu sauce but it sort of oozed), chicken curry, pickled radish, and the white stuff is rice.
so apparantly the bento i packed for him yesterday was too much food. if i could go back, i would have only put one piece of salmon and filled the other half of the compartment with rice, and then i would have had less hijiki and put some mandarin or kiwi slices there instead. so now that i have a better sense of his portions, i predict that he will not finish the rice and might leave a little curry.
clockwise from left: chicken curry, ryakko, pickled radish, kiwi and persimmon, pork tonkatsu (fudged the heart.. again)
i apologize for the poor quality. i’m using an apple isight webcam way out of context, so the food looks all bland and yellow when really it’s quite the colorful combo. in actuality, the raddish is very red.
back: shrimp flavored noodle soup; front: sandwich with strawberry guava jam. the noodle soup actually isn’t that bad.. 276 calories and 0 fat. the noodles aren’t fried and there’s no extra oil to add. i picked this one up because it was on sale, and it’s actually really yummy… (for a noodle soup bowl)
