April 2013

All the content on this site by month.

Bento box spotlight: A real Pokeball bento box

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There are plenty of Pokémon oriented bento things out there. Get da ze!

Bento box and accessories review: monbento bento boxes and accessories from France

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An in depth look at the monbento line of bento boxes and accessories, including the boxes themselves, the sauce cups, cutlery and the brand new silicone molds.

The Just Bento Cookbook: Milestones and pondering the future

My baby has been doing well, despite her mother's absence.

Bento box review: Gangnam Style! Gangnam bento boxes from South Korea

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Unless you were living as a hermit away from any internet connection last year, you have probably heard of Gangnam Style, the phenomenal video sensation by South Korean entertainer PSY, aka Park Jae-sang, that took over the world. But Gangnam is not just the name of a rap song featuring a geeky looking dude dancing like a madman. It's also the name of a district in Seoul, South Korea, and that's where this interesting line of bento boxes come from.

Upcoming: Bento box and accessory reviews

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Expect several bento box and accessory reviews soon...and maybe a few surprises.

Soft Polenta For Dinner, Fried Polenta Cakes for Bento

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Fried polenta cakes are surprisingly good cold, so they make a nice change-of-pace carb in a bento, especially if you just happen to have some leftover polenta from dinner.

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There seem to be more and more bento related contests these days, but the annual contest held by the longtime JustBento friends Bento&co is still one of the biggest in terms of great prizes and number of outstanding entries. This year the grand prize is a 6 day trip to Kyoto, including airfare if you live outside of Japan! That's a prize worth flexing your creative bento muscles for. Besides the Grand Prize winners, 20 finalists will receive various bento-related items as prizes. The theme this year is different too: it's Pasta Bento. Be sure to read all the rules, and I wish you all good luck! I will not be participating as a judge this year....so who knows, maybe I'll enter too ^_^ (Alas I am ineligible...I'll have to pay my own way to Kyoto, sniff.)

Spinach Tamagoyaki (Spinach-packed omelette)

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This is a very easy to make tamagoyaki (Japanese style omelette) that is chock full of spinach. Even spinach doubters may like this, since the egg, onion and garlic neutralize the iron-rich quality which some people have problems with. It is basically a whole load of spinach that is held together with egg. It does not use the rolling/folding technique used for plain tamagoyaki or the one-egg version, so you may find it a lot easier to make.