| Lunch Box 612: Post-Thanksgiving II |
[Dec. 4th, 2008|10:10 pm] |
 More Thanksgiving leftovers! By this time I'd carved all the meat off the turkey and boiled what was left for broth so I could make, among other things, Thanksgiving aftermath rice. Rice made with turkey broth instead of water, with some carrots and celery and bits of turkey to kick it up a little.
On the other side I have the everpresent edamame, a blue country cornbread muffin, and some persimmon. You'll be seeing a lot of persimmon in the upcoming lunches, by the way, as I got eight of the things while shopping with a coworker. The glory of bulk pricing!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 611: Post-Thanksgiving I |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|10:05 pm] |
 Ah yeah. Roast turkey with Thanksgiving aftermath gravy, steamed pole beans, a blue country cornbread muffin, and some persimmon. All Thanksgiving leftovers, which means that I don't have to do much cooking for at least another week! What will I do with all the spare time that will leave me? Oh, who am I kidding, I'll just try some new recipes.
You know how hard it is to convince people at a Thanksgiving party that blue cornbread is made with actual blue corn, not food coloring? Sheesh.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 580: Narrow but not skinny |
[Sep. 8th, 2008|08:18 pm] |
 I'm back! Sorry about the month-and-a-half-long absence, but my work situations and personal complications sapped my will to cook and post for a while. I was still making bento lunches, but didn't pack food that I considered worth posting. You can only take so many "this is a sandwich" shots, you know? Anyway, I'm back now.
So, here's a new bento box, or, rather, a set of "men's bento boxes," so-called because they're adult-sized and black, I guess. They're filled with beef & broccoli stir-fry, udon noodles, blue country cornbread, orange segments, and chunks of mango.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 575: Pride in my lunch |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|07:15 pm] |
 I will eat the rainbow today! Red cherries, orange & yellow steamed carrots & yellow squash, green edamame, blue country cornbread, and baked purple sweet potato. And lest anyone forget the earth tones - representing the end of the rainbow or something - some mushroom turnovers.
How about that, I packed a vegetarian meal. Not vegan, however, as there are dairy products in the cornbread and turnovers. I'm not quite that hardcore.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 572: In memory of George Carlin |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|10:37 pm] |
 By now everyone in the continental US knows that George Carlin passed on this past weekend. What can I say, he was a funny man and the news made me sad. So, here I am, making a bento lunch that is a salute to him, sorta-kinda. It includes meatcake, AKA meatloaf, and blue country cornbread, which is classic blue food. Blue food, man.
There's also steamed sugar snap peas, some mushroom turnovers I bought at Trader Joe's, and cherries, but I can't tie those in to Carlin because they weren't going bad in the back of my fridge.
Tomorrow: The seven foods you can never use in a bento!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 568: Return of the purple spuds |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|08:18 pm] |
 Today I have some chicken & vegetable curry, which is always a quick and tasty meal. Ya gotta love something you can make out of whatever's in the fridge, stir-fried a little and then curried up. Then there's a pair of baked mini-potatoes, one regular and one purple one. (The apparent discoloration on the purple one is actually melted butter.) I used edamame as packing material. Finally, I have blue country cornbread, which is sweet enough to be used as a kind of dessert.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 562: Beach chicken |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|06:58 pm] |
 Mmm, I do like me some Greek chicken! So, here's some more over couscous, which I made with some pseuki yaki broth from my freezer. That's an odd combination, but it tasted fine. Then there's blue country cornbread, which one of these days I will photograph decently so you can see the actual color, and a fruit salad made with kiwi fruit, grass jelly, and coconut gel. Hmm, only one of the three is actually a fruit, but what else am I going to call that?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 561: We have arrived in Greece. |
[May. 29th, 2008|07:54 pm] |
 My mother finally told me how to make Greek chicken! It turns out that I got pretty close when I cooked baked chicken breast last week; I just needed to add a few steps. So, here at last I have my Mom's Greek chicken. It's accompanied by ohitashi (with a little container of mayonnaise), blue country cornbread, a mandarin orange, and some fresh longans.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 560: Steak, potatoes, and cornbread |
[May. 27th, 2008|09:18 pm] |
 I realized after I made this that I had a weird twist on the Southern American steak 'n' taters 'n' cornbread dinner. I've got niku jyaga, which is Japanese for meat & potatoes, and blue country cornbread (made with cornmeal from blue corn). The fresh longans aren't American at all, but persimmons are out of season.
I baked this batch of cornbread in an iron skillet. It cracked in a weird but amusing pattern. Who watches the cornbread?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 551: All-natural blue |
[May. 7th, 2008|12:19 pm] |
 Last year I went on a blue-food-making jag. Nearly all of said blue foods involved food coloring. Well, here's some more blue for ya, and this time the color is all-natural: blue country cornbread. It's just like regular cornbread, but the cornmeal was made from blue corn. The regular cornbread recipe, by the way, comes to us courtesy of my coworker Maria. (The cornbread really is light blue; they gray look comes courtesy of my weird kitchen lighting and lack of photography skillz.)
