Aussie bento

Since last night was soo busy (in the kitchen!) I only made a bento from what was on hand.

Menu: sliced steak, potato salad and mordern Australian salad. Dressing in seperate container.



The mission for pie concluded with Landrin's help <3 he was my kitchen prince as he rode to the rescue for the pie~ he got the pastary sorted and on top to the filling placed slice strawberries to make the pie more attractive. Not to be happy with just that he lattaced the lid and got them in the oven baking!






Since two pies where made one was for the big dinner Tuesday night and the other was split in halves and taken into repective work places.

So what kept me busy? Preparing a dinner for 8-10 people, for a night when I have volleyball and not at my own place! So everything needed to be easy to prepare on the night and if not complete before... So I made grandma's easy potato salad, a mordern Australian salad (which I roasted the pumpkin and croutons myself) and three quarters prepared turkey balls in salsa sauce (just needed to be heated in the oven, the final stage). Which does not sound like a lot but it all adds up when you like to do as much as possible from scratch!

I had not time and everything was not finalised but I shall post photos tonight before everything goes no the table. Though my lunch is a preview ;-)

Then somehow I found time to watch Signs (never seen before) which was interesting, and defeat the second gym boss and finalised my party for the next leg of adventure!

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Busy Sunday

So not only am I making mixed berry pie (including the Brazilian cherries, found the name today) and dinner prawn curry! I love Japanese curry prawns! So I am looking forward to dinner and bento lunch.

Added to the oysters in mirin and my night is complete! I have not had this much seafood in ages XD

Hrm the jam filling should be finished tonight and I shall make the pie tomorrow :-)









In gaming news, tried Majesty 2 yesterday and it kept tempting me to try a new level. I had never played a fantasy kingdom sim before and I really liked the idea that I did not control the Hero's and had to bribe them to do quests XD

Otherwise I tried the demo of World of Goo on the Wii, was very strange but in a good way! It freaked me out a little when one would die cause they all had faces~ but the demo was enough to convince me to buy the full game. I also tried Final Fantasy demon lord demo, but after a few minutes I found it annoying and delete it.

In pokemon diamond news ... I still need to take out the second gym, cause my traded pokemon refuse to listen to me :-( though I am having a good time! I was having a look at the new Pokemon game that is going to be coming out in April (US edition) and now I really cannot wait for that~ I need more time!

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Mmm cherry pie

Thanks to a guildie on WOW who made an awesome starwberry pie, this weekend I wanted to bake a pie! Good thing is on my mother-in-laws property there is an Australian native cherry tree, ripe and ready for pie making! These cherries are more tart then normal cherries.

So now the cherries have been collected, this took me doing some bush bashing and fighting green ants and even a spider or two! And this does not include the scary leaves and bush that was propably hiding a lot more!

I am thinking I need to let them mature for another day and find a recipe now~ more tomorrow



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Friday bento

So I have been busy in the kitchen again. But this time I wanted to share what I cooked for dinner to show how lunch related.

So dinner was baked barra with capers and salad. Was nice but I think I prefer salmon.

So to make lunch a little differnt I added my first atempt at an octopus sausage. I tried the fried method mentioned on lunch-in-a-box site (which I joined the fourms recently). Otherwise I kept lunch pretty simple with salad and a boiled egg. I was going to make onigiri with some leftover rice but it was too separated and so I just mixed a little fish and soy sauce to give it some extra flavour. Last but not least a couple of pickles in a container.

Presentation wise I think it's a little empty but that could have been improved with use of containers ... I keep wanting my new eBay items to be here even though I only just ordered them :-)

A side note I gave into playasia pressure (how they twist my arm) and preordered the new Zelda ds game Spirt Tracks which comes out early next month but with christmas post won't be here until Jan sometime. And since I had a good coupon I could not resist adding an Animal Crossing Totakeke to the order XD.

But now for some photos:







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My first blogged bento~

So last night I remembered to take a photo of my finished bento XD.

Menu: tonkatsu with curry sauce, rolled omlette, mushrooms and asparagus with miso sauce and finally rice with pickles.

So I was not happy with the rolled omlette ... But it's been a while since I have tried to make it normally soo I am sure I shall improve~

The curry sauce added another difficultly as the sauce container was open o.o but I don't have enough choice of containers yet! Wait until my eBay order gets here XD






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An update

Soooo mostly I have found out that I am lazy ... But I have recently found a new way to keep myself from getting too lazy! I am also going to post bento that I make for my everyday lunches.

I have just been spending monies on Amazon and eBay ... But I will soo have some awesome tools for my bento! Since I already have a good collection of boxes and once use containers I did not need too much more really. I brought two books from Amazon: The Manga Cookbook and Kawaii Bento Boxes: Cute and Convenient Japanese Meals on the Go. Both are aimed at children's lunches but I dont mind cause I like cute lunches. And hopefully with give me lots of ideas. From eBay I got:

Rice molds
Bento picks (zoo animals)
Sakura and ume vegtable cutters
Crab and octopus sausage cutters
Sandwich sealer
and last some Furikake single packs.

So mostly just little bits and pieces to keep me going. Though I think I am going to run out of my paper containers ... Need to find a good place to get them from ... And I want egg molds, and I am sure next year in Japan I shall spend a whole day searching department stores for the perfect bits and pieces to take home.

I do have some photos I need to dig up from a wonderful dinner in Singapore, so I will try and dig them out soon!