I'm Biggie: avid cook, speedy lunch packer, mom in San Francisco, & former expat fluent in Japanese. 
Speedy pupusa lunch
Morning prep time: 5 minutes (10 minutes for 2 lunches). Nothing fancy today, just leftover mini pupusas that I’d made for dinner (as big pupusas). For lunch, I cut them in half to eat as finger food, put spiced crema in the sauce containers for dipping, and cut a couple of kiwis and half of an orange. Kiwi chunks are easiest to eat with little picks.
I made the pupusas the night before with fresh masa (ground cornmeal for tortillas) and leftover homemade smoked pulled pork from the freezer, so they were fusion stuffed with North Carolina-style pulled pork, homemade barbeque sauce, sauteed onions and queso fresco.
Bug’s lunch below is a little larger than usual because I packed enough to share with his little friend in playgroup. The kids devoured these, and had a good time dipping the pupusas — success!
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 fillers”
- Choosing the right size bento box
- Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
March 30th, 2007 | Categories: bento, corn tortillas or masa, for kids, glutenfree, meat | 
Print This Post
| 
Email this post
Loading ...
March 30th, 2007 at 8:54 am
How do you make pupusas? And NC pulled pork is always a good choice
March 30th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
This looks very delicious! I’ve never heard of Pupusa’s before but they sure look great
March 30th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Wow, I learned something new today, too! Where does Pupusa come from? Sounds like middle eastern…is it? Masa is, by the way, my very good friend’s name :p
March 30th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
It’s from El Salvador — Wikipedia has a good entry on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupusa Funny about Masa, though!
March 30th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
There’s a good pupusa recipe at the bottom of the Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupusa
March 30th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Check out the Wiki entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupusa I should have linked to it in my original entry; now fixed.
March 31st, 2007 at 12:44 am
Thank you for the link, I’ll go check it out now
May 1st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I use masa to make arepas. so tasty. I make mini ones stuffed with cheese for bento. YUM!
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 am
@8 from Mimi: Mmm, mini arepas stuffed with cheese — will you come make some for me too?
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:09 am
@8 from Biggie: I always make too many! If you are ever stuck in the middle of the atlantic ocean, let me know! haha