My Little Bunny?

My dog loves to chew. Sometimes when I'm making a bento, tidbits fall to the floor. This is how I learned that Dioji likes carrots. Last night, Bryan suggested I give him a whole carrot to nom on:

He ate the WHOLE THING in less than 15 minutes. Too funny.

No bento today for me. I am eating left over potato soup for lunch. And that just isn't really worth a picture.

Have a good day!

Believe it or not: Bento!

Hi everyone!

I know it has been an age and a half since I posted any bentos, so here is one for you:

Top tier:

• sliced turkey
• sliced roast beef
• carrot shapes

Bottom tier:

• brown rice w/ pineapple
• carrot stars
• celery slivers
• teriaki sauce
  

Please note the collapsible fork, donated to my bento stash by my friend Matt. Thanks, Matt!

All ready to go:


Happy Bento!

Something Fishy

I can't quite put my fin on it, but there is something fishy about bento #18. Here is the lunch I will be taking with me on our feild trip to the swimming pool today:


Up top we have a fish shaped onigiri with a nori smile. It is filled with a bit of tuna fish. And I can't remember if this is the spicy kind, or the kind with relish, so I will just have to wait and see. (Since I froze them earlier and thought I'd be able to remember and...um...no, I don't.) It is swiming through a sea of spanish rice-a-roni near a school of carrot fish.

Below is a tuna fish sandwich (are you sensing a theme?) topped with little nori fish. Next to the sandwich are grapes and almonds, respectively.

And that's lunch!

Nori Faces

My "sweet sixteen" bento is the first that I have gotten to use nori to make faces with. I put them on the carrots from my garden, as well as the onigiri. But I found the seaweed very difficult to cut into nice shapes. It will take practice, I'm sure.

Here are the carrots, picked from my garden the morning of:


And here is the lunch itself:


On the left is the onigiri, steamed broccoli and some of the last cherry tomatoes from my garden (oh, wait, one of those is a roma). On the left are the two carrot characters, some raisins, little tortilla wraps with ham and dijion mustard in them, a few almonds, a couple crackers, and a chocolate chip cookie.