Dinner
Jac coated herring fillets in wholemeal flour, salt and pepper, and then panfried them. She served them with potato bake and salad. We ate dinner out on the patio. I always have more fun eating outside because feels like we’re having a picnic. Well… the fun only lasts until the mosquitoes turn up. Wherever I go, mosquitoes find me and feast on me – they ignore Jac completely! Even with mosquito coils, citronella candles and Aerogard in various forms, the hardiest bounty hunter ninja mozzie will seek me out and bite me. Are any of you mosquito targets too?
Bento
Jac didn’t need lunch the next day, so I packed bento just for me.
I made a quick salad with cos lettuce, cucumber, grape tomatoes, green beans, corn kernels and semi-sundried tomatoes. I also packed a little container of tartare sauce to go with my leftover herring fillets. I wanted this lunch to be mostly salad, so I packed the salad into the bottom tier of the bento box as it’s the bigger and deeper of the two tiers.
I placed the fish on a bed of cos lettuce, using the lettuce as a shield so the fish wouldn’t touch the strawberries. This proved most effective – at lunch time, the strawberries tasted only of strawberry, not of fish. :D The cos lettuce was still beautifully crisp at lunch time. I ate this lunch cold, straight out of the fridge.
About the bento gear
The little bird sauce container comes from a set of four called Ciao! Colorful Animal & Fruit Mayonnaise Cups. I bought them from JBox.
The bento box I used for this lunch is one of my favourites. I bought a couple of these from an eBay seller – there are plenty of similar bento boxes available if you have a browse on eBay. See the first time I used this two-tiered Japanese bento box and catch a glimpse at its lid and various components (an old post, Tuesday bento – lamb cutlets, vegetables and salads).
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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those are the most beautiful strawberries ive ever seen
I’m a Southern US girl so I know about mosquitoes, sadly. Everyone else I’m friends with are never bothered with them but they always focus on me! I understand your aggravation. :)
Wow! So colorful and appetizing, all of it. :-) Like usual. ;-) Potato bake – Mmmm.
Yep, I’m a mosquito target too. There are few in this desert clime, except during the rainy season. Back home in Iowa (a very humid place) they were atrocious. I’m an amateur astronomer and even a generous spray-down of repellent DIDN’T repel them; got bitten plenty of times regardless while looking through my telescope’s eyepiece. :-(
jetgirl,
They were really nice – sometimes they are too tart and I can’t eat them without scrunching up my face. These were sweet and juicy and really good.
Kali,
Yep. I need to find friends that mosquitoes like just as much, if not more, than me. :)
Cindy,
They even bite me through my jeans – I must be like mosquito crack or something. Not a claim to fame I really wanted! :-P
Hi, I enjoyed your blog very much and it has given me a lot of ideas on preparing my own work lunches. Thanks for that.
To drive away mosquitoes, may be you can try this – dilute some mint mouth wash in a bottle with a spray head and spray them around where you want to hang out in your garden, the mosquitoes dislikes the smell of mint in the mixture and will stay away from that area for about an hour or so. I used Colgate Plax and it works for me, may be you can try too
That looks so healthy and tasty, love it.