Turning Over a New Leaf

After the spicy, sweet, buttery, spongy, syrupy, creamy abundance of the last two weeks, farewell, vacation!  It’s time for a change.  A new leaf, if you will.  (Sorry.)  The kids start school tomorrow.  Joan and I go back to work.  The year starts in earnest.  No more lolling on the couch knitting all afternoon.  No more [...]

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Last Week’s Bento

Little Sunshine’s special cutie bento to ease the slow agony of the last day of school before Thanksgiving Break.  Rice balls using Just Bento’s genius onigiri hack; mini chocolate chip cookies, salad, and orange slices.

Tuxedo Boy has recently taken up Pokemon, and this is my amateurish rendition of Pikachu and his little friend in onigiri.  [...]

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Bento Carnival

Onigiri, tiny grapes from our vines, pretzel nuggets, and lemon cookies.
I haven’t been very good about getting pictures of the bento recently–it’s tricky to remember in the morning rush.  Of course, a lot of the time they don’t look that hot, either.

Fruit salad, Annie’s Goddess Dressing, multi-grain crackers, egg salad, steamed snow peas and carrots, [...]

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Aisai Bento

Lately my bento have been, well, uninspired.  Tuxedo Boy and Little Sunshine are very choosy about what goes into their lunches, and I’m not quite back in the swing of daily lunch making.  But last night I broke out of my slump and sent Joan off to work with my version of aisai bento (“loving [...]

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