Monday, January 30, 2012

Daytrippers Pasta Bento

Daytrippers Pasta Bento by sherimiya ♥
Daytrippers Pasta Bento, a photo by sherimiya ♥ on Flickr.
Happy Monday! Are your Mondays as disorganized and chaotic as mine? No? Oh. Well, this is why you'll find many of my Monday bento are composed of food that cook easily from ingredients that are already in the pantry and refrigerator (or leftovers from weekend eats), and nearly always have no cute components whatsoever. Sometimes they are literally thrown together so quickly that there's no time (or need) to take a picture. Like today: it's a simple wagon wheel pasta bento tossed with nitrite-free chicken and roasted red pepper sausage and zucchini. Other section contains strawberries, grapes, grapefruit and tiny mandarinquat slices. Everything is packed in my Daytrippers bento box (from Paperchase), which comes with a separate section for the matching fork and spoon under the cute decorated translucent lid. TinySprite has a variable appetite, which grows when the meal includes her favorites. Like this one -- I know she loves this combo and it will disappear in no time, even without the cute parts. And that's a recipe for a successful bento ^_^

8 comments:

  1. Love this combo Sheri! You always prepare delicious and healthy bento for your kids. I'm sure the box will come home clean (^.^)

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  2. It's a lovely bento, and that fact that TinySprite loves it even without any cute details, only proves how yummy the contents is. I never heard of mandarinquats before. They look nice, how do they taste?

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  3. I wouldn't need any cute to go with that one either. Gorgeous! The pasta looks amazing, what kind of chicken sausage do you buy?

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  4. very cute

    Aarthi
    http://yummytummy-aarthi.blogspot.com/

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  5. there's something especially cute about kumquats (or in this case mandarinquats), no fancy cutting or accessories necessary to cute-ify them! love how they echo the shape of the wagon-wheel pasta, too. and the sausage and zucchini combo is a winning one, yummm!

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  6. The box would come home clean if you send me one too! :D

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  7. Thanks Lia, Nichole, Ceinwyn, Heather, Aarthi, megan and karaimame!
    Ceinwyn, mandarinquats taste like kumquats to me; they are a hybrid of mandarins and kumquats. Maybe a little sweeter.
    Heather, I buy either the Trader Joe's brand or the Safeway Nature's brand.

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