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Cooked salmon, baked pears in apple juice on the left, pasta, stir fried broccoli and cranberries on the right.

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I like today's bento especially because of the nice color combination.




On the front are some christmas cookies (later put in an extra bag), behind peas, tomatoes, zucchini, pear and physalis.

Behind are Linguine Carbonara.

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Only one bento last week



It was a bit weird really. Japanese Potato Salad, inarizushi with spicy mayo and prawns and mange tout with sweet chilli and lime. Too much mayo!

"The Smallest Tree" Bento Box has a story that I wrote.

Read about this bento box on hapa bento.

Falafel, a tiny cucumber, carrots and two different candies in the foreground. Homemade potato salad on lettuce in the background.

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A rather mixed bunch tonight. From the top left a clementine, 4 pork shu mai, a chicken and mushroom filo pie, 2 fruit gummys, 4 after dinner mints, cucumber slices and cherry tomatoes. In all the little gaps are mange tout peas cut into little spikes. It seemed more visually dynamic in real life!

Monday's lunch: leftovers from the weekend.



Teriyaki chicken and rice with vegetables, waldorf salad, apricots, radishes and some Baby Ruth. mmmm

The countdown continues here on the other side of the week end.

If I am to pull this calendar thing off, I need YOUR input. Ideas to what else I can make is more than welcome! As are comments in general ;)

Bento # 672 Chili cheese poppers. Tonkatsu. Peas and an apple heart. Pasta "ears" with tomato pesto, decorated with an angel made of quail- and ordinary egg and some lasagna-pasta.

Huskies football! Go Dawgs!

Bento description on the blog.

hapa bento

Nothing fancy, just some leftovers from Thanksgiving.

Top tier is cut up green beans, Cranberry sauce in green silicon mold, and stuffing.

Bottom tier is Turkey salad on top of romaine lettuce.

Less of a full meal and more of a snack... posted late due to livejournal maintenence.

160ml White container: brown rice and chicken kelaguen
160 ml green container: red grapes and Tillamook smoked cheddar cheese cubes
Mr. Brown Macadamia Nut Iced Coffee

Crossposted from my journal to BentoLunches

Description of bento contents are on the hapa bento blog.

Today's bento.
I'm afraid it's noodles again (I got a bit carried away on Wednesday night while making them so it was waaayyy too much ;) )
But for the sake of change, I decorated the noodles with a little forest (all zucchini).

In the other box are some mini pumpernickel sandwiches, another salad with a dressing pig and a fruit bowl with physalis, grapes and pear.



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Recipe for both the gingered carrots and mochiko chicken are included in the hapa bento post!

Poo.. LJ's scrap book thing is still down. So for once I'll try with the pic from my other source. No fun in posting invisible pictures...

Anyway.. still counting the days to Christmas. Now it's becoming a challenge *L*


Christmas heart-apple on top of banana stars. Fish nuggets. Corn cob. Broccoli. Tri-colour spaghetti with ketchup, decorated with cucumber and bell pepper.

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...at least in my apartment, anyway. I'm sure they're still rolling in leftovers at my parents' house.



Top: red bell peppers, beans and rice
Bottom: turkey salad sandwich

I was reluctant to do a sandwich bento, since part of the reason I got into bento-making in the first place was to pack more of a variety of foods in my lunches, but I still do like sandwiches. I think this one came out okay, but as I was packing it, I wished that I had something green to stick in between the sandwich pieces. I think that really would have made it pop. Alas, no green veggies in my fridge. But perhaps this means I'm starting to think like a bento artist?

Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch him, he's the Gingerbread Man!

So, here's today's bento.
As we have december now, there are some self-made cookies and christmas-tree- and star-shaped- carrots.



The smaller box is left over noodles with carrots and zucchini.
The bigger box is salad with a dressing pig, fruit salad (physalis and grapes) and the cookies.

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