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Top to Bottom: Grape tomatoes, onigiri with umeboshi and topped with furikake. Green grapes, blackberries and a kumquat.
The little steamers did fairly well for transport. I added pieces of parchment paper to the bottoms so there would be little mess. I did make my onigiri too tall, so it got squished when I closed the lid (also lined with parchment paper).
A nod to my friend Camille, who came up with these onigiri fillings (sundried tomato pesto in one, mango chutney and fresh mint in the other). Best to chop the fillings up small so you don't get a huge piece of mango in the first bite and nothing in the rest.
Somen two ways: the noodles can either be dipped into the warm curry, or eaten as is with the somen dipping sauce. I packed the curry in a small 300ml Nissan Thermos food jar to keep it warm, and the rest in my two-tiered 600ml bento box. Lighter than the full-on thermal lunch jar, and this should fit nicely into a messenger bag.
Morning prep time: 14 minutes. Recipes for the pasta salad using frozen unsauced spaghetti, a frugal pineapple drink using pineapple trimmings, full lunch details and packing info is here.
Morning prep time: 22 minutes for two bentos (with an additional adult variation). Recipe for the pan-fried risotto cakes and the full lunch details here.
Packed in my son's 270ml Thomas the Tank Engine box, using previously frozen sandwich strips with Nutella, leftover purple potato salad and refrigerator staples. This took about 3 minutes to throw together this morning, and my son devoured it all. Success! Details at blog entry here.
Hidden underneath the blackberries is a flat container of dipping sauce for the puffs or asparagus: sour cream, mayo, chipotles in adobo, lime juice, garlic and cilantro. Packed in my deep Chinese box to fit the rellenos.
Warm Indian curry packed in our food jar. I actually made this curry during a night power outage by the light of a camping lantern! That was surprisingly fun.
Morning prep time: 8 minutes. Full post with packing tips, notes on mini frying pans for lunch prep, food safety notes from Japanese bento cookbooks on scrambled eggs, and using individual coffee creamers in eggs is at blog.
I got a new box!
It is all stainless steel with a tight locking lid and a movable divider, 670 ml -- a perfect size.
The first meal in it: garlic chicken ravioli (not-homemade but TJ's organic), sweet potato flower, tomato-based sauce in container. Lots of fruit for this hot summer day : cute little organic (sweet but small) strawberries, chopped nectarines, blueberries, sliced kiwi and red plum.
Morning prep time: 10 minutes. Full entry with tarako spaghetti recipe and detailed packing notes is here.
Garlic ahead! Child's lunch on the left, mother's lunch on the right. I found fresh garlic stalks this weekend at the Korean market! So no more frozen stuff -- now maybe I'll try to recreate a great garlic stalk spaghetti I had years ago in Tokyo. My husband's version is here with purple cauliflower, and the child-only bento is here in Kid Eats.
bought this from a station for the shinkansen ride from tokyo to kyoto. eating ekiben is such a japanese thing that i just had to do it even though i wasn't very hungry.
Morning prep time: 20 minutes. Full details here with recipes for stuffed mushroom cup and speedy teriyaki chicken cubes, "rice cuber" info, and additional preschooler lunch.