Chicken salad sandwiches and pound cake

I made up a chicken salad yesterday with the roasted chicken, mayo, creme fraiche, red and green onions, celery, walnuts, and curry powder. We had it on ciabatta for lunch today along with a side bento containing a slice of dauphinoise potatoes, broccoli, green grapes, and pound cake. I was very excited to use my sandwich bento. The bread was not soggy at all, but next time I think I will use sandwich ingredients that aren't quite so wet.


A few weeks back when we got the frozen poundcake, my mind was already excitedly turning out the things I could do with it for bentos. The first thought was cutting them with my mini cutters into cute shapes, so that's what I did. It might seem wasteful, but seeing as Nick and I ate up the remaining edges (and enjoyed them), I don't think it was very wasteful at all. It was fun to pop the pound cake bites in my mouth during lunch.


I decided to put them in my silicone cups for a splash of color and then nested them in the sub container with the grapes. That way Nick and I could remove the sub container before microwaving the potatoes and broccoli. Ingenious if I do say so myself.


If any of you have noticed that I changed the tagline under the title of the blog, I decided to do so because the focus of the blog has changed. While it still will feature restaurants that Nick and I eat at, with the bento lunches it has shifted generally to our experience with food. I would appreciate if any constructive comments were made concerning the change and the new color scheme. Thank you for reading and enabling my bento habit!