Top: Mango, grapes, blackberries.
Bottom: Chinese ham-salad w/ celery, cucumber and carrots.
From left: Mexican chicken and blackbean salad, cranberry bran muffin.
Top: Mixed fresh fruit salad (orange, kiwi, fuji-apple), Lotte Zero chocolate, some (nasty) pickles.
Bottom: Spicy Korean somyeon noodles w/ beef, shiitake, onions and gochujang (red pepper paste) mix.
( Recipe! )
- Music:'SNOW EXPRESS' - NEWS
The story is about a talented young boxer called Kosako Hatanaka (Kame), which, despite his huge potential, finds himself constantly being defeated because of his big appetite, which he can't control. Thus he must participate in higher weight classes, and therefore his coach, Mitaka Hideo and female coach/boss Mukoda Seiko makes him work hard to lose weight, thus having him eating less. This is of course hard for this food-loving athlete, who during a weight loss regime finds himself collapsing during a run in the park. He wakes up in the arms of the nun Sister Angela (Kuroki Meisa), who gives him some tea to revive him. Instantly he finds himself drawn to her, first thinking she is Holy Mary, and draws courage from her to fight on. After this he still finds it hard to go on living with no food, so he thinks of quitting boxing altogether, especially after not being able to meet the weight requirements. But after Sister Angela accidentally bumps into Mukoda, which, despite being very unhappy with Kosako, still can't forget his potential, she convinces him to continue with boxing, working hard to meet the requirements set for him and not being a "gutless glutton".
Even though I just watched one episode thus far, I must say this looks like it might turn out to be one of my most enjoyable doramas yet! It's packed full of humour, and the actors are great! I especially love Kosako's coach and boss, the spunky Mukoda Seiko, which as a child was a tomboy beating up all the bad guys at school and has a great passion for the sport of boxing. I also adore Kuroki Meisa as the lovely Sister Angela (I've always thought there is something beautiful and romantic about nuns, even though I'm not religious at all). The characters, especially Kame and Kuroki, seem to act very well together, and this makes the series even more fabulous! Like I said, I just can't wait until I get to see the next episodes ^____^
Clockwise from top left: Sugar free konnyaku-jelly cups (one acerola and one grape), Lotte Zero chocolate, soy sauce usahana, clementine wedges, smoked salmon maki rolls, pickled ginger and wasabi.
From left: Quinoa tabbouleh (it works just as well as with bulghur wheat, if not better), sugar free caramel sweets, sugar free strawberry yoghurt and fruit (clementine and apple cubes) to dip in the yoghurt.
So far xmas has been very well. The weather has not been, however. I guess this is the only xmas I've experienced with a minimum of snow :( and that is my only request for my Christmas holidays. Thankfully we had some on Christmas Day and on the night on xmas-eve, but it rained away O__o Hopefully the forecasts are right and it'll come some over the weekend, so at least New Years can have a bit of snow. I was very happy with my parents xmas-present for me, as I got the only thing I wished for; a new acoustic guitar ^___^ Up until now I've been using my electric one, but I've been missing the calming sound of an acoustic one, and our old one is done for. I can't wait to start using the Remioromen guitar-tab book I bought last summer ^^ Also, surprisingly, I got a WaT -poster from my mother, so Eiji and Teppei now can grace my room with their presence XDDD *not fangirling at all* XDDD Hope you're all doing great ^____^
- Music:'Hava Rava' - WaT
Top: Clementine, strawberries, a low carb sugar free gingerbread biscotti and homemade sugar free marzipan-balls covered with dark chocolate.
Bottom: Christmas seasoned lunch meat, cucumber and red bell pepper, quinoa with some kimchi-furikake and a nori-seal ^_^
- Music:'Little St Nick' - The Beach Boys
Heeehee! I saw this one a few years ago on MAD TV, and it suddenly occured to me that it's quite like many of the kdramas I've seen. It's a gem ^_^ Anyways, just had to share this with my dorama-buddies!
Clockwise from left: Cauliflower and broccoli with ham (got the idea from a Japanese bento book), cherry plum tomatoes, sliced-up turkey sausage, cheese triangle, sugar free caramel candy and Kasugai sugar free acerola candy (found one left in the cupboard - wohoo!) and baby carrots.
