Bento #43

Egg noodles with sesame oil and soy sauce
Deviled egg with chives
Cottage cheese with shredded cheddar, green onion, salt and pepper.
Garlic Cornick (Filipino style corn nuts)
Bell Pepper Kinpira - recipe from the Just Bento cookbook
Black Grapes

The Mister's bento was almost the same - he got Carrot Kinpira, because he doesn't like peppers that much, and I gave him cheese cubes instead of the cottage cheese.

Carrot Kinpira recipe here (though I added some dashi as well)

The kinpira reduced a lot more than I thought it would - mine is 3 mini bell peppers and it doesn't even fill the container! His was about 8 baby carrots and, same thing!

The cottage cheese recipe comes from my great aunt - I really never liked cottage cheese before. One day she was visiting my granny and whipped out a container of it mixed with the cheddar, green onion and a dash of salt & pepper. She said she never liked it either, but once she tried it this way, she couldn't stop eating it - I agree! It's really quite good (you don't use much salt at all and can omit it entirely if you'd like. I just prefer adding a tiny amount to cut the slight sweet edge that cottage cheese has)