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!
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