#10 A 2-tier bento

Originally Made: Monday August 29th, 2011
The Box: Lube Sheep URARA 580mL

TOP: Egg muffin, rice with furikake
BOTTOM: Watermelon, chicken, cha siu, bitter melon and (more) chicken

I have a few bento pictures on backlog >_>  I need to procrastinate less on posting as I start to forget details -_-"  This is my first time posting a two-tier bento.  I wasn't used to having all that space in the upper tier ("bottom" in the above pic) so it wasn't filled very densely or high. I'll need to work on that.  This is a the first time I added fruit to a bento.  Before getting silicone muffin liners I didn't have any good way to separate fruit from other foods, plus I generally I'm slow at cutting fruit so I didn't put any in my bentos.  But there was some cut up watermelon in the fridge around that time so I just cut it up even smaller to fit in this box.

That egg muffin was the last one left in the freezer, and the furikake was homemade.  The rest was all leftovers.  We have bitter melon fairly often at home (we also grew some in our backyard this summer), and so I had some here in a stir fry with chicken breast.

#9 Most colurful bento yet

Originally Made: Wednesday August 17th, 2011
The Box: GIORNO Fine Color Series 510mL

LEFT: Rice, dried shredded carrot & roasted nori bits
RIGHT: Egg muffins, bread and butter pickles, celery and lap cheong (Chinese sausage)

One of my more colourful creations~  I really had to pack that rice in order to make room for everything else.  I had some shredded carrot on hand so I dried it in a frying pan and mixed it along with some cut up nori for a sort of quick furikake. There are two egg muffins in here, each cut in half.  The celery and lap cheong stir fried with garlic were dinner leftovers.

You may notice in this bento my use of food picks (faces! ^_^) and the pink silicone muffin liner holding the pickles. I got both from when I bought some bento supplies online awhile ago...which reminds me that I still need to make a post on that ^^;;

#8 Egg muffins

Originally Made: Monday August 15th, 2011
The Box: Lock & Lock 460mL w/divider cups

LEFT: Rice, bits of roasted nori
RIGHT: Egg muffins, string beans, chicken breast (hidden)

Finally, not a crappy picture lol.  I made egg muffins for the first time, loosely following this recipe.  Mine included sausage, chopped string beans, chopped chives, and shredded carrot. I changed the egg to milk ratio though and added more milk, which I think was what made them more moist than I preferred.  I ended up heating them on a frying pan after baking in order to get rid of the excess moisture inside. Then I proceeded to burn myself on the edge of the pan but that's another story >_>

The string beans cooked with garlic were dinner leftovers.  I cut up some nori and sprinkled it on top of my rice to make it look more interesting (ran out of store bought furikake).  There's also a few small pieces of chicken breast underneath the egg muffins.