| 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 543: Kahunmi |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|08:32 pm] |
 Spring is here! In Japan one of the Springtime events is hanami, a flower-watching party, when people picnic under cherry trees in bloom. They eat, among other things, sakura-mochi, which are pink rice cakes filled with sweet red bean paste. Well, down here in Georgia we don't have many cherry trees. What we do have is dogwoods, and they're blooming right now. And so are lots of other varieties of trees, releasing a lovely saffron mist which tints everything yellow, including our lungs. So, I've made sakura-mochi for a new tradition I'm starting right now: kahunmi, the pollen-watching festival. Sit under the dogwoods, gaze at their flowers, and take your Claritin.
What I'll be eating as my lungs fill with microgametophytes includes takoyaki; beef & broccoli stir-fry; steamed squash, carrots, and purple potatoes with lots of butter; and sakura mochi (Easiest version). This is a new recipe for sakura mochi, my fourth, and the easiest one so far. I basically adapted the dough from my kushi dango recipe, since it's so easy to handle and shape, and found that I could whip out a batch very quickly and easily. Why haven't I been doing this all along?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 468: Happy belated Halloween |
[Nov. 15th, 2007|07:08 pm] |
 I got a new bento box! Normally I eschew cartoon boxes, but for The Nightmare Before Christmas I make an exception. It's just the right combination of cute and freaky.
Inside this box I have takoyaki, the recipe for which I have updated because I finally think I know what I'm doing. The dark spots on the outside aren't burns, but the red cabbage I made these with. Then I have three ohitashi buried in a sea of steamed multicolored carrots. In a separate container (which came with a different bento set) I have some naan, the recipe for which I have also updated now that I know what naan is supposed to be like. And there's a half moon rice cake - basically, Korean daifuku - and a baby banana. Finally, under the lid I've stashed some salad Pretz.
As you can probably tell from the takoyaki, this box is small for an adult. One might even call it teeny-weeny, hence the extras I've packed on the outside. It's likely just right for a smaller kid,though. A smaller kid would also make use of the special Nightmare mini-fork that goes under the lid when said space is not being used for Pretz.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 386: Shout out to my homies! |
[Jun. 22nd, 2007|07:34 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | baked purple sweet potato, box, chicken salad, fruit salad, grapes, lychees, mini-pita sandwiches, persimmon, steamed carrots, steamed vegetables, steamed yellow squash, steamed zucchini | ] |
 This lunch is dedicated to Maria, one of my coworkers. See all that pretty steamed carrots, zucchini, and yellow squash? The zucchini and yellow squash came out of her garden. She gave me a bag of homegrown produce after I gave her a purple sweet potato. (She ate it raw. Don't make that face - sweet potatoes are actually pretty good raw, as she proved to me. The orange ones taste and crunch much like carrot.)
I also have chicken salad mini-pita sandwiches. Saw cute little mini-pita breads, bought a bag, and decided to make teeny two-inch-diameter sammitches with 'em. The chicken salad doesn't have a lot of mayo, so as not to turn the pita all soggy. Then there's the everpresent baked purple sweet potato, and a fruit salad made with persimmon, grapes, and lychees. This fruit salad looks a little like a Sesame Street monster, admittedly not by accident.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 240: Can do! |
[Oct. 27th, 2006|10:21 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | apple, box, edamame, fruit salad, grapes, green salad, guava, orange, pork bun, shelled edamame, steamed broccoli, steamed carrots, storebought pork bun, tiffin | ] |
  Woohoo! I have a new bento box. Except perhaps it's not technically a bento box, as it's a tiffin - which is basically an Indian lunch box. It comes in the form of a set of small cylindrical metal containers that stack into a taller cylinder, with a frame around it to hold it together. Each bowl can hold a different item. However, since there are bento boxes that stack just the same way, and since "bento" means any kind of boxed lunch, then a tiffin technically is a bento box. An Indian bento, that's all. By the way, there's an interesting Wikipedia article on the delivery of tiffins in Mumbai. Shoot, I have to haul mine with me on the bus!
If you're interested in buying your own, check out Savingmoney2000 on eBay. The items are good quality stainless steel, the prices are excellent, the shipping is reasonable, the seller combines shipping, and I got mine in a week even though they were sent from London, England. Can't beat that with a stick!
Anyhow, on to the lunch itself! In the various bowls I have packed a storebought pork bun, steamed broccoli, steamed carrots, shelled edamame, a green salad with ginger dressing, and fruit salad made with guava, orange, apple, and grapes. It may look like a whole lot of food, but the bowls are not so deep that you end up packing too much. Especially since if you pack too much, you'll have to squish it down to stack the bowls together. Who wants to face mooshed tomato?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 236: The end of the week |
[Oct. 20th, 2006|01:09 pm] |
 It's the end of the week, and that means it's time to use up the various little leftovers I've accumulated over the week. I've packed, clockwise from noon, a pair of crab & cucumber sushi, some Nutella-filled manjuu, steamed broccoli, steamed carrots, simmered shiitake mushrooms, a pair of nori-belted onigiri with umeboshi mixed into the rice, and a boiled egg. Hmm, not bad for a pile of leftovers. And once again I've packed a relentlessly symmetrical lunch without realizing it until afterwards.
In the closeup the egg looks weird. That's because when I took it out of the fridge to peel it, it was frozen. My refrigerator occasionally gets colder than normal, but only in certain regions; I might find only my lettuce frozen, or only the back half of a dozen eggs. I warmed the egg up a little by submerging it in warm water for a while, but it still had that rough surface. And the white was tough and rubbery, so I can't recommend it.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 229: Some kinda roll |
[Oct. 9th, 2006|10:18 am] |
 Y'ever bite into a shrimp egg roll and get no shrimp? Don't you hate that? I know I do. Man, it wrecks my day. I was in the mood to tackle this issue... but not to heat up oil for deep-frying, so instead I made shrimp & cabbage spring rolls with the same filling I'd use for egg rolls. And since spring roll wrappers are transparent - sort of - you can see what's inside. I put the shrimp on the outside to display the undeniable proof that every bite will contain shrimp! (They're the orangey things that, unfortunately, you can't see too well in the photo.) I didn't have any of the mustard that I usually eat with egg rolls, and I'm not so sure it'd go as well with the spring roll format anyhow. I tried some tempura sauce, and that went well enough, so that's what's in the little pink bottle.
With this is some steamed broccoli and steamed carrots, and in a little lettuce "bowl" a few apple slices and rambutans.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 228: Chicken & 'shrooms |
[Oct. 6th, 2006|10:05 pm] |
 I made chicken & mushroom donburi. No special reason; I was in the mood for chicken & mushrooms over rice, so I improvised a simple recipe for just that, and it turned out tasty. I was also in the mood for some buttered steamed carrots. There's also some shelled edamame, and a fruit salad with apples, rambutans, and kiwi fruit. (The rambutans are hiding under the kiwi. They're shy.)
I love carrots. I snack on baby carrots all the time. Don't you? If not, why not? Is there something wrong with you?!
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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