Feisty Bento #358: Repeat of the CSA Bento!

It's more of the same as yesterday.  And tomorrow will be the same, too. 

Pasta with sauteed veggies, goat cheese.

So last night, in a fit of rage and anger over this entire week and its goings on, I left my apartment and took a long walk over to Citi Field.  When the season began - or even last year, when I'd purchased my first Sunday plan - I casually remarked that I could walk to the stadium, if I wanted.  People scoffed and doubted me.  Well.  It took me 30-40 minutes, not a bad walk at all.  Suckers.  You're all wrong! 

And I took some pics, which could use some processing, but I was in a rush and uploaded them this morning straight. 

As you approach the stadium from the LIRR platform

Closer up... here's the signage.

The Globe - this is the best pic I caught, but it would be better if I cropped it slightly to cut out the lamp on the left side of the pic, which I'll do tonight. 

The other side... was trying to get the US in the pic, but you can see Florida and just a bit of the rest.  Just how the world is tilted at this time of year (ha... nerd joke!) I guess.

Slightly further away. 

An attempt at a shot of the moon as I was on my way home, but it was hard to keep my hands steady in the super dark park.  Ah well. 

Nice pictures, eh?  I'm being a little sarcastic.  I know I can take better... I just have to practice, but it gets frustrating sometimes for me.  I won't go into that right now though, I need to leave.  Haha.

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Feisty Bento #357: Yay CSA Bento

Yes, the day after my CSA pick up, I always have something new to eat!  This is just spaghetti sauteed with a bunch of leafy green veggies and then topped with a bit of goat cheese.  Details to come on Feisty Foodie per usual.  Pretty yummy. 

So I was playing with my camera recently and decided to learn how to play with the "color accent" feature.

With my oversized reuseable grocery tote's orange accented, on my messy office desk. 

Also on my messy desk.  Still orange (though what you see is actually red). 

Regular picture, full color.

With the yellows highlighted (didn't come out so well... boo)

The purplish-pink.

The green.  Not sure - which one do you like best?  Full color?  Haha.

These are all random photos taken from behind my office building.  If you're very observant, you'll know what building that is on the left.  If not, oh well, it's not like it's that awesome.  Or awesome at all, I'm just a dork who finds these things amusing. 

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Feisty "Bento" #356: Sooo Not a Bento

Yup, another not-bento.  I was tired!  There's too much sandwich stuff stuck in the fridge and not enough non-sandwich stuff!  Sue me! 

Brownies (from a box) with dried cherries sprinkled in, and a turkey+ham+pepperjack cheese sandwich on whole grain bread with mayo & mustard.

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Feisty "Bento" #355: Not a bento

I went camping this past weekend, and wound up being the 'lucky' recipient of many of the leftovers, including whole grain bread and cold cuts (we made sandwiches to take on our hike).  So today's lunch was a simple sandwich, whole grain bread with hickory smoked ham, roasted turkey, American cheese, mayo & mustard. 

I'm so tired at least I still made lunch?

And for those who have commented before on how fastidious and anal I am with regard to my bentos lacking a divider yet looking like they are neatly divided, my dog did this today:

She ate her bowl of food neatly down the middle.  I don't know why or how she even did that.  It amazed me so much that I had to snap a photo (ignore my horrible dirty floors).  Wild. 

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Feisty Bento #354: Martha Stewart Owes Me Money

 

Here is a color-accent photo of my darling baby.  I didn't know how to use the function properly (still don't, not exactly) when I took this photo, so the color it had picked was yellow, as you can see a bit in her ears and in the background.  Ah well.  I just like the photo. 

Whoa, it's been over 2 months since I posted a two-tier bento. 

Top tier: broccoli slaw with some homemade dill yogurt; roasted fennel
Bottom tier: Collards quesadilla

Unfortunately none of those items wow'ed me much so I'm not going to bother posting any details just yet.  You'll see them in one of the CSA updates on Feisty Foodie though.  :)

SO I HAVE A RANT AND I HAVE BEEN PRETTY GOOD ABOUT NOT RANTING ON FEISTY BENTO (I think... correct me if I'm wrong!)...

Remember that brand new toy I bought?

I am going to return it.

What is that?

Or that?

Closer up.

So, it's staining and I don't cook at the rim, I don't understand it.  Apparently, enameled cast iron gets stains sometimes.  Fine.  That's all fine and dandy then.  I've Googled it and it happens to all brands.  That is fine. 

But you notice something in this picture?  The top of the pot, the rim so to speak... is un-enameled cast iron.  It's raw.  I've read the care instructions over and over again, and it simply says to not use metal utensils, hand wash thoroughly, blah, blah, blah, I do/did those things.  However, it says nothing about drying it thoroughly (I tend to let my dishes and pots/pans air-dry). 

What's the problem?  You don't see where this is going? 

Cast iron + water = RUST

This is why I wanted an enameled cast iron pot - so I wouldn't have to deal with rust!!! 

Can you see it in this picture?

This one?  (The lighting was a bit hard; I wanted to use natural light but it wasn't that sunny this morning, I will take more pictures if it's sunny when I get home.)  That's the underside 'rim' of the lid, which is also un-enameled.

Do you see these horrible, ugly, pitted rust marks???

WHAT THE FARTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?  I didn't buy enameled cast iron so I could have stuff that's a pain in the ass to keep clean!  I only used it 3 times, too, which makes this complete bull-poopy! 

I'm returning you, and a big F U to the Martha Stewart Collection of enameled cast iron!  I'm warning you all, if you're low-maintenance like I am - ie, like low-care items for the most part because let's face it, I'm a busy freakin' girl and don't have time to hand dry all of my pots and pans regularly! - then do NOT buy these pans.  Martha Stewart owes me $65.03 (that's including tax)!!! 

Grrrrrrr.  Now I have to lug this heavy pot back to Macy's to return.  It was bad enough lugging it home in the rain, now I have to lug it BACK in the humidity!? 

Boo.

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Feisty Bento #353: 'shroomin' my life away

The other portobello parm (Trader Joe's sells caps by the couple), along with some gemelli pasta tossed with extra sauce.  Yummm!!!

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Feisty Bento #352: 'shroom(s)

One portobello parmesan - mmm, with a toasted & buttered English muffin on the side, cut in half to squish in.

Mmm, that was good.  Delicious... and filling.

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