| Lunch Box 625: Snow meatballs |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|11:21 pm] |
 A while ago I posted about the rice I'd bought, which is uber-short-grained, practically rice beads, and uber-sticky. It sticks to everything! Well, I found the exception: it doesn't stick as much to pearl meatballs. The ones here actually show some bald spots. Despite the blemish of exposed meat, they were still delicious.
I also have baked sweet potato - not purple? I don't know what got into me either - spinach with mayonnaise and strawberries.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 607: The wrong legumes |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|10:18 pm] |
 Today's lunch stars meatloaf cupcakes, peas, baked sweet potato, naan, and kushi dango. I actually intended to pack edamame, but in my post-work daze I took the wrong sack out of the freezer, and only realized my error when I'd already dumped about a cup of peas into the water. Huh, what now? I decided to go with the peas. I'm good enough with chopsticks that they don't pose a problem.
Please tell me I'm not alone in making dumb mistakes like this in the kitchen.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 598: Lotus Position |
[Oct. 27th, 2008|07:35 pm] |
 Happy Monday! If such a thing exists, that is.
Hmm, that's not a good way to start out. Oh well. Here's food! Namely: broiled steak cut up to chopstick-able size and mixed in with mushrooms; flavored lotus slices, the flavoring being pseuki yaki juice, which is rather odd with the aforementioned steak; plenty of shelled edamame; baked white sweet potato, which I would not recommend because it was barely sweet - I'd say it was more like a slightly-sweet gold potato; and persimmon & craisins.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 588: Chibi meatloaf |
[Sep. 26th, 2008|10:10 pm] |
 Who says meatloaf can't be cute? I had a little filling left over after making meatloaf gyoza, so I got out a muffin pan and made a few mealoaf cupcakes. Come to think of it, individual meatloaf cakes are better suited for bento lunches than slices of regular meatloaf, aren't they?
And then I have steamed broccoli, baked sweet potato, blue country cornbread, and an pan. Nom nom.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 576: Foodstuffs |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|07:30 pm] |
 Some of my lunches are more leftover-ish than others. This is one of those. I have chicken & vegetable yakisoba,with a little yellow container of yakisoba sauce. (the wheel-like thing is lotus root.) On the other side I have baked sweet potato - the regular kind, not the purple kind, for once! - steamed green beans, and purple imo-yokan, which is a dessert made with purple sweet potatoes.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 548: Dueling octopi |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|09:08 pm] |
 Today I have a colorful melange of... colorful stuff. In no particular order: hot dog octopi, baked purple sweet potato, baked sweet potato, zucchini & onion stir-fry, simmered shiitake mushrooms, some Kool-Aid pickles, and grapefruit and coconut gel. The Kool-Aid pickles were made with grape Kool-Aid, which tastes good but makes for dark, icky-looking pickles. Next time I'll use cherry.
Today's my 40th birthday. Yay me. I suppose I should have packed a cupcake or something. Ah well, I'll probably get a cupcake on my way home for dinner tonight.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 537: Colors and shapes |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|10:21 pm] |
 The food in this lunch isn't anything particularly groundbreaking, but I sure went to town on the geometrical aspect of it, didn't I? All those colors and shapes, it looks like a toddler's activity board. Got some pigs in blankets, no-winged ones this time. Got both baked sweet potato and baked purple sweet potato, because I happen to like sweet potato. Got boiled spinach with a container of mayo. Got orange slices and grapes. Got milk? Fruit2O, but that's not in the picture.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 504: I am lazy. |
[Jan. 24th, 2008|08:19 pm] |
 I had planned to do some cooking after swinging by the grocery store on my way home. But I was tired, and in a moment of weakness I picked up one of those rotisserie chickens that come all hot and juicy in a bag. And you know what? I don't regret it. I'd do it again. Especially when they're on sale.
So! Here's some barbecue chicken - well, rotisserie chicken with barbecue sauce, anyway - boiled collard greens with mayonnaise, baked sweet potato, French garlic bread, and fudge.
I promise I'll cook for real tonight.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 494: Candy Box |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|08:38 pm] |
 I was thinking of a box of chocolates when I packed this lunch. You know, the assortments that have all kinds of chocolates all packaged nice and neat together? This lunch is kinda like that. Minus the chocolate.
