Bento 24 - 27
Here are last week’s bento’s
1) Pasta salad with spinach, cream cheese and cherry tomatoes
2) Some red curry sauce to go with the snacks in the bottom tier
3) Various vegetarian snacks. I really liked the triangles and the round ones
4) Cheeses
1) Rice with added nuts
2) Quorn curry with coconut on top, added some cashews in mine
3) “Kroepoek” (no idea how that is called in English)
4) Filled mushrooms (will post the recipe on the forum)
5) Cucumber and cheese flowers, cherry tomato
1) Roti wrap (filling: Potatoes, beans, tomato, paprika, quorn)
2) “kroepoek”
3) Corn with handmade sauce
4) Laughing cow cheese cubes
5) Cucumber stars
1) Spicy wieners (for the boyfriend)
2) Corn
3) Handmade sauce to go with corn
4) Pasta salad with mushrooms, mozzarella and spinach (recipe on the forum)
5) Somewhat too soft boiled star shaped eggs and laughing cow cheese cubes
Thats all folks!
Bento 20 - 23
Here are the bento’s I made last week:
1) Sweet potato croquets
2) Rice
3) Cheese cubes
4) Cherries and a yellow cherry tomato
5) Cream cheese and surimi onigiri
6) Octodogs
7) Vegetarian quorn teriyaki
1) Noodles with quorn, yellow paprika and sugarsnaps
2) Indonesian cake
3) Cheese cubes
4) Zucchini flowers with cream cheese and Italian herbs
1) Bunny shaped egg
2) Rice
3) Quorn madras (with apple, paprika and broccoli)
4) Octodogs
5) Cheese and strawberry jam dinosaur sandwich
And snackbento’s for the huge book festival Mark and I went to! It gave me the chance to use my newest Cheshire Cat bento and the bunny one who I havent used before. They are both on the small side but left us more satisfied then expected.
1) Bear shaped egg
2) Rice (marks has an octodog on top)
3) Quorn chimichurri
4) Heart shaped cucumbers with cheese in between
5) Angelpig sauce bottles containing the spice sauce for the chimichurri
6) Octodogs
Bento 019
Yesterday I didnt have leftovers from dinner which resulted in a smaller bento. But it gave me the chance to try out my new strawberry bento box which can hold only a littlebit more then a kitty bento even though it had two tiers.
1) Oreo cookies in the lid
2) Octodogs for Mark (I wanted to try making those for ages but since I’m vegetarian I cant eat them)
3) Sesame sticks
4) Sweet potato croquets
5) Cherries
6) Strawberries (and some yellow cherry tomatoes and cheese cube)
7) Rosemary potatoes in sour cream
This is the first time Marks and mine bento differ so much. This is because Mark doesnt eat fruit!
Bento 18
1) Potato salad
2) Corn with homemade sauce
3) Sour cream in Stitch cup and cherry tomato and soft cheese cube
4) Coconut rice with added nuts
5) Tomato cream sauce with quorn, zucchini and fresh tomatoes decorated with a moon and star shaped coconut slice
6) Blueberry pocky
7) Chocolate pocky
I will post the recipe for the corn with homemade sauce on the forum 
Bento 15, 16 and 17
First of we have a snack bento I made for a break in traveling. The bento was made for 3.
1) Salmon & cream cheese wraps
2) Yellow cherry tomatoes
3) Cheese with herbs
4) Soft cheese cubes
5) Wraps with chicken and cream cheese for the boyfriend 
1) Soft cheese cubes
2) Potato salad
3) Cherry tomatoes
4) Cheese with herbs
5) White rice
6) A vegetarian sateh like sauce, containing corn, beans and yellow paprika topped with a coconut duck
Then my new bento boxes arrived. I ordered a couple of 2-tier boxes because it would allow me to make bigger lunches for Mark to bring to his work.
And see what is inside:
1) Potato salad with flower shaped cucumbers
2) Soft cheese cubes
3) My first egg chick, the beak is tomato and the eyes are coconut. It is supposed to be winking.
4) Tomato slices
5) Pasta sauce based on sun dried tomatoes with fresh basil, zucchini and mushrooms
6) Ravaolli, a pasta filled with cheese
7) Sesame sticks and blueberry pocky in the lid.
Close up from chick-egg:
Bento 013 and 014
Yesterday I made my bento from scratch since we didnt have any leftovers from dinner.
Todays bento:
1) A spinach quiche without crust (egg, spinach and mozzarella)
2) Yellow cherry tomatoes
3) Pasta salad with tuna and tomatoes
And it was all decorated with cheese stars
Tomorrows bento:
1) Pasta salad with tuna and tomatoes
2) Little packed cheese cubes
3) Wraps with lettuce, tomatoes, cubumber and cream cheese. Marks had chicken inside and mine salmon.
