Meat and Potatoes

We bought a bunch of chickens (ok, two) this weekend to rotisserie on our new barbecue. Sadly, it was too windy today to keep the flame lit, so I baked up this one for the sole purpose of bentoing. Other features include double mustard potato salad (one of my new favourite things) veggies, and craisins for the man. He loves craisins.

Flying Bento!

I've been travelling for work the past week, so not much bento news, though if people are interested, I can offer a full review of the University of Windsor's catering service (here's a tip - don't eat the muffins). I was pleasantly surprised on the way out, I flew Porter Air, a new regional airline that serves free food! Including, an adorable little box with a racoon on the cover that featured half a sandwich, a Babybel, some crackers, napkins and a piece of chocolate. It was bento-licious. Sadly, I didn't take the camera. So this picture of Mr. Porter will have to do.

New Container - New Way

This is my favourite use for my new style container. Centre full of hummus, sides full of pita, veggies and other treats for possibly dipping in said hummus...maybe this one should come with a mint.

Salad Season has Arrived!

Its been a long cold winter, but salad season is back, and I'm celebrating with this melange of vegetables, leftover chicken cooked up in an all purpose Thai sauce we found at Costco and some cheese. It didn't travel very well, next time I'm going to try more lettuce.

New Container

I found a new style of container at the dollar store! It has a built in secondary bowl for dip! As you can see, I've used that to its best advantage! The second pic shows the cheese and other dipper removed, and the top of the inside bowl open to reveal my favourite salsa (Kickin' Salsa - Hot). Its the snack that eats like a lunch!

Thai-riffic

My neighbour friend gave me a Thai cookbook for my birthday (Simply Thai), and I finally got to using it this week - to great success! Here's Pad Woon Sen, and I added the baby corns myself. I failed to make enough rice to make bento out of the spicy pork awesomeness I made yesterday...but it may yet make an appearance here :)

Curry-licious

Mmmmm, this looks good! Leftover Chicken Curry and Mango Rice from Costco this weekend, carrots, green peppers, kiwi and strawberries. I really like this particular box because of its moveable divider...and its Strawberry Shortcake design. We're going to have to go back to that dollar store soon. I'm sure the man will enjoy the Dora The Explorer version.