Road Trip

We embarked on an adventure today. A trip that would normally take us 4 hours took 6 today. It was an interesting day of leisurely stop and go traffic. I had planned to have a picnic bento at a park about halfway through the trip but because of the incredibly horrific traffic we never got to do that. We ended up eating the bento in the car instead. It really, really was not designed for eating without a table. We made it work though - finger food for the win! And I only spilled a little bit of soy sauce :)

In the bento: 6 inari zushi with homemade furikake mixed in with the rice, and two apple bunnies in the first compartment. The second compartment has grapes, 3 scrambled tofu onigiri, and an ice mochi. Another one held 5 veggie gyoza, carrot hearts, veggie meatballs, two wedges of dragonfruit and the last compartment is totally full of kabocha with a couple of baby tomatoes.

It's been a long time since we've had Inari zushi, and I'm not sure that A-chan has ever had any before today. I am pleased to say that she loved them. And they will soon be included in her lunch bentos!! When simmering the kabocha I added brown sugar which made it very sweet and yum :)