Here is the blog post as promised! :) Using my Ms. Bento from my brithday (in August!) for the first time. I know, how ashamed I am that I took so long to try it out!

(click for larger photo) Pork tofu, rice, chicken karaage, cucumber pickles, orange bell pepper. This Ms. Bento is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I own a Tiger thermal: post here, but I was pretty peeved when I found out that it wasn't leak proof. The Ms. Bento soup container IS leakproof and it held my soupy pork tofu perfectly. I heated it up in the morning with some boiling water for about 5 minutes and it kept my food hot until lunchtime. Definitely a great present. :) Till next time!

So, here we have today's bento.



The top box is curry noodles with chicken and broccoli. (Leftover dinner from yesterday). The bottom is asparagus, cut veggies and little sandwiches with brie and pumpernickel. Also a tomato flower and some pear/ physalis for dessert.

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This bento box almost didn't happen. Details on hapa bento.

I didn't post # 677 yesterday because.. frankly it's so utterly pathetic and ugly that the only reason I'm posting it at all is because I don't want a gap in my postings here... So to counterbalance that, I had to think of something at least CUTE for the newest one, # 678 - and I think I succeeded. Christmas elves play a lot bigger role in Danish yule lore than most other countries. In Denmark it's the elves (or nisser, they're somewhere between gnomes and elves, not REALLY being either one) that brings the christmas presents, sometimes helped by Santa, but they've sorta mixed here. So they're a common sight on christmas cards and of course in any sort of christmas decoration. And now on bentos, too :)

Bento # 678 Ovenbaked pasta and veggies in cheese/cream sauce. Decorated with christmas elves made of baloney, salami, red and yellow sweet pepper and carrot. Trees of cucumber. Chicken katsu with tonkatsu sauce. Kiwi.

( If you insist, here's the pathetic # 677... )

( Contents and Lil' man's bento )

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Today's bento:



Main dish is the same as yesterday. Chicken with teriyaki sauce and rice with furikake. Side dish is vegetables (carrots, zucchini, broccoli, asparagus) and some mousse au chocolat with pear-decoration.

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I don't usually do charaben, but I guess I have to have one winter-themed charaben this year! I've wanted to make an onigiri snowman pretty much ever since I started bentoing, but I didn't get around to it.
The snowman is accompanied by seasonally appropriate green asparagus and red glazed carrots (the red is food dye), and a bit of veggie burger with a Thai basil leaf.

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My bentoblog: http://wererabbits.wordpress.com

Once again, reality put a money wrench in my plans. I'd planned the two quail eggs to be baubles on a christmas tree... but then one of them cracked duriing cooking so half of the stuff poured out into the water, leaving me with only half an egg.. And that half looked t me like the top of a candle.,.so after some experimentation where I had to reluctantly admit that the half that was left would NOT look like a bauble no matter how I put it.. I decided to give in and make it into yet another candle..

Bento # 676 Spicy pollack. Kiwi. Tri-coloured spaghetti with pesto, adorned with leek "spruce", quail egg-and-carrot-candle, carrot stars, cucumber baubel with nori angels and -heart. Yellow pepper for the numbers and light rays.

Want to learn bento box songs in Japanese? I made a couple of quick videos of me singing them with the associated hand motions.

( Two bento box song videos )

I'm donating a "Winnie the Pooh Goes Bananas" Bento Kit to the Menu for Hope hunger fundraising charity -- US$10 gives you a chance at this bento set with Winnie the Pooh food shaping tools (sandwich cutter, egg mold, onigiri mold, vegetable cutters) & silicone food cups, Putifresh banana bento box, kinchaku bag, insulated lunch bag, matching chopsticks/case, bento band, and a "spife" (spoon/knife) for packing a whole kiwifruit. Full details here at Lunch in a Box, with a photo of the set behind the cut.

( Photo of the bento set )

No bento yesterday 'cause I had a very important exam and my stomach doesn't want any lunch in such situations...

But, I got a new box and some accessories! Yay!

So, Bento #10 in the new box.



A bit more japanese this time with rice, furikake, chicken with teriyaki sauce and sesame in the one box.
Tamagoyaki, cucumber, carrot and a tomato flower and physalis and pear in the other box.

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Here's the winning bento with recipes from Maria our contest winner!. Read more about it on <a href="http://www.hapabento.com/2009/12/14/recipe-challenge-bento-box/" rel="nofollow">hapa bento.</a>

For a few days I'd known I'd do a bento featuring some christmas elves. So I'd saved two sweet peppers for that purpose since it's perfect for their hats. And then... when I finally meant to do it tonight and opened the fridge.. only ONE pepper remained. So.. instead of the pair of elves I'd visualized and planned.. I had to make a change to this, rather pathetic lonely elf *L*

But hey.. it's at least tasty...

Bento # 675 Crispy chicken fillet. Sweet pepper. Egg. Melty Kiss chocolates. Orzo with pesto, topped with leek, carrot and yellow sweet pepper.

Chicken teriyaki, edamame skewers, mango, grapes and chocolate cupcake all for little man.

I saw the most adorable bear bento box and had to have it. Contents chicken teriyaki, edamame, mango, grapes, blackberries and chocolate cupcake.

I have Frosty the Snowman in my bento today! Be sure to head over to my blog to enter my contest The Twelve Days of Bento for a chance to win some bento loot!