Bento #68

I woke up and wanted to cook something, because I've been eating frozen dinners at work for a while. I've just been so tired, and I hate it.

My mom gave me a bag of chicken strips - she had found a whole bunch of frozen breaded chicken on sale, so she stocked up.
I decided to make easy chicken tonkatsu with them. Since I've never made tonkatsu before, I had no sauce in the house. I used this recipe minus the allspice, because I don't have any of that either.

I made a bento for my cousin as well - he got hired at the same office as me a few weeks ago, and we're working the same shift tonight.



We each get:
Rice
Chicken tonkatsu (2 chicken strips with sauce)
Deviled egg
Carrot sticks
Edamame

I had some leftover rice, and I made 2 more chicken stirips than what I needed, so I threw a bit of food together for my husband to eat later. Instead of just plain rice though, I gave him bonito flavoured onigiri. I had already decided to make a deviled egg for him, because he loves them.

Bento #67

Today I had ...
2 onigiri with furikake (plum and salmon)
deviled egg
marinated mushrooms
coleslaw with mandarin orange sesame dressing
carrots

smaller today, but delicious :D

Bento #66

I'm working the late shift at work this week - 3pm to 11pm!
My bentos will be a little larger this week, because they are for dinner instead of lunch.



Today's Bento is

Chicken karaage (I cooked it a little too long, so please excuse the burnt bits - but the chicken was still juicy and delicious!)
Gomae (spinach salad with sesame sauce)
Onigiri with plum furikake
Coleslaw mix with mandarin orange sesame dressing
Tamagoyaki
Carrots and snow peas

The chicken and spinach were from the Just Bento Cookbook. I had to make the sesame sauce from scratch, following the recipe in the book - and even then I had to improvise. I really need to invest in a mortar and pestle.