Then there's meatloaf, which is actually more like meat & vegetable loaf, as by volume it's half grated-up carrot & zucchini & mushroom. Maybe I should call it a V-8 Loaf. And there's steamed breadfruit and steamed kabocha, both pre-dipped in melted lemon butter, and fresh longans
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 547: Curry is convenient |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|09:08 am] |
 I used to hate curry. That was before I understood that there was curry that would not burn the lining off the inside of my mouth, and which furthermore actually tasted nice. But now I like it, and furthermore appreciate its convenience. I stumble home and don't feel like doing fancy cooking, I can just stir-fry whatever I have handy, chuck in some curry mix, and I have a meal. So, here's some vegetable curry - in this case, an armload of vegetables that followed me home from the farmers' market - and baked Japanese sweet potato, corn bread, apple, and purple imo-yokan.
This is almost a vegan meal. I thought it was for a moment there, and then I realized that I'd put egg in the corn bread. Drat it.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 546: Nuclear sushi |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|09:05 pm] |
 Today I have some chirashi-zushi, which is sushi rice in a box with stuff arranged on top of it, rather than shaped into discrete rolls and rice blocks. I made it with shrimp, egg, cucumber, smoked salmon, and shiitake, some of which you can actually see in that photo and some of which you can't. On the other side I have a small forest of steamed broccoli, some corn bread (note to self: when testing recipes, make half batches!), and a chunk of purple imo-yokan.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 539: Pink & Purple |
[Apr. 9th, 2008|09:08 pm] |
 Today I have iridori, light-fried plantains, steamed broccoli, and corn bread. No purple sweet potatoes - but I used purple Idaho potatoes in the iridori. Does the potato madness ever end? I also substituted shirataki for the konnyaku. Since shirataki is just the noodle form of konnyaku, I figured it was a fair substitute. And, actually, I like shirataki better - its smaller cross section allows it to absorb more of the broth's flavor.
Yeah, pink cornbread. I had to drop in some food coloring - well, no, I didn't have to, but I did anyway. And I'm still not posting a recipe, because I wasn't satisfied with this batch either. It tastes OK, but not good enough for me to recommend on my site. Does anyone out there have a good cornbread recipe, one which doesn't involve lots of oil or peppers?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 513: Wheelie |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|07:24 pm] |
 You can tell when I've just been to one of the local Asian markets, because odd stuff starts appearing in my lunch box. The grilled chicken and cornbread are pretty ordinary, but I have more of my beloved baked purple sweet potato and some curried lotus slices. (I'd parboiled a batch of lotus root at the same time I was cooking up the curry, and I ended up with some extra soupy curry stuff, so I simmered some of the lotus in it.) Encircling it all is some steamed long beans. Those things can be a foot and a half long, and this time I didn't cut them, so eating this lunch will be an adventure. Thankfully I eat lunch in my office with the door closed.
No dessert? Hmph. But when I got to work I found out that there was going to be a meeting of Important People in the conference room. They never eat all the goodies brought in for those meetings, so I can scavenge me some dessert. I'm never too proud to turn down a leftover muffin.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 511: Dragon dog |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|07:48 pm] |
 Today's lunch features a mutant hot dog that looks kind of like a Chinese dragon, or maybe some kind of crawly bug, I don't know. It's served over corn bread, which I made for the first time. It tastes all right, but I'm going to hold off on posting a recipe until I get one I like a little more. Then there's steamed broccoli, and orange and grapefruit segments.
I'm looking for a good cornbread recipe. If you have one you like - that you actually use, not just something you Googled up - please let me know.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 507: I got my curry in my yakisoba! |
[Feb. 1st, 2008|06:59 pm] |
 Once again I got all madscientisty in my kitchen. This time I crossbred yakisoba and curry and created... yakisoba curry. Which is either curry plus soba noodles or yakisoba with curry sauce. Whatever - I liked it!
And then there's more of The Usual, which in this case is cornbread, baked purple sweet potato, edamame, and fudge. I have an one-brilliant-innovation-per-day rule, y'know.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 506: Exactly how Southern am I? |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|07:12 pm] |
 I've mentioned before that I'm a Southerner. I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Co-Cola. And I call it that, too. Well, here's a bento box full of Southern fare! Barbecue rotisserie chicken - those things last a while of you're single - boiled collard greens with mayonnaise on the side, light-fried plantains, corn bread - sorry, no recipe, as it came in a box - and fudge.
However, I found one of the boundaries to my Southernness. Before cooking this I went to Kroger and found hamhocks, which so many collard greens recipes call for. And... I said forget it, there's no way I'm eating anything that's been cooked with those. I regularly eat octopus, and I've even eaten jellyfish, but pig feet (or, indeed, any part of the pig which isn't muscle tissue) is where I draw the line!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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