Archive for November, 2006

Pumpkin soup and bento gear

I turned one of our uncarved sugar pumpkins into pumpkin soup (courtesy of Alice Waters)! Soup packed in a thermal food jar to keep it hot, Branston pickle & cheese sandwich in the bottom half of a bento box with grape tomatoes and a Norman Love chocolate.

I started taking photos of some of the loot I just got to make up for my cancelled Japan trip.

My son loves Thomas the Tank Engine, so he’s quite taken with the Thomas bento gear. There’s a small kinchaku originally for a cup, but the small 270ml bento box fits inside nicely.

Some new egg and onigiri molds. I’m especially fond of the quail egg mold on the left and the Anpanman onigiri molds on the right (my son loves Anpanman) (click photo for details).

$1 kinchaku lunch bags from Ichibankan, a Japanese dollar store in San Francisco Japantown. Gotta love the Engrish on the blue bag!

And I picked up the Urara dragonfly box for $1.50 at Ichibankan (plus the bento band and the chopstick case). Also picked up a variety of sauce containers, small picks and baran, but I haven’t taken photos yet.

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Published by Biggie on November 4th, 2006 tagged bento, equipment, food jar, sandwich or wrap, soup or stew, vegetarian | 2 Comments »

Pasta snack for toddler

A quick throw-together, with the sides in a food cup shaped like a dog. Cheese cubes, a cherry and a pickle on the side, plus pasta shells and cheese with orange bell pepper, onions, mushrooms, hot dog and green onions. Eh.

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Published by Biggie on November 3rd, 2006 tagged bento, for kids, meat, pasta or noodles | Comment now »

Ravioli bentos x 3

Finally back from a two-week trip with my son — we wound up cancelling our Thailand/Japan trip due to the military coup (yeah, overcautious with a toddler), so I did a domestic trip instead and ordered some bento stuff off of Ebay to make up for missing Japan.

My son’s lunch below shows my first use of the “bikkuri animal” cap that covers up an area of food to give the child a fun surprise when he lifts it up. It worked! My son was really taken with it, and used it to cover up the broccoli, sausages, etc.

spinach and cheese ravioli with homemade tomato butter sauce
egg shaped like a star
broccoli
chicken cocktail sausages
grape tomatoes under the bear “surprise” cap

My bento (above) has ketchup in a sauce container shaped like an elephant, and my husband’s lunch below adds a romaine salad with tangerine, tomatoes, green onions, Irish cheese, and pine nuts (shiso sesame dressing added after the photo).