So, here I have... grilled cheese sandwich, tsukune meatballs, shelled edamame, baked purple sweet potato, baked Japanese sweet potato, baked sweet potato, takoyaki, and persimmon slices. How's that for variety? Three kinds of sweet potato in one box. The world may not be ready. Also, the grilled cheese sandwich is made with no-knead bread, which is very bubbly, so the cheese seeps into the bread, becoming one with it rather than just forming a layer that glues two discrete slices together. This makes for some wonderful grilled cheese action, lemme tell you.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 493: Napping Octopus |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|09:02 pm] |
 In today's lunch I have a boiled baby octopus resting on a bed of rice. The octopus is headless - I used that bit for a recent batch of takoyaki - so I gave it a cap made of a slice of baked sweet potato. Imagine that that's a sombrero and that it's napping under there.
On the other side, there's boiled mustard greens, because the grocery store was out of spinach. They aren't bad, especially when you make a lasagna-like concoction with layers of greenery and mayonnaise. And finally, some baked purple sweet potato and a baked purple sweet potato. Alas, no recipe for the cookie, as a friend baked it.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 490: Welcome to 2008 |
[Jan. 2nd, 2008|09:12 am] |
 I had a long, lazy holiday season, and by the end of it I had enough energy to go all kitchen-ninja. One of the results is the ozoni in today's lunch. Ozoni is a soup traditionally eaten on New Year's Day. I made it on New Year's Eve, actually, and am eating it for lunch on the 2nd, but when you figure in the time zones I figure I hit the right time somewhere in the world. Anyhow, the soup contains chicken and shrimp and mochi and salmon and shiitake and plenty of other good stuff, and I wish my lousy photography didn't make it look so blah. This is, of course, the chunky stuff out of the soup, because if I'd included the liquid it would have turned my bento box into a swamp.
On the side I have zucchini & onion stir-fry, some baked sweet potato, and a chocolate chip cookie. No recipe for the cookie, though it is truly awesome, because it was made by a friend. I may marry her for her cookies. She has, in the past, offered to marry me for my mochi. It would be a marriage made in Heaven the kitchen.
(Website post, with links to recipes.)
PS - If you're familiar with 8-Bit Theater, you may be amused by a recent animation on Newgrounds, Staff-Chucks For Christmas Again? It's based on a guest comic I did, and it humiliates me personally for playing DDR. I love it. |
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| Lunch Box 472: Turkey > chicken? |
[Nov. 27th, 2007|07:49 pm] |
 You wouldn't think that something as big and obtrusive as turkey could hide, but here's the evidence that it can: turkey omurice. It's omurice, but it's made with turkey (dark meat) instead of chicken! If that's not revolutionary, what is?
Um.
I also have baked sweet potato, mainly put in there to act as a buffer between the omurice and the zucchini & onion stir-fry. On the other side I have fruit salad made with persimmon, satsuma, and dragon fruit, and some brown sugar & raisin stuffed naan. The latter was just a whim - hey, I'm making naan, why not try putting stuff inside it like I've seen in the restaurant? - that worked out quite tastily. And I just now realized that I could have stuffed it with turkey. D'OH!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 431: Rectilinear |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|07:23 pm] |
 When I packed this lunch I was apparently channeling Piet Mondrian. In a squares-and-rectangles pattern I have inari-zushi, pork & shrimp dumplings, steamed purple sweet potato, baked sweet potato, edamame, and mochi.
When I went to work I had to carry this in a tote bag with some large books, so I couldn't carry it flat like I normally do. You don't want to know what it looked like when I reached my office, two buses and a train later! Guess I should have used one of my divided boxes, huh?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 417: Sushi 'n' stuff |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|07:16 pm] |
 Time to roll the sushi! Here's some cucumber, crab, & cream cheese sushi with cucumber maki filling in the spaces between 'em. And edamame and baked sweet potato. And on the desserty side, bulla and craisins.
This is a short entry because if I go much longer I run the risk of going into another griping jag about Atlanta and it's stinking hot weather... aw, crud. Sorry. I shut up now.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 411: Freezer food |
[Aug. 2nd, 2007|10:31 am] |
 Most of this lunch is stuff I pulled out of the freezer. I wasn't really being lazy; my dinner was simply not composed of bento-able items. I could either grab saved-up stuff or cook a second meal that evening. Forget that, labor-saving measures win! So, here I have homemade takoyaki with mayonnaise (in the blue container), edamame, baked sweet potato, and almond cake.
