Archive for October, 2006
Beef curry bento
Warm Indian curry packed in our thermal food jar. I actually made this curry during a night power outage this weekend by the light of a camping lantern! That was surprisingly fun.

- homemade Indian curry with beef, green beans, red/yellow bell peppers, and tomatoes
- miniature pear
- sliced baguette
- Normal Love chocolates (pistachio truffle + peanut butter/jelly)
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 October 16th, 2006 tagged bento, curry, food jar, meat | 2 Comments »
Fusion fried rice x 3
Made weird but tasty fusion fried rice this morning with basmati rice, Korean chogochujang sauce, homemade smoked pork, peas, takuan, egg, green onions and sesame seeds. We all got that today, with the face on my son’s bento eliciting a happy, “Kitty!” from him. This is also the inaugural use of my son’s Thomas the Tank Engine 270ml bento box, which thrills him no end (”choo choo train!”).

- kitty face made of turkey lunchmeat, eyes/nose = cheese, whiskers = nori
- watermelon and nectarines

My husband’s lunch (above) adds stir-fried kale with garlic and red wine vinegar, and mine (below) adds bananas and grapes in my new Urara dragonfly box that I picked up for US$1.50!

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 October 13th, 2006 tagged bento, for kids, meat, rice | Comment now »
Balti chicken lunch
Got a mean craving for Indian food after smelling some near a playground with my son, so I pulled out a Balti cookbook and made Balti chicken and fragrant basmati rice with spices. Lots of onions and tomatoes in the curry — really hit the spot.

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 October 11th, 2006 tagged curry, glutenfree, lactose free, poultry, rice, thermal lunch jar | Comment now »
Birthday cupcake
This is usually a bento blog, but I’m taking a quick break to post my son’s birthday cupcakes. This is my first venture into baking cupcakes — I usually cook, not bake. Anyway, I think they came out fine. They’re a spiced sour cream cupcake with pandan-flavored buttercream icing; blue to go with the Blues’ Clues theme.
Here’s the birthday boy looking apprehensive, but he was actually quite jazzed about the cupcakes.
READ MORE:
- Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- Food safety for packed lunches
- How to pack a bento lunch and use “gap fillers”
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
Published by Biggie on October 10th, 2006 tagged for kids, vegetarian | 8 Comments »
Pulled pork bentos x 3
More homemade barbeque today — this is what happens when I go buy my husband six different kinds of smoking wood!
- homemade pulled pork with mustard vinegar sauce (smoked 11 hours)
- buttermilk cole slaw
- bread and watermelon
My lunch (above) adds homemade asparagus soup, while my husband’s (below) adds a hamburger bun.
READ MORE:
- Making an insulated “flowerpot smoker” and smoked burger lunches
- 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
I'm Biggie: avid cook, speedy lunch packer, mom in San Francisco, & former expat fluent in Japanese. 








