| Lunch Box 642: Spring? |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|08:18 pm] |
 The weather in Atlanta has been insane. Warm Spring weather, then down to the 30s with snow flurries for a few days, then overnight the temperature jumps up by another 20 degrees. Oh, and tornadoes, but those are typical of Spring in the south.
Anyway, I've got a Spring lunch here. I don't care if it refuses to act like Spring, the calendar says it is. There's some beef & broccoli stir-fry, light-fried plantains, edamame, and sakura mochi (onigiri type).
The sakura mochi is the spring-specific part of the meal. In Japan, people have hanami - cherry blossom viewing parties - when the cherry trees bloom in Spring. I couldn't find a cherry tree to sit under, but from my 9th floor office window I can see some dogwoods.
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| Lunch Box 640: Lunch for the Weird |
[Mar. 27th, 2009|09:55 pm] |
 Most of this lunch is pretty typical bento fare for me. chicken fried rice, steamed broccoli, edamame - all typical stuff. But there, imprisoned within its plastic wrapper, lurks a Ding Dong. Why a Ding Dong, when I have neat stuff like mochi and homemade banana bread and fresh strawberries? Well... I perform in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Normally I play Frank N. Furter, but we had an '80s Pop theme night and I played The Criminologist as Weird Al Yankovic. "Yo, Ding Dong, man. Ding Dong. Ding Dong, yo." I threw Ding Dongs to the audience at one point, but one somehow ended up in my lunch box.
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| Lunch Box 629: Potato pie |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|09:13 pm] |
 Spam musubi is tasty stuff, which is why I have two whole bricks of it here. (I don't know if "brick" is the proper unit of measurement, but they look like miniature bricks to me.) Then there's edamame and some light-fried plantains that look like they were organized by a librarian. (I am a bibliophile, but not a librarian.) Then there's some grape tomatoes and white sweet potato pie. The latter is the result of my playing with the purple sweet potato pie recipe. Japanese white sweet potatoes taste pretty similar to purple ones, why not make a pie out of 'em? It works, and it's kind of cool because it looks like you tried to make a sweet potato pie out of baking potatoes. Can't wait to try this out on a friend.
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| Lunch Box 628: Watchful Rice |
[Feb. 10th, 2009|10:49 pm] |
 Today's lunch starts with iridori, which is kind of like chicken stew, but it contains bamboo and konnyaku and other neat stuff. For this bento I packed just the munchable stuff; I'll use the broth left behind for couscous. Then I have rice with ume koume, which is something like umeboshi but hard instead of mushy, and edamame.
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| Lunch Box 620: Bacon abuse |
[Jan. 12th, 2009|10:05 pm] |
 Mary Schmich wrote "Do one thing every day that scares you." Today I took her advice and packed a lunch featuring bacon tempura. That's deep-fried, breaded bacon. Not no fool turkey bacon either - real, greasy, swine-type bacon. I got the idea from something I saw on TV about a place that sold dishes of deep-fried bacon. At the time I screamed in horror at the sight of those plates of greasy death. But, a few months later, I had the urge to make tempura, and after the bacon chocolate chip cookies, I could hardly resist battering a few slices of bacon.
Surrounding is are relatively-healthy avocado maki, edamame, roasted chestnuts, and persimmon.
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| Lunch Box 619: More sweetfish |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|10:05 pm] |
 Pretty good lunch today, I'd say - beef & vegetable curry, baked purple sweet potato, a Yorkshire pudding, edamame, persimmon, mango, and taiyaki. I like how pretty the taiyaki turned out this time. It takes some practice, getting them to cook right when you're working on an electric stove. Unless someone has invented a glass taiyaki-ki, you can't see what you're doing.
Sorry about the lack of cleverness with today's post, but there's been a sad event in my family and I'm not feeling too chatty at the moment. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine, I just have to take some time and get over it. In the meantime - tell your family members you love them while there's still time.
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| Lunch Box 616: Beans and more beans |
[Dec. 18th, 2008|01:59 pm] |
 Believe it or not, today's bento is actually not assembled from the leftovers of a school picnic. The pigs in blankets are made with my own hands from Hebrew National hot dogs and cafeteria roll dough, the steamed pole beans and carrot & raisin salad and an pan are all homemade, inasmuch as you can really call steamed beans homemaking. The dry-roasted edamame are new to me. I saw a huge cubelike jar of these in Costco and was curious enough to buy one. Guess what - they're good! I can't eat 'em all day like pistachios, but they make a very nice snack or side munchy.
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| 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!
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| Lunch Box 610: Backlog |
[Dec. 2nd, 2008|08:25 pm] |
 It should be obvious that I've got a backlog of photos. If they were current they'd prominently feature turkey. But with this lunch I've caught up to this week, so we should be seeing poultry very soon.
