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korean noodle salad and iced tea
I love Korean food! Recently we found a great restaurant and I’ve been making bibimbap (excellent recipe here) and other Korean dishes ever since. There are a few simple methods to learn, and after that it’s possible improvise madly. One of … Continue reading
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Tagged bento, bibimbap, healthy lunch, iced tea, lunchbox, noodle salad
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a mixed-up bento
This seems like a strange combination, doesn’t it? Somehow, with bento it doesn’t seem to matter, any combination seems to work as long as there is a variety of flavours, textures and colours. At least, that’s how it is for … Continue reading
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it’s only leftovers
Apparently that’s what the Japanese script on this new bento box of mine says…”It’s only leftovers.” I love that. And that’s mostly what this was, leftover teriyaki chicken, leftover brown rice with some corn, umeboshi and nori, and some vegetables … Continue reading
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Tagged bento box, fruits and vegetables, healthy lunch, lunchbox, obento
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bento boxes are all around us!
I was all het up about not being able to easily get bento boxes around here…without doing mail order, which takes SO LONG! I want my instant gratification and I want it NOW! hee hee But lately I have been … Continue reading
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Tagged bento, bento box, glass container, healthy lunch, japanese lunch, lunch box, quinoa, Salad
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sunrise, and a very cherry breakfast…
It must have been just before six when I woke to take Cosette down to the river for her morning walk. This time I remembered my camera.I love this time of day. Everything is quiet (you know what I mean, … Continue reading
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I forgot about this one…
I was looking through Iphoto and found this shot of a lunch a did a couple of weeks ago…I forgot to post it! This winter we are eating lots of “brocco-flower”, it’s like cauliflower, but tinged with pale green, as … Continue reading
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Tagged bento, egg dishes, healthy lunch, lunch box, stir fry
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bento-ish lunch bowl
This lunch is not really a bento, but a bit of wrap over the top could have turned it into one! Sweet chilli chicken strip, spinach and mushroom rolled omelet, furikake rice, “designer tomatoes”, cucumbers and sweet pepper, and … Continue reading
When I made this bento I thought the colours might be too garish. I think it turned out ok because of the green theme. This lunch featured the latest and greatest from Manning Market: sapphire potatoes in a creamy … Continue reading
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Another Young Guest Chef
Today, bentos prepared by an eager young apprentice chef! Meet The Robot Who Destroyed the World. Using a variety of bento stash items and some tasty tender beef schnitzels carefully panfried, our guest chef of the day turned out (with … Continue reading
Guest Cook Makes Springrolls!
Bento Wa welcomes our first guest cook! Santana made springrolls for our lunches today…and it really was cooking for a crowd since we had six of us! We made a filling from rice noodles, spring onion, garlic, shredded carrot and … Continue reading
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