I won’t be blogging about EVERY bento I make because I don’t think that they’re THAT interesting. Sometimes there’s just not much to talk about. But I do update the bento page with pictures and a brief description of the contents. So if you don’t see bentos here, check the bento page
Today I made a [...]

Today I had my first sandwich bento. I had a salami sandwich with “apotek” (pharmacy) mustard and lettuce on “bondbröd” (farm bread). I also had a wedge of La Vache Qui Rit for a snack. The sausage was a bit “smelly”. I opened up my bento box and the girl sitting beside me was like, [...]

Tomorrow’s bento is a bit more interesting than the last few lunches that I’ve had. We had Japanese curry chicken with congo blue potatoes, carrots, peas, corn and sweet bell peppers on Tuesday night. So I took the leftover and mixed it with some spaghetti since there wasn’t enough rice for both of us. The [...]

I’ve been examining my last couple of bentos and I have to admit that they’re not very imaginative at all. But then again bento is defined as “a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal” so it’s not the end of the world to have plain and unimaginative bento. Still, I think I’m going to put more [...]

If you have never had a blue potato, go out and try it. My first experience was at a paint and fry. Denise and I were at Starsky in Mississauga and decided to give the blue potato a try. We found that it was tastier than a regular potato.
The other day I found blue potatoes [...]

Tonight I tried to make teriyaki chicken from scratch. It turned out pretty well. I got the recipe for the teriyaki sauce from Japanese Cooking by Emi Kazuko. The original plan was to make chicken yakitori but then I thought about my incident with skewers this past summer and I decided against the skewering. I [...]

For tomorrow’s lunch, there will be spaghetti bolognese. The black bottom cupcake, dried apples, hazelnuts and almonds will be for snack. At first I didn’t know what I was gonna bring for snack, then I remembered that I’ve got some black bottom cupcakes in the freezer. The cupcake will thaw without the plastic wrap and [...]