My bento lunch: beef chipolatas left over from dinner the night before, potato salad, cherry tomatoes and green seedless grapes. The potato salad was my usual quick and easy combination of a microwaved potato cut into cubes, seasoned with a little salt and pepper, then combined with Kewpie mayonnaise, thinly sliced cucumber, carrot and spring [&hel…
Jac didn’t need lunch for Thursday, so on Wednesday evening I panfried a large boneless and skinless chicken thigh for my bento lunch. I simply rubbed the chicken with onion salt and white pepper before placing it in a hot olive oil-sprayed pan to cook until golden-brown and succulent. The smell of onion salt and […]
Thank you to everyone who entered the oilcloth lunchbag giveaway! 86 people entered the draw by leaving a comment in response to the question: “what is the most exotic or unusual thing you’ve eaten?” All eligible entries were given a number, and my “barrel girl” Jac selected a number at random to determine the winner. …
Friday bento I was supposed to meet my friend Chad for breakfast nice and early last Friday morning; I’d told Jac I wouldn’t have time to do bento. But I got a call from Chad late on Thursday evening – she was crook and wouldn’t be able to make it. I hadn’t prepared anything for […]
I used our dinner leftovers in our bento boxes on Tuesday. Jac’s bento – on the left: crumbed fish and steamed broccoli, and in the “Tasty” container – tartare sauce. On the right: potato salad on a bed of cos, steamed butternut pumpkin sprinkled with dried chives. I’d asked Jac to bake me a couple […]
On Monday last week I used my new bento box for the first time. I packed Jac’s lunch in the Lunch to Go box. In Jac’s lunch box – chicken drumstick with Greek seasoning, cherry tomatoes, a salad of oven-baked butternut pumpkin, cucumber, green beans and mushroom, a hot dog roll with Vegemite and cheese, […]