6/29/11 - Tiered boiled eggs

This lunch is pretty simple, but so comforting. Half-ripe boiled plantains (and some butter) with two boiled eggs, sliced and tiered down with some broccoli.

Mainly, I'm trying to stay away from lunches like yesterday (a whole plate of carbs!) and trying to implement more items into my lunch. I discovered I can do shapes with the plantains, after I slice them like that... so I might do something with it in the near future.

6/28/11 - Pasta circles

Talk about blurry photos! This bento contains linguini pasta in Alfredo sauce with chicken pieces, some carrots and pepper petals. I tried to roll the pasta so it'd look nice and neat, but that shape didnt stay still long enough to take the photo this morning. Sigh. Yummy pasta, though!

6/27/11 - Sunday leftovers

Over the weekend, we cooked ribs at my parent's house. Along with more plantains, yucca root and some other legume I am not sure what the translated name is. It's like a sweet potato/yam, but not really. It actually looks greenish when cooked, but it is so good. So for lunch, I have some of that plus yucca, and some rib meat. The broccoli was slightly frozen, hence the funky white'ish color. I added some peppers for color. Happy Monday, everybody!

6/21/11 - Plantains

Ok, bear with me for a bit. But I love plantains. Back home, they are our version of potatoes. They are versatile, can be made into so many dishes, tastes so good, is not horribly bad for you... but they are expensive in the US, overall. But I saw them yesterday on 'sale' (about 10% cheaper than their usual expensive price) and had to buy two, just because. I miss them being so available and affordable.

These ones were halfway ripe, so I made mashed plantains with chicken in tomato sauce with peppers, and adorned with some lettuce and broccoli. I think I'll have to buy more plantains soon... Comfort food, anyone?

6/17/11 - Star rice

This morning, it feels like I'll go over my lunch just to get it over with, heh. It might seem REALLY familiar with the previous two lunches... but I'm all out of (fresh) veggies. :(

Star-shaped rice, scrambled eggs and the remaining stirfried ham/veggies.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

6/16/11 - Rice and stirfry

I have to admit I like how this one looks, compared to how simple it is. What's in it: rice, ham stirfry and a babybell cheese round. I've gotten quite attached to these little cheese rounds, though their price will definitely keep them laying low for a while. I ran out of yogurt though. :( No snacks for now... actually, I've ran out of pretty much everything (including veggies!), so it is sounding like grocery shopping time.

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6/15/11 - Breakfast type bento

Well, I've been wanting to try something very simple for once. And I had two eggs and one hamburger bun left. So scrambled egg would-be sandwich came to be. It looks pretty, even if the flash of my camera doesn't show this... The stripes are carrot stripes on the top, because I didn't know what else to do with the bun top.

On the top tier we have a random romaine/tomato/feta cheese salad with oil/vinegar dressing. Yum.

6/14/11 - Lunches for Fri and Tue

Today: Bowtie and spirals pasta with sauce, garlic stirfried broccoli and red pepper, and some carrot sticks.

Last Friday: I know this is a bit too heavy for a lunch, but this was all that my parents had available at their house. I stayed over on Thursday night because I had an appointment closer to their house than mine (by 2 hours). This is rice, chicken and beans. A typical dinner back home. I added some diced peaches and melon. Yummy.

6/7/11 - Rice with Ham & 6/8/11 - Salad

I could've sworn I posted this yesterday, but maybe I didn't. I decided to buy some ham, and stirfry it with a bunch of vegetables. The result: the veggies were awesome. The meat had this horrible taste which tasted like chemical. Was that my welcome back to eating meats? Pleh. I still have a lot of the ham left, so I'll make sure to try to pinpoint where that horrible taste is coming from...

The rest is just white rice with carrot flower/butterflies. Yum.

Today I have some romaine lettuce, oil/vinegar dressing, some parm cheese (lower tier) and tomatoes with feta cheese, broccoli and carrot sticks with a babybell cheese round.

It's the first time I've packed/bought babybell cheeses, so kind of interested to see how it works out. I like cheese anyway, so how wrong can it go? Also... I have 3 different types of cheeses in this lunch. That should vouch for me liking cheese...

6/3/11 - More pasta!

I swear this one started out as looking a lot prettier.
No theme, but I liked the dough so much, that I made tortilla slices(?) to eat with marinara pasta. I also added a bit of garlic, olive oil and butter to them, so they had this awesome flavor. I originally wanted to make smaller strips, but ended up with one big tortilla instead, which I made into many triangles.

This bento features some pasta shells with tomato sauce, broccoli (with carrots underneath, didnt want to overwhelm this bento in orange stuff), and some of the garlic tortilla. Yum. Might be a bit too heavy of a lunch, but I was *really* hungry last night. And since today it will be a very long day/night for me prior to dinner time... trying to make up for it. :)

6/2/11 - Quesadillas and bunnies

That title pretty much covers this lunch. There's veggie quesadillas with home made dough, broccoli, green pepper, tomatoes, sweet and green onions as filling, with a mix of pepper-jack and cheddar cheeses. Then we have the leftover cheese cubes in bunny picks. Also a boiled egg and some carrots and broccoli, as usual. Gosh, they never run out!

I love making my own dough. Even if it's somewhat time consuming, I made this one on the fly, no recipes (a first!), no measuring, and it came beautifully elastic. It might've been a bit too elastic, but I was amazed at how nice it was. Not to mention tasty. It was really tasty. If I had planned to use more time, I would've left the tortillas be a bit thicker, but I was hungry and had to run out the door for something else. A success nonetheless!