Plum Onigiri

I made plum onigiri for Friday's bento, and packed them with oranges, yogurt, and cashews with chocolates.

Inari is Easy

Simple inari with dried banana and cashews with chocolates today.

More Veggie Rolls

Today's bento had veggie rolls (carrots, cucumber, spinach and avocado), cashews, Coffee Beat (my favorite!), yogurt, and dried bananas.

I <3 Quinoa

No bento Monday -- but here is today's offering: Quinoa salad, orange-passionfruit yogurt, carrots, cashews with chocolate chips, dried bananas, and a "Delicious" melon cake.

TGIF

Inari with shiitakes, veggie rolls, chocolate and peanut butter rice cubes, blueberries, and strawberry-guava yogurt. This week was endless (and it only lasted 4 days!!!).

Sandwich Day

Quick bento for today, as we got home late last night! PB&J (with honey roasted peanuts in the middle *crunch*), some cookies, and an orange from the tree in our backyard. Classic :o)

Today, Tomorrow, and Last Friday

Tomorrow's bento features large sushi rolls with green tea soba (tossed w/peanut sauce) rolled in crushed peanuts, carrots, yogurt, pears, raisins, and a small pineapple cake. I sampled the ends of the rolls and they were realllllly yummy, if I do say so myself!

For today, I made three bentos -- one for the hubs then 2 disposable bento boxes for my friend Jason and me. Jason has been visiting us from DC and I gave him his to eat while he waited for his plane today. I ate mine balanced on my lap driving home from LAX in traffic. As you can see, I crammed a lot of stuff in:

A small mango pudding, cashews, carrots, crackers (wrapped in foil), oranges, small chocolates, raisins, cheese (for the crackers), dessert sushi, blueberries, and tomatoes. The dessert sushi had chocolate sweet rice with honey roasted peanuts and the filling was dried bananas and peanut butter. I used plain soy paper to wrap the roll. Finally, I neglected to post the bento on Friday, so here it is:

Inside out rolls with green tea soba, carrots, and cucumber with pears cooked in Chambord, cashews, and Walky-Walky.

Bento of the future

Monday my camera was acting awful and the pictures of my DELICIOUS chile rice rolls with strawberry-chile sauce came out horribly. Today, leftover pizza for lunch, haha. But tomorrow's bento was photogenic so here it is:

Veggie sushi (carrot, avocado, cucumber, shiitake, and tamago) in inside out rolls with toasted black sesame seeds and hot sauce. Yummy! Dates, cashews, oranges, and strawberry Pocky to accompany.

Still the king <3

Neglected to post a picture of Friday's bento -- small Cinnamoroll-shaped fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. These were in honor of Elvis' birthday (which was on Thursday of this past week). <3 to Elvis.

Pesto Pasta Bento

Today's bento had pesto pasta with sundried tomatoes. Carrots with peanut butter for me, cucumbers and chile mangos for the hubby. We both got some raw cashews and some chocolate cookie crush Pocky.

Inari

Inari sushi with cucumber and avocado today. Small pieces of sweet omelet with veggie bacon to accompany.

Lucky Star 5 Release Bento!

Here's the bento I made to celebrate the US release of Lucky Star disc 5! Star theme, obviously, and I cut out "Lucky Star" in Kanji from soy paper. I resisted doing a Konata bento because I thought it would take too long and I didn't have much time -- I probably could have done her in the time it took to cut out the Kanji (x2 because I did it for the hubby's bento, too!). Rice molds with umeboshi seasoning surrounded by edamame, sweet omelet, and veggie bacon. Top tier has carrot stars with peanut sauce, cashews, and a little chocolate (the star bottle has soy sauce for my rice). Later today I'll make chocolate cornets to take to anime night, yay!!

First Bento of 2009

A fresh start to bento-making! I have renewed interest in bentos and hopefully in blogging! Here's the first effort of the year -- lunch for the hubs' first day back at work after break. In the bottom tier I used my new mini rice molds and made little rice shapes with tamago, carrots with mustard, or plum seasoning. I included a little bottle of soy sauce, some chili sauce, and some ginger. The top tier has chile-mangos, Walky Walky (basically little Pocky bites), apples cooked in Grand Marnier, some raw cashews, and edamame with furikake (not just for rice anymore). I'll eat my bento watching Lucky Star (disc 5 out tomorrow!). :o)