| 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 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 381: Spinach is weird. |
[Jun. 13th, 2007|07:24 pm] |
 Donburi time! Here's a pork, bell pepper, and mushroom donburi. To be precise (as Thompson might put it), it's a serving of my mom's pork chops cut into bite-sized pieces and served over rice. Sticky rice this time - my recent adventure with regular Uncle Ben's rice reduced me to eating it with a plastic spoon. I will not endure such shame twice.
On the right side is a vaguely geometrical collection of steamed yellow squash, baked purple sweet potato, and boiled spinach with mayonnaise. Yes, I eat spinach with mayo. I mix it up into a weird-looking green paste. My sister and I both think it's delicious this way; I haven't met anyone else who will even try it. Maybe it's genetic.
(Blogger's Choice thingie. Vote for my blog if you want. Vote for other bento blogs like Ss-biggie's blog if you want.)
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 232: There's a million-year-old bug in my rice! |
[Oct. 13th, 2006|10:20 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | bacom-wrapped mushrooms, box, coconut mochi, girl genius, meat pie, rice, simmered shiitake mushrooms, steamed broccoli, steamed yellow squash, steampunk, trilobite | ] |
 Today's lunch features simmered shiitake mushrooms over rice, out of the latter of which I made a trilobite. Hey, some people make Sanrio characters out of rice balls and nori, I go for prehistoric bugs. Plus, this goes with my recent steampunk bentos, as I based it on Agatha's locket from Phil & Kaja Foglio's excellent comic Girl Genius.
Also, we got a meat pie, some steamed yellow squash, four bacon-wrapped mushrooms that are in danger of being overgrown by steamed broccoli florets, and coconut mochi. Yes, I was cleaning out my fridge & freezer; how could you tell?
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 231: Better gears |
[Oct. 12th, 2006|07:41 pm] |
 The new item in today's lunch is turkey bacon-wrapped mushrooms. I didn't plan to make that; I had intended to cook obimake enoki, but then I found that my enoki mushrooms were a little past their prime. But I had salad mushrooms, so I went with that, and it turned out pretty good. I also had another try at the steampunk thing with the futomaki, steamed yellow squash, and crab pistons left over from yesterday's lunch. I think they look a tad better now, as I took more care with the gear teeth. And filling out the box are - in no particular order - shelled edamame, a steamed pork bun, steamed broccoli, and coconut mochi.
Hmm - If I'd thought about it, I could have run some bacon around a pair of differently-sized mushrooms to make it look like a mechanical belt. Shoot! Oh well, there'll be other lunch boxes.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 230: Steampunk, take 2 |
[Oct. 11th, 2006|08:15 pm] |
 Today's lunch features steampunk futomaki and steamed yellow squash. The futomaki - big fat sushi rolls with lots of fillings - and steamed squash are supposed to look like gears, although you have to squint to tell. What the heck, it was late when I made this, my nerves were frayed from a children's birthday party I'd just attended, and it's the thought that counts, right? I swear I'll get it right one day. At least the crab meat pistons are a step in the right direction.
The futomaki contain cucumber, artificial crab, shiitake mushrooms, omelet strips, and salmon roe. Mmm. On the other side are banana coins, rambutans, and almond cake. I considered cutting the bananas into gears as well, but I decided that I'd rather get a little sleep that night instead.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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| Lunch Box 166: Fresh! |
[Jun. 21st, 2006|10:05 pm] |
 They say there's nothing new under the sun, and this lunch doesn't challenge that statement. Got Spam musubi, baked Japanese sweet potato, steamed broccoli, steamed yellow squash, and apple. However, the squash was given to me by a coworker, who grew it in her garden. So, I think it might be organic. (As opposed to what, inorganic?) Anyway, shout out to Maria!
By the way, in case you were wondering, I bought a handful of little bitty sweet potatoes last time I was at 99 Ranch Market. I can microwave one for a minute and a half, then cut it up and sling it in the box.
(Website post, with links to recipes.) |
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