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Dharma Initiative Bento

March 2, 2010 Fish

The Dharma Initiative gets their food from the Hanso Foundation, but what would a bento look like if Hurley had found one in the Swan or the Dharma kitchens? Find out!

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Halloween Wrap-up and Two Bentos (411)

November 5, 2009 Chicken

As you may have guessed by my sudden lapse in posts, after Halloween was over, I was burnt out. Halloween themed bentos, an 8-hour pumpkin carving session, a pumpkin carving contest with over 130 entries to judge, trick or treating, a disastrous cupcake situation, and a disgusting dinner (below) all combined to simply do me [...]

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His and Her Bentos (407)

October 29, 2009 Bento Love

Sigh, I was doing so good with my Halloween theme and then I had to go and sit on the couch last night… Before I knew it, I was asleep and there was no more time to bento or sketch. Only time to hazily tell Mr. Pikko to please notify me when I should move [...]

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Bento Tragedy

October 14, 2009 Fish

This morning a terrible thing happened. I made my bento for the day and was putting the strap around the box when suddenly the lunch, clearly distraught and sick of its rather short life, launched itself out of my hands and plummeted down three feet to the kitchen floor below. I feel terrible, like I [...]

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Catching Up

October 7, 2009 Bento Love

I’ve got three bentos to post today since I’ve been falling behind on blogging about them. In my continued love affair with Kentaro Kobayashi’s book Easy Japanese Cooking: Bento Love, I’ve got three bentos using two more of his recipes. I swear, this is hands-down the most I’ve ever used a single cookbook. Maybe it’s [...]

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Easy Japanese Cooking: Bento Love

September 28, 2009 Bento Love

I’ve got three bentos to post today. One is from Friday that I was too embarrassed about to blog, but since I’m writing today about my new ones, I figure I might as well throw the ugalee one in too.
Ugalee is, of course, toddler speak for ugly. This word is much more malicious and therefore [...]

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Chicken Tofu Bento (286)

September 10, 2009 Chicken

This has been one fantastically exciting week for me. First of all, I finally got a call to do some background work for LOST. All I can really say is that I loved it, I’d do it again in a heartbeat, and that the other extras I met there were great fun to hang around [...]

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Yoshida Sauce Chicken Bento (382)

August 19, 2009 Chicken

Today something small, but pivotal happened. Mr. Pikko has an eye infection and had to stay home, so I had to take the kids to school myself, which doesn’t sound like any big deal except that we’ve been walking Baby Girl in to her kindergarten class all this time, slowly waiting for the day when [...]

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Pink Bunny Bento (372)

June 19, 2009 Beef

The Princeton Plainsboro Aquarium has two new fish in it. I don’t remember what they’re called, but they’re white, bottom feeders, and have little whiskers. They swim around very quickly and I find them very cute. I’ve never owned fish before and I’ve found it to be very calming and relaxing. I wake up at [...]

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Miso Chicken in a Gorgeous Bento Box

April 17, 2009 Chicken

Read my review of the gorgeous 2-tier cedar bento box available from Life Without Plastic, a company dedicated to ridding the world of wasteful plastics.