Feisty Bento #196: Baked egg because I love me

More photos of my weekend, mostly in food, but first, a baseball fun photo:

This is a photo of DW winding up right before his solo HR yesterday.  Man, what a game, Beltran singles, Tatis homers, then Easley singles, so Castro homers, the pitcher even got into it (his first RBI), and that's all before a single out in the top of the 6th!  AWESOME!  Johan Santana pitched a complete game, and that's really rare these days... he was averaging 10 pitches an inning, which is really low... only allowed 3 hits the whole game, one of which was a solo homer by Pujols... boo... but still, GREAT GAME!!!  And I FINALLY got a shot of DW as he's about to hit a home run, which I've been hoping for all season!!!  Just about halfway through and my wish comes true!!!  Hehe!

Ok, back to food:

Breakfast on Saturday: gyoza, baked egg, salmon & salmon roe, miso soup.  Yummy.  (Ignore my messy coffee table; I get great light out there so I took the picture there instead of in the kitchen with so-so light.)

Lunch on Saturday @ Roll-n-Roaster (Brooklyn location; Manhattan location is now closed): roast beef with cheese, fries, corn tots,... mmmmmmmmm.  (This is for two people, you can't see his sandwich, and we didn't finish all the food, boo.)

Part of dinner on Saturday: veal francese.  Ughhh, so good.  (I'm hungry right now, can you tell?)

Lunch on Sunday: homemade sake oyako don (finally!) though the rice came out crappy.  And yes, that's the last of the salmon and roe - I froze the salmon after a day because I knew I wouldn't be able to use it all right away.  Anyway, this was soooooooo good.... so 'lish.  *drool*

And, bento.  So hungry... why can't I just eat you right now... sigh.

Top tier: egg baked (in a mold I got during this shopping trip and am using for the first time) over pasta salad
Bottom tier: gyoza with gyoza sauce

Happy bento!!!

Feisty Bento #205: New Item

To make you envy my weekend :)

Friday night's baked clams

Friday night's dessert platter

Saturday's lunchtime fried zucchini

Saturday afternoon's treat, post-movie (not for me: I'm allergic to raspberries)

MY post movie treat, chocolate-chocolate chunk cookie.  Hehe :) (well I only ate a piece of it, I didn't eat the whole thing in one sitting)

Sunday's baseball game.  You can see the ball as it's approaching DW! 

The awesome promotional item they were giving away.  There's Billy Wagner in bobblehead form, sitting on top of my CPU.  I fully intend to get a DW poster (of him winding up at bat, tongue sticking out, of course) for that corner... it'll be my Mets corner!  Unfortunately, next month's Santana bobblehead is only for kids :( anyone want to lend me their child for a game?  Hahaha... I actually detest Billy Wagner for his blown saves in the past month or two.  Jerkface.

Sunday night's dinner.  I was surprised by this dish.  But a full review is to come, so that's all I'll say.

Sunday night's dessert at another place.  This is disgusting.  Who puts sake in ice cream?  IDIOTS that's who.  Gross.

And today's crooked bento. 

Top tier: leftover veggies and mashed potatoes from Friday's dinner
Bottom tier: lemon chicken nuggets; lime wedge for chicken; small piece of corn on the cob

After seeing this recipe on JustBento, I had to make it.  Before I did, I pressured NotExactlyBento to make them- which she did!!!- and said they were yummy, so enough from me, and I made them.

Being me, I had to make a few changes, since I wanted them super lemony... they still are just a slight lemon pucker at the end, which is great, but my major change was adding a bit of lime juice (and a lime wedge) to the marinade instead of just lemon, oh and at the end?  Instead of juicing a new lemon/lime, I used what the chicken had marinated in and poured that into the whole pan, letting it cook off and create a caramelized crust itself.  Waste not, want not, right?  :)  So yummy... I am so happy I still have some for tomorrow's bento!

As always, HAPPY BENTO!!!

Feisty Bento #190: Weekend in Food, and a New Product

Weekend in Food...

Dinner on Friday - 15 whole grain bread, pepper jack cheese, thickly sliced tomato, smoked turkey, and a bit of mayo.  YUM.

Dinner on Saturday - yummy!  From this place, though this time, the pita was served hot.  Yay!

A shut out last night.  That makes their 9th straight win.  *squee*  I love my team.  And yes, that's DW at bat =P

Bento!

Top tier: seaweed salad; marinated cuttlefish; dark chocolate covered pretzels
Bottom tier: Ajinomoto brand kara age (seasoned fried chicken, boneless); Ajinomoto brand gyoza (pork & chicken).  Tonkatsu sauce in the pig in case the chicken isn't that good, and Ajinomoto brand gyoza sauce in the little tomato bottle.

I love Ajinomoto brand gyoza!  The other day, I happened to see a bag of the kara age in the frozen section and picked up a bag.  Kind of expensive, at $5-6 for a bag of less than 20 pieces, but kara age is not something I foresee myself making, and it's nice to have a bag in the freezer for days when I'm strapped for stuff.  You know how I have to have protein in my bento.  Well, this is perfect.  I admit, I wound up making too much (the above is 3 pieces - one a lot larger than most of the pieces in the bag - and the instructions were how to make 5 pieces, so I made 5 thinking that'd be a decent amount) so I ate the two pieces "leftover".  It was pretty good - crisped up nicely in my toaster oven, and very flavorful.  I don't like using frozen/packaged food too often but I think this will do nicely in a pinch for a protein.

Happy bento!!!

Feisty Bento #157: Rainy Day Bento

My weekend in food... and fun!

Mmm... bacon and mounds of finely grated hard Italian cheeses...

On my homemade pizza, that's where!

PASTA... more cheese... but vegetarian!

The now-famous frittata... why famous? CUZ I BURNED MY HAND WHILE MAKING IT...

Yet another Sunday spent doing what I love best...

Watching my DW wind up... that cute lil ass... that hot body!!! and, of course, what a gentleman he is... I just wanna scoop him up and hug him when he's mad... awww...

And my bento for today. Absolutely perfect on this rainy shitty day.

In the jar: chicken curry under a rice cap, of course! In the left cup: three pieces of vegetarian duck In the right cup: two creamed corn croquettes and a lil ketchup bottle of tonkatsu sauce

The pizza - I took bacon, chopped it up, crisped it, then drained and set it aside (I reserve bacon fat for my own cooking purposes... yum!). A while back, I'd bought Trader Joe's Parmesan Garlic flatbread with the intention of making a pizza... unfortunately, somehow all of the mozzarella in my fridge went bad (while none of the other cheeses in my cheese drawer were affected, thankfully!), so I just plopped the bacon on top with tons of grated Romano and Parmesan... yum!!!

Happy bento! (Details on the pasta, frittata, etc. to come on Feisty Foodie)