The sweet potato is the one leftover from my dinner. I baked a really long, thin, twisty spud, and had half for dinner. I almost wish I'd photographed it before cooking it, it looked so weird.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 398: Domino |
[Jul. 13th, 2007|07:43 pm] |
 Last night I made some more takoyaki. I varied the recipe and worked on my technique a bit, and I things are improving. I'll keep tweaking the recipe until I'm satisfied with it, then update what's on my site. (The recipe currently posted works fine, but there's room for improvement.) The takoyaki pictured here have little black bits visible because I made them with red cabbage - that's what was in my fridge - and the leaves are so dark they look black. The blue container contains mayonnaise, my usual takoyaki condiment.
Then there's ohitashi, which this time I made without soy sauce because I like spinach better with mayo. And there are slices of baked sweet potato, and strawberries, and peanut mochi.
Nyom nyom.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 372: Stuff! |
[May. 30th, 2007|07:46 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | baked boniato, baked sweet potato, banana, blackberries, blueberry mochi, box, fruit salad, lavender rice, lychees, mochi, persimmon, vegetable & seafood stuff | ] |
 When I cooked the food for this bento, I was inspired in a big way. I was inspired to make something like the "seafood delight" I often see in Chinese buffets, and I was inspired to use up a lot of stuff in the fridge that wasn't getting any fresher. So, I threw together a lot of vegetables and some crab sticks and created vegetable & seafood stuff. It includes broccoli, carrots, cabbage, baby corn, onion, zucchini, and water chestnuts, and I'm pleased with the way the flavors mixed. It's served over lavender rice - hey, I had more red cabbage, might as well continue with the funky rice! On the side is baked boniato. Boniato is also called "white sweet potato" or "Cuban sweet potato," and has a flavor similar to that of a Japanese sweet potato, but not as sweet, and the skins can be tough.
On the other side are a pair of blackberry-stuffed lychees that look like crossed eyes, a piece of blueberry mochi, and a fruit salad made with banana, persimmon, and blackberries.
(Don't forget to vote for my blog in the Blogger's Choice Awards - er, if you're going to vote for me, that is. By the same token, also do not forget to vote for Ss-biggie's blog if such is your intention.)
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 351: A meal fit for a Wizzard |
[Apr. 30th, 2007|06:35 pm] |
 Today's lunch is dedicated to Rincewind, Wizzard by trade and the Discworld's all-time sprinting champion. Since his favorite food is the potato, this meal includes it in two forms: baked sweet potato and Rincewind's potato cake. The latter is a recipe I adapted from Nanny Ogg's Cookbook , and is essentially potato croquettes minus the beef and plus some sage. (Nanny's cookbook, by the way, is a great read if you're a Discworld fan. I can't wait to make the Strawberry Wobbler, although I'd hesitate to post the results here.)
Then there's grilled chicken, which is appropriate for Rincewind because when he sprints it's never toward a goal, but rather away from something. The chicken is resting on a bed of edamame, and up above that are a steamed bun with anko filling and some Malaysian Boro coconut cookies.
(I'm still in the running for a Blogger's Choice Award. The Vegans will likely dominate the winning spots, but if I can get a measly 50 votes I will make some blue food specially for y'all. A vote for me is a vote for blue food!)
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 337: Paint by numbers |
[Apr. 4th, 2007|08:41 pm] |
 To compensate for yesterday's all-tan-colored meal, here's a pretty wildly-colored lunch. It starts out innocently enough with grilled salmon a la Foreman and steamed broccoli, which provide very natural pink & brown and green. But then there are baked Purple Peruvian potato and baked sweet potato, which have surrounded an innocent boiled egg and are no doubt plotting something nefarious. On the other side is some bright yellow baked plantain, which by the way is so ripe and sweet that it qualifies as dessert, and finally a little container of honey-roasted cashews.
I love cashews, and honey-roasted ones... let's put it this way: I very, very rarely buy nuts like these, because 1) they are so very high-calorie, and 2) as soon as I open the can the nuts cry out to me, and do not stop until all have been consumed.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 293: New bento box! |
[Jan. 31st, 2007|07:24 pm] |
 Recently I went slightly psycho with some of my Xmas money and ordered a bunch of bento stuff from Japan. As you can see, it came in!
This lunch box is a little smaller than my usual one. At first glance it might seem insufficient for a satisfying, adult-sized lunch, but a little planning proved that wrong. The main thing to keep in mind is to pack filling food, which in this case includes shrimp noodles with seafood medley, vegetables, and lotus root; zucchini & onion stir-fry, baked purple sweet potato, and baked sweet potato.
If you look close at the noodle side, you can see little mussels and octopus tentacles. Hee hee, I love seafood medley. Like the two-toned potatoes?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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