Year of the Bento: Bento No. 5: Thai Curry Croquette Finger Food Bento

March 12th, 2010, lunch, photos, soup, year of the bento, Janaki, 0 Comments

I know what you’re thinking.

“Curry croquettes aren’t healthy!”

While I’d never claim they’re going to win me any prizes for “most nutrition-packed foodstuff of the year,” there’s no reason curry croquettes HAVE to be unhealthy. Not if you bake them, anyway.

More after the jump.

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Year of the Bento: Bento No. 4: Chicken Korma Bento

January 25th, 2010, lunch, photos, year of the bento, Janaki, 2 Comments

Chicken in a korma, I know it’s serious.

Seriously delicious, that is. Follow the jump for more, and a gallery.

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Year of the Bento: Bento No. 3: Omuraisu (Japanese Omelette Rice)

January 21st, 2010, lunch, photos, year of the bento, Janaki, 2 Comments

Omuraisu is kind of like Japan’s equivalent of mac and cheese. Short for “omelette rice”¹ , it’s essentially a good way to use leftover ingredients but suit them to Japanese tastes.²

Follow the jump for more, and one more photo (not really a whole gallery this time).

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1. because the Japanese love their portmanteaux almost as much as I do [↩]
2. For those interested, this idea of taking Western-style dishes but bending them to Japanese flavor profiles is not uncommon. It’s a subgenre of Japanese cuisine called youshoku. If you’re familiar with kareraisu (curry rice), that’s part of the youshoku family, too. A good indicator is whether or not the name is just a Japanese pronunciation of borrowed English words—but that’s not always the case. However, if sighting such a word makes you suspicious, you may want to investigate further to see if you’re right. [↩]