Monday, October 4, 2010

Pork Roast and Jack Bento


Pork Roast and Jack Bento, originally uploaded by sherimiya ♥.
Continuing on with the jack o'lantern theme... Today's jack is cut simply from a regular orange carrot cross-section. I hand-cut the facial details with my tiny paring knife. Placing it on a black rice ball makes for a nice contrast. I made roast pork over the weekend and since it was so big it may make several appearances in bento in the near future. I used my mom's recipe; called Ono Pork Roast, which says it all.

Mom's Ono Pork Roast
Rub a 3-4 lb pork shoulder with the following mixture: 1-2 minced garlic cloves, salt & pepper, and 2tsp Worchestershire sauce. If using stovetop, brown on all sides in a large pot. I just put mine in my crock-pot. Add 1 cup water and 1/4 cup shoyu, and cook on high for 3-4 hours, turning occasionally.

Delicious over hot rice. This is one dish that the kids will be tricked, er, tempted to eat lots of veggies to sop up the sauce. Really! Broccoli goes well on the side. For this bento, I lay the rice and meat inside a green lettuce leaf and stuck some peapods around it. In the other cups I added broccoli, yellow carrots and yellow tomatoes, some black grapes and some red plum.

15 comments:

  1. Very cute and festive! That recipe sounds great... I need to get me a crock pot!

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  2. Thanks Megg! I love my crock-pot, especially with cold weather coming up...

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  3. You've inspired me, I'm dusting off my crock pot! Very handy on busy weeks...only have to cook once! :)

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  4. Thanks Debra! I love the fix-and-forget it method, heh!

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  5. First thing that come into my eyes is Jack's teeth hehehe ... Looks like baby teeth so I will called this baby Jack :) Black rice is awesome! The whole bento is so appetizing.

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  6. Love this, looks yummy and very festival feel! :)

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  7. Black rice? That looks pretty cool. I love the 1 tooth Jack too! lol. There's so much variety in this bento, I love it.

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  8. Yum, very fall-cozy and flavorful!

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  9. Lovely pumpkin, it really does get me in the seasonal mood. And I like the way you sliced the apples and used the leaf as decoration. What did you use for the light yellow/orange garnish on the broccoli?

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  10. Cute jack o lantern. I made 2 a while ago. =)

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  11. Wow this looks delicious and love the cute little jack o'lantern :)

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  12. The eyeball rice turned out great! Love Jack O'Carrot. I wonder if we will ever get sick of Jack O'Veggies? Probably not. :)

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  13. The pork sounds delish and I love the cutie patootie jack! :)

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  14. the (all-natural!) orange-against-black here is such a stunning combo. and that jack is cute as a button, looking like he wants some of that delicious pork!

    you've inspired me to do my own orange-against-black rice bento, maybe i'll try that tonight :-)

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  15. Thanks all! So very sweet of you!
    Stretching My Imagination: those are yellow carrots. I found them at my local farmers market.
    Megan, loved what you did with your black rice orange gingko!

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