But for now, I have broiled steak, edamame, yaki onigiri, stir-fried red cabbage, and carrot & raisin salad. That's a pretty good mix of colors, isn't it? I wasn't sure the cabbage qualified as a green vegetable, it being red and all, so I packed a mess o' soybeans just to be sure. Like I need an excuse to put edamame in my lunches?
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| Lunch Box 609: This ain't kosher |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|11:07 pm] |
 I didn't realize until I started to do this writeup how mixed a signal I'm sending with this lunch. I have mutant hot dogs made with kosher hot dogs. Hebrew National, because those are the most delicious hot dogs on this planet. I have lots of edamame, a cafeteria roll, and some baked Japanese sweet potato. And for dessert... chocolate chip bacon cookies.
No, I'm not kidding. Chocolate chip bacon cookies. That sounds scary at first, but enough of my friends have raved about them that I had to give 'em a try myself. And, guess what - they're good! After all, chocolate and salty go well together; eat a chocolate covered pretzel if you doubt me. And if you've ever eaten chocolate chip pancakes with bacon, you've got a pretty good idea what the flavor's like.
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| Lunch Box 601: Cow inna box |
[Nov. 6th, 2008|08:05 pm] |
 It's been a while since I made gyuudon, which will be familiar to fans of Urusei Yatsura (and other anime and manga) as "beef bowl." It's basically beef & onions simmered in a teriyaki-ish sauce and served over rice. This time I added a little cornstarch to thicken up the juice. And then there's edamame and persimmon. That's the darkest persimmon I've ever seen.
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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.
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| Lunch Box 593: Manly! |
[Oct. 9th, 2008|08:22 pm] |
 Today's lunch is manly. For starters, it's packed in a men's bento box. You can tell it's for men because... um, it's black. Pastels are so womany, you know? And it contains chirashi-zushi, which may or may not be manly, but I'll say it is because otherwise the theme collapses and I get all confused and start writing nonsense.
Um.
There's also flavored lotus slices, which I simmered in some juice left over from a recent batch of niku jyaga, some edamame, and almond jelly. As I forgot to pack anything to eat that slippery jelly with, wish me luck. If I can't manage it with my chopsticks I'll be picking it up with my hands.
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[Oct. 2nd, 2008|12:58 pm] |
 Have I mentioned that I like chirashi-zushi? It's so easy to make. This time around I was a little lazy and just used shrimp, simmered shiitake mushrooms, and pickled plums as toppings. These plums aren't umeboshi, though - they're crunchy, and the name is different, and I forgot to write it down. I'll get it later. Anyway, they still taste pretty much like umeboshi.
And there's also edamame, almond jelly, cherries, and mango.
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| Lunch Box 587: Meatloaf in a shell |
[Sep. 24th, 2008|09:27 pm] |
 Today's lunch includes meatloaf gyoza with ketchup, baked purple sweet potato, edamame, and strawberries
Yeah, meatloaf gyoza! I had all the stuff to make meatloaf, but I needed to use up some gyoza wrappers, so I mixed up everything but the breadcrumbs - don't need that filler when I have the gyoza wrappers - and made a batch of gyoza. They came out really well, too, especially when dunked in ketchup. Oh, I used a dumpling press to get those cute ruffled edges.
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| Lunch Box 586: Hemicircles |
[Sep. 23rd, 2008|08:16 pm] |
 This box is a collection of miscellania, yet its variety balances it out, I think. I have crab rangoon gyoza, edamame, steamed broccoli, baked purple sweet potato, omelet, and strawberries. It looks like a festival of leftovers, but surprisingly it isn't. Go figure.
I do like me some purple potatoes.
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| Lunch Box 584: A hill o' soybeans |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|10:11 pm] |
 Today I have some Spam musubi. By now I'm so used to it I don't even think about how funny it is to be eating Spam until I have to tell somebody about it. And then there are some crab rangoon gyoza with neatly wavy shells thanks to a new gyoza press I just got. Below that is the titular pile of edamame. Then there's a strip of omelet acting as a divider, protecting the fresh lychees.
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| Lunch Box 579: Snails |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|08:57 pm] |
 Molluscs for lunch today! But not my usual molluscs (octopus and squid). Today I have periwinkles with garlic butter, the periwinkles being the odd bits at the lower left and the garlic butter being in the blue-lidded container next to 'em. Above that I have edamame and baked Japanese sweet potato. To the side, some more of my weird, frozen-and-thawed marinated, stir-fried tofu; and finally some blue country cornbread.
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| Lunch Box 577: No discretion |
[Jul. 14th, 2008|07:33 pm] |
 Today's lunch includes a pair of hot dog octopi that appear to be in the middle of an intense discussion, and some smoked salmon sushi with cucumber, which is to say I just strapped a thin slice of cucumber onto the top of the rice block with the fish. Then there's edamame, baked Japanese sweet potato, carrot & raisin salad, and banana bread.
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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.
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