(#215) Chicken Dumpling Bento

This is actually from couple weeks ago, I didn't realize it I haven't posted here ^__^

Inside the box are some chicken dumplings with spinach wrappers (love it!!), steamed broccoli and mini sweet bell peppers. I bought 1 big bag of those mini peppers when I do my weekly grocery, and didn't realized that I had another bag sitting in my other refrigerator 0_0 so I ended up with 2 big bags of mini peppers, thanks GOD the boys love it!! (still a lot though!)
I also packed some Korean style roasted sea weeds and some blue berry yogurt for snack time.
Fruit are packed separately (not pictured)

Have a great weekend everybody ^__^ 

(#214) Chicken Dumpling Bento

I made two identical bento for tomorrow's lunch box, but not sure if my 2nd son will be able to go to school :( he's complaining that he had a bad headache this afternoon, kind a make me worry and he did not look too good :( will see tomorrow morning.

As for the bento, I prepared some chicken dumpling along with that are some mini sweet bell pepper, steamed broccoli, carrot, cucumber, and kumquat. I also made some veggie rolled inside a thin slice of beef, I marinated with some Korean BBQ sauce, we actually had that for early dinner today :) was very delish :P
In a separated little bowl are some mango cubes.

Here's another pic :

I think this would be the only post for this week since there will be an early release days until Friday ^__^

(#213) Mini Pita Pockets with Smoked Turkey and Veggies

Another simple sandwich bento for Big Son!!
This time I am using mini pita bread stuffed with some smoked turkey, mayo, lettuce and some diced tomatoes.
I also packed some fruit separately, there are granny smith apple, cara-cara orange and strawberry.

Friday lunches are normally light because of the Soupy Friday things going on almost every Friday, and so the boys can have some soup if they want too. 

Have a fabulous weekend to all my bento pals and see you next week ^__^

(#212) Saba Shiyo-yaki Bento

Today I made some saba shiyo-yaki for me and big son for dinner, the rest of a family members are having spaghetti. It's so normal in the Gladman's house hold to have 2 separate menus at the dinner table :D once in a while ya know :)
I am not too crazy about pizza, spaghetti, meatballs, burgers and so on that's why (not that I don't like it, don't get me wrong). But I'd rather eat rice (just sayin) ..LOL. Being Indonesian I really can't live without rice!! couple days without rice I feel like my stomach isn't digesting.
Every other day I cook rice just for me and I enjoy it with some Indonesian or other Asian dishes that I cook for several days ahead. I can eat rice with the same side dishes for 2 or 3 days in a raw, I really don't mind that :D except for those quick and stir fry kind a food, got to have that fresh and hot!

So for tomorrow's bento big son requested to have some rice with saba shiyo yaki, and spaghetti for Brayden.
And I was thinking this is a good time to finally use my newest wooden bento box that I've been having for more than a month :P
I only took one picture since the spaghetti one is really similar to some bento I have posted in the past.

Anyway, inside the box are some rice topped with saba shiyoyaki and slice of lime.
In another compartment are some mini sweet bell peppers, cucumbers, strawberry, and oranges. I also packed some low sodium soy sauce in a cute tiny bottle.

(#211) Rice and Chicken Bunny&Bear Bento

Yesterday I was too lazy to make bento, even though I still prepared some lunch for the boys since there's no cafeteria at their school.
But I ended up keeping them at home!
This early morning I heard the phone ringing at 4 AM, and whenever I heard the phone ringing at late at night or super early in the morning my thought is always goes to my family in Indonesia. I've been thinking about my mom so much lately.
And my phone was no where to be found, I ran to the kitchen and it was already silent, but I checked the number anyway, and was soooooooo MAD!! yesss I was so pissed to find out that the number calling is one of those telemarketers!!! stupid telemarketer calling customer at 4AM!!! aarrghh >.<
So I was up since then and couldn't go back to bed, then I checked out the windows and there are lots of snows on the ground, must be snowing pretty hard last night, so I decided to keep the boys at home.

Anyway, up for tomorrow's I prepared some rice onigiri shaped like bunny, I cooked the rice in some home-made chicken broth, garlic and ginger (yummyy). Along with that in another compartment are some honey mustard chicken, mini sweet bell pepper and grape tomatoes. I also put some carved carrot for fillers.

Here's another picture, the bear one :

(#210) Yellow Rice Under the Sea Bento

I made some yellow rice for the boys, they were so tired today they got up super early in the morning and headed to Seattle with hubby to do the 5K Seattle Greenlake Race. They finished the race and hubby took it easy running Brayden's pace since Dr. did not recommended him to run, but he's so stubborn what can I say .. :P

So at noon we took them to Mallards Ice Cream at down town Bellingham as a treat, that was actually what motivated B to finish the race, this is his 2nd race for him BTW.

Okay back to the bento, I packed some yellow rice along with some pan fried potato cake, asparagus wrapped in a thin omelet, mini sweet bell pepper and fresh kiwi.

I topped the rice with fish shaped carrots and put some sea creatures food picks to complete the theme.

See you on the next post ^__^