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Blocks and Bears - Box Lunch

Posted Nov 19th 2008 12:00PM by Emily Matchar
Filed under: Lunch, Food Oddities, Rice

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Today's bento makes the most of food coloring, with yellow, blue, pink and purple letter mini-onigiri stuffed with tuna and shaped like letter blocks. Letter details are cheese. The teddy is stuffed with tuna, wasabi and mayo, with nori and cheese details. The box is filled out with broccoli and shumai dumplings.

Box Lunch: Are you afraid of ghosts?

Posted Oct 29th 2008 12:00PM by Emily Matchar
Filed under: Lunch, Food Oddities, Rice, Halloween

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

This very cool ghost bento comes from the nifty Zakka Life blog. The two happy onigiri ghosts sit atop a (pork or beef slice?) cliff as nori bats flap their wings across a lemon moon. The tiny bottle of skull-and-bones "soy poison" is my favorite touch.

Onigiri are delicious and cheap!

Posted Oct 15th 2008 6:01PM by Annie Scott
Filed under: Fish, Asia, Rice

Having been with Slashfood a few days now, it is time for me to tell you about my favorite food: The onigiri.

I shall preface this by saying I am not Japanese, nor have I been anywhere in Japan other than the Tokyo airport. I have discovered and fallen in love with the onigiri in New York City alone. Let no ocean put us asunder.

The onigiri is like a rice and fish sandwich. There's fish or fish eggs, seaweed, what-have-you in the middle, packed in compacted rice and then wrapped in a handy piece of seaweed (for holding). I recommend the onigiri from JAS Mart in New York. I tried several from Sunrise Mart on Broome Street, but I always found bones in the salmon. Um...no thanks.

They are delicious, convenient, and cheap, we're talkin' like under $2 in New York City. Onigiri are the ideal thing to pick up on-the go, like a power bar for someone who prefers actual food to a science experiment wrapped in chocolate.

Eat your heart out, Earl of Sandwich. Can't find them in your town? For a great recipe (with pictures), click here!

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Box Lunch: Bento for dinner

Posted Oct 13th 2008 12:30PM by Emily Matchar
Filed under: Lunch, Fish, Food Oddities

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Technically a dinner, not a lunch, Sibi's elegant bento shows there's no reason dinner for one has to mean leaning over the sink with a bowl of Ramen. There's a luscious-looking piece of teriyaki salmon with sauteed bell peppers, shallots and onions, along with cream cheese-filled peppadews, a rectangle of Appenzeller cheese and ham mousse and furikake (Japanese rice seasoning) onigiri.

Slashfood Ate (8): Top food in anime

Posted Sep 10th 2008 1:04PM by Shayna Glick
Filed under: On the Blogs, Slashfood Ate

A bowl of ramen from a restaurant, pictured with someone holding some of the noodles in chopsticks.

Anime, Japanese-style animation, has become increasingly popular over the years. I remember watching bootleg copies of Dragon Ball Z movies with my friends in high school. A couple years later I was delighted to see whole (albeit small) sections of anime at video stores like Suncoast. I was pleasantly surprised, and very amused, to find this list of the top eight foods in anime from Cosplay Classes.

1 Number one is ramen. I guess it's iconic to show characters slurping up the noodles.
2. Sushi, the quintessntial Japanese food.
3. Dessert is probably more prevalent in shows geared toward women.
4. Curry sure has made it's mark.
5. I had no idea pasta was so popular.
6. Apparently hamburgers are getting a lot of screen time.
7. The Japanese hot pot is a derivation of a Chinese dish.
8. Onigiri are simple to make and all kinds of anime characters put it in their bento boxes.

Box Lunch: Simple, elegant bento

Posted Sep 5th 2008 12:00PM by Emily Matchar
Filed under: Lunch, Fruit, Food Oddities

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. The boxes can range from austere lacquered trays to multi-tiered Hello Kitty confections of neon pink plastic. The meals themselves are anything from rice and leftovers to elaborate themed affairs of Pikachu-shaped dumplings with sesame seed eyes and carved radish trees. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Today's lovely bento, from Mimisimos, is a minimalist work of art. There are two onigiri (rice balls) with tuna salad and bits of nori, a line of cherry tomatoes, a nectarine with a blackberry in the center, and some extra tuna salad on lettuce with some sliced cucumbers. Lovely, highly edible, and healthy.

Oishi desu...er no. Spam onigiri?

Posted Apr 25th 2008 6:05PM by Julie Tilsner
Filed under: Snacks, Asia, On the Blogs, Comfort Food

I love Japanese food. And I love Monty Python. But the two can never blend.

So when one blogger sent a URL describing Spam onigiri, I naturally launched into Monty Python's immortal "Spam Sketch" (Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!....) while simultaneously dreaming about the taste of those glorious triangles of rice Japanese eat for lunch...until I stopped short.

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Cabernets and Cuban BBQ: The Boston Globe in 60 seconds

Posted May 20th 2007 1:59PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Newspapers, On the Blogs, In Sixty Seconds

This summer, how about a Cuban barbecue (and I don't mean Mark)?
Boston gets into Pocky and Onigiri, thanks to Dice-K.
Speaking of Fenway, a chef is trying to bring more restaurant-quality foods to the ballpark.
An interview with chef and author Marco Pierre White (right).
A taste test: are these cabernet-based red wines from California or Bourdeaux?
This week's recipes: Sweet Potato Fries, Salmon Mousse with Sour Cream Dill Sauce, Zucchini Carpaccio with Avocado, Lemon, Thyme, and Pistachio Oil, and Fennel, Treviso, and Prosciutto Salad with Anchovy-Date Vinagrette.

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Blocks and Bears - Box Lunch

Box Lunch: Are you afraid of ghosts?

Onigiri are delicious and cheap!

Box Lunch: Bento for dinner

Slashfood Ate (8): Top food in anime

Box Lunch: Simple, elegant bento

Oishi desu...er no. Spam onigiri?

Cabernets and Cuban BBQ: The Boston Globe in 60 seconds

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