Octo-dogs! Yay! =D

Octto-dooooog! Wheeeee! XD I couldn't resist the pull of the octo-dog. =D

Top teir: Broccoli peices and four shrimp gyoza.

Bottom teir: carrots, celery, rice ball, a whole clemantine orange, and three little smokies made into octo-dogs! *giggles* I feel like a kid again =p but I had fun trying to make some kind of ocean scene even if it dosen't look real it looks delicous!

Yay bento!
Pixil Doll <3

Sink problems and a cold bento D:

Theres a problem with the plumbing at the moment so I wasn't able to wash my Thermal Bento, so instead tonight I'm going to use my small bunny bento.

First piccy is of my bento wrapped. ^-^

Second piccy is of the bento itself: top teir: apples with designs, cut up match stick celery and red pepper along with a fish pick. =D

Bottom teir: white rice, cut up omellete, and a spicy chicken patty.

It was an easy bento to throw together in about 30 minutes, minus the fact that I had to cook the spicy chicken patty.

Always thinking of new ways to make bento
Pixil Doll

Winter Bento Love =D

Its winter times ladies and gents, so that means Thermal Bento love! *squees* I've had to put up the bunny bento in echancge for my thermal that keeps food nice and warm. So, todays bento is modled after comfert food. =3

Left side: potato salad made from lemon flavored olive oil, small baby potatoes, red and yellow peppers, half a jalapino, and some minced ginger. It was baked in the oven so the flavors would mingle together.

Center: white rice with a peice of cut up pork chop, it has some veggie oil and garlic steak shake on; also went into the oven. <3

Right: I had some odd veggies left and didn't know what to do with them when I remembered in Culinary School we had stuffed some tomatoes. So, I rooted through the fridge and came up with some corn, minced garlic, and collards. Putting those together with a half cup of panko bread crumbs and stuffing them they were also oven baked. =3

I had fun making this bento!
Pixil Doll <3

Sorry about the delay ladies and gents =p

Theres been a slight change in bento boxes, cause Monday night I ate a cold bento in a cold pizza store so I'm going to use my Thermal bento for the better half of winter. =p

Right side: cut up peices of ripe tomato and a potato salad.

Left side: peach cobbler without the fuss; basically frozen peaches put into the mirco in a bowl to thaw out and brown sugar put on top. I even made a crumble like topping with some natures valley oat bars and a small handfull of some kind of nut.

Middle: A new recipe actually since I didn't have soy sauce to flavor the eggs in my shrimp fried rice; put some mirin in them instead. Chopped up red and yellow bell pepper along with two small celery stalks and used some interesting sweet but spicy Asian sauce my dad got. Pulled it all together with some thawed shrimp cut into peices.

I've had the Thermal Bento since summer time this year and I didn't want to start using it yet, its just Monday night I got fed up with cold food so its in use now. =3
Oh, also my bean bun booty lost 2 more lbs! 204 babeh! =D

Happy Eatting Ya'll
Pixil Doll

Things I found in the cabinet and fridge for dinner tonight

Today was a throw together dinner day since the onlything I had left from lastnight was the waldorf salad and some pineapple chunks. =p

Tippy Top: meh plastic spoon, two plastic piggy bottles of rasberry vinegrette dressing, and my medication.

Top tier: a regular salad made from iceberg lettuce, some snmall strips of red bellpepper, and some crushed up walnuts. Also got a tin of waldorf salad and a tin of half a pear topped off with pineapple chunks.

Bottom teir: threw together some frozen peas, carrots, broccoli, colliflower, collomata olives, some flat beans, half an onion, a small peice of salmon fallet, a small handful of shrimp, a large handfull of fake crab, mixed noodles, and a can of white rague sauce. Topped it off with half a peice of Jalapino and the rest of the red bell pepper. =3

I.E. Seafood Surprise. =3

Seafood Bento tonight
Pixil Doll

Yummy dinner bento for 11/13/2010

Okay, first picture is of my bento wrapped up and ready to go! *squees*

The next piccy is a close up of me dinner; top teir: salad, chopped up tomato and beans with a rasberry vingerette, orange peices, my version of Waldorf salad made with blueberry, strawberry, walnuts, marshmellow, pineapple chunks, pineapple juice, shraeded coconut, choclate chips, and some sour cream. The last thing is a sweat bean cake with walnuts.

Bottom teir: teryaki chicken and some veggie rice. =p

Yay Bento!
Pixil Doll

Yay, new bento I got for work! ;D

Yay, Miffy bento! *jumps up and down* A two teir bento with a removable lid that has a plastic spoon, and I can put a piggy soy sauce in the top. *squees* Its also the right size for work since the other bento's are either too big or too small. =p

Well then, the removable lid has a plastic spoon and a soy sauce piggy. The firest teir has lemon pepper pork, cut up tomatos with cut up beans that have a rasberry vinegrette sauce on them so I can mix it in with the cut up lettuce. Also got some cut up orange slices.

