I will post this before odebu will even see this. It has sweet and spicy green beans and onion cooked with Gochujang, sugar and soy sauce, ham and cheese omelette AND octopus sausage!!! I boiled the sausages after cutting them in parts not…
Soboro rice isn't new on my odebu's bento menu, but making soboro with 100% beef is kinda new. Filled with bacon wrapped green beans, pumpkin croquettes and regular potato and meat croquette. Hope the bento will fill up odebu enough for th…
Omlette filled with spinach, onion and meat seasoned with white pepper and soy sauce. Thickend with corn starch. Leftover potato salad made with QP mayo, breaded fried fish and butter sauteed green beans.
Egg sandwich for my odebu bento, but it's not just some egg sandwich it's Japanese QP mayo egg sandwich!!! That's super special!! And you know how QP mayo makes everything tastes sooooo good!!
I made another Inari Sushi bento for my Odebu. The last time I made it I had the hardest time trying to open the Inari in pockets and they kept getting ripped. This time I remembered the oldest cooking trick that I had forgotten that exist…
Leftover lunch from weekend. Served it with porched egg when we ate it for dinner, but thought it best to change that for lunch. Go figure. The simmered sweet hokkaido I made the corner. I think Japanese would appriciate the texture of pum…
As much as Odebu loves rice, he needs to have bread alternatively or he'll get bored. It is my mission to keep his daily eating fun and enjoyable as well as of course prepping delicious food. Odebu starts his day by slicing up his home mad…
During our weekly grocery shopping we found the japanese pumpkin! Yes, Hokkaido Pumpkin! I don't know why 'hokkaido', but it's THE good pumpkin! The pumpkins we see at european supermarkets are the same pumpkins that you use to dig and emp…
I found the recipe of this meat onigiri as to compensate my yarning for thin sliced meat so that I can wrap rice balls. There is no such slice of meat here. Maybe I might find a butcher nice and brave enough to slice meat without slicing f…
Odebu askes out of nowhere 'Can you make this?' with the photo of Octopus sausage on his laptop screen. 'Of course I can! But where did you see about the octopus sausage?? ', 'Anime!' Oh I should have known better... 'What's it called?' 'S…
Today my odebu brought Mix fry bento lunch. It's fish and pork cutlet with leftover pork tatsuta age, rolled humberg and tamagoyaki. Hope it's pork cutlet and not chicken...(odebu doesn't like chicken). Have my fingers crossed!!! Hope odeb…
I asked odebu to stop at the asian grocery store and pick up a bottle of tonkatsu sauce. He came home with Tofu pockets and tonkatsu sauce. He really loves inari sushi. He really, REALLY loves them. The good news for me is that I only need…
My first attempt on making jambalaya turnd out pretty good! Odebu liked it. Oh this is the leftover from yesterdays dinner! Rice cooker made jambalaya! It was one easy bento making.
I like the bright color of tomatoes and broccoli.
Bento lunch of the day is Menchi katsu with scrambled eggs on rice. My mother for some reason used to call scrambled eggs Charanporan meaning something like irresponsible or lazy. I guess because it's such an easy dish. When I couldn't fin…
Shumai and Temari style prosciutto balls another quick bento item. hope Odebu enjoys them haaai
We don't usually shop our meat at a bucher. So I can't really say this with confidense, but I am getting this feeling that danish people don't really eat their meat in various cuts and parts. Or it may only mean Japanese like to enjoy thei…
Turkish Rice Bento. High Sugar, carb and fat I knew this dish would steal odebu's heart. And there was no doubt about it. I have been meaning to make this bento for some time. It's buried under spaghetti and Tonkatsu, but under all that th…
It was a sure dish to get odebu's seal of approval. It has eggs and pork cutlet. I even made the sauce sweet for his taste. But the response I got was just normal 'delicious'... maybe it wasn't sweet enough. hummm
Veggie rolled hamburg with satsuma age yey!
Oops you can barely see the spaghetti... it's buried under the hamburg It's classic japanese spaghetti dish everyone loves and I know it would put a giant smile on Odebu's face!
Satsuma age (fish cake with veggies) bento
Shumai(chinese steamed dumplings), tamagoyaki bento
Omlett rice with breaded bacon and string beans, croquette
With leftover Dandan noodle topping. Odebu fell in love with this noodle ever since he had it in Tokyo. He has been asking me if I can make it. I made the sauce using tahini, vinegar, soy sauce and doubanjiang(chinese chili paste) topped i…
Before we hit the winter and I forget about this lunch completely I need to post this one. Well yeah the noodles are buried and can't been seen, but can you guess what it is?? It's cold ramen! Yeah Hiyashi Chuka! I have managed to make the…
When we lived in Germany we could always pick up a bag of chinese noodles and make sauce yakisoba using the yakisoba seasoning packets I brought from Japan. It wasn't great, but it was ok. But now that we are out of both the seasoning pack…
My 'Chubby husband's (aka Odebu) first day of work. The bento item is potato croquettes, tamago yaki fried eggplant drizzled soy sauce and... looks like hamburg.
Bento Lunch for non dieters
