Lox and cheese mini bagel sandwiches
Posted By Biggie On August 18, 2007 @ 1:15 am In SF Bay Area local, bento, fish or seafood, for kids, sandwich or wrap | 18 Comments
On short notice, we were invited to go out with a group of Japanese women who all brought bento lunches for themselves and their preschoolers, so I quickly threw these together on our way out the door. It was interesting to see everyone else’s mother/child lunches, trade preschool and lunch tips, and talk about [1] places to buy bento gear in the San Francisco Bay Area. Afterwards another mom showed me around Ocean View Supermarket, a newly opened pan-Asian market near Daly City that’s huge, clean, cheap, with parking, and even has colored [2] mamenori soy paper for making [3] food art (US$2.59 for 5 large sheets). I’ve updated the [4] SF Bay Area guide to ethnic markets with store info; it’s worth checking out for locals.
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Contents of preschooler lunch: Mini bagel sandwich with cream cheese and smoked salmon, broccoli and [6] orange cauliflower florets with red wine vinaigrette, and cherries. The orange cauliflower tasted just like regular white cauliflower to me; I bought it and a bag of mini bagels (perfect for little hands) at Safeway.
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Morning prep time: 10 minutes to make the sandwich on an untoasted bagel, and quickly cook the broccoli and orange cauliflower in my [8] microwave mini steamer (speeds cook time by 50%). I nuked the cream cheese briefly to make it easy to spread on the bagel.
Packing: I didn’t want the vinaigrette on the broccoli and cauliflower to get onto the bagel and make it soggy, so after cooking and dressing the vegetables I tossed them into my [9] mini strainer and bowl to drain and cool quickly. A short rest of a minute or so did the trick, then I took out extra insurance against leaking by packing them in a coated food cup. If I had the larger size [10] silicone baking cups, those would have been a good waste-free alternative here. One of these days… The lunch is packed in a 350ml Power Rangers (”Geki Rangers”) box that I actually found abandoned near my house!!! Manna from the skies — bizarre.
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My lunch has the same food, but with the addition of capers in the bagel sandwich and a couple of Concord grapes that act as [12] gap fillers to stabilize the lunch for transport.
READ MORE:
- [13] Another mini bagel sandwich lunch
- [14] Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto
- [15] Choosing the right size bento box
- [16] Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews
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Article printed from Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento: http://lunchinabox.net
URL to article: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/08/18/lox-and-cheese-mini-bagel-sandwiches/
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[1] places to buy bento gear in the San Francisco Bay Area: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/04/09/award-nomination-sf-bay-area-shopping-guide/
[2] mamenori soy paper: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/mamenorisoybeanpaper.htm
[3] food art: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979048664?ie=UTF8&tag=luinabo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=178
9&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0979048664
[4] SF Bay Area guide to ethnic markets: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/05/18/ethnic-markets-in-the-sf-bay-area/
[5] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchinabox/1145106769/
[6] orange cauliflower: http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/glossary.asp?id=33129
[7] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchinabox/1145947180/
[8] microwave mini steamer: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/02/13/speed-bento-techniques-frozen-spaghetti/
[9] mini strainer and bowl: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/05/16/chicken-two-ways-mini-strainer-bowl/
[10] silicone baking cups: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=silicone%20cupcake&tag=luinabo-20&index
=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
[11] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchinabox/1145951376/
[12] gap fillers to stabilize the lunch: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/06/11/guide-to-bento-packing-and-gap-fillers/
[13] Another mini bagel sandwich lunch: http://lunchinabox.net/2006/09/07/mini-bagel-sandwich-x-2/
[14] Need for speed: A mommy’s lunch manifesto: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/04/23/need-for-speed-a-mommys-lunch-manifesto/
[15] Choosing the right size bento box: http://lunchinabox.net/2007/03/07/guide-to-choosing-the-right-size-bento-box/
[16] Biggie’s list of top speed tips, tutorials and equipment reviews: http://lunchinabox.net/top-tips/
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