And also, completely non-bento related, I just can't say enough of how I enjoy the physiology labs we have this term at uni! We already had a digestive lab on reindeer and a diving lab on seals these past two weeks, and today we had metabolism on a reindeer on a treadmill! Obviously we're very privelieged in having access to wild arctic animals on campus so we can study them. The hard work comes afterwards though, doing all the numerous calculations and writing the loooooong lab journal XDDDDD So I figure I shall just start now, so I don't end up sitting up till 2am in the morning trying to finish the deadline, like I did last night - yawn ~_~
- Music:'Ameagari' - Remioromen
From left: Ham and leek-omelette, cherry tomatoes and broccoli sprigs (grown locally), 2 sugar free fruit chews, sugar free/low carb granola bar cut into pieces.
Looks like I'm getting all this self'dicipline thing together after all! Having some extra time on my hands lately, today had room for another bento, which I also made for my sister.
From left: Tabbouleh (made with bulgur wheat, spring onions, tomato, cucuber, mint, flat leaf parsley, lemon juice, olive oil, salt/pepper and garlic), bacon burger (sliced up), Norwegian seasonal apple (the best apples EVER!), mandarin segments w/ chopped mint (no sugar added-brand).
- Music:'5 senchi' - WaT
Oh man, I think I can date my last bento-entry from June! Now, however, to cheer up my tired sister, I made her a bento using the Hello Kitty-pasta I gave her for her birthday (among other bento stuff I gave her). It was fun to finally have some time for bentoing again, I just now realize how much I've missed it ^_^ So here ya go!
Top: Mixed veggies (carrot stars, haricot verts, red pepper) tossed in sanbaizu-dressing courtesy of the wonderful
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ss_biggie, octodog and crabdog (lol) on top of basmati rice.Bottom: Hello Kitty pasta shapes tossed in a homemade tangy tomato sauce.
- Music:'When you were young' - the Killers
Aaaah finally finished with all my exams ^_^ time for summer vacation (even though I'm planning to work as well) but it's sooo nice to be done! What better way to celebrate than with a bento?
Clockwise from left: Teriyaki chicken, last of the pineapple meatballs, rolled ham, cucumber, cherries, watermelon and crabsticks.
- Music:'Momonohanabira' - Ai Otsuka
Top: Chinese scampi/leek and peanut stir-fry.
Bottom: Brown rice sprinkled with shiso-ume furikake.
- Music:'Sam's town' - The Killers
It's nearing in for my exams now. This friday I have one, and then my last one on the 13th. *sigh* it's just so much work. I do however find time to eat, and tomorrow I will be eating yet another Korean bento while cramming through some cell biology.
Top: lettuce leaves, watermelon cubes.
Bottom: Fried fish fillets, meat patties and zucchini (Saengsòn chòn, Ton chòn and Hobak chòn), cherry tomatoes, daikon kimchi, soy/sesame dipsauce and a lime wedge.
- Music:'New Amsterdam' - Travis
I bought a new fuku usagi bento last month that I haven't gotten around to use yet. I think this is more suited to my taste than the one I had previously (the two-tiered one I sold). Also, I got my very own Canon Olympus digital camera for my birthday, so I also got to use that to take today's bento picture ^_^
From left: Spicy Cajun-chicken, steamed broccoli, pineapple meatballs, strawberries.
Not shown: Garden salad with balsamic dressing.
Ja ne!
Yay for spring, and asparagus-season! I love asparagus, especially combined with some parma ham, parmesan cheese and roasted pine nuts. However, in my bento I decided to make it Japanese, with chicken-asparagus rolls. I haven't had this for soo long (I guess a year ago...when the asparagus was cheap like now ^_^) Combined with some soup and fruit in my thermal bento, it's perfect!
Top: Mu woo gook (Korean radish- and beef soup).
Bottom left: Cubed cantaloupe melon and pear.
Bottom right: Wedged tomato, chicken-asparagus rolls.
(Uhm...and yeah, feel free to critizize the bad lightning in the photo - but it was evening after all!)
