the bento packing, lunch cooking, photo taking, dog loving blog

Chicken & Lentils with Rice (393)

Chicken & Lentils with Rice

It’s Monday again, and I don’t think I have ever been so excited to see Monday roll around again. Why? Because this weekend, I caught a little bug. Only 48 hours, just enough to ruin part of the weekend. As I subsisted on saltines and Sprite for a portion of that time, I was ready [...]

New-to-Me Everywhere (392)

Bento 392

This weekend, I flubbed another recipe.  Badly.  I mean really badly.  So Saturday’s would-be dinner was instead filler for my trash can.  :(  Saturday night, I resolved to stop playing around in the kitchen and crack open a cookbook to see what I could find for lunch/dinner that night.  No more flubbed recipes.  No more [...]

Chicken and NOT Salad (391)

Bento 390

“Look Ma, no salad!” LOL!  That’s how I feel this morning as I post about today’s bento lunch.  To make the last two days of this week easier, I bought a pound and a half of rotisserie chicken wings from a local grocery store on Wednesday night.  Along with that, I purchased garnet yams and [...]

Chicken…Salad…Simple (390)

Bento 390

YAWN!  If it was Wednesday, I would declare this picture “Wordless Wednesday” and play a not-very-hard guessing game as to what is in the box.  I’m feeling decidely better this morning, but very tired.  My preference would be to crawl back into bed under the covers and sleep for another hour.  Instead, it’s time to [...]

Salad (Bento 389)

Hello Everyone!  I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  For those of you living in the U.S. who were able to enjoy a 3-day holiday due to Labor Day, I hope you had a fabu weekend.  And to all of you that weren’t able to enjoy a 3-day holiday, I hope you still had [...]

Roasted Pork Chop with Crab Topping (388)

Originally, this post was to appear yesterday. And I tweeted that I had forgotten to post it and would do so last night. Then, during the day my pre-scheduled announcement of the post appeared and the link worked, leading you to the post. However, I could not for the life of me figure out why [...]

BBQ to the Rescue (387)

Bento 387

Last night, I had such plans.  Make a deer stew.  Make the crabmeat meuniere sauce, photograph, and show the recipe in the coming weeks on this site.  Drizzle that meuniere sauce all over two pork chops I planned to broil for dinner and enjoy one heck of a dinner.  But it was not to be. [...]

Crabcake (386)

Bento 386

Today’s bento contains the last pancake from this weekend’s great feats (sniff, sniff).  I originally planned to eat it for dinner last night, but just couldn’t do it.  I decided it was best saved for lunch today.  Since I deprived myself of the crab cake last night, I made pecan pancakes instead. I still have [...]

Seafood Galore (385)

Bento 385

Last night, I enjoyed the most amazing dinner with my family.  It all started when I bought a tub of lump crabmeat and a package of crawfish tails with the express thought to make myself “really great” Sunday but no real plans at that point.  Then, an online conversation with my brother turned into inviting [...]