Bentos FTW! (For the week)

Since I haven't been updating this week, I'll have to recap the whole week in one post. For St. Patrick's Day we were invited to Nick's coworker James's house for corned beef and cabbage. I'd never had corned beef before, so I didn't know what to expect. Nick and I decided to bring edamame. It's not Irish, but it's green and it's a good beer snack. We ended up making spiced edamame with chili powder, salt, and oregano off of the Food Network site, and it turned out pretty well.




I got to meet some people I had heard about, and found out it's a really small world here in Davis. The corned beef and cabbage was delicious with potatoes, and everyone liked the edamame. There was lots of beer consumed (not by me) so I think it was a great way to spend the holiday.

For Tuesday's lunch I had Nick slice up leftover steak from the weekend. I assembled do-it-yourself wraps with mild red chile tortillas, ranch/BBQ sauce, lettuce, sauteed onions, and the sliced beef. Cucumbers and grapes on the side. Nick's also has a babybel cheese.

Mine was in my never-been-used garden bento that I love, but never had the perfect thing to put in it. The top tier has its own cover which was perfect for the beef and onions.


For Wednesday's lunch I went out to eat with coworkers, so I just gave myself a small snack bento with grapes, an apple gummy, and a mango jelly. Nick had leftover teriyaki pork chops and bok choy, and his side bento included cheese-its, grapes, salmon furikake, and a ferrero rocher chocolate. He decided that my putifresh yellow bento was not too girly, so I packed his in htat for some variety from his usual blue bentos.


For Thursday we both had leftovers from Jade Garden (peking spare ribs and string beans). I decided to pack Nick's side bento in the onigiri box to see what his coworkers would say. From what I hear they were fascinated by it, so that's good. Always good to give them some new eye candy! I put in leftover chicken salad, hummus, a babybel cheese, an apple gummy, and these new sturdy cocktail olive oil-flavored cocktail crackers.


I didn't even get around to eating my snack bento the day before, so I packed another tiny one with a cow's head cheese, crackers, and a small matcha chocolate. The cheese was super good with the crackers. It was a pretty good bento week, I'd say.