Bamboo Rice Musubi Bento

Today’s featured bento is snacked sized!  Grilled miso salmon, trio of tomatoes, veggie gyoza and bamboo rice musubi.  Bamboo rice?  Yep.

I ‘ve seen this green colored rice as “Jade Rice” but at the Central Market in Shoreline, WA,  this green variety is labeled “Bamboo Rice”.  The sign on the bulk container says it’s a process of infusing regular short grain white rice with fresh green bamboo extract?1000 year old tradition…in China.   A quick Google  returns many results hailing it’s health benefits!  Interesting stuff and I’m surprised I had never heard of it until a few weeks ago.  I don’t detect any distinct flavor that makes me like or dislike it more than white rice.  I’ll have to do a comparative taste test someday. (adding this task  to the lengthy “to-dos” list ) 

In any case, it sure is “purdy” and stands out against a  white bento box.   And this is one of my favorite white snack boxes… um, okay… my only white snack sized bento box!   It’s a Wonderbread sandwich box (given to me by an nice bento friend) which has never even seen a sandwich!  But I digress…

I really wanted to say that I’ve been packing two  snack bento boxes  for Saba Man during this month for our challenge.  We are not taking any chances especially now that  we’ve crossed over the $400.00 threshold this weekend!  

Our other challenge, if you will… I call it “let’s play chicken with the refrigerator”, is still going strong.  The freezer is almost empty and if it does die before this weekend well… que sera sera!   The good news is we’ve picked out the one we want but we’re waiting for the very, very last minute to spend the money.  It feels like that old Seinfeld episode where Kramer takes a car out for a test drive to see how far he can go until he runs out of gas.  It’s the thrill! 

Funny, we usually aren’t this tight -fisted.  Frugal?  Yes, but come on… the old fridge is so loud, it’s scaring the cats!    Friday may just be the day to take the plunge.  Then you know what happens after that…waiting for delivery.  Arghh!