Rosemary Roasted Potatoes Recipe

Here is the Rosemary roasted potato bites recipe, they are delicious and are great for stuffing into the corners of your bento. They stand up straight on picks so they can go pretty much anywhere and that also means no messy fingers!!!

Ingredients
-Petite Potatoes
-Rosemary Fresh or dried
-olive oil
Salt Pepper to taste

Directions
First wash the potatoes, I left the skin on mine because it is more nutritious and adds texture. in a bowl, cover the potatoes in olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and chopped rosemary. Roast in the oven set at 375 degrees until tender. skewer with tooth pick or deco picks and stuff anywhere in your bento and it is ready to eat.

Enjoy!!

Quick and Easy Perogies Recipe

I finally got around to uploading the recipe for the perogies. They are so insanley easy and delicious that you can pretty much use them for anything such as a snack or a side dish or even the main course. I love this recipe because you can change it up however you like.

Ingredients
-1 Package Won ton wraps
-Cubed Yukon gold or russet Potatoes/mashed potatoes
-Cheese
-1 medium sized onion chopped
-Butter
-Water to boil
Salt and Pepper to taste

Directions
First you boil the potatoes in extremely salty water, you can leave the skin on or peel it. In the meantime, start the caramalized onions by putting a half a stick of butter in a pan on medium low heat and adding the onion with a pinch or two of salt, saute until brown stirring occasionally. Once the potatoes are fork tender mash them and add cheese, season to taste and set aside. Boil water and start filling the won ton wraps. Place 1 TBS of filling in the center of the won ton square and dab the edges with a little water to seal, once sealed boil in the water for a few minutes or until pasta is cooked. The Perogies a ready to eat but for added texture brown in the pan with a little of the butter from the caramlized onions and then top with the onions.

Sandwich Bento with Cranberry Pie

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

I made a filling bento that is headache free but still cute and delicious!! If you're a fan like me of PB&J you'll like what I did with it. I cut them into cute shapes and put eyes with peices of cranberry. Accompanying the sandwiches I made some rosemary roasted potatoes which were made with fresh rosemary I recieved from a co-worker's personal garden. Some deli turkey for the protein wraped with feta cheese. The best part of the meal, as always, was dessert the Cranberry pie. Easy to make and absolutley delicious the cranberry pie was a great way to end this meal.

-Bento Chick

Left over Lemon Chicken

The best way to speed through your bento making if you're in a hurry is to use left overs, here is some lemon chicken I made the night before and used it for lunch the next day. I made sure to separate the sauce so the chicken would not get soggy and I accomanied it with the usual veggies that are great for filling in those extra spaces and are also nutricious and delicious like broccoli and carrots. I made a little cucumber salad and cheesecake again for dessert. To add some color to the meal I added a red flower in the center of the rice made with paprika.

-Bento Chick

Simple yet Satisfying

Happy Holidays everyone!!

Here is a Bento DJ made before going to see her family for the holidays.

Rice balls with grape tomatoes, good for stuffing. For dessert the strawberry mochi and a gingerbread man cookie.

Perogies and Patties

Perogies are pretty much the dumplings of Europe. Usually found in the frozen section of the grocery store, these perogies can be made at home very easily, I will have the recipe posted for you to enjoy them as much as I did. I was feeling in a potato mood (not couch potato) and decided to make the perogies with a potato filling.

For the protien in the meal I made beef patties that went great with the caramelized onions also used for the perogies. The sqeeze bottle contained just enough ranch for the carrots. Last but certainly not least, infact I think I ate this first, is the vanilla cheesecake dessert with graham cracker topping. that meal was so satisfying and fun to eat!!

Sandwiches Anyone?

This Bento was pretty easy to make and pack, I had some left over Italian burger patties and peperoni in the fridge so I cut them up and made two Italian sandwiches with mozzerella cheese and onions. I also made a rice block with avocado and ham. they were all so happy the carrot even lost an eye it was so excited to come to work with me!!

Jalapeno Snack Rolls Recipe

These very simple to make snack rolls are delicious and fun to eat, they're also a great bento stuffer because they can fit snugly next to any other bento item. The recipe used to make these is as follows.

-California imported Jalapeno tortillas (or any found in the grocery store will do)
-Room temprature cream cheese
-Ham or any thinly sliced deli meat
-clean hands

First lay out the torillas and warm on a griddle then spread the cream cheese evenly over the torillas. Layer the deli meat over the cream cheese and start rolling at one end making sure it is a tight roll. Once rolled cut into bite sized pieces or desired lengh. Last step, fit into your bento and eat.

Recipe a courtesy of D.J.

Rolling Rolling Rolling Keep Those Bentos Rolling

Jalapeno tortillas with cream cheese and ham...Mmmmm... DJ also added some little LOVEly heart shaped cookies.

Broccoli Forest

Forest with broccoli makes for a good lunch...

Picnic Bento

This is my picnic Bento

I love how happy all my food is, the rice star and bear are having a ball (no pun intended... well maybe a little) and my mashed potatoes are just happy to be out of the freezer sitting under the broccoli tree. I made the egg frittata for the first time and it was delicious and convenient. I made ten of them and just froze the ones I wasn't going to use right away. I finally got my mini squeeze bottles so I filled one with ketchup for my potatoes to draw hair and stuff on them and I filled the other with furikake for the rice balls. I will post the recipe for the egg frittata later because I figured I should share the wealth and it was delicious!!!!

Enjoy fellow Bento-ers

-Bento Chick

Under the Sea Bento

Long time no post...
Well here is my second attempt at the Under the Sea Bento. I have a cute Octodog and Octocrab and they're smiling, now wouldn't that just make you happy to eat your lunch? To accompany the Octo folk I have an egg goldfish and starfish, and you can't forget the tomato clams, arent they cute?

Well I hope you enjoy this Bento.

-Bento Chick

Lazy Bento

Hello all,
Its been a while since I've posted one of my bentos. I was experimenting with my new bento toys and tried for an "under the sea" theme but it didnt quite turn out. First the eggs I used for the egg shaper were to small so nothing showed up. I ended up stuffing the egg shaper with rice and was able to make rice fish instead which I think turned out OK. I also made my first octo-dogs I think they turned out pretty cute! In the smaller compartment I tried to pass off the tomato slices as coral and the little jelly cup as a jelly fish. I realized to late that I should have made a star fish apple instead of a flower. Overall it was a lazy bento but it was still better than nothing and it was delicious!

-Bento Chick

Funky Panda

This should be called "Leftovers in a Hurry" - it was very tasty but could have been arranged a little better! Next time I will take an extra minute to make a better arrangement. I had leftover chicken and vegetables and I put some little grape tomatoes in for color.

The Bunny Twins Bento

Is it possible that rice tastes better when shaped like a bunny? I think so! I enjoyed this bento lunch with leftover steamed zucchini, feta stuffed grape tomatoes, rice bunnies with furikake, grapes and heart shaped cheddar cheese slices. Just looking at the picture makes me wish I had prepared a bento lunch for tomorrow!