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Bento

Dinner and bento – oven-baked Thai red curry chicken

2 March 2010
Jac's bento - Thai red curry chicken sandwiches, salad, strawberries and sweet crackers

For dinner, Jac baked chicken pieces in the oven, marinated with slatherings of Thai red curry paste. For lunch the next day I took the meat off the bones of one of the leftover chicken quarters and made us red curry chicken sandwiches.

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Dinner and bento – fried chicken with ginger vegetable stir-fry

19 December 2009
My bento lunch - fried chicken, tomato sauce, rice, ginger vegetable stir-fry and mini jam and kaya sandwiches

Jac sliced up chicken thigh fillets and marinated them with salt and pepper. She then coated the chicken in “Kentucky” seasoning – we buy this in a box from the asian supermarket. She fried the chicken until it was crispy on the outside and poppingly juicy on the inside.

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Dinner and bento – ginger chicken and vegetable stir-fry with rice

16 December 2009
Bento - ginger chicken and vegetable stir-fry and rice, strawberries and prunes

packed lunch for myself the next day – leftover ginger chicken and vegetable stir-fry with rice, and strawberries and prunes. It tasted just as good the next day at work, if not better! I was secretly very proud of the delicious aroma that filled the kitchen as I heated up my lunch in the microwave. “Yep, that’s my lunch.”

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Dinner and bento – fried rice with Don strasburg sausage

10 December 2009
Bento lunch - fried rice and fruit

Jac used up the last of the strasburg sausage, chicken, corn and green beans and cooked up a batch of fried rice. I packed us bento lunches the next day with fried rice, orange wedges and strawberries.

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Product review and competition: Don continental products

7 December 2009
Meatlovers pizza - close-up

I’ve eaten DON smoked bacon on a Dominos 7 meats pizza and thought it was delicious. So when presented with the opportunity to create a recipe using DON smallgoods, write about it here on the blog and help launch a competition, I didn’t hesitate.

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Bento – Sascha Jane’s chicken with salad

29 November 2009
Chicken and salad bento lunches for two

As I put away the leftovers from our family dinner I packed the next day’s lunch for Jac and me. There were three chicken skewers left; I pulled the meat off the skewers and divided it between two lunch boxes. I added lettuce, cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, sliced sweet gherkin pickles, tasty cheese and asparagus. Jac got something extra in her lunch box…

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Dinner and bento – fried herring fillets and salad

21 November 2009
Fish and salad bento lunch

Jac coated herring fillets in wholemeal flour, salt and pepper, and then panfried them… Jac didn’t need lunch the next day, so I packed bento just for me.

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Dinner and bento – “Recycled” chicken

10 November 2009
Bento lunches for two - rice, recycled chicken and green beans

The pork and leek sausages and chicken kebabs stretched to another dinner and bento!

DinnerJac sliced up the last of the leftover pork and leek sausages and took the last bits of chicken kebab off the skewers. She baked them in an oven dish with chicken drumsticks marinated in sweet soy. She referred affectionately to this ...

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Bento – sandwiches, onions and mushrooms, watermelon

9 November 2009
Bento lunches for two - sandwiches, onions and mushrooms, watermelon

I packed us deluxe sandwich bento for lunch the next day. This is my own terminology – sandwich bento is just sandwiches; deluxe sandwich bento comes with extra bits and pieces in different compartments. :D

Today’s deluxe sandwich bento consisted of sandwiches, leftover fried onions and mushrooms, and fresh cubes of watermelon (with animal food picks ...

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Bento – chicken with two salads

3 November 2009
Bento - chicken with two salads

Jac panfried chicken thighs seasoned with salt and pepper so I could use them for bento. I packed us some bread and butter, leftover potato salad, and made a quick salad of cos lettuce, carrot, cucumber, snow peas and pickles.

Of course, I had to include a little note for Jac in her lunch ...

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