豚肉ときのこのお弁当 - Pork and mushroom obento

ヤット新しい弁当箱買えました!!これで、お昼全部ひとつの容器で済む。ヨシ！We finally bought a new bento box!! So, now I don't have to put my son's rice in a separate container (yay!)

Today's bento was grilled pork with shimeji mushrooms, broccoli (I wonder if my kids eat too much broccoli sometimes...) and rolled omelet (with black sesame seeds), with vegetable furikake (a kind of dried flake topping that you can put on rice) mixed with rice.

本日のお弁当は、豚バラ肉とシメジの炒め物、ブロッコリーとゴマ入りの卵焼きの少々手抜きのお弁当でした。ご飯は、野菜ふりかけのかけたご飯でした。

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Chicken & Nori (seaweed) (チキンのお弁当)

Today's J-school bento was chicken. ....hmmmmm....well I'm really running out of creativity on these. I've tried hard not to repeat bentos...but it's tough. In the name of spontaneity, I put nori (dried seaweed) in today's rolled omelet. ^_^;;;...weeeeellll....it doesn't look too impressive, but my kids (even the baby) loooove nori. So. Much. This omelet was kind of a success. Although I should figure out how to make the nori form a lovely swirl through to the middle of the omelet.

飽きないよう、卵焼きに海苔を入れてしまい、見た目はともかく、海苔好きの我が子にとってはｸﾞｯd(TヮT;;)らしいです。

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Obento come-back

Japanese school has started up again. Which means...bento-making is back as a part of my Saturday morning routine. This bento consists of a hamburger patty (ground beef, onions, panko bread crumbs and egg; after grilling it with the cover on the pan (so that it also kind of steams itself), it spends some time in a "sauce" bath -- I think I've written about Japanese "sauce" before, but it's something like Worcestershire sauce. Well, usually my kid doesn't like any sauce on his food, but I'm trying to break that a bit), grape tomatoes, blueberries (they weren't very sweet, so I rubbed them in some sugar -- gah! I know, but US fruit is sooooo hit or miss -- probably because the seasons are sooooo long (the market near me has had blueberries every time I go since April...)), burdock root (cut and simmered in cooking sake, mirin, soy sauce, salt and sugar <--the holy grail of all Japanese cooking) and a rolled omelet.

さあ、補習校の秋学期が始まったので、お弁当作りにまた挑戦いたしまあす！息子のあんまり気に入ったないソースのものですが、なんと全部食べてくれました！ヾ(￣∇￣=ﾉ ﾊﾞﾝｻﾞｰｲ♪

ソースに煮込んだハンバーグ、グレープトマト、
ブルーベリー（甘くなかった（アメリカだから）ので、お砂糖をかけて）、ごぼうと卵焼き。

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集中学習のお弁当 (Summer School Lunches)

こっちの現地校が先週、長～い夏休みに入ったため、今日補習校の集中学習が始まりました。とゆうことは、今週・来週は毎日お弁当が必要です。朝まで働いて、その後、早起き＋お弁当作り。。。2週間生き抜けるかな(^_^;;;)。
がんばりますP(^-^)o！！

Now that regular school is out on summer break, J school has entered its summer school period. During the next two weeks, my eldest will have J school every day...which means he needs a packed lunch every day. Which means that after working until morning, I will have to wake up early and make bento! HAAHHAHA! Weeeell, these two weeks may result in some "interesting" lunches, but I will try my best! ^_^!!

Today's lunch was ↓. Well, I didn't have so much time today before work, so it's pretty simple: boiled broccoli, grape tomato, boiled egg, apple slices x 2, cut Japanese hotdogs x 2, with rice and sesame seeds.

ちょっと手抜きですが、ブロッコリー、プチトマト、ゆで卵、りんごのスライス、ウィーナーｘ２

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Hotdog flowers

Here's another J school bento (lunch box) -- a croquette (mashed potato balls with corn (it's in there!) that are deep fried) cut in half, tamago-yaki (rolled omelet), hotdog flowers (the yellow in the middle is a single corn kernel -- these come out cuter if you use Japanese mini hotdogs, but we didn't have any) and edamame. My kid has trouble opening edamame shells by himself, so these are preopened, but left in the shells (to give the illusion of being able to open them).




卵焼き、コロッケ、ホットドッグのお花（男の子だけんど＾＾;;）と枝豆

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Saturday school bento (lunch box)

Of course I have a kid -- I have three. Saturday's are filled with J school and gymnastics. Here's my oldest's lunch for J school.

子供がいることは当たり前でしょ、だってあとちょっとで30歳ですもの。実は３児のママです。アメリカ住まいなんで、上の子は週末は補習校です。土曜のお弁当はこんな感じ↓

 

Rice is rolled up so it's easier to grab with chopsticks. Tamago-yaki (rolled omelette), grape tomatoes and edamame, grilled chicken.

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