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Bento

Dinner and bento – ginger chicken, oyster sauce greens and rice

13 October 2009
Bento lunches for two - ginger chicken, oyster sauce greens and rice

Jac cooked this dinner, of rice with ginger chicken and green vegetables stir-fried with oyster sauce and garlic… I didn’t do anything special with the leftovers for bento the next day. I just packed it into our lunch boxes. It tasted great the next day!

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Dinner and bento – marinated chicken and oven-roasted vegetables

16 August 2009
Marinated chicken, oven-roasted vegetables

After a few days away from the house, Jac couldn’t wait to get back into the kitchen and do some cooking. I came home from work to the most delicious smells of marinated chicken pieces and vegetables roasting in the oven.

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Bento – panfried salt and pepper chicken with salad

8 August 2009
Chicken and salad bento boxes for two

A bento from a few weeks ago! Jac panfried four chicken thigh fillets which she’d simply rubbed in salt and pepper, and I packed us chicken and salad for lunch. The salad consisted of mixed greens, grape tomatoes, cucumber, green beans, mushrooms, sliced sweet gherkin pickles and corn kernels.

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About the applecats bento box from Melbourne

13 July 2009
Applecats bento box

A couple of people have asked me where my sister Juji got the bento box from in Melbourne. This is what she told me…

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Dinner and bento – chicken fingers, asparagus stems, vegetable slice

12 July 2009
Bento lunch- chicken fingers and vegetable slice

For dinner, Jac served oven-baked crumbed chicken fingers (bought frozen in a box), asparagus stems and vegetable slice. The vegetable slice was another of Jac’s experiments, made of egg and vegetables – green beans, asparagus tips, potato, carrot and onion…

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Work lunch – turkey and salad rolls

10 July 2009
Turkey and salad rolls

Jac bought a bag of fresh multigrain bread rolls, so I used last of the turkey thigh roast to make us turkey and salad rolls for lunch.

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Bento – leftover roast pork and turkey with vegetables

7 July 2009
Bento - leftover roast pork and turkey with vegetables

I packed us both the same lunch: roast pork with apple sauce, turkey thigh roast with cranberry sauce, roasted vegetables, crackling, steamed green beans and broccoli, and a little container of gravy.

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Army of siew mai …and lovely surprises for me

1 July 2009
Army of siew mai

We had a family afternoon tea recently at my parents’ home. Jac and I contributed siew mai to the meal – we bought three or four serves from Fook Kee at Spencer Village International Food Hall (200 Spencer Road, Thornlie) and brought them along. Mum and I placed them in a dish to heat up in the rice cooker – it looked like an army of siew mai!

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Dinner and bento – Pork steaks and oven-roasted vegetables

30 June 2009
Pork steaks and oven-roasted vegetables

Panfried pork steaks with mushroom sauce, served with steamed broccolini, oven-roasted sweet potatoes and potato cubes, with an experimental oven-baked cauliflower and asparagus dish.

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Bento – McDonalds Chicken McNuggets, Apple Pie and salad

29 June 2009
Bento - McDonalds Chicken McNuggets, Apple Pie and salad

This was a kind of naughty junk food bento – a McDonald’s bento, with Chicken McNuggets and a sachet of tomato sauce, and a McDonald’s apple pie for dessert. I also included one of my sweet crunchy salad combos…

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