June 16th Bento

I was in a bit of a rush this morning (I just couldn't will myself out of bed!) so today's bento was pretty simple, but I think it still looks nice.

The onigiri was frozen from a batch I made a few weeks ago (remember this bento?). I used a mold that makes three tiny rounded triangles at a time, similar to my cube mold. The slices of meat are from a premade stuffed turkey breast from the butcher that I baked up last night and sliced this morning.

For veggies there are asparagus stalks, broccoli florets, steamed carrot flowers (I liked how they had the little circle in the middle), fried plantain hearts, and yellow zucchini slices.

There are a couple of tomatos, and for fruit there are grapes, white and red raspberries, a couple blueberries, strawberry slices, and green apple hearts. There's a truffle for dessert but I forget what flavor it was. It was yummy though!

May 1st Bento

I feel like the individual components of today's bento were all excellent, but somehow, it just didn't come together. Well, here it is:

The main components are slices of stuffed turkey roll (premade from the butcher), lotus seed paste filled onigiri, home made spanikopita (under the ducks), and a small container of eggplant braised in a sweet miso sauce.

I had half a sweet potato I wanted to use up, so I shaped some into flowers and made a couple of turtles (with nori). The ducks are fried plantain. There is some edamame hiding in the top left corner, and the regular broccoli, asparagus and snow peas.

Fruit is persimmons, strawberries and blueberries, dessert is a truffle.