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This one is for Katie. I’ve always been jealous of the incredibly cute and tasty looking lunch boxes she makes to take to work.

I don’t have many opportunities to pack lunches since I work from home, but on Thursdays I am gone all day to work in the lab and go to class. I managed to find a food storage container with small compartments that would be perfect for the different bite-sized things that go in to bento lunch boxes.

As far as I know, onigiri and dumplings are supposed to be pretty easy to make. Pfft.

Some of you may have heard my disaster stories of my trying to make onigiri (several times to no avail) and dumplings (both homemade and frozen). Solving the onigiri problem was easy: use the right rice and get a rice cake press (I was trying to make them by hand with apparently the wrong kind of rice). The dumpling problem took a little more time. The first time I made them (homemade), they fell appart in the pan. The second time I made them (frozen from the store), somehow I made gyoza soup. A few tried later, I figured out the correct time for steaming and pan frying so they disintegrate and fall apart.

Clockwise from top: Teriyaki mixed vegetables, edamame, vegetable steamed dumplings, omeboshi and seasoned onigiri.