| Lunch Box 633: A-Positive Orange |
[Mar. 2nd, 2009|09:26 pm] |
 Here's some good cold-weather food: beef & broccoli stir-fry and baked Japanese sweet potato. On the other side I have some tamarinds, almond cake, and a fruit salad made with persimmon, kiwi, baby bananas, and blood orange.
Blood oranges, in case you don't know, are oranges that look normal on the outside - or may look like someone dropped them in some red dye - and when you peel them the segments are orange, red, purple, or all of the above, as is the case in the photo on the right. They taste slightly berrylike. As some of you may have guessed, I am fond of weird-colored food, so when I saw that Kroger had a sale on these I hustled on down to the store and grabbed a big sack of 'em.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 623: Applet |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|10:41 pm] |
 My whole office spent lunchtime in the conference room, watching the inauguration. And In that spirit I present an all-American bento: meatloaf, baked Japanese sweet potato, steamed snow peas, strawberries, persimmon, and a yates apple.
Check out that little bitty apple! It's only about an inch and a half high by about 2.5 inches in diameter. I suppose it says something about me that the first thing I thought when I saw these was "chibi apples!"
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 622: Sebastian for lunch |
[Jan. 14th, 2009|09:27 pm] |
 I loves me some snow crab. It's very rare - as in never - that I and up with any left over, but somehow I saved two claws for lunch. They look lovely, don't they? The only problem with putting them in a bento box is that you can't exactly pick them up daintily with a pair of chopsticks. You have to break into 'em. And when it comes to crab, I have the table manners of Henry the 8th. So, it's a good thing I eat in my office, where there are no witnesses.
I also have yaki onigiri, some steamed broccoli, and some baked purple sweet potato. On the other side are chunks of breadfruit, strawberries, persimmon, and kumquats. Kumquats, for those not in the know, are like grape-sized oranges, and you et them whole, rind and all. They are also very funny-sounding, which makes them worth buying right there.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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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.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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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.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 614: Undead turkey |
[Dec. 15th, 2008|09:40 pm] |
 When I posted my last lunch I said I was done with the Thanksgiving leftovers. Well, I lied! Here I have turkey fried rice, which I highly recommend as a way to use up leftover bits & pieces of meat. It also varies the flavor a bit because of the soy sauce, which is not a small consideration, as leftover turkey can get pretty monotonous.
I also have some steamed broccoli, and persimmon & coconut. The latter is actually strings of coconut packaged in really thick syrup. It works as a sweetener, I guess, but by itself it's a little too much. Maybe I'll try using it in a glaze or something.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 613: Thanksgiving's over |
[Dec. 11th, 2008|09:02 pm] |
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 Enough with the turkey! Being a single person with a half a leftover turkey is not a bad situation at all if you like turkey - which I do - but by the time I've gnawed it to the bone I'm quite happy to move on to something else - in this case, good old-fashioned meatloaf slathered with ketchup. It may look weird and gray in this picture, but, trust me, the deficiency is in my photography skills rather than my cooking.
With it I have some very crisp steamed broccoli, light-fried plantains; and a fruit salad made with apple, pink orange, pomegranate, and persimmon. It's like a mini-Thanksgiving feast, but without turkey!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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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!
(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 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.
(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 573: Poutine on the ritz |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|08:37 pm] |
 A friend of mine has been lusting after poutine. His blog has chronicled his ever-thwarted attempts to consume this substance. He got me curious, and when I discovered it was close to the gravy fries I used to love years ago, I decided I wanted some too. So I found out how to make it. In fact, that recipe is a two-fer, because to make poutine I had to learn how to make farmer cheese.
So - here we have meatloaf, poutine, edamame, cherries, and persimmon. I feel Canadian all over!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 571: Scrounge |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|09:27 pm] |
 I wanted to do some cooking this weekend, but Saturday was taken up with helping some friends move into their new apartment, and on Sunday we went out to eat, so today's lunch is whatever I could scrounge up.
