Sunday, June 29, 2008

Bento Station! Inspiration!

I got a package from my lovely wonderful friend who lives in Japan, Nakji of Tokaido Notebook. It is sooooo exciting and inspiring! I'm pumped to put it all to use. The first thing it made me do is get organized! Its officially enough stuff to need organization. I took the spice rack I received for Christmas and took all the little bits and it turned into this, which will soon be mounted on the wall.


Then I dumped all the larger bits (including a mini-steamer!) into a bin we had lying about.

Then I made bento! In brand new bento boxes! Assemble your own meatloaf sandwiches (on thin burger buns - which are like greek pitas). The little orange case is filled with Mayo (for me) and the yellow one with BBQ sauce (for him). The cases let you push the sauce through them in a fairly magical way (at least it seemed magical in the Japanese instructions).

Thanks lovely friend for sending more toys to play with, and for getting me hooked on bento in the first place! Lunch is soo much fresher and exciting now!

3 comments:

nakji said...

Yaaaaaay! I'm so glad it made it in one piece. I hope customs didn't screw you too much.

Does Ron's box suit him? Are the boxes big enough? It looks like they fit the sandwich ok. Those push-tube condiment things are great, aren't they?

Canadian Bento said...

Customs didn't screw me at all. I didn't have to pay a penny! The boxes are just the right size, and Ron likes his - he'll love it when I rock out the divider. The whole array of condiment holders is AMAZING! I love holding condiments!

nakji said...

Those plastic sheets are antibacterial sheets - they inhibit growth of nasty bacterias, apparently. It sounded like something Ron would like. They're both microwavable, but not the top on yours, what with the sparkles and all, obviously.