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Archive for September, 2006
Chicken salad: mother/son bentos
The mother/son bentos return today for playgroup: nectarines, grapes, cheese triangles, plum tomatoes and Costco chicken salad. (No eggs in this bento, or I’d make some kind of clever “oyako” joke.)
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- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
Published by Biggie on September 27th, 2006 tagged bento, for kids, poultry | Comment now »
Enoki bacon saute bento x 2
- salmon & tomato macaroni
- saute of enoki mushrooms, red bell pepper, bacon and green onions
- cheese and plum tomatoes
- Gala apples with leaf cut-outs
My son has the same saute, with the addition of Asian pear cut into pear shapes, and cheddar cocktail sausages (one in a heart shape). Packed in my tiny 180ml Lock & Lock box.
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
Published by Biggie on September 26th, 2006 tagged bento, for kids, meat, pasta or noodles | 2 Comments »
Barbequed brisket lunch
Well, my husband’s back to work (no more jury duty) but my son is sick at home — so we’re down to one adult bento today. Happily, we spent yesterday making Texas barbeque, so plenty of leftovers made with care. There was homemade potato salad as well, but putting a cold mayo dish in the thermal lunch jar with warm dishes seemed like a fast ticket to the emergency room.
- barbequed brisket — my husband’s pride and joy (cooked for 10 hours or so) Lined the bowl with Press N Seal so as not to damage the bowl when I nuked it.
- barbequed beans (cooked for 5.5 hours)
- homemade cole slaw
- Texas toast (with containers of homemade barbeque sauce for the brisket)
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- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
Published by Biggie on September 25th, 2006 tagged beans, lactose free, meat, salad, thermal lunch jar | Comment now »
Pesto rice bentos x 2
A beach picnic for my son and me today.
- pesto rice shaped like stars
- cheddar cocktail sausages
- sliced apples cut in apple shapes, dipped in acidulated water
- raspberries
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
Published by Biggie on September 21st, 2006 tagged bento, for kids, meat, onigiri or sushi, rice | Comment now »
Kid’s korma curry, chili bento
Bentos for my outing to the museum with my son today:
- homemade korma curry with chicken and carrots (all chopped up small for my son)
- barrel-shaped onigiri standing on their ends (mixed with tamago furikake)
- tiny red grapes
Packed in my small 260ml box, with the curry in a super-small 70ml container to keep it from spilling out onto the grapes/rice.
- homemade red chili (my son wound up eating a lot of this too)
- rice with nori furikake
- mini banana and tiny red grapes
- mango pudding, grapes, and tamago furikake for my son’s lunch
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillersâ€
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
Published by Biggie on September 20th, 2006 tagged bento, curry, for kids, glutenfree, lactose free, onigiri or sushi, rice, soup or stew, thermal lunch jar | Comment now »
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