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Roast Pork (286)

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As you can see, I finally saw the “Read More” button in my Wordpress editor. Pretty good, it only took me like 6 months to see it. I spent like and hour last night looking for a plugin for it and there it is, already in the editor. Bah![...]

Amuse-ubi Bouche

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Tee hee…this mix of white rice  and black forbidden rice created such a lovely color that  couldn’t resist making tiny little musubi! A cutemorsel of flavor with ebi fumi furikake sprinkled on top…and voila,[...]

Breakfast Bentos

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Last night brought us to about 95% moved out of the old place, so I’ve got plans to go do one more load and then we start cleaning it up for what we’re hoping will be a quick sale. Man, I would never have expected just how much[...]

May Day Bento (486)

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Yesterday was not a good day for my leg. The large burn that had been scabbing ended up getting stuck to my pants while I was at work, making the rest of the afternoon extremely uncomfortable, kind of like how I’m making you all[...]

Wasabi Salmon (264)

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I have two lunches to post today as yesterday I had a brain fart and simply didn’t post my lunch! D: I’m not a big fan of this one to be honest. I didn’t have much food to use so I ended up making little green musubis with[...]

Football Bento (437)

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Yesterday, we went over to my in-laws to let the kids hang out with my niece and nephew and in between accidental naps and trying to get children to put their clothes back on, I was trying to think of themes to do for lunches this week. I[...]

Colorful Chard Bento

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Today’s featured bento shows off the bright and colorful chard that I bought from the farmers market way over in Sequim, Wa. In a previous post, the in-flight bento , I briefly mentioned buying some colorful chard while “out[...]

Meatless Monday Bento

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After taking a short break from posting bentos, I’m feeling revitalized with many non-meat and fish recipes to share with you.  If you’re a carnivore, please don’t leave.  I’m not being preachy, just providing ideas![...]

Bunny & Bear Charaben

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This week, the Marukai Irrashai newsletter should be coming out with the first of three mini bento tutorials by me. I’m excited, to say the least. Marukai puts up their newsletters online, so I should be able to link to it soon. I had[...]

Review: CasaBento Box

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As Big Island residents now know, the Hilo Borders will be closing its doors for good at the end of the month. I’ve been getting emails and comments asking if my book signing is still on and unfortunately the answer is no. They called[...]