Bottom teir has rice and apple slices.

Hmmmm, it looks like a good dinner yes? Now that I have a bigger bento that means I may be able to bring soup with me! They are like bowls, the bottom is a bit deeper. =3

I'm just so extatic! A new bento, more food for dinner, and tomorrow I'm off to the japanese food markets with my friend for our once a month trip out. =3 Yay!

Foodie Always
Pixil Doll =3

4 new bento pics! =D

First pic is actually todays dinner bento: 1 teir with with white rice, green beans, shreaded chicken breast flavored with hot sauce; kinda reinds me of pulled pork almost =p; and last a side car with straberries and orange slices.

Next bento down: 1 tier: white rice, rice bread, a round mayo cup with garlic hummus for the bread, some shrimps, and a side car of orange slices. Dinner for 10/26/10

The piccy under that: 1 teir: whiterice, thin peices of grilled chicken, some spicy noodle salad, orange segments, and the orage square mayo cup has BBQ sauce in it for dipping. That was dinner for 10/23/10

The picture was lunch for last 10/18/10: Its a two teir sakura bento: the bottom has white rice; the top has a iceburg salad with pine nuts, flaked peices of tomato basil salmon, and some mixed veggies.

Wheeee! Bento madness and I even got a paypal account a few days ago! *dances* I got a new bento box again, itsa blue two teir Miffy Bunny! *squeals*

I also promised myself that each month I'de get one bento or a few bento excessories because I'm spending so much money on these things. =p That also includes J-List and Amazon; since I have accounts on those too as well. *scrathes head*

Alrighty!

Happy Bento Hunting!
Pixil Doll

Wheeee, my mom got me a new bandana to use for me bentos! *dances* A new wrap for them, flaming skulls how wrong can you go with that? =p

As for me bento its sticky white rice, green grapes, spicy noodle and veggie stuff, and a few peices of spicy tamagoyaki. =3 Yummeh!

Foodie yay!
Pixil Doll

Omurice and other bentos for October =p

Todays lunch and bento dinner are Omurice, I had to stray a little from the recipe because of what I had on hand in the fridge.

1 celery stick
Small handful carrot sticks
2 small red radishes
15oz can chopped tomatoes drained (used a teaspoon of the juice)
1 cheesey weiner snitzhel cut up into small peices
1 cup sticky white rice
1 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon sake
1/2 teaspoon mirin
1/4 piece onion
Vegtable oil as needed
2 eggs

Cut up the onion into small peices and saute until transluscent.
Add your meat (cause not everyone likes chicken all the time =p) and stir for a few moments until its brown. Add veggies next along with the whole can tomatoes and 1 tablespoon ketchup. Mix well until everything is blended and the liquid is no longer on the bottom of the pan.

Set asside on plate and mix together two eggs. Put in liberal amount of oil and make an omellete by stiring until the bottom of the liquidly egg is almost firm and let cook for a few moments until the whole egg is done.

Dump the rice onto the egg, fold egg over and plop onto a plate. Garnish with ketchup on top.

Though my Omurice isn't an original its what I had on hand and what I felt like putting in it.

Omurice Fan
Pixil Doll

Lunch in two teir bento =D

Saturdays bento: Rice, chicken, green beans, green grapes, orange segments, and a piggy bottle with soy sauce.

Todayslunch bento: first teir: green beans, green grapes, and teriyaki chicken; second teir: whirw sticky rice and celery, tomato, lotus root marinated in 1 tbsp ranch sauce, 1 1/2 tsp hot sauce, 1 tsp cumin, and 1/2 tsp black sesame seed.

Yay bento!
Pixil Doll

Foux seafood fried rice and tonights bento

I began to chop up the various vegitation in the fridge, which consistedof two small radishs, a small handful of tiny carrots, a qauter piece yellow bellpepper, and six snow peas cut on the bias. Getting my materials ready for making foux rice I found to my horror; NO SOY SAUCE! *screams* So I had to make a little alteration using worstisor sauce instead with my mixture of marin, sugar, and sake...the end result was good but not great...hunting around in the freezer I found some frozen shrimp and fake crab meat.

Hizzah! I added it to my veggies and tasted again...still missing something...rooting around in the spice cabinet I found cumin, ceyene pepper, and Chinese five spice. 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1 tablespoon ceyene, and 1 tablespoon Chinese five spice. After that I added half a cup of water and the rice to soak up the left over juices of goodness.

