How I like Tomato Soup

With enough salt and pepper and cayenne powder on top to form this beautiful coating :)

2 rices bentos

Left tier: Stirfry tofu flowers with carrot centers, peas, sesame carrots.
Right tier: Fried rice, white rice, green peas.

Left tier: Fried rice and white rice, peas, carrots with tofu flower centers.

Right tier: Green bean stands, stirfry tofu squares with angle cut green bean slices, peas and sesame carrots.

Left tier: Fried rice road, white rice, soy bologna and cheese car with sugar dot lights, pickle wheels, soy bologna letters.

Right tier: Stirfry tofu hearts, peas and sesame carrots.

Chili bentos

Top tier: Vegetarian chili, carrot and daikon flower, cayenne powder in the center.
Botton tier: 4 mini cornbread muffins, blueberries, green bean bundle with carrot wrapper, corn.

Top tier: Mini cornbread muffins, green bean bundles and corn.

Bottom tier: Vegetarian chili, daikon and carrot flower.

Bowl: Vegetable Barley soup leftover from The Grit restaurant. Shredded cheese added.

Large section: Soy hotdog flowers, vegetarian chili, carrot flowers, green bean bundle, mini cornbread muffins.

Small section: Dried mango rolls with yellow animal picks, blueberries.

Lunch Cuteness Experiment #30

The ribbon was a very successful experiment with 'fruit by the foot'. This time A-chan decided to try some of it and within minutes it was devoured.

Left to right: Blueberries and grapes, tomato soup, spaghetti noodle flower with carrot flower center and parmesan cheese, pickles and babybel cheese triangles.

Downtown Excursion Bentos

We were going downtown for the early afternoon and hoped to eat lunch in a garden on campus but we never made it that far. These bentos got eaten at home at the dining room table instead. They still tasted great, but I'm hoping to have outdoor bentos sometime soon!

Ingredients: Fried rice round onigiri with corn center, broccoli bite, black olive, baby grapes, babybel cheese round, soy-bologna and cheese swirls with cute animal picks, teriyaki yakisoba, apple bunnies, baby tomatoes, mayo dip.

I wasn't sure how the fried rice would do for making onigiri and they didn't hold together as well as I would have liked but they were extremely tasty!

3 color bento

I've seen a lot of bentos on flickr and such that have these 3 color partitions that hide rice underneath. They always look lovely so I decided to try it for A-chan's lunch today. It was amazing how sweet the corn tasted with the rice!

Oval bento: baby grapes, baby tomatoes, pretzels, cheese flowers
Rectangle bento: Rice on the bottom covered by sesame carrots, green peas and buttered corn with black olive decoration.

Lots of broccoli!

Left tier: Morningstar Farms Broccoli Bites, green beans, lentil pate (made by a friend!), baby tomatoes, steamed broccoli, jasmine rice.

Right tier: Somen noodle stirfry with onion, yellow pepper, red pepper, green pepper and broccoli.

Top tier: A soy chip, broccoli bites, steamed broccoli, jasmine rice with baby tomatoes and green bean decorations.

Bottom tier: somen noodle stirfry with broccoli and 3 peppers.

Top tier: Soy chip and broccoli bite, green beans, broccoli and baby tomatoes, somen noodle stirfry.

Bottom tier: jasmine rice with swirl of hot and spicy sauce, lentil pate and broccoli.

The lentil pate was made by a friend of ours. It is vegetarian and very yummy! It works really well in bentos which was a pleasant discovery :)