Dinner and bento – fried herring fillets and salad
Dinner
Jac coated herring fillets in wholemeal flour, salt and pepper, and then panfried them. She served them with potato bake and salad. We ate dinner out on the patio. I always have more fun eating outside because feels like we’re having a picnic. Well… the fun only lasts until the mosquitoes turn up. Wherever I go, mosquitoes find me and feast on me – they ignore Jac completely! Even with mosquito coils, citronella candles and Aerogard in various forms, the hardiest bounty hunter ninja mozzie will seek me out and bite me. Are any of you mosquito targets too?
Bento
Jac didn’t need lunch the next day, so I packed bento just for me.
I made a quick salad with cos lettuce, cucumber, grape tomatoes, green beans, corn kernels and semi-sundried tomatoes. I also packed a little container of tartare sauce to go with my leftover herring fillets. I wanted this lunch to be mostly salad, so I packed the salad into the bottom tier of the bento box as it’s the bigger and deeper of the two tiers.
I placed the fish on a bed of cos lettuce, using the lettuce as a shield so the fish wouldn’t touch the strawberries. This proved most effective – at lunch time, the strawberries tasted only of strawberry, not of fish. :D The cos lettuce was still beautifully crisp at lunch time. I ate this lunch cold, straight out of the fridge.
About the bento gear
The little bird sauce container comes from a set of four called Ciao! Colorful Animal & Fruit Mayonnaise Cups. I bought them from JBox.
The bento box I used for this lunch is one of my favourites. I bought a couple of these from an eBay seller – there are plenty of similar bento boxes available if you have a browse on eBay. See the first time I used this two-tiered Japanese bento box and catch a glimpse at its lid and various components (an old post, Tuesday bento – lamb cutlets, vegetables and salads).