Bent on Bento

Yesterday, I experimented with a dish I had tasted in one of my favorite Nyonya restaurants back in Penang.  The dish is called “Lemak Sui Kari Kay”, which is Hokkien for Curry Chicken cooked in coconut milk with a tinge of sourish flavor to it.  The difference between this dish and the conventional curry chicken is that “Lemak Sui Kari Kay” replaces the potatoes with chunks of pineapples.  So the result is a spicy sweet and sour curry.

Today my hubby brought a bento to work that is a Penang nyonya delicacy 🙂

I also added some furikake seasoning to the steamed rice for added flavor, and oh, a blueberry muffin for dessert.

Adults chicken, rice

I absolutely love pasta, and I thought, what better way to combine my love for pasta and bento-ing than to create a bento with pasta?

So this is what my hubby brought to work today.  I had the same thing, but I didn’t put it in a lunchbox because I was working from home and hence I just ate it off a plate.

For some reason, I prefer linguine to spaghetti, maybe because it is slightly thicker.  I made the sauce the night before and this morning, all I had to do was to heat it up and pack it in a lunchbox.  The sauce was made with organic ground beef, chopped bombay onions and chunky bolognese style gravy which I bought from the store.  I added three gigantic turkey meatballs to the sauce for the added protein, and also, because I think pasta tastes so much better with meatballs.  So this morning, I only had to make sure the linguine was cooked al dente and that was it.

I sprinkled some Italian seasoning on the linguine, laid it on some fresh lettuce and added some seedless grapes on the side for fiber.

Adults beef, pasta, turkey

I’ve always wanted to start a food blog, but my primary concern was that I would not have the time to try new recipes, and post the pictures for them.  I certainly didn’t want to own a blog only to see it die a few months later.

But now that creating bentos or lunch boxes, if you may, is becoming rather trendy, I have also caught on this fad, and with this new love of mine, I hope to strike a cool balance between owning a food blog as well as feeding my bento craze.

Join me in my experiments, as I venture into the world of Bentos!

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