American Bento

I have only just noticed that I haven't been posting much!  I am sorry to report that life has gotten busy and I got overwhelmed.  But, I am now able to focus much more on my bentos!  :)

Today I present a pulled pork bbq bento with homemade cornbread.  This is comfort food - plain and simple.   It's even in a one layer bento. 


Here you can see a small cup of pork bbq.  I had some stashed away in the freezer and pulled it out to make this bento.  It seemed like a way to make DH smile when he had a long day of teaching ahead.  The cornbread has minced onion and green pepper in it.  There is also a little bit of coleslaw topped with sliced yellow pepper. 

They predicted 5-10 inches of snow last night.  We only got 4 - officially.  I think it's more; well, at least it looks like more.  The roads are slick and horrible.  But, guess what?  School's in.   I wanted to have my family home today.  We would have baked bread, made soup, and sat around the fire enjoying one another.  It's too bad PSD didn't get the memo.

So, we have a rather reluctant bento that I threw together this morning all the while hoping for that elusive snow day.  Four inches really isn't enough to close school over but I had high hopes for a 4 day week. 

Layer 2:  Veggie pasta cut in harvest shapes - pumpkins and autumn leaves.  The pasta is tossed with a purple basil pesto made with herbs from my garden (clearly not today - I pulled it from the freezer).  There's also some chicken here.  I made chicken stock yesterday and put the "bits" of chicken into lunch.

Sistema puts out the bento box I use and my family loves it.  Unfortunately, the only place in town that carries it is Safeway and I haven't seen anything but the box.  Sistema's website shows a number of other nifty products.  My husband and I went shopping in Denver this weekend and I found more Sistema products! 

World Market now carries Sistema boxes and other supplies.  I bought the "Cutlery to Go" kit in pink (the only color they had).  So, I imagine DD will be using it.  It's a little too feminine for DH. :)  Let's take a look:

This little box holds quite a bit.  The cutlery options are quite nice and seem fairly sturdy.

The only problem I see with the set is that it only contains two bottom pieces.  You can't have a knife, fork, and spoon assembled at once.   I'll report more once my daughter has an opportunity to use the set.