| Lunch Box 635: Taterlings |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|08:10 pm] |
 Today I have Greek chicken, roasted potatoes, steamed snow peas, marinated & stir-fried tofu, and mochi. Like the potatoes? I got a big bag of fingerlings at Costco - some of them were so small I was tempted to call them "grape potatoes" - and roasted up a whole bunch of them. As you can see, some of them are purple potatoes! Not that that influenced my decision to buy them, oh no.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 627: "It's cool in Hawaii!" |
[Feb. 9th, 2009|09:23 pm] |
 Today's lunch is all about the tropics, where I wish I could be, especially when I'm standing around in a windchill below zero Fahrenheit waiting for a bus. Here's some Spam musubi, which is to Hawaii what hot dogs are to the US, or so my Hawaiian friends would have me believe. Then I have steamed snow peas and marinated, stir-fried tofu, which are not all that tropical, I suppose, but they bring to mind distant places which are likely to be less bloody cold than Georgia was this morning. Then there's some tropic-ish kumquats, strawberries, pink grapefruit, coconut, and a yates apple.
It's not a luau in my box, but I'll take what I can get. Or pack.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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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.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 578: The dark side of tofu |
[Jul. 18th, 2008|09:25 pm] |
 This lunch is almost an outtake. I present it here so you can learn from my misfortune.
The stir-fried teriyaki chicken and zucchini & onion stir-fry are both perfectly all right. However, the marinated, stir-fried tofu - which is below the soy sauce bottle - came out weird. My fridge occasionally has localized ice ages, and the block of tofu was frozen solid. I thawed and cooked it, but the freezing had made the texture strange and spongy. That wouldn't be a problem, except the sponginess allowed it to soak up way more of the teriyaki sauce than I had expected, making it a bit stronger-flavored than I like. So - don't let your tofu freeze, and if you do don't marinate it for very long.
On the other side I have mango and jackfruit, the flavors and textures of which differ more than the colors, and banana bread.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 519: Rolled things |
[Feb. 27th, 2008|07:43 pm] |
 I like sushi. So why haven't I made it recently? Wait, there's no point in wallowing in past mistakes, we must look to the future! So, to correct my negligence I made some sushi. I am proactive and a go-getter! Or maybe the inspirational chatter at work is getting to me.
Anyway, here's some futomaki made with egg, crab sticks, shiitake, long beans, and masago. Yep, leftovers sushi. And some boiled spinach that I rolled into balls to make it easier to dip into the container of mayonnaise and eat with chopsticks. (If I'd rolled it into cylinders I could have called it ohitashi. Oh well.) Then there's some marinated, stir-fried tofu which I made with the soy/sugar/shiitake water mix I usually use for simmered shiitake mushrooms. It turned out really good. Finally, there's a miniature purple sweet potato pie that doesn't look purple because the top browns by the time it's cooked. You can see a little of the purple in the cracks, though.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 500: 111110100 in binary |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|09:54 pm] |
 I might have done something special for my 500th bento lunch, but nature precluded that by dropping snow on Atlanta, causing its commuters to completely forget how to drive and ensuring that I got home late, cold, and hungry. So, here's a box full of Nothing Special! Crab & cucumber sushi, rolled inside-out and sprinkled with sesame seeds, and spaced with grape tomatoes. Boiled spinach the way I like it, which is with a big glob of mayonnaise. Marinated, stir-fried tofu, which kind of looks like cubes of chicken but tastes nothing like it, believe it or not. And a piece of mochi, which is filled with anko.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 459: Happy Halloween? |
[Oct. 31st, 2007|07:26 pm] |
 Normally I'd have a Halloween-themed lunch, but circumstances conspired against it. I was sick on Tuesday, and didn't eat the lunch I packed Monday night. So, here it is, a day late, all non-Halloweenish.
Anyway! Here's unagi no kabayaki over rice. (Is eel Halloweenish? No? Oh well, I had to try.) That dark corner has baked eggplant slices alternating with beets because I was curious as to how the flavors would work together. Up above that is some marinated, stir-fried tofu under a "rainbow" of steamed long beans, and, finally, baby bananas over in the corner.
By the way, I am not entirely bereft of Halloween spirit. Far from it! In my office I wore a kimono I sewed myself. Out of denim. With a pants-leg obi. And, as happens every year, I got dragooned into doing several coworkers' makeup.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 414: Dice |
[Aug. 7th, 2007|08:36 pm] |
 I haven't made okonomiyaki in a little while, so here we go with some crab & mushroom okonomiyaki, colored purple because I used red cabbage, and okonomiyaki sauce in the little container. There's some steamed broccoli and marinated, stir-fried tofu packed nice and cozy together. Above that are chunks of baked boniato, which was a bit dry so some of the chunks split apart. Finally, more banana bread. Have I mentioned that banana bread is delicious?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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