We are going through a blasting heat wave seeing us almost reach 40 degrees, which means probably higher inside town!
The Missus had to devise a bento that could be kept safe in spite of the adverse conditions!
That is why she mixed shredded sweet umeboshi/pickled Japanese plums with the rice after having steamed. Not only great for taste, design and color, but it will also keep the rice safe for a long time.
She added some black sesame seeds for decoration and supplementary seasoning.
The same conditions applied for the side dish/box: design, color, nutrition and safety!
Pickled celery with hijiki/sweet seaweed and tamagoyaki/Japanese omelette! The latter is for the dessert part!
Great colors there:
Lettuce.
Sauteed salmon seasoned with a mixture of mayonnaise and wasabi tsuke/wasabi stems and leaves pickled in sake white lees.
Sauteed yellow zucchini, okra and plum tomatoes.
Low in calories, very tasty and so colorful!
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I popped in just to boast I have finally posted your daikon leaves furikake recipe 🙂 Thank you for your kindness. It was delicious every time I made it!
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Could you please give me the url?
Cheers!
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Excuse-me, I should have done it at once!
http://www.withaglass.com/?p=5642
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Cheers, my good friend!
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Beautiful and delicious and … low calorie! This is one of the reasons why I love Japanese cuisine (though the “beautiful” applies to your wife’s bentos, but not always to what I make of the Japanese recipes 😉 .
It’s so hot in Switzerland I only think of refreshing food too… And I have just bought a big piece of watermelon thinking of tonight’s cocktail with ginger juice (the recipe from your blog of course 😉 ) Since I made it a couple of weeks ago, when I see now watermelons I only think about this drink!
Mixing umeboshi with rice is the idea I will try out. I am still looking for recipes with umeboshi (I make chicken skewers, a sauce for daikon salad advised by Hiroyuki from Hiroyuki’s blog and that’s it!).
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I’ll see if I can find any recipes with umeboshi!
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Thank you, Robert-Gilles, but if you have any, even very vague, ideas, it would already be wonderful! (The rice idea is great!).
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Don’t woory! I’m pretty sure Ill comeup with something! LOL
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