Valentine's Day Bento

Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!

Today, I made my fiance a bento to take to work! It is a bento that is domokun themed! I put the lunch inside this adorable domokun bag. It is actually made of very thick durable fabric and is quite cute.

This is the domokun bento box (closed view). It has two tiers, comes with chopsticks that fit inside between the upper tier lid and the bento box lid. It also came with this simple black band. The picture on the box is also very fun.

Now for the food! Inside I have an orzo pasta salad. I boiled the pasta, let it cool, and added finely chopped carrot, yellow pepper and yellow onion. I also made my own vinaigrette and tossed it all together. In the top tier I included two heart shaped chocolates, some almonds, some cheddar and dill havarti and a few pieces of chopped up beef pepperoni sticks. I also included along with this 2 boiled eggs in a Valentine's themed baggie!

I'm sure that he will enjoy this very nutritious and fun lunch that was made with extra love for Valentine's day! I hope you all have a very special day. :)

Until next time, happy munching!

Dinnertime Bento

Today I have a late class, and it runs right through dinnertime, so I am bringing a dinner bento!

To keep my food hot, I used a thermal bento! When I got to class and opened it up, everything was still nice and delicious and hot!

Inside I packed rice (it is under the vegetables to you can't really see it) and I made a chicken and vegetable stir-fry. First I cooked the chicken with some seasonings and then cut up and cooked the vegetables, then mixed them together again and poured on some sesame sauce and then put it all on top of my rice. 

I also included two little snacks, a few gummy bears and some strawberry yogurt and granola.

Delicious.

That is all for my dinner bento! I hope you enjoyed it! Until next time, Happy Munching!

Hello, Year of the Rabbit!

It is that time of year! Chinese New Year! We say good bye to the previous year, (the tiger) and hello to the new year, year of the Rabbit!!

Rabbit-Dragon Tissue Box Cover

I decided to have a little celebration with my fiance to welcome the year of the rabbit!

I decorated a little (unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the decorations on the walls) and I prepared a hot pot! A little information for those who wish to know, a hot pot is basically a form of table top cooking. We have an induction burner that we use for this purpose. One has a pot on the burner which is filled with a broth or soup of their choice. One can purchase lots of different bases to which they add to water only must add a few ingredients like garlic and green onions. Then one uses thinly sliced meats and cut up vegetables which are cooked in the boiling soup. Its very fun and social.

Here is a picture of the spread we had laid out! As you can see in this picture we had a few different types of thinly sliced meats (pork, beef, and lamb), lots of veggies (cabbage, carrots, cremini mushrooms, baby bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, and snow peas), udon noodles, rice, cheese cubes (old cheddar and havarti) and I prepared a small salad to start. We also had some lemon green tea. It was great!

This is just a little picture of my tea set that I purchased a few months ago and really wanted to pull out for this occasion. You can see that it has little rabbits on it. :)

 

We also had some treats for dessert! Those fish are Nian Gao which is a Sticky Cake, made of rice. (We didn't get a chance to eat them yet because we were so full from dinner, but they are sure to be interesting!) And we have a few different treats in that box! 

Here you can see that it is filled with some various candies, almonds and some sweet crispy fried dough and some dried yam. We tried a few treats and they were all quite tasty! 

Well that's all for now! I wish you all the best in Year of the Rabbit! Until next time, Happy Munching!