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March 17, 2010 by arkonitePorridge in a rice cooker
March 16, 2010 by arkoniteThought I’d try making porridge in my rice cooker.
Set it up last night, there were no instructions in my Sanyo manual for porridge so I thought I’d use the risotto setting.
Fine, measured in the oats, 1 cup. Next milk, added it up to the 1 cup line for risotto. Set the timer so it would be ready for 6 am this morning and off to be d I trotted.
This morning, lovely smells coming from the kitchen. Walked in and the keep warm light on the rice cooker was blinking like crazy. Strange I thought, walked over to check out my breakfast and was greeted with a boiled over cooker, milk and oats all over the place. What a mess to clean up at 6am when barely awake.
So what did I do wrong? Answers on a postcard please……….
Will I try again, maybe if I can get the ratio correct. Oh and for the record my rice cooker is a sanyo 5.5 cup fuzzy logic machine.
The porridge that was left in the pot was delish by the way!
New week, new me?
March 14, 2010 by arkoniteI have reached a decision. I am now at the heaviest I have ever been in my life. Time for a lifestyle change and time to lose the pounds.
Tomorrow kick starts my healthy eating plan. Here’s my lunch for tomorrow……….
2 quail eggs, oyster mushrooms stir fried with shoyu, steamed mixed veggies, kimchi gyozas, steamed rice with red shiso and furikake.
On the side you can also see extra sachets of lo cal juice to keep my fluid intake up and I’m also packing a banana and a clementine.
The tired bento
March 10, 2010 by arkoniteThis shows how tired I am tonight, I had to write myself a note to remember my juice in the morning! I forgot to take it today, ooops. Tired bento is also a panda pbj, fruit and a babybel cheese. Right, it’s almost 8pm and I can’t stay awake any longer, off to bed. Night night!
Big Bento!!
March 9, 2010 by arkonite
A very large bento for tomorrow.
I have a long day and I need to pack enough food for the day.
So, one ham salad bagel, 4 kimchi gyozas, cherry tomatoes, potato salad, edamame, steamed carrots, baby corn cobs, peperami, orange apple and a banana. The a container of ice tea to wash it all down!
Tuesday
March 9, 2010 by arkoniteTodays blog post comes via the wonders of modern technology, thanks to the fact I can email from my phone! I’m still slightly amazed at this fact, sad but true. Anyhow back to the bento! Today is a very simple lunch, one of those days you just don’t need any fancy dancy things going on. PB&J Panda pockets to start with, potato salad, cherry tomatoes, mini salami, babybel and a mini jelly cup. Packed in my miffy lunch bag I also have a banana and a mandarin. To stay hydrated today I packed a bottle of ice tea, though I think I need to find a larger bottle! You’ll just have to imagine my bento today though as the camera on my phone isn’t great!
Monday veggie medley (almost!)
March 7, 2010 by arkonite
I’m back on the bento wagon for myself.
Miss Kitty gets her first outing tomorrow, so we’ll see how she fares!
Packed up in my box for tomorrow is mostly a veggie mix. I didn’t plan it that way intentionally but it’s a healthy start to the week 
The empty space in my bento is where I’ll pack some fresh rice in the morning before I leave. The other segments contain steamed, stir fried vegetables, shredded smoked ham, potato salad, steamed mange tout, cherry tomatoes and sesame mochi.
To add to my bento I’m packing an orange, a banana and a pack of small cake bars as a little sugar boost for the afternoon. I’ll also pack a bottle of iced tea to keep me hydrated during the day.
Have a nice Monday (>_<)
Bento for small sprog
March 3, 2010 by arkoniteOK, I know I haven’t actually posted any bento photos recently. Small sprog has been making her own bento and I haven’t made any. *gasp*
Actually I haven’t been at work, but that’s another story.
Here’s the bento I made for small sprog tonight……
We’ve got from the top left:
Jam filled Gyozas! with cheese hearts to decorate.
Carrot and cucumber flowers
mini raisn box, cherry tomatoes on a skewer.
Meat bites on bone picks and a strawberry jelly cup.
The jam gyozas are wrapped in cling film as we make our bento up the night before. No way is there time in this house in the morning! The cling wrap will stop them drying out in the fridge overnight.
Another pic of the bento making in progress….
don’t look at the bottom of my sarnies, OK? The bread isn’t squishy enough or I put too much jam in and the bread split!
Carrots were sliced up on my borner v slicer to keep them even. I then stamped out the shapes I wanted from the slices.
The rest are in the fridge for bento on Friday.
People often ask what happens to leftovers when you cut out cute shapes from food for bento?
Well in my case, the carrots above have been put in a zip lock baggie and frozen. I’ll keep filling this baggie up as I make bento, then at some point the carrots will be used in soups, stews and casseroles or even just steamed for a plated dinner. It adds a bit of interest when hubs picks up a carrot with a flower shape cut out!
Here’s what I do to my leftover cheese….
It will get melted into a toastie for my lunch tomorrow. Or it might stay in the box a little longer to be used in hubs lunch on Friday, who knows?
Here’s a bento for small sprog from last week…..
Carrot and cucumber sticks, mini cherry tomatoes, babybel cheese, ham sandwiches, side car of dried fruit.
Oh and some goodies from the Asian foodstore a while back…….
Frozen char siu bun (nomnomnom!)
Kewpie Mayonnaise (nomnomnom!)
Cute sauce dipping bowls to add to my asian dinner set and some daifuku. This is a green tea flavour filled with red bean. If it’s as nice as the plain white was I ate that day, it will be yummy :0)
OK, I think I’m all caught up for now, see you soon!
Kinchaku follow up!
February 28, 2010 by arkoniteAfter I posted the link for the bento bag tutorial the other day, Angi has gone and made one already!!!!
Check out the results over on Bento Junkie!!
It’s upped the bar for me, now I need to dust off the sewing machine and get going!
Kinchaku (bento bag) tutorial
February 26, 2010 by arkoniteOk, this post is especially for Angi over at Bento Junkie!
She’d posted the other day about making a bag to carry her bento lunch in and I happened to mention that previously while surfing the web, I’d come across a tutorial which made a kinchaku (bento bag) from a pillowcase.
I promised when I found the link to that tutorial that I’d blog about it here!
So Angi, specially for you, here’s the bento bag tutorial over at OhFransson!
I haven’t yet made this bag as I don’t have any nice old pillowcases and I’m loathe to run out and buy a pillowcase just to try making this bag, so if you do make it, will you come back and let me know how you got on? I’d be really interested to see a finished one
