This one here is my very first attempt at a bento, made on Dec. 26th last year. 🙂 As always, it was not for me, harhar. This was for my boyfriend — I had a smaller version. Obviously, he eats more so he needs a lot more rice than I do.
Looks yummy, because I wasn’t the one who cooked the food! It was Schatz’s mom, haha. That’s right, I was just the “food stylist”. Anyway, deconstructing the lunchbox:
1. Steamed white rice with furikake
2. A generous helping of takuan/daikon on top of the rice – this is one of the Japanese versions of “atchara”. Takuan is pickled radish.
3. Main dish is left over Christmas ham — simmered in orange juice. Yummy! Might try this one again very soon.
4. Buttered asparagus, if my memory serves me right.
I’ve been on and off with obento since then, but I hope that things will be a lot more regular now that I have many new ideas for my daily lunchboxes. I am slowly learning to cook more things, experimenting with this and that and learning bento designs and stuff — it’s all very exciting for me with this “domestic” hobby of mine. 🙂
