Today's bento is my back to asian basics. I used some "asian" noodles that I got in an american grocery store, fried shrimp, leftover broccoli, zucchini in little food cups, and peaches.
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usually don't never add fruit in my bentos, but I thought I would mix it up today. We'll see how it works when I eat it.
Update: Turns out the peaches was a bad idea XD I didn't think through that I'd have to warm my bento and that the peaches (though strained) are juicy...basically, just a bad idea haha
Inspiration: Fried Shrimp inspired by Just Bento.
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ooh, i follow just bento too. it was especially useful for me when i was trying to buy a bento box- material considerations, care, washing, etc.
for wet things (olives, washed lettuce) i usually dab them off on a paper towel- doesn't help a whole lot, but better than nothing (i also have the problem that my bento box isn't watertight, very unfortunate)
As for my photos, they are actually all taken on my phone. xD I'm too super lazy to make an actual setup, and I'm usually making my bento right before heading out to the bus, so I don't have the time to pull out my SLR and get a good shot. Though, I could always fix the white balance easily enough.
If you're not rushing like I am, you can always clear off a table/counter/chair/whatever and put a white poster board (the floppy kind) down as the background. That should help.
ha ha, i've definitely had failures too. one time i made fancy spring rolls using rice paper wrappers and, because there was other damp stuff with them in the lunch box, they just disintegrated into white goop. urgh. i barely had anything to eat that day ):
feel free to switch out of using a bento box, though. like sometimes i have something i *know* is too liquidy, it'll leak (ex. pasta with tomato sauce), so i just dump it into an old glass peanut butter jar. it doesn't leak at all and it lets me have more variety/creativity in my lunch.
i'm vegetarian and i've found that there are lots of experimenting vegan/vegetarian bloggers out there. there are tons of great recipes and some people even specialize in bento food. it's very convenient, you can browse till you feel inspired.