#6 More tuna patties

Originally Made: Thursday July 14th, 2011
The Box: GIORNO Fine Color Series 510mL

LEFT: Rice with vegetable furikake
RIGHT: Mini tuna patties, blanched carrot

Continuation of Crappy Cellphone Pictures >_>  This one is actually worse than the last lol -_-"  I was in a dimly lit food court and that white bar of light (from one of the ceiling lights) at the bottom left was unavoidable >:|

More tuna patties, again three pictured here with each cut in half.  This box I'm using doesn't have any dividers and I don't usually pack my rice very tightly, so the things inside were slightly shifted since I had this placed in my bag on its side.  But nothing major so no harm done.

I bought some bento supplies online which I've just recently received in the mail, so there'll be a post on that in the near future :)

#5 Tuna patties, sweet pickles

Originally Made: Tuesday July 12th, 2011
The Box: Lock & Lock 550mL w/divider cups

LEFT: Rice, bread and butter pickles
RIGHT: Mini tuna patties, bok choy

I didn't have time to take a picture of this bento before leaving the house, so I only have a crappy cellphone pic taken right before eating :P

My first stab at making tuna patties, loosely following Hapa Bento's tuna squares recipe.  I say "loosely" because I made a bunch of substitutions lol.  No celery at home so I put in shredded carrot.  Ditto for onion so I used green onion.  And we don't typically have mayo in my house so I experimented with cream cheese.  For the bread crumbs, I used panko.

I thought they came out out pretty well but needed a bit more flavour.  That's likely due to my use of cream cheese (which isn't as flavourful as mayo) and using less salt than specified.  Next time I'll add more salt and try try other flavourings.  I'm thinking tomato sauce or soy sauce.  I also have half a container of gochujang at home that I should use.  Anyway, three mini patties are pictured here, each cut in half.

Also, the pickles.  Up to this point I've been having dill, which I don't mind but what I really like are sweet pickles.  My family recently finished the dill jar and we had one jar of bread and butter pickles sitting around so it's all good.  But man, it took me like five minutes to open the jar x_X  The seals on those things are tight.