I decided to use up some of the leftover barbecue chicken to make sandwiches for our bento the next day. The sandwiches I made were: chicken, mayo and French mustard curried chicken English ham and Dijon mustard All the sandwiches had mixed salad greens in them. I also included a mini salad of lettuce and […]
I wrote this post a few weeks ago and didn’t publish it (no particular reason, just didn’t!). Jac cooked a casserole in the electric frypan we got from my parents for Christmas – she used Christmas turkey thigh roll, retrieved from the freezer, thawed and cut into cubes. She added vegetables – carrots, celery, green [&hellip…
I love giving gifts at Christmas. Obviously, for retail outlets, it’s the prime time of year to make lots of sales, but I don’t see gift-giving at Christmas as getting “sucked into commercialism”. For me, it’s an excuse to spoil people I care about, to make a fuss over them and bring a smile to […]
For Thursday’s lunches, I packed us leftover savoury mince and mashed potato. We were out of vegetables for making salad – apart from carrot, so I made carrot sticks and included light French onion mini dip (very good – doesn’t taste like it’s “light” – a few readers including Linda told me to look ou…
I packed us two different lunches last Tuesday. Jac said she felt like a toasted sandwich, so I made her a sandwich that she could pop into the sandwich toaster at work. She’s got my old Breville sandwich toaster at her work – I bought it when I was 18, when I first moved out […]
I was a little distracted and excited last Monday, with Jac due to return home in the evening after two and a bit weeks away. I packed myself a bento lunch of leftovers – fried rice and panfried fish. In fact, my bento lunch was pretty much exactly the same as my dinner the night […]
Last Monday afternoon at work, J said she’d be making roasted vegetable soup that evening. She said she’d bring some in for her lunch the next day and could bring me some too, if I liked. I suggested I bring leftover pizza for both of us so that we could have pizza and soup for […]
Tuesday evening last week Jac cooked a pork loin roast, which she served with roasted root vegetables (sweet potato, potato and carrot) and buttered steamed cabbage. It was really delicious, but some of you will be disappointed to know there was no crackling. That’s just how the roast came from the butcher. You may notice […]
I used leftovers from our Korean/Japanese takeaway dinner in our bento boxes last Thursday. In Jac’s bento on the left: jaeyuk pokkum – stir-fried chicken and vegetables in a spicy sauce – I placed this in a lettuce cup so the red sauce wouldn’t stain the yellow plastic of the bento box; beef bulgogi, and […]
Jac really enjoyed the sandwich bento I made for her on Friday and asked if I’d be able to make her more sandwiches for lunch on Monday. No worries! I made us both sandwiches for lunch on Friday. roast beef, Indian-style mango chutney, cucumber sausage, sour gherkin pickles, mayonnaise roast turkey breast, sundried tomato mustard, […]