Sometimes...

... you need a smile for lunch break.

Last weeks bentos...

The past week was rather busy, but at least I made bento everyday.

Last weeks bentos

As always most of the receipes are from the Just Bento cookbook, the 10 minute bento cookbook or JustBento.com!

Bento and knitting....

Since the food in our canteen is not better this year than last year I'm still making bento, also last week I did only take one picture:

It's from my favorite bento page: JustBento.

During the holidays I managed to knit a whole cardigan, but it is still missing the buttons. And I also started a to knit a ingenious but slightly insane pattern:  Fox Paws.

Of course I use my own handspun, maybe you remember this:

which became this yarn:

And something more to show... we did a swap on Ravelry; a advent calendar version of the Swap for Scraps: everyone had to pack 24 equal bags of 5 gr fiber which then were redistributed so that everyone ended up with 24 different bags. It was so much fun because I decided to try and spin and knit the fiber on the same day.

They became a very large and cozy shawl:

Todays bento...

... tamagoyaki, sushi and a cucumber salad:

Receipes from my favorite bento website+book: JustBento!

Todays bento...

Carrot kinpira, tamagoyaki, cucumber with spring onion and ginger, rice and for desert some apple slices.

Todays bento...

I'm still making bento for lunch... today it is hijiki with carrots, tamagoyaki, green beans and rice.

Bento and more

I never used this blog but just recently I thought I could give it a try again. Maybe someone likes to read what I have to write.

Our cafeteria at work was quite good, but some weeks ago the operating company changed. Now it's more expensive and I don't like the food and selection of dishes anymore. Since I also like Japanese food I started to make bentos as often as I can. Bento is the Japanese term for lunchboxes and it is quite common in Japan.

So far I used a lot of recipes from justbento.com and I also got the book. It is great because there is so much basic information in it.
I also started to make my own combinations.

This is todays bento:

- spinach with sesame
- tamagoyaki
- salad with lentils, cucumber, tomato and green onion
- apple