my sweet husband surprised me last week with a new bento box (he saw it at a store when he was looking for something else). wanting to use it, and finding ourselves with more time on our hands than u...
bento zen was recently featured in two foreign magazines! the first is skoda magazine, a belgian publication advertising the czech car company. since this article is in french, i can pretty much read...
i know it’s been over a month since i posted… seems like i was just talking about doing a proper spring bento, and now it’s almost summer! between bananas work travel and some famil...
i know, spring has sprung, and i am psyched to try some new seasonal recipes… but i’ve been traveling like a crazy person for work, and haven’t had time to put together a blog-worth...
tomorrow’s lunch has some super-healthy chard wraps (nutrient-rich steamed chard leaves, filled with zuchinni-eggplant-brown rice gratin) and mini lentil-cashew patties. indulging my last wint...
i am a new, but sure-to-be-faithful, reader of the gorgeous blog 101 cookbooks, which has some really inspiring vegetarian recipes. tomorrow’s lunch includes a few winter rolls from a big batc...
today’s lunch (made yesterday) came together quickly — no recipes involved, just soy boy’s carribean tofu, which is spiced so beautifully as to make a tasty meal with the addition o...
i spent today batch cooking for the week from some tasty recipes i bookmarked in magazines i read in various airports during the past week’s work-related travels. tomorrow’s lunch, thoug...
today was the end of a leisurely, three-day weekend, thanks to the president’s day public holiday. because of the extra day, i finally got to shoot a bento in sunlight, something i rarely get ...
a quick lunch tomorrow (in my new bento & co. “origami bento,” bought on karaimame’s brilliant suggestion), made up of leftovers from batch dinner cooking i did earlier this week, plu...
sticking to my plan, i’ve prepared a simple and disposable lunch bento, with no frills or decorative accents. simplifying my take-to-work lunches to fit my work-night routine also means simplif...
hi bento pals! it feels like years since i’ve had time to do a bento post… lots of changes in my life, but the one that’s most relevant to this blog is my diet… in the 1+ yea...
hey everybody, how are things in bento land? the past couple weeks have been crazy for me — i got a sort of promotion (i think?) and have been traveling a lot more for work, which is wreaking ...
tomorrow’s lunch was fairly quick and easy to pack using leftovers from tonight’s dinner: two round onigiri made from rice mixed with sauteed broccolini stems and garlic (which is how i s...
a recent trend in wedding stationary is to use a mix of vintage postage stamps for a unique and stylized look. i think this idea is really cute, but it can be cost-prohibitive (some vintage stamps co...
tonight for dinner i made an awesome pan-seared cod dish, served with shitake-miso-arugula-quinoa salad (recipe below) and a fat slice of oven-roasted beefsteak tomato. for tomorrow’s lunch, wh...
tomorrow’s lunch has two hanpen geese with egg sheet beaks and feet, nori eyes, and fish sausage cheeks. they’re sitting on a bed of basmati rice sprinkled with furikake i received in a ...
this speed-packed bento is my nod to easter… the “speedy” in the title refers both to the bunny and to the bento-making time! it’s a simple meal in my trusty tiffin: some bul...
tomorrow’s lunch has some curry rice with two hanpen horses, plus steamed broccoli, a tomato, steamed brussels sprout halves, and some juicy pieces of mochiko chicken. i made a batch using a c...
tomorrow’s bread-free lunch is my take on soboro, mexican-style: a layer of spanish rice (cooked in my rice cooker with peas and corn), a layer of monterey jack cheese, and a layer of vegetaria...
tomorrow at sundown marks the start of the jewish holiday passover. for the eight days during which the holiday is observed, one refrains from eating leavened bread, as well as a variety of other fo...
have you seen anna the red’s cool tutorial on inarizushi totoro-making? she’s full of awesome ideas, and this one might take the cake. i have never done a totoro before, and even though...
for dinner tonight, we had a HUGE salad, and i’m bringing leftovers from that to work tomorrow. because of that, i knew i only needed to pack something small for my actual bento. the salad did...
tomorrow’s lunch has two poodles in love. the poodles are cut with a fondant cutter from hanpen, which i was able to find at my japanese grocer. the poodles are set on a bed of rice mixed wit...
the past couple weeks have NOT been spring-like here in NYC, with the exception of this past weekend. today it rained again, and honestly, i’m getting pretty tired of it — i want to bre...
tomorrow’s lunch was inspired by a snail bento by the talented lucky sundae – how cute, right?! i love her work. my snail is a little bit different, but with the same “shell”...
i made dinner with my bestie tonight, and then we drank cocktails together on my couch while commenting on a hot episode of intervention… what can i say, i’m a girl of extremely refined t...
i hope everybody had a nice weekend! we finally got some nice, spring-like weather, with temperatures in the mid-50s and two days of fairly consistent sunshine. tomorrow’s bento has a nautical ...
tomorrow’s lunch was simple and easy to speed pack — which was perfect, since i went to happy hour with a friend and came home ready for bed! i have one fairly thick cucumber maki here, r...
tomorrow’s lunch has two “club-style” (triple decker) sandwiches made from health nut bread, garlic-herb cream cheese, vegetarian ham, and cucumber. each sandwich is topped with a ...
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