I try to come up with a name for each bento the Missus concocts for me for the sake of variety.
I had a hard time finding one today! Well, the salmon is obvious and the smileys are to be found with the tamagoyaki!
This bento was made with whatever was found in the fridge and even includes some leftovers from the previous bento!
After having steamed the rice, filled the main box with it and sprinkled it with chopped red pickled cucumber, the Missus fried some slices of salmon and topped them with tartare sauce at the last moment before placing them on top of the rice.
She fried some boiled green cauliflower for yesterday’s bento for more colors and balance and put the finishing touch with some sliced black olive.
Can you see the smileys?
Well, two of them have slanted eyes while the third one is blowing me a kiss!
The Missus had prepared a batch of “kinpira” vegetables with hijiki/sweet seaweed, burdock root, carrot and green/red peppers and filled one end of the side box with it.
The smileys were made of tamagoyaki with apparent whites and filled with boiled black beans.
The Missus placed them on a bed of ice-plant with plum tomatoes and boiled peas in their pods.
Very colorful again, Spring is around the corner! Solid and yummy!
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The tamagoyaki in the middle looks kind of sexy… lol.
You get double the pleasure 😉
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Definitely! LOL
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I wanted to say the omelet chunks look like small chicks and two are smiling while one is whistling, but I suppose like every piece of art, this bento has different possible interpretations… I see sometimes these funny hairy leaves (are they hairy?) and would love to taste them too when I go to Japan!
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Actually you are right! Better have two versions of it! LOL
These funny leaves look a bit hairy but these “hair” are so soft you won’t feel them!
Did you know they originally come from Africa?
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I had no idea! I must check if I can sow them. (i have found mitsuba grains so why not this?)
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Apparently they are not so difficult to grow!
Bear in mind they are at their best small, not when they have become large leaves!
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I want to have lunch with those lunch boxes!! It will be great!
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You are not the only one!LOL
Thank you so much for your kind comment!
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These are such beautiful lunches!
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Thank you so much dear Danny!
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