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Chimichurri Salmon, Shrimp, Steamed baby bok choy, and Beets with Blue Cheese for dessert
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Sausages, Sweet Potatoes, and Red Bell Peppers
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Trader Joe’s has frozen swordfish steaks. They are reasonably priced and very tasty. I made some Swordfish sticks from Naomi Kijima’s bento book with them. Good stuff!
Also Konnyaku is an excellent “diet” food. It has virtually 0 calories and next to no nutritional value, but it absorbs flavors very well. It is a very filling item and the flavor in it can help to appease a ravenous appetite (use it sparingly, however!). I like the texture a lot.
Rice with Furikaki, Swordfish Strips, Stewed Gobo and Carrot, Stewed Konnyaku, Stir fried Corn (soy sauce, sake, sugar).
in honor of the chinese new year i made a dim sum bento. well not a great dim sum bento, a lot of my favorite dim sum items were missing. actually, the truth is i didn’t have time to cook dinner so i had a lot of pre-cooked things.
Rice with umeboshi, potstickers, shu mai, egg roll, cherry tomato, hard boiled egg, sesame green beans, and a hot dog.
Went to Daiso yesterday and picked up some cute bento stuff. They opened the one downtown Seattle which is way more convenient than the one way up in Lynnweird. I love that store.
Each item pictured above was $1.50 and the bento box was $4.00.. grand total was $10.00 (plus tax).
For those who don’t know, Daiso is a Japanese dollar store that recently started opening stores around the world outside of japan. Normally bento accessories can only be bought online via ebay or jlist. There is usually a small price markup and there are shipping costs to consider. I’ve usually gone to Uwajimaya. Daiso has a better selection of bento accessories, but Uwajimaya has pretty decent bento boxes (and groceries).
seared giant scallop, shrimp, shiitake, salmon roe, mango, tofu salad, green beans
simmered pork, potatoes, and shirataki over rice; steamed broccoli with mayo; pickled hakusai; cherry tomato; pancake filled with azuki beans
2 bentos with hakusai-maki. i got a new cell phone with a nifty camera in it, so hopefully there will be more bento posts (depending on how late i’m running for work… haha). Also I will take some food photos.
Hakusai-maki, Hijiki, Curry Cauliflauer pickles, iri-dofu, rice
Hakusai-maki, Curry cauliflower pickles, cherry tomato, rice with umeboshi and shiso
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i’m still alive. in the market for a decent camera so i can take decent photos. still been cooking the bentos but haven’t been able to photograph them. any camera suggestions? i’m a digital SLR fan (did photography in high school so i know how to work it manually) BUT even something with just a decent zoom lens would be cool.
also my goal this year is to make osechi ryori. we’ve been out of town for the past few holidays but this year we’ll be here. yay!
another quick update, jlist is now carrying bento accessories and they have some pretty cute ones. i’ll have to update my info! lucky me tho, i can just walk over to daiso in westlake ;D seattle r00lz!
