Bento lunch day 2
I'm only making bento lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays, basically, so I hope to keep up on posting something at least.
I haven't been sewing for the past couple of days because I've been completely knackered. I love that British word, "knackered", it totally describes how I've felt! Kind of like I've been knocked and whacked repeatedly ^_^
Here's the bento boxes for today:
As you can see my husband also wanted a bento today, his is the lower right one. In each are California Roll sushi, pickled ginger and soy sauce, cucumber salad, pluots (husband got a whole on the side & kids got half each) and chocolate chip mini muffins. My son got carrots and ranch dressing and my daughter got carrot sticks with garlic hummus, husband got tiny carrot hearts left over from son's carrot trimmings.
Personal notes: this was about our 3rd time making sushi. It's not very hard, just doesn't look professional, but it's tasty. We used "real" sushi rice, not Calrose rice, and I overcooked it but it still worked. I used frozen imitation crabstick for the first time and it came out good but I had to cook a whole 1 pound package for the 1 cup I used. I don't know what to do with the rest except for maybe "crab"cakes. We made the sushi last night & refrigerated the rolls then I cut them this morning. It takes me over 30 minutes to make these. I need to get faster and be better prepared. I kind of forgot this was the first week of school and these are mostly thrown together with what I had in the fridge, especially the carrots & fruit. I'm using the planning sheets from the Just Bento blog for next week. The cucumber salad I made more kid friendly by using a tiny bit of onion powder, my kids have onion issues that I'm trying to cure, adding a pinch of dill to taste like pickles, and using a cute lion mini fork for my picky son. This week I need to buy space fillers, that's why they got more carrot sticks.
adding family comments here later
ETA 1: husband's eyes were bigger than his stomach! He loved it but it was too much sushi. He actually text messaged me after he finished to tell me how much he liked it, a first!
ETA2: Kids loved the sushi. The cucumber salad had issues. Son's had too much dill & spilled over other stuff, daughter's had too much sour cream. At least they didn't complain about the onion flavor. Besides that it was good and myths about sushi were discussed by both kids. One kid told my son that if you ate too much sushi you would get parasites or something, sounds like something my mom used to say, and my daughter schooled the kids around her that you eat the pickled ginger after the sushi, not on top of. It made her LOL a lot because the main person against was at least part Japanese.
I haven't been sewing for the past couple of days because I've been completely knackered. I love that British word, "knackered", it totally describes how I've felt! Kind of like I've been knocked and whacked repeatedly ^_^
Here's the bento boxes for today:
As you can see my husband also wanted a bento today, his is the lower right one. In each are California Roll sushi, pickled ginger and soy sauce, cucumber salad, pluots (husband got a whole on the side & kids got half each) and chocolate chip mini muffins. My son got carrots and ranch dressing and my daughter got carrot sticks with garlic hummus, husband got tiny carrot hearts left over from son's carrot trimmings.
Personal notes: this was about our 3rd time making sushi. It's not very hard, just doesn't look professional, but it's tasty. We used "real" sushi rice, not Calrose rice, and I overcooked it but it still worked. I used frozen imitation crabstick for the first time and it came out good but I had to cook a whole 1 pound package for the 1 cup I used. I don't know what to do with the rest except for maybe "crab"cakes. We made the sushi last night & refrigerated the rolls then I cut them this morning. It takes me over 30 minutes to make these. I need to get faster and be better prepared. I kind of forgot this was the first week of school and these are mostly thrown together with what I had in the fridge, especially the carrots & fruit. I'm using the planning sheets from the Just Bento blog for next week. The cucumber salad I made more kid friendly by using a tiny bit of onion powder, my kids have onion issues that I'm trying to cure, adding a pinch of dill to taste like pickles, and using a cute lion mini fork for my picky son. This week I need to buy space fillers, that's why they got more carrot sticks.
adding family comments here later
ETA 1: husband's eyes were bigger than his stomach! He loved it but it was too much sushi. He actually text messaged me after he finished to tell me how much he liked it, a first!
ETA2: Kids loved the sushi. The cucumber salad had issues. Son's had too much dill & spilled over other stuff, daughter's had too much sour cream. At least they didn't complain about the onion flavor. Besides that it was good and myths about sushi were discussed by both kids. One kid told my son that if you ate too much sushi you would get parasites or something, sounds like something my mom used to say, and my daughter schooled the kids around her that you eat the pickled ginger after the sushi, not on top of. It made her LOL a lot because the main person against was at least part Japanese.