Halloween Bento
I got bamboozled today. It’s Halloween, so I shouldn’t be surprised. You could say I got tricked—and treated. Instead of my regularly scheduled box lunch, The Angry Chef made me the sweetest bento ever. Literally. Here’s today’s bento box, made entirely out of candy. Halloween Bento: Looks like a regular bento lunch, right? Wrong. Allow [...]
Tuesday’s Bento
Ooof, what a crazy day! Thankfully, I had a really nice lunch, courtesy of my dear husband, The Angry Chef. I told him last night that my day today would most likely be nuts, so he got up earlier than usual to make me an extra nice lunch. Sometimes, it’s the little things that get [...]
Thursday Bento
I’ve been long on deadlines and short on time this week. Luckily, the Angry Chef has been packing me a lunch every day. Today’s came in my spiffy new bento box. Allow me to present Thursday’s Lunch Happiness. Top tier Yellow rice. His version of my snap pea salad (minus the chili flakes). Bottom tier [...]
Bento Happiness
After putting it off and shopping around for what seems like ages, I finally got my first official bento box the other night. The Angry Chef and I were tooling around Cambridge before dinner and stopped by Tokai Japanese Gifts in the Porter Exchange building on Mass. Ave. Tokai is stuffed with a fantastic assortment [...]
Bento This!
Lately, there’s been great interest in bento boxes in my (admittedly small but super fantastic) social circle. My dear friend the Lady Otter has put together some positively breathtaking lunches for herself. Here’s a quick bento primer. So, what’s a bento and why do you want one? A bento box is a traditional Japanese lunchbox. [...]
