VALIDATE

Menu du jour bento filler : 22 Recipes


  • Recipe Ham-Wrapped Asparagus Bento Filler
    Ham-Wrapped Asparagus Bento Filler
    I haven’t posted a bento-filler article in awhile and with the weather now  including  chilly wind and rain,  it’s time to switch from summer’s salads and sushi.  Not that we don’t eat such things in the fall,  but[...]
  • Recipe Basket of Bento-Stash
    Basket of Bento-Stash
    We’re continuing our bento-stash series  with a slight twist!  It’s not about the freezer this time it’s about the refrigerator… a  BASKET in the refrigerator!   It’s a  basketful of tsukemono (Japanese[...]
  • Recipe Sweet Potatoes as Bento-Stash
    Sweet Potatoes as Bento-Stash
    I was poking around the  current frozen foods in my bento-stash… trying to decide on the item for the next article.  Then I discovered that my foodie friend Robert-Gilles had posted an  in-depth (like he always does) article about[...]
  • Recipe Leaf Impressions for Your Bento
    Leaf Impressions for Your Bento
    The skies are grayer, the winds are wetter and the bentos put on their autumn best!  I like to add “leaves” to my bentos during this time of year. Here’s an easy way to create life-like leaves for your own Halloween or[...]
  • Recipe Mock Medallions
    Mock Medallions
    Okay first off, Saba Man says these look like sausages.  This was not my intention.  I wanted them to look like medallions. What do you say? I know, right?  Hard to decide.  Read on. Ever since Saba Man switched to fish only, I’ve[...]
  • Recipe Gingered Carrots
    Gingered Carrots
    Carrots are an excellent bento box filler item.  I consider them “multi-taskers”.  Julienned, curled or cut into pretty flower shapes, they are ranked high for adding both color and nutrition to your bento lunch.  Tucking some raw[...]
  • Recipe Amber Cup Squash
    Amber Cup Squash
    Doesn’t this look like a pumpkin?  Amazingly this Amber Cup or Ambercup squash is only about six inches across, easy to prepare and tastes oh so delicious! This squash is related to the Buttercup variety and can be baked, steamed [...]
  • Recipe Amuse-ubi Bouche
    Amuse-ubi Bouche
    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, “[...]
  • Recipe Chickpea Pancake
    Chickpea Pancake
    We are adding to our “bento-stash” with quick and easy chickpea pancakes!  They make excellent snacks, side dish or bento filler! I had never heard of these yummy pancakes until a co-worker brought some to work.    But after[...]
  • Recipe Pseudo Spam Musubi
    Pseudo Spam Musubi
      Let’s continue our “bento-stash” series with  seitan or as some folks call it “wheat meat”.   However, for today’s bento… I’m calling it “pseudo spam”! I’ve documented[...]