Showing posts with label Onirigi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Onirigi. Show all posts

21.12.09

Bento oh Bento

We ended up going out to dinner last night and getting some delicious chicken dishes, however it seems Logician's may not have been cooked all the way as he got pretty sick when we got home. Not wanting to chance the fact that I was feeling slightly sick and we had left overs I tossed them. So it took some quick thinking and replanning to get today's Bento some protein content!

Luckily I had the foresight to pick up two nice thin steaks and some thin pork chops while we were shopping yesterday. I broke both of these down into Bento size portions - the steak by cutting it and placing it between layers of wax paper, and the pork by putting two of the small thin chops in a ziploc bag. This gives me something like 5 servings of steak and four of pork (although the amount of pork may be too much for one day's Bento). So last night I cooked a bit of the steak with a lot of soy sauce to sort of "cure" it.

I also tried out my smaller onigiri maker and it worked amazingly! Seen here: From Japan With Love. I made up a batch of rice and then a small bowl of salt water. I wanted to be extra sure that the mold did not stick. I filled it to the top of the container (I personally packed it a bit full) and then simply inserted the press and voila, cute and adorable triangle onigiri.

Here is Logician's, find mine after the break.