Colour: red
Spicy Fried Rice
If asked to indulge in a traditional Filipino breakfast, I’d have to decline unless I’d just starved myself first. Most items in this one meal are fried or full of fat or carbs and I cannot ever remember anything that was close to being a vegetable in it.. apart from garlic in the garlic fried […]
Roast Beef Noriben
When I was a kid shopping with my mum I’d sometimes ask for devon for my lunch sandwiches, and we’d visit the deli section of the supermarket. The only other items in that section that I’d know before I was able to cook for myself was ‘sausages’ and ‘ham’; ignoring the other items that even […]
Chicken Noriben
I read up on noriben – a basic bento that consists of layers of rice and cupboard staples, where the most basic contains nori, soy sauce and katsuobushi (bonito flakes). As leftovers can also be used, I thought that I should give it a go too. Noriben are notoriously ‘boring’ looking – as most of […]
Gyoza & Bacon
You can also call this one ‘defrosted from frozen’ as most of the side dishes were all freezer stash – the gyoza was defrosted overnight. The bacon wraps simply have greed onion inside, providing a big flavour hit to the otherwise bland rice. Lunch contents: Gyoza, bacon-wrapped spring onion, steamed broccoli, grape tomatoes with carrot […]
Edamame Lines
When you are really short on time, and you don’t have a massive lunch stash then there is not many options to make your lunch look like it was quickly thrown together willy-nilly.. Wrong! Even a simple pattern of veg can really boost the appearance of a bento. Lunch contents: rice, edamame, black sesame seeds, […]
Leftover Quiche
Meat for the week? Check. Leftover BBQ items? Check. And what to do with all those leftover vegetables? Why, make a simple quiche! And that too can also be put in the box! Lunch contents: Cucumber slices, rice, edamame skewers, lemon slice, quiche, grape tomato, bolognese, black sesame, BBQ’d chipolata. Gotta love the local butcher […]
Simple
After a few undocumented lunches, it seemed to me that my lunches were rather filling. In fact, they were rather too effective in that matter. Especially after a charaben with heaps of ‘filler’, I was interested in seeing the effect of just using the large tier. Lunch contents: rice, edamame skewers, pickled chillis, hamburger with […]
Shaun the Sheep Charaben
It had been just one or two random dabblings with charaben – ‘character’ bento – that got me wondering should I really bother with it. I frequent e-obento (and others) which sometimes appeals to my aesthetic senses, but more common sense tells me that some things just are too finicky to do. It might of […]
Ragu & Daal
When you have two chefs in the house, you really have no worries about what to pack for lunches when they each both decide to cook something.. Yvan had made ‘meat for the week’ – a large meat dish with a weeks worth for a couple of people (less with more mouths of course). In […]
Checkerboard Sushi
I had run out of ideas for interesting makizushi fillings, so all I did was add mayonnaise and toasted sesame seeds to a crabstick roll. It felt odd not to complete it with more vegetables, but there were plenty of leftover vegetables along with the beans running amok in the backyard and a stash of […]