For dinner on Sunday I had a basket of fried food. Onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and fried chicken fingers. Shame on me, but once in a great while I want a sampler basket! I brought home some of the chicken, so here are cut-up chicken fingers with baked Japanese sweet potato and steamed sugar snap peas. On the other side I have cherries and a fruit salad made with persimmon, grapes, and jackfruit.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 570: Shout out to my workies* |
[Jun. 20th, 2008|07:56 pm] |
 Maria, one of my coworkers, has a garden. Recently she brought me some zucchini, yellow squash, and green beans she picked. One pass through the kitchen later, here they are! I have vegetable & seafood stuff, which is basically whatever veggies and stuff I have on hand (shiitake, carrots, squash, broccoli, and scallions) plus some crab sticks. Above it is a pile of satoimo noodles, which are naturally purple, which makes them cool. Then there's some steamed green beans. On the other side I have a container of yakisoba sauce to mix into the stir-fry and noodles, a bit of melon pan, and a fruit salad made with cherries, persimmon, and jackfruit.
* A workie is like a homie, except we see each other in the office.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 514: Little bundles |
[Feb. 14th, 2008|10:03 pm] |
 When I have bacon and I have enoki mushrooms, it is only a matter of time before I make obimake enoki, which are little bundles of enoki mushrooms wrapped with a belt - an obi - of bacon. For once this is real bacon, not turkey bacon, which makes this positively decadent by my standards. Up above those are some steamed long beans, this time cut into reasonable lengths so I don't look like I'm eating green licorice whips, and baked purple sweet potato. A bit of curried lotus slices fills in a gap left by my shortsightedly running out of potato. Up above, there's persimmon and pomegranate seeds.
This persimmon was hard to cut! When I sawed through it I found out why: it had seeds. Big ones. I've never seen seeds in a persimmon before.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 512: Food for the sicky |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|10:17 pm] |
 I've had a cold for a while now, and it flared up big-time late last week, hence my recent absence. Also hence this lunch, which is composed entirely of totally-easy-to-cook stuff. Cut up a bunch of veggies and some chicken and make chicken & vegetable curry! Boil some frozen edamame! Cut up some persimmon and pick out some pomegranate seeds! There, it's lunch! Well, actually dinner, and the next day's lunch.
By the way, this was made with a new package of curry. Yes, I bought a new package of curry, which means I must admit to liking the stuff. Those of you who remember me refusing to try it in the past because of my memories of mouth-searing spiciness have permission to point at me and laugh.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 497: Soba is spooky |
[Jan. 14th, 2008|08:19 pm] |
 Yakisoba is a dense food, which means I can pack it in a smaller bento box, like this Nightmare Before Christmas box. So, here is some vegetable yakisoba, persimmon, and pink orange, with a side of takoyaki, and salad Pretz hidden under the lid. The closed container has yakisoba sauce.
Yakisoba is good winter comfort food. It's one of those dishes you can whomp up quickly using whatever you have in the fridge. As long as you have the noodles, you're in business. (And if you don't, leave 'em out and call it a stir-fry.)
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 496: Nurse, hand me that pizza cutter, stat! |
[Jan. 11th, 2008|07:36 pm] |
 Presentation counts. All of this stuff - smoked salmon sushi, steamed broccoli, baked Japanese sweet potato, pizza, and a fruit salad made with apple, persimmon, and pink orange - is delicious. However, isn't it a bit weird to see pizza in among all that other healthy and/or Asian-type stuff? (The pizza is homemade, and is a whole lot healthier than regular pizza because it's non-greasy.) But what I really shouldn't have done was slice the pizza into little squares. Sure, it's easier to eat with chopsticks that way, but pizza cut into squares reminds me uncomfortably of school cafeteria pizza. Ugh!
Thankfully, I was able to subdivide it into triangles, which de-ughified it.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 495: Canned lunch |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|11:21 am] |
 It's been a while since I used one of my tiffins - East Indian metal lunch boxes - and, since they are cool, I went about remedying that oversight at once. I filled it with maki sushi, including shiitake, cucumber, avocado, and masago (salmon roe) with grape tomatoes as spacers, steamed green beans, and a fruit salad made with apple, persimmon, pink orange, and longans.
Once again, I nearly made a vegan lunch without realizing it, then screwed up with one little item, in this case the masago. At this rate I'll never get to date any hot vegan girls.
(Website post, with links to recipes.)
And a little off-topic note: Project Freetown has a new video for Move Your Feet. It's in the same happy, pixelated format as the original, and in fact it's even more happy and groovy-cute. Plus, it has come cute imagery that ought to please foodies. |
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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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