Archive for September, 2008

Tuesday bento

For last Tuesday’s bento lunch I used the barbecue-flavour chicken strips Jac cooked on Sunday afternoon, along with leftover coleslaw, broccoli and marinated mushroom salad, and sweet potato wedges. I’d also asked Jac to bake me an extra potato or two so I could boof up the salad with it. I used a little lettuce […]

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Juicy ham steaks with pineapple

We bought a couple of ham steaks recently, and Jac asked me what I’d like to eat with them. I said I’d love grilled pineapple rings and coleslaw. Of course this was no problem at all for Jac to do. :) This was the coleslaw Jac had made on Sunday afternoon. I may have mentioned […]

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Monday bento – more new bento boxes!

I packed the panfried lemon chicken strips and coleslaw Jac cooked the day before in our bento boxes on Monday. This was my bento box: To go with the chicken and coleslaw, I threw together quick salad. Here’s Jac’s bento box: I really can’t recommend this chicken recipe enough. It’s simple to prepare, and really […]

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Bento prep and rice porridge

Last Sunday afternoon, Jac did a little cooking for our bento lunches. I’d seen this recipe for panfried lemon chicken nuggets at Just Bento, which has become one of my favourite bento blogs to visit. I thought the chicken sounded delicious, and Jac asked me to print it out so she could give it a […]

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Salad and fruit

After breakfast last Saturday, we did the grocery shopping and then I grabbed us a couple of salads from Sumo Salad for a late lunch. Jac wanted a regular box (AU$8.95) with her two favourite Express salads – the roasted pumpkin and cous cous salad, and the falafel and cous cous salad with balsamic dressing. […]

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