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One thing at a time for now 
I’ve been chef -ing again in the kitchen. I made mini meatloaf again and this time gave it a little twist!
Have a look on my other blog and see what you think!
This ended up as lunch today.
Mug of miso soup, steamed rice with furikake, steamed vetarian gyoza, mini meatloaf.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I’d like to treat myself to a nice bento set. Something grown up, with a nice matching bag and chopsticks. It doesn’t have to be a thermal set. Any suggestions guys? Oh and where ever I make my purchase, the supplier has to be able to ship to the UK! Maximum budget I have set aside for this is £40 ($60 or E45) and I’d really like that to be shipping included!
Suggestions welcome please!
I decided to make this bento for today as an entry for Hapa Bento’s B.O.M.B challenge.
I made this in my small Red Rabbit bento box. I’m trying to watch my calorie intake, so this box is a perfect size for portion control!
The top tier has some white rice with red shiso furikake. Also included in this tier is a portion of leftovers from last night’s dinner. Slow cooked topside roast, stir fried with lightly steamed broccoli, pak choi and red pepper strips. It has a light oyster sauce dressing.
The bottom tier of my red rabbit bento has cherry tomatoes with a matching red tomato pick, mini baby bel cheese and a juicy red gala apple for dessert. My bento bag also contains a small red bird cup of extra dressing for my beef and a pair of red dragon chopsticks. The bento box is held together with a matching red rabbit bento band.
My bento was very quick to make (10 minutes) as I packed leftovers and I have to say, it was extremely tasty!
For a bit of fun last night when I made this dinner, I served it in my asian dinner set. Small sprog had a blast using her rookie chopsticks! Hubs was quite content to use a fork and I managed really well with my chopsticks. Rather proud of this wee achievement!
Monday bentos are very simple affairs.
Small sprog has packed meatloaf and a selection of veggies. She’s also packing cereal and milk.
My box is similar with mini meatloaf and a salad. My salad has a dressing of cumin, coriander and sesame salad sprinkles. In my second box I have packed chopped banana, mixed dried fruit, mini jelly and a mini babybel cheese.
The mini meatloaf I made a while back and had frozen in batches of two. Very handy! :)
Here we have a picture (finally!) of our home made sushi. Tonight small sprog and I made some inari sushi and some salmon nigri to top up what was left from last nights batch.
The inari pockets are presented open end up as I prefer them this way instead of the traditional open side down.
Small sprog and I decided to pack a sushi bento for my Mum tonight as a treat. She and I are hoping to lose some weight and I thought if I pack her a bento box, it would help her look at lunch in a more fun way, rather than thinking that she’s restricting her food intake, oh and I also gave her a pair of chopsticks to eat her lunch with hee hee!
We didn’t really have any problems making our sushi, although I will admit the inside out roll was hard to do. It’s very sticky to work with, I don’t know that I would try these again. So we have inari pockets, smoked salmon maki, smoked salmon nigri, teriyaki tuna rolls. Mum also had some cuccumber and red pepper maki rolls as did small sprog.
For the teriyaki tuna rolls I used one small can of tuna which I made sure was well flaked. Mix into this one teaspoon (yes you read that correctly!) of mayonnaise and one teaspoon of teriyaki sauce. Mix the tuna and sauce well until combined then use to fill your sushi as you would normally do.
Enjoy Tuesday everyone!
Tonight small sprog and I make sushi. We had an attempt at an inside out roll and we managed some very respectable maki rolls.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures as yet, my camera battery is flat and I am learning my way round a new phone, so haven’t quite mastered how to post pictures form that yet. I’ll try to take a photo tomorrow before I eat and then hopefully I’ll figure how to post it
I’ll also pack fruit to have with my sushi for lunch, I’m aiming to be a bit healthier from now on, I really need to shift the extra pound from Christmas!
Have a good Monday everyone
I settled on an inari sushi bento for tomorrow. Pictured above we have inari sushi pockets with furikake. Salad, jelly cup, babybel, box of raisins, cup of salad dressing and a soy sauce container for the sushi.
The bento was very quick to assemble and I used the one cup setting on my rice cooker for the first time. Absolute godsend! Previously, I would have to cook at least 2 cups and then either freeze or throw away the remaining rice. So another thumbs up for the rice cooker!
Well I went back to work today and I had planned last night to make a lazy bento. My idea was to buy a small pack of sushi from Marks and Spencer, bung that in my bento with some additions and hey presto! But that was not to be. M&S was gutted, no sushi, no sandwiches, no snack size salads, nothing!
Did I end up doing anything for lunch? Nope! It was too late for me last night to start from scratch when I came home so I just took some fruit to work today and then made some toast when I came home. What a cop out!!!!
Must try harder next week…………….. honest!!
No bento today, I’m at home sick 
Bento will hopefully resume later in the week.
