K’s first attempt at making mashed potatoes… April 15, 2007

Well, here we go. I’m finally getting around to posting old bento pics that I’ve taken so were we go!

As the title suggests, the star of this bento is actually the sorry-looking mashed potatoes. Hehehe… I’ve actually tried making mashed potatoes before, but the VERY first attempt ended up being potato SOUP because I placed too much milk in the whole thing. ^^;;; I’m also loathe with the idea of buying those mix-in-hot-water types of instant mashed potatoes at the grocery so I insist on making my own, stubborn oaf that I am.

Anyway, the bento is composed of tamagoyaki, hotdogs, yet another of K’s vegetable-with-cinammon stirfrys, and then, mashed potatoes with cheese. No gravy. Just quickmelt cheese.

The container below shows servings for two people. My boyfriend and I ate from the same bento that day since I got to join him for lunch. ^_^

Asparagus Stir-Fry Bento September 10, 2006

My boyfriend recently requested for vegetables in his bento, so I decided to make this asparagus stir-fry that he likes. It’s a pretty simple recipe that I sort of made on the fly, and, well, he likes it so I took note of it so I can do it again.

In the meantime, I made the mistake of putting okonomiyaki furikake on top of the whole thing. It looked yummy in real life, but I didn’t realize that it would look fuzzy in the pictures and it would sort of look like mold… O_O;;

Speaking of okonomiyaki furikake, I used it a couple of nights ago to make onigiri. So, mixing it with mayo, tonkatsu sauce and a bit of salt and pepper on plain rice, it sort of tasted like okonomiyaki, except in riceball form. Hehe… Forgot to take pics though, so you’ll have to take my word for it for now.

In any case, here’s my bento which is too shy to reveal its fuzzy contents (plus the rice was too plain). It shows it’s chocolate-filled marshmallows instead.

Kani Omelette Bento September 7, 2006

The last time that I was shopping at out favorite Japanese Grocery, they had freebies at the counter. I didn’t exactly know what it was since all I could make out was the word “kani” on the box (not very good with Kanji…), and the fact that it expired in two weeks. So, I grabbed several boxes of the free Kani-things, and couple of days later, I decided to use it.

And it was yummy!!

Hehe… one thing I love about J-groceries is that when they go on sale, they REALLY go on sale. On top of that, they’d rather give away their goods rather than let it all expire and go to waste. ^_^

And our lunch for that day looked like this: