Archive for the ‘Bento’ Category

A sort of breakfast bento

I packed this breakfast for myself one morning recently- it was a kind of breakfast bento, I guess – I took it to work and ate it at my desk as I read my emails and started my work day. I’d made myself toasted sandwiches – two with honey-glazed ham, mushrooms and mayonnaise, one with […]

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Bento – steak, potato salad, salad and bread

A steak and salad bento! Jac panfried a steak medium-rare for her and a steak medium-well for me. I made my easy potato salad, and threw together a simple salad of mixed greens, grape tomatoes and red seedless grapes. I packed us each a container of smokey barbecue sauce to eat with our steak. Jac […]

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Bento – BBQ chicken, salad and French toast squares

A bento lunch I packed for myself – leftover barbecue chicken with salad (lettuce, carrot sticks, corn kernels, sweet gherkin pickle slices, red seedless grapes and the last of the corn kernels), Kewpie mayonnaise in a bear head-shaped container, and French toast squares. I didn’t pack any maple syrup to go with these French toast [&hel…

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Bento – sandwiches, fruit and salad

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 […]

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Bento – Turkey SPAM fried rice, orange and prunes

I’ve really been eating a lot of SPAM fried rice lately, haven’t I? I made this batch of fried rice with green beans, corn kernels, garlic, egg and turkey SPAM. I packed us each fried rice, orange slices and prunes. Another possibly cryptic cartoon on Jac’s bento note – can anyone tell me why the […]

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Sandwich bento

Another sandwich bento! Our sandwiches, left to right: leftover salmon pattie, lettuce and tartare oven-roasted eggplant, sweet potato, chutney and mayo curried egg and lettuce english ham, cucumber, french mustard. In Jac’s bento note, I labeled the roasted eggplant, sweet potato, chutney and mayo “highly experimental” – I …

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Bento – SPAM stars with fried rice

My bento lunch the next day – with more SPAM to use up, I made SPAM stars and fried rice*. The fried rice was very simple as usual – leftover rice, green beans, garlic and egg, flavoured with soy sauce. I made the stars using a cookie cutter. Feeling somewhat uninspired by what was in […]

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