 Bento I made last Sunday
Do you want to know what the food in the bento box is? OK, starting with the rice balls:
* Onigiri with minced takana pickles (green) and with salmon flakes (pink).
* Shiso and chicken meatballs
* Tamagoyaki (rolled omelet),
* Grilled salmon with shimeji mushrooms, mitsuba leaves and miso-mayonnaise glaze, and
* Grapes.
This bento was just so-so, to tell you the truth. The food tasted rather bland in the park, even though I thought everything was OK when I had tasted it in my kitchen. Also, the “bento in the park” attempt on Sunday wasn’t as successful as that on Saturday. I couldn’t find a good place to sit down and take a photo of bento like I did last year. And it was a little hot, and several mosquitoes bugged the hell out of me. Yeah, I was their lunch. And even though I brought my camera to take some shots of early signs of autumn, grasses and trees in the park were still green and I didn't see any autumn flower.
 So here I posted a photo that I took on my way back from the park. This was the only photo of a sign of autumn.
Oh well, there’ll be more weekends to come, so we’ll see…
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11 comments:
what a lovely lunch sans the mosquitoes.
Hi Obachan, your lunch looked lovely! :) I'm sorry if it didn't taste as nice. But I think you're really lucky to be able to have picnic in a park! Where I come from, the weather is always hot hot and humid. :P I'd love to have picnic at the park too!
Anyway I went to Japan once and had breakfast at the park. It was heavenly. :)
BTW, I'm also born in the dragon year. heh.
-lys
Obachan
If it's not raining get outside, picnic or not. At least in Tokyo it seems like it has been raining constantly since May. Today is a gorgeous day however, but I will be enjoying it from my cubicle at work. Keep up the good work.
Beautiful photos as always, obachan. I also find that bento ("baon", in Filipino) lunches aren't as good on the day after.
Do you mind me asking if you use a square tamago pan? I've been looking for one in Canada and the internet for the past year, at least, without success. My tamago has been cooked in a large, round cast-iron skillet, resulting in very sloppy edges.
looks great!!!! it's a mini kaiseki in a bento box. Can you ship some over to Singapore?
Your bento looks scrumptious! I can't believe it wasn't as tasty as it looks. My perspective was thrown off, however. Either each bento item is small or those are enormous grapes!
Hmmm... it sure looked so delicious to me though. I love everything in your bento except the salmon, never really like salmon. :P
Ai yah... that's a beautiful higanbana that you took. ^_^
kat
Hahaha… maybe for them I was a lovely lunch???
lysithea
Breakfast at the park? Wow, that’s interesting. Yeah, it must be really nice to have the first meal of the day in a quiet park, enjoying the crisp air…
And now I can guess how old you are ;)
Mr. food
Oh, I wish you could have a chance to sneak out of the office and enjoy the sunshine, even for a brief moment. How about a real quick combini shopping? ;)
ghanima
No, I don’t use a tamago pan. I thought about buying a small one many times, but each time I decided to buy something else that I use more often. If I would buy one, I would definitely go for an iron or copper tamagoyaki pan (never a Teflon-coated stuff!) but it’s expensive. I need a good reason to convince myself that I have to buy one.
markie
Wow, I feel so flattered. Thank you. Sure, I don’t mind sending you one. Can I send it COD? ;)
june
Each bento item is small. I wanted to pack as many items as possible in one bento box, so I made everything small. Hahaha…
fish fish
Thank you. I didn’t know that salmon wasn't your favorite fish.
This higanbana shot is a bit out of focus, but I had to shoot it in a real hurry so I couldn’t help it. (I was in the way of people and bicycles passing by…) :P
I could eat this bento everyday. .and anyday.. Obachan..!
Honestly, I wouldn't mind delivering bento overseas, just for fun.
BTW, bento seems to be turning into an artform in Japan. Check this out.
Hello Obachan,
I wish my obento could be as beautiful and varied and delicious as yours.
What also caught my eye was the photo of the "Higanbana". Is it also called Lycoris, or Red Spider Lilly? I am trying to gtow one in my Pacific Northwest USA garden, without much sucess.
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