My First Bento Lunches!

[kichara]

Made my first bento lunches, for Gerald and Graham! Also, photos of the onigiri that Graham and I made together! :D

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[fluffymaru]

since I don't actually have a bento box

You do now!

It's 2 layer, but small-ish otherwise. Those things are kind of small in general. The super-huge ones tend to be very expensive, even over there.

It explains why the drinks are usually the size of my pinky finger...>.>

[kichara]

Ooo, I am so excited!! :D Do I owe you any more money, or did the money I gave you cover everything ok?

Also, I'd love to meet up sometime soon so that I can hear about your trip! Maybe we can grab dinner together so that we can catch up and you can meet Graham?

[fluffymaru]

Actually, I'm not sure, but I think you'll be getting some money back...we found you one smallish C.C. figure, but that was ALL. In all of TOKYO. They, like, disappeared, or something. And trust me...we did a SHITTON of stores. It was very bizarre. My advice would be to start snatching them up if you see them for a reasonable price...

Dinner sounds great...do you want to do it here, to see the videos and such, or out? I'm off work all this week...

<3 icon...

[kichara]

Oh wow, that is crazy, I wonder why she was so rare? :o Maybe because Code Geass is over?

Dinner at your place sounds great, how about Wednesday evening? Graham says he's good for it, and would like to be able to meet you, we just can't stay TOO late.

Old Spice is the best. ♥

[chibi_plum]

DO WANT!!!! Can we have an onigiri night? *_*

[kichara]

That sounds awesome, we could make a ton of rice and have lots of different fillings, and then maybe have some plum wine to go with our onigiri! :3 Thsi might be easiest to do over at my place/Miko's, once me and Graham are settled into the apartment next door.

BTW, your icons are all pretty amazing!

[chibi_plum]

FFFF. Thank you. And yes! We have plum wine here, so we'll bring it over. How is the move going?

And awww. Thank you~<3

[kichara]

Move is pretty slow going right now, just getting our electricity on today (they were closed for Good Friday wtf), so we'll be able to finally vacuum the place. I'm not planning on moving in until May 1st, since I have to finish this crazy semester this month and have my portfolio review, but I'm moving my stuff over a bit at a time so hopefully it won't be too bad at the end of the month.

Also, talking on Twitter to Miko and our friend Alina and they are down with sushi making night, so I think we can combine the two to make a totally awesome weeaboo evening! X3

[lainabug]

So cute!! XD Dude search for cute bento blogs, you'll get a lot of good ideas. This kinda reminds me of when I used to attempt to make this stuff in highschool ~ then I'd bring it in and we'd all sit around in the courtyard at school eating onigiri and octopus hotdogs like weaboos lol

I wish it look less time to prep/make cute bento lunches ;o;

[kichara]

Oh yes, I have already been doing lots of research, found some really nice flickr sites and I think my favorite site I've found so far is www.cookingcute.com ALSO got a book on Japanese/bento cooking with my bookbinding book I got from Amazon (so I could get the free shipping lol).

I actually made Gerald's last night, while Graham and I were making dinner. It makes it a bit easier if you're doing both meals at the same time. X3

[mrs_tomoe]

If you have the half-size rice paddle, it makes onigiri pressing go way faster. If you refrigerate them, be sure to let them reach room temp before eating or else the rice will be hard & dry. :( I make mine in the mornings now after we had a disastrous cold onigiri experience when I made them the night before. You can put just about anything you want as filling: imitation crab bits, shrimp salad, tuna salad or just tuna & mayo, flavored/seasoned canned salmon or tuna, meat (like, if you make yakisoba for dinner, pick out some of the meat when you're done cooking to save for next day's lunch).

Nice job on all the goodies you made! You'll be a good Japanese mom because you plan your bento out of dinner just like they do here. I like your hearts & stars a lot. Now I'll have to get some of those shapes too. :)

[katielovespink]

DEAR GOD, SO CUTE. I WANT IT ALL. ALL, I SAYYYYYYYY!!!!

(Except for the onigiri with pickled plums. I can't stomach those. I'd want some smoked salmon instead. :DDDDDDDDD)

[lolita_minako]

mmmmm....smoked salmon.....most yummy (esp with cream cheese and scallions! OMGYUM!)

[kichara]

Haha yeah Graham warned me when I tried them that a lot of people don't like them (and I can see why, they're pretty crazy tasting!), but I totally loved them. X3

Haven't tried making anything with smoked salmon yet, but I'm sure I will in the future, I'm discovering how much I really like cooking Japanese (it helps a lot since Graham has a lot of experience in cooking AND cooking Japanese food, so I've got a good helper)

[lolita_minako]

Cute and yummy!!!

What does a pickled plum taste like? XD

OH! Try sweet egg and cream cheese in the onigiri. It's uber yummy.

[kichara]

They are VERY tart, and a bit salty. A lot of people don't care for them, apparently, but I totally love them lol.

Ooo, I didn't even think of putting cream cheese in the onigiri, that sounds delish! I always get my sushi rolls with cream cheese, they taste SO much better. What is sweet egg, exactly? Like the egg made for tamago sushi?

[lolita_minako]

I am not sure (never tried tamago..I need to). But you put sugar, vanilla, and a dash of salt in the eggs and scramble them. Cooking Cute uses oil and not vanilla, but my friend and I make them with vanilla. I put it in to taste, rather than measure them out.

Kinda makes them taste like a dessert...XD