BAM! Foux Seafood fried rice ala Pixil Doll! =p

I had two scoops of this along with a piece of pita bread I had made for lunch.

Tonights bento has foux seafood fried rice, the restof the tomato salmon from yesterday, daikon kimchi, some small cut up pieces of cantilop, and a strawberry for a cushon. =3

Another culinary sucess today! *claps*

Foodie forever
Pixil Doll

Kittey, Bento, and Nummy Home made Pita Bread

Okay,so the first picture is of my kitty, Momiji because of this cute ball of black fuzz I've been bentoless for awhile. She is a handfull but I'm learning how to cope with that. =p

The first bento was made for dinner one night last week,it has: rice topped with daikon kimchi ( can't get enough of this stuff! delicious!), the other side is cantalipe, stuffing with apples, and the meat is pulled prok with a dash-o-hot sauce. ^-^


Todays dinner bento for work has tomato salmon pieces, yellow juliene bell pepper, thin radish slices underneath the bell peppers, one piece of pita bread cut into small peices; two containers, the blue fishy mayo cup had veggie cream cheese spread and the yellow bunny sauce cup has pine nuts.

For thelast day and a half I've been baking breads and because my dad likes pita somuch Imade some to make up for the thick loaf of herb bread I had made the night prior. Tried a peice of theflat bread, twas delicious: chewy on the inside but crispy on the out side. Like Pita should be! =D

Baking bread like crazy
Pixil Doll <3

09/24/10 and 09/25/10 Dinner Bento's

For thew past few weeks I haven't been able to make Bento's because of my new kitten...it feels like I have a child...*sigh* But I've gotten back into the groove of doing bento's now that my kitten can explore the house.

On with the bento! =D

The first bento was last night's dinner: half was sticky white rice w/ thinly sliced cucumber, strawberries, a ground ham mixture, and some pine nuts in one of my sauce containers. =3

Today's bento features seafood: fake crab meat and shrimp microwaved in butter, a few small slices of salmon with a spicy tomato sauce, honey dew, and white rice. =3 Mmmmmmm, dinner!

Always a foodie
Pixil Doll

Last weekends dinner bento's; Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Well, it took me awhile to post these because I'm watching Naruto Shippouden...go figure I'd turn into a Naruto-tard...*sigh* It was bound to happen sooner or later. ^-^

Now,on with the bento goodness! =D

Thursday Bento is the smaller one, in my chopper man tight box! It has rice topped with sweet corn, bite size peices of chicken half of it mind you, half a nectirine, and my little cutie elephant mayo cup with BBQ dipping suace. =D

Fridays bento is the one at the top, it had a mixed rice with radish, mushroom, carrot, and honey mustard salmon bits with corn on top. Half a nectirine and some cantilope. The other side has colliflower bits and a small peice of beef underneath carmalized onions.

Saturdays bento, unfortunetly I wasn't able to take a picture of it but it was rice and beef bits with veggies no fruit this time. ^-^

Foodie for Life
PixilDoll

Work Bentos for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Thursday's bento was simply fruit, I didn't take a picture of it because, well its just fruit. Lol.

Fridays bento; rice, half a radish, half a mushroom, honey mustard salmon, and two kinds of fruit: strawberries and honey dew.

Next bento is for lastnight: hiney mustard rice mix with radish, carrots, tomato, mushroom, and the rest of the honey mustard slamon from the other day; decorated with a lotis root on top. Other side is cantalope, half a peice of chicken, and my cutie elephant mayo cup that has BBQ sauce in it! =D

Yay bento! Of course my parents are going on a trip pretty soon to Los Vegas...*eye twitch* But thats okay, since I'll be going to J-Mart two days before they go on their trip this month. I'm going to stock up on pocky indefinetly =D also going to try and get some red snapper fish this time around. Maybe I can do something with the yellow miso paste I have...*thinks* >.<

Ah well, I'll get to that road when I do and maybe I'll even make those Ichigo Daifukuwhile the rents aren't here! =D

Always a Foodie
PixilDoll

The first picture is what I made for today; yakisoba and the other side is fruit: strawberries and honey dew.

The other piccie is whatI had sunday night, cabbage, pulled pork, sauce in a mayo cup, and some nectirine slices. =3

Foodie Forever
PixilDoll

Work bentos! =D

Okay, first picture is my dinner for tonight at work it consist of spicy tomogoyaki (rolled egg), some sea food suprise made from noodles, fake crab meat, broccoli,and canned alfrado sauce. The other side is a compolation of fruits: two strawberries and half a nectirine; also my cutie fish food pick! *squees*

Last nights bento was rice, strawberries, and one piece of the fake crab meat cut up into four peices. Mmmmmmmm, that was good last night cause it filled me up. Oh, one of mt boss's remarked, " How can you eat with chopsticks? Even when I practiceI can't seem to get it." I chuckled at him and pulled him aside.

