Tonight’s bento recipe is my version of a salad dressing from Wagamama. (yumyumyum) Firstly to make the salad, I cooked a bundle of soba noodles and a bundle of somen noodles in green tea. (Use a tea infuser to contain the leaves or you can just stick 2 green tea bags into the cooking pot with [...]
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Green tea noodle salad
Posted in bento, recipe on July 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Catch up
Posted in bento, contest, recipe on April 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I thought I’d post a catch up on all my goings on for the past while. I know I haven’t been posting regularly, good weather equates to a growth spurt of weeds in the garden and the need to get them all hoiked out ASAP!! Anyway, a while back I entered a competition held by [...]
The I’ve lost count of how many bento I’ve made bento.
Posted in bento, recipe on March 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I really should start to count how many bento I’ve made and posted shouldn’t I? Then when I reach a milestoen like 100 or what ever, I could do something special. Anyway, the bento box for Monday contains a new recipe ( I’ll post a link to the site I found it on in a [...]
Chef-ing again!
Posted in bento, recipe on February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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.
Sushi repeat!
Posted in bento, recipe on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
Healthy?
Posted in bento, recipe on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Well tomorrow I’m off to work with a chicken sandwich bento and fruit. Before I go to work though, I’m filling up on this yummy oatmeal recipe I found: Butterscotch Oatmeal! You can get the full recipe (and lots of other yummy ones too!) from Mr Breakfast Now I’m not sure exactly how healthy it [...]
Inspiration!
Posted in bento, recipe on January 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ok, well no not really, more of a copycat to be truthful! Jenn over at Not Exactly Bento inspired me with her mini meatloaf bento. I had leftover pork sausage meat in my freezer from Christmas, so I thought I’d have a go. Here’s my version, though I warn you, I’m not a recipe kind [...]
A new use for my rice cooker!
Posted in gear, recipe on December 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Currently the rice cooker is housing some lovely winter mulled wine! Yum yum! Very easy to do and just gently steaming away on the keep warm function. 1 bottle of red wine 1 bay leaf 2 slices of orange, studded with cloves sugar to taste grate of nutmeg cinnamon stick Heat together gently until sugar [...]
Soup!
Posted in recipe on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Soup currently in rice/slow cooker now. Recipe on my non bento blog here: Sweetcorn and potato chowder Results and review posted tomorrow!
Baked Bread Cups
Posted in blog, recipe on November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I tried my hand at making baked bread cups. I have noticed a few sets on ebay for making these and thought I have all the bits and bobs so I can try them myself. So here’s what I did…. Pre-heat the oven to 190C or 400F For each bread cup I used one [...]









