Lets try this again...

Sushi!! Didn't take such great pictures, and no "how-to" because I just read it off the back of the nori packet...

Second attempt: Success!!

First attempt.. not so much. It all fell apart and didn't work..

These are my sushi rolls!!! I used notice, rice, avocado, red bell pepper, and cucumbers in both. Hopefully I'll get some shrimp here soon...

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Cooked up a storm!

Okay, so here's my catch-up night...
This is a salad, with some hot dog flowers, baby tomatoes, yellow cauliflower, and red bell peppers all sliced up. The top left is beef saboro with some cheese, and the bottom left is the rest of the hot dog that I couldn't fit on the salad with some more cheese... my Lover loooves cheese..

Lover's Salad lunch for yesterday (and another very similar one today)

This delicious treat was leftover inarizushi skins stir-fried with some red bell peppers, red pepper paste, and some garlic. Lover ate half of this with his fingers before I could pack it into his lunch!

These are the stuffed inarizushi skins before i packed everything else in. They are stuffed with a mix stir fry of onions and 3 colors of bell peppers. He loved them! He called them veggie pockets and ate 2, so I only had 3 to pack for his lunch... I need to work on keeping him out of the kitchen if I want to pack him enough for the next day's lunch... He tends to eat half of what I'm cooking as I'm cooking it.. I guess it's a compliment tho!!

Sad, sad little stuffed veggie packets without anything else. 

 This is the finished product. Packed with rice, green beans, baby tomatoes, and some ham wrapped green beans. The inarizushi stir fry mixed with some chopped up hot dog (to give it a little more protein) and left-over shake and bake pork in the bottom left. Oh, and some more of that yellow cauliflower.

Tonight, I made some sushi rolls, which turned out rather well.. Took the pictures on my cell phone, so I will have to see if my blogger app is functioning correctly yet and will let me upload pictures as well..
So, heading to bed now, have check-offs in the morning, and Valentine's day!! :D

aah!

sooo crazy at school right now...
I made a really cute bento for Lover tonight, will post it tomorrow. I am exhausted.
But tonight I also made some barbecue pork loin that was awesome! (Gogo shake and bake!)
And I have discovered cous cous and muscato wine.. That's pretty much it when I boil it all down..
So, until tomorrow!

More Graveyards

I swear, Lover works graveyards more than anything else!! It totally throws me off! Anyways, yesterday I made this bento for his work. There is tamagoyaki (with cheese!), brown rice with a hot dog octopus from the yum-yum bento book, and then general mayhem in the large compartment. Some lettuce on the bottom, yellow cauliflower, cubed ham that I stir-fried, and some cherry tomatoes. It was fun to put together and took me a total of like 15 minutes to do everything. Yesterday was my second full day of class, and so I was exhausted, not to mention that we didn't get out of class until almost 430. So I had to come home (15 minute drive), wake Lover up, make supper, and have a nervous breakdown all before 515. Was insane. On the plus side, Lover did call me from work and thank me because he said he loved the little crazy eyes I put on them. :) Him liking it made the fact that I had to cut them out with 2 different sized straws worth it!

See their little crazy eyes?!

Forgot one!

This was the bento I made for myself for work. I leave the broccoli uncooked because I like it kind of crisp, and  I find that when I microwave it at work it gets all gooey.... So I have some cherries, poached chicken, broccoli and carrots. The bottom layer has all my yummy sushi rice in it. :) I also got to use one of my little food dividers finally! :)

Hello!!!

I GOT MY NEW BENTO BOOK IN!!! :D it's yum yum bento by Maki and Pikko!! :)

So excited. Have been looking at stuff and trying out new things. This is the lunch I made for Lover today. I had planned on making the shrimp spaghetti with the cute little cheese mushrooms, but I don't have a mushroom cookie cutter.. So he got bears instead!
They are pepper jack cheese with ham circles and nori mouths. Then I put in some left-over beef saboro and brown rice on the bottom. I made a rolled tamigoyaki to go around since he loves it so much. I also added some broccoli stalk kinpira (my favorite!!), yellow cauliflower and some green beans/tomatoes. The blue and white flecks are small pieces of pepper-jack cheese that are plain or made blue with food coloring. Lover said that I'm not using enough cheese, so there! :)
Altogether, this looks pretty yummy to me. While far from a chyaraben, I like it. And then the other guys don't make fun of him ;).
I have been making these every day, but I keep forgetting to take pictures!! Ugh. So, I will do better about that.
Till I have more to post!

oops..

Got really busy doing homework and whatnot. I have been making bentos every day, but forgetting to take pictures in the rush. My new bento cookbook should be here today. YES! :) so then I will start updating daily again. I made the teriyaki chicken from justbento.com again and it was amazing as usual. Also, the Little Man was sick, so we were in the ER and then home with him for a few days, but he's good now. :)
Till later