"It is practice that makes you better, but I started out by practicing on non-food items like a penny." He shrugged going out for a smoke while I finished noming my rice. ;D

Always a Foodie
PixilDoll

8/23/10 and 8/24/10 lunches

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This first bento was for work Friday night, its consisted of rice, scrambled egg, chicken peices, and kimchi. The next picture down is a bowl of hot curry made frehsly today with curry blocks! Yay modern technology. Hot Curry friends, enough said. The last picture on the bottom is lunch from yesterday, had a steak in the fridge so I made a sandwich with a potato bun, hot sauce, lettuce, and tomato. Also had a side of bean fries, better than potato chips. ;D

I got my stuff for Ichigo Daifuku, I'll make some tomorrow along with some sweet potato balls and sweet azuki.

Foodie Always
PixilDoll

Lunch for 8/21/10 and 8/22/10

I used my ichigo bento yesterday for lunch, first tier: ysed the rest of the italian sasuage, used the rest of my sweet and sour chicken fried rice (experimental the previous day but very good). Second teir: half of a nectirine and ahandful of sweet corn kernals with cumin and curry powder.

The rest of the piccies are half of what I got from J-Mart, I definatly wanted some pastry so I got some. ^-^ My mom actually ate the one that had chocolate cream in a shell and I ate almost all the melon bread. I'm not sure what flavor the flower shaped bread is, most likely sweet bean.

Todays lunch was actually from Apple Bee's, small handful of fries and half of some kind of asian style burger but I kept within the guidlines of what I usually eat and how much I eat. Besides the fact that it was in a styrifoam container that looked like a thin bento. =D I also ate half of the melon bread and it was gooooood.

For todays bento for work I heated up some frozen rice with a side of two peices of chicken peices, egg with scallions, peas, and hot sauce. The other side is spicey daikon relish, Mmmmmm yummeh! =D

Hmmm, andmay I say my apointment at the diabieities center went spectacular! I lost 6 lbs and now my current weight is 201 lb's, one more to go so I can reach my goal. Then I can make another weight lose goal. =D

Happily Eatting Bento's
PixilDoll

Obento lunch 8/20/10

Using one of my bunneh bento's, the top tier: a veggie salad minus the cheese cause being lactose and tolerant sucks. =p Anways in the salad is romane lettuce, green onion, one slice thin tomato, celery, two pods snow peas cut on the bias, and a side of raw yellow squash. I also packed a plastic squeez bottle of Italian dressing, and a side of cantilope and nectirine mix for a fruit. Oh I can't forget the cute green fishy pick! *gushes*

Second teir: Zitti a la Dennis minus the big pile of cheese on it, wnet out last night with my parents and grandmother to Dennis's and I got some Zitti. Half a meat ball and half an italian sausage cut up into bite size peices.

Quite a spread huh? I still have enough zitti left to make maybe two or three more lunches. Oh, yeah I lined my bento on the bottom teir with tin foil, I didn't want the tomato sauce to stain my bento box. ^-^

Since I'm on a roll with the healthy food let me say I'm glad I don't have daiabities, however the symptoms of my PCOS have been steadily disappearing as I lose weight. My current weight right now is 207 lbs, seven more pounds to lose and I'm at an ideal weight so says the doctor. Having PCOS is what spurred me to start making bentos, this way I can tweak my lunches, dinners, or even breakfest the way I need to. I give thanks to the bento and Japan for giving me inspiriation to lose weight, I'm also giving a hearty thanks to Biggie cause she's been a big help and inspiriation too.

Ah, well today I have to go to doctors for another appointment to see if my thyroid glands are okay, pretty sure they can tell whats going on with all the blood I gave; eight viles is pushing it though in my opinion. >.>

Well, thats all for today and tomorrow is carpool day for meand Lisa, finally after today we'll be going to J-Mart. I can't wait! *squee* Bread day!

Foodie for Life
PixilDoll

Sho Mai goodness =D

TodayI dubbed Shu Mai day because I made some little duimplings with wonton wrappers and a filling I remember making in culinary school. It was fun to make them again and the the taste was exactually the same; delicous. =3

I even had enough let over to make some meatballs by adding egg and bread crumbs as a binder...though it didn't taste as good I should have addedsome spices and onion. ^-^ Well,live and learn right? Oh, I even got to use my steamer! Maybe next time I can make some beef buns! Squeeee!

Foodie Forever
PixilDoll <3