#90 - Wrap & Veggies bento in a new box

Sadly I had to say goodbye to two of my bento boxes. I had them for a long time. Maybe 4 or 5 years, but the print on the lids has totally vanished.

I did love the print on these boxes. It was simple and elegant. But as you can see, they had their best time. Maybe I could repaint the lids myself, but I need to look up more information on that. If you have any ideas on this, please let me know. The lids of most of my sauce cups, weren't any better so I decided a while ago that it was time to get a new box and new cups.

Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures. I had almost no daylight at all today and while it looks like the pics are taken at night, I actually took them this morning. I choose for an almost square bento box. I have one of them already and I find them very easy to use and they can hold much more than I thought at first. I actually use these more often than the more common ones that are shown above and I noticed that having only one wasn't handy when Nick and I needed a bento at the same time. I had my eye on this clean and simple bird design for a while now, so I am glad I was able to buy it. I also bought new cute Ms Bunny and Stitch sauce cups :)

Today I used the bento for the first time. Zeronic starts his first day at work today! He finally has a job again and now works at a local vegetable and fruit store :) As my regular readers know, most of my bento are vegetarian since I don't eat meat and even Zeronic's bento are often vegetarian. But he wanted to buy some meat this time, so I made wraps with that. In the sausage roll ups is some herbal cheese and there is actually a double layer of wrap in the bento box. In the other tier there are stir fried paprika, courgette, spring onions and quorn pieces in a lemon grass sauce. Since Zeronic now works again, this blog will be updated with actual bento more often :) But I did like the way I used the blog during Zeronic's days of unemployment so it will become a mix now of bento, regular recipes and reviews. The change you might notice is that it will get updated more often again :)

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Bento #20 - noodle dinner bento

I was looking for a larger bento box for a while now since the boyfriend has evening shifts as well, I make bento for dinner on a regular base and the average bento was just to small for that purpose. The first one I ordered was too small and the 2nd one was bigger but still not ideal. But now we have this box:

 

The great thing is that the box can be used in the microwave as well, which makes it perfect for dinner bento. Today was the first tryout :)

  

It contains a whole lot of noodles, leftover from a noodlesoup I made yesterday. I drained it from fuilds and it was ready to go :) I will post the recipe for the vegetarian noodle soup below. Further it has some Foo Yong Hai, lettuce, a clementine and apple flowers. The boyfriend isn't home yet, but I reckon he will have enough to eat now ;)

 

This is the soup I made yesterday. It was my first time making noodlesoup and I had to adjust it from a recipe where they used chicken broth. This is how I made it:

Vegetarian noodlesoup:
- Half a package of thin noodles
- 250gr mixed mushrooms
- 2 spring oninons
- Half a bottle Conimex woksauce garlic with coriander
- 1 litre herb broth (I used a tablet with 1l water)
- 1 Bok Choy

Cut the mushrooms and the spring onions and stir fry them in a little bit of oil. Cut the Bok Choy and cook the noodles. Add the sauce to the pan with the mushrooms and also add the herb broth. Wait till the water boils and add the noodles and the Bok Choy. Stir well and let it rest for a few minutes.

The sauce is a really good taste maker. I loved it!

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New box: Black Sakura box

I was in love with this box for a while now and a few weeks ago I decided to order it from J-list.

I really love the shape of this box and the color too, combined with the pretty pink Sakura flowers on top, this makes one cute box! My boyfriend didn't think the box was to feminine to take to take it with him, though I have doubts myself. But as long as he is okay with it ;)

Here is a better picture of the box where you can see the different parts. The upper and lower tier are of the same size and they both contain 450ml, making it bigger then the average bento box. I really like the lids from this box because they close really tight and I have the idea they keep the food more air sealed and therefore more fresh.

Filling it for the first time was a bit of a challenge though, because the new shape takes some getting used to. But I see possibilities for the future which I don't have with the rectangular boxes. But for instance I couldn't place pocky under the lid, because the box isn't long enough.

The only real downside of this box is that it can't be used in the microwave. I knew this before I bought it, but I bought it anyway. This box was just too appealing not to add to my bento collection.

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New bento box

Because the boyfriend works in shifts, he also has to have dinner at work on a regular base. Since the normal 2-tier bento left him a bit peckish, resulting him raiding the fridge when he got home, I decided he needed a bigger box and thus I ordered one on e-bay. Or so I thought...



This set arrived yesterday. According to the description on e-bay it was supposed to be larger then the ones I had, but I was kinda disappointed when it arrived because the box doesn't seem bigger at all. In fact I wonder if it isn't smaller then the average 2-tier box. It seems that on a picture the box seems bigger, which can be a bit misleading. Aside from that it is not a bad buy.

The bottom lid is deeper then average, however you can't fill it till the top because the lid closes different, so you need to take that into account when filling it up. That is because the upper tier fits snugly into the bottom one. There is plenty of space in the bottom tier though, but not so much in the upper one. What I do miss is the extra lid when you can sneak in some biscuits or other small goodies. It does seem to close better then the rectangular 2-tier box from the same series. The box is very sturdy and it will certainly be used alongside the others. But it doesn't fit the purpose for which I bought this box so the hunt continues. I do find the shape and size very cute though :) And, not entirely unimportant, the box is microwave safe. But do remember to take the lids off :)



I ordered these cute long picks with the bento box :) I already discovered they are very handy and much nicer then using toothpicks ;)

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