| Lunch Box 621: Guard octodog |
[Jan. 13th, 2009|08:21 pm] |
 Lookit that hot dog octopus. He knows that steamed broccoli and baked Japanese sweet potato are good food, and he's getting all covetous. However, he doesn't seem too sure about the yaki onigiri, and he seems to be ignoring the roasted chestnuts and mochi.
By the way, the last time I went to the Buford Highway Farmer's Market I looked for Nishiki rice. I couldn't find any in bags smaller than 25 pounds, and as I had to take my groceries home by bus that wasn't an option, so I got a 5-pound bag of Sho-Chiku-Bai Sweet Rice from Koda Farms. Let me tell you, I'm not pleased with that brand. It is not just sticky, it is gluey. You can't make fried rice out of it because it refuses to mix with the other ingredients. The texture is... not pleasing to me. Washing it before cooking doesn't help. Hmm, maybe all this has something to do with the fact that second ingredient listed on the bag, right after short grain rice, is corn starch. At least onigiri and sushi made of it won't fall apart.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 600: Vegetarian octopus |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|09:42 pm] |
 Happy day-before-voting-day! To those in the US who have not yet voted, I wish you luck in the lines tomorrow. I voted via absentee ballot, which requested it before news got around about how out-of-control the lines would be. Talk about lucking out.
Not that that has anything to do with my lunch, which starts with a hot dog octopus and some omurice. It's a regular hot dog, not a tofu substitute; the thing itself appears to be a vegetarian, the way it's all over that steamed broccoli. Then there's sauteed mushrooms, baked purple sweet potato, and baked white sweet potato. This is, thankfully, the last of a lot of leftovers. Which means that I'm going to have to cook tonight.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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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.
(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 370: The big W! |
[May. 25th, 2007|08:53 pm] |
 I've been in a mood to restrict, which I won't allow myself to do, but I will compromise by using a smaller box until the mood passes. That gives me a smaller serving so I feel a bit better. (But I'll probably be ravenous by the time I get home. Stoopid body and its stoopid needs.)
Anyway! Here are some smoked salmon sushi, with little nori "obi" belts to help keep the rice blocks together. There are some simmered shiitake mushrooms. There's stir-fried red cabbage which is purple, hot dog octopi which are red, and Kool-Aid pickles that are blue.
(You can still vote for my blog in the Blogger's Choice Awards! You can vote for other cool bento sites like Ss-biggie's blog. You can vote for whatever you want!)
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 273: Backwards engineering |
[Dec. 21st, 2006|10:30 pm] |
 As I mentioned recently, I've been trying to figure out how to make something close to the broccoli & mizithra cheese side dish at The Old Spaghetti Factory for some time now. I think I've gotten close enough to post the recipe, which I now dub broccoli with Parmesan cheese. Then there are some hot dog octopi, a boiled egg, and baked purple sweet potato. For dessert I have some coconut covered red bean and peanut mochi balls. Last time I rolled the sticky things in sesame seeds; this time I covered them in colored coconut as if they were palitaw.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 253: Seafood in love |
[Nov. 15th, 2006|08:54 pm] |
 Here's some soy & ginger grilled squid (cut into bite-sized pieces) over rice, forest octopi, edamame, and apple & persimmon slices. You could say this lunchbox represents the four seasons: The orange & red apple & persimmon for summer, the edamame for the harvest of autumn, the squid on rice with its wintry color, and the forest octopi for... um, what animals do in the spring. Honest, I didn't intentionally pose than like that. When I put the octopi on the broccoli their curly tentacles just ended up that way.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 249: Warm colors |
[Nov. 10th, 2006|09:14 pm] |
 Today's lunch starts with some okonomiyaki flavored with shiitake mushrooms. The last time I soaked shiitake I reserved the water, and used it here instead of dashi soup stock. The result was, obviously, shiitake-flavored okonomiyaki. The toppings are seafood medley - mostly octopus, but there's squid and shrimp and crab sticks in there too. Then there's some more roasted potatoes (including another purple one - it really is that dark), some obimake enoki, and a pair of hot dog octopi. On the other side is some almond cake and a fruit salad with mango & guava & persimmon. The persimmon is the orange bits. I used a vegetable peeler to slice off thin curls - that's how firm those fruits are.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 65: My lunch can roll up your lunch! |
[Oct. 20th, 2005|01:47 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | baked sweet potato fries, box, dorayaki, fries, gyoza, hot dog octopi, katamari damacy, onigiri, peanut butter jelly sandwiches, shrimp, shrimp gyoza, steamed broccoli, stir-fried cabbage, takoyaki, umeboshi, white mountain bread | ] |
 Of all the times for my camera to get flaky and take blurry photos, it had to be when I was photographing this one! Bento lunches are supposed to be both about the food and the presentation, but I usually don't bother much with the latter. Well, this time I had an idea, so I went with it.
I like the video games "Katamari Damacy" and "We Love Katamari " The core of the gameplay is that you control a tiny character who rolls a katamari, a sticky ball, around, and whatever it rolls over it picks up, provided the ball is sufficiently larger than the objects. The more items it collects, the bigger the katamari gets, the bigger the items it can roll up, and so on. It starts out small enough to get ants and coins, and by the end you're pulling continents off the earth and clouds out of the sky. Well, how about using that as a theme for a lunch?
So... in the center of the box is a very large rice ball - an onigiri - representing the katamari. All over it are stuck steamed broccoli florets, baked sweet potato fries, hot dog octopi, takoyaki, dorayaki, shrimp, shrimp gyoza, tiny little peanut butter jelly sandwiches on white mountain bread, and an umeboshi. Surrounding this is a bed of stir-fried cabbage, representing grass. I imagined that this lunch was created by rolling a katamari through several picnics. I hope it didn't pick up any ants.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 38: Sea battle |
[Aug. 14th, 2005|03:40 pm] |
 This was one of those "go through the fridge and see what comes to hand" boxes. The only thing I knew I wanted was the bacon and egg sandwich. I used to have those for breakfast when I worked over the summer in London. I made it with a cafeteria roll, combining two fond memories into one dish.
After that, I got out some leftover rice, heated it up, and made onigiri with smoked salmon filling. Hmm, what else? There's that package of hot dogs; let's make octopi. Done. Hey, why not put in a taiyaki, since I love those things and this time I actually have space for it! Done. Hmm, no green veg at all... pull the bag of edamame out of the freezer and use it to fill in the spaces.
Afterwards I realized that it looks like a sea battle in the middle. Green water and red octopi attacking a big fish. Heh, cool.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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