4) Yellow cherry tomatoes
Bento 012
Todays bento:
1) Yellow cherry tomatoes
2) Boiled egg
3) Turkish marshmallow candy
4) Grapes
5) Imitation crabsticks
6) Curry puffs
7) Mediterranean crackers
Onigiri with cream cheese and surimi (recipe can be found on the forum)
Bento 011
Todays lunch will be:
Bento contains:
1) Yellow cherry tomatoes
2) Grapes
3) Leftover quorn palava
4) Rice with corn
5) Curry puffs (recipe can be find on the forum!)
6) Mediterranean crackers
Bento Mania
I have a new Japanese related hobby since a short while and it is called bento making. This is basically make your own lunch however more cute. While my bento are mostly practical still, I try to make them more cute as well. I tend to mix typical Japanese dishes like onigiri or sushi with more Western dishes because it saves me time.
This first post will be a huge backlog on the 10 first bento I made so far since I decided only today that I would use this site for my bento creations as well. This is to add some variation to the contents of this site which hopefully makes it more interesting to read!
This was my first bento. It was a bento for 3 and made for a forest pick nick.
It contains cherry tomato snacks and cross shaped cucumber, flower shaped spinach pies and cabbage salad.
Bento 002 contains:
1) White rice with mushrooms and leftover cucumber
2) Mediterranean crackers
3) Falafel (meatless balls based on chick peas)
4) Cross shaped cucumber used as separators
5) Left over wrap filling with fish, corns, green beans and orange paprika.
Bento 003:
1) Leftover vegetarian tandoori sauce
2) Hidden carrot sticks, used as separators
3) Cucumber
4) All kind of different nuts
5) Cheese crackers (tuc koekjes for the Dutch people)
6) Yellow cherry tomatoes
7) Flower shaped rice balls from yellow rice
This bento I made before I went to AnimeCon 2008. It would be the last time I had to use my ghetto bento! It was a bento for 2.
1) Tuna onigiri made a few days earlier
2) Grape tomatoes and yellow cherry tomatoes to fill gaps
3) Veggie pies
4) Pasta salad with spinach, cream cheese and tomatoes, decorated with clover shaped cucumber
Bento 005:
1) Cherry tomato to fill the gap
2) Mediterranean crackers
3) Garlic wrap with cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and cucumber
4) Onigiri with 5 spice sauce
5) Turkish marshmallow candy with coconut
Bento 006:
1) Potato salad in muffin shaped seperator
2) Cherry tomatoes
3) Little pieces of chocolate
4) Turkish marshmallow candy with chocolate
5) Garlic wraps with cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and cucumber (once again because the wraps once opened can only be kept for a few days and Mark enjoyed it!
Bento 007:
This was the first time I made sushi!!
Bento contains: Sushi, potato salad, turkish candy, cherry tomatoes and Mediterranean crackers.
Bento 008:
1) Cherry tomatoes
2) Imitation crab sticks
3) Turkish marshmallow candy
4) Sesame sticks
5) Quorn tandoori with coconut heart
6) Yellow rice with cucumber stars
Bento 009:
1) Heart shaped egg (using an egg mold)
2) Rice potato with creme fraiche combi
3) Quorn chimichurri and sauce in the bottle
4) Grapes
5) Turkish marshmallow candy
6) Yellow cherry tomatoes filled with cream cheese
Bento 010:
1) Cherry tomatoes
2) Grapes
3) Turkish marshmallow candy
4) Zucchini bite snacks
5) Mediterranean crackers
6) Pasta salad
If people want recipes: feel free to request. I will also open a part of the forum on bento where you can ask questions. I will also post some recipes there!
episode review: Tower of Druaga - the Aegis of Uruk
A new anime, and well… this certainly was something else. The premise, at least what we’re explained at the beginning, is that there is a massive tower somewhere, and on top of it resides the evil god Druaga. Note that he doesn’t ever seem to come down his tower, nor do the surrounding countries seem to suffer much from his presense. But, he’s evil… so he has to go.
Main character Gil (Jil) is introduced, and the character design and armour seem to be at least somewhat inspired by the Dragon Knight franchise. But that’s not where it ends. In fact the entire episode seems to be one giant parody on old school role playing games, and even some anime.
All the RPG-cliches pass by one by one, and each and every one is ridiculed brilliantly. Subtle and very unsubtle references to Dragonball Z, The Guyver and Neo Genesis Evangelion pass by, as well as a host of crazy characters. In fact, the only experience remotely similar to it that I can remember would be Disgaea.
Not going to tell you much of the story though, because, well, each and every moment of it is as predictable as can be, and it’ll ruin the final scenes. But there will be quite a few moments that will make you go omg-wtf-oink-mate.
Oh, and there’s a combination of non-human girl, tentacles and underwear too. Just so you know.