Friday, March 17, 2017

Smartphone Shots

Inari chirashi bento
Inari chirashi bento
I hid chopped sweet salty aburaage in sushi rice instead of stuffing sushi rice into aburaage pouches. Ohitashi (spinach with dashi shoyu), turnip pickle and cheese mashed potato for side dishes.


Tompeiyaki bento
Tompeiyaki bento
Tompeiyaki (omelet with cabbage, pork and okonomiyaki sauce) and yukari fried chicken.


Chili sausage bento
Chili sausage bento
Sausages dressed with ketchup, a bit of shoyu and chili pepper. Sauteed pork balls. Tamagoyaki with edamame and kanikama.


Jambalaya bento
Jambalaya bento
Is this just fried rice? I slept in and had no cooked rice or time to soak rice in water before cooking it. I decided to make a paella-like thing because it can be cooked without soaking. Fortunately, there were these ingredients in the fridge. Into a large frying pan, I threw rinsed raw rice, water, tomato puree, chicken, sausage, onion, shiitake, curry powder and salt, then cooked until the rice was tender. I had to add in some more water, but it turned out good despite my impromptu.


Pork and veggie rice bento
Pork and veggie rice bento
Mini croissants for an evening snack.


Meatless bento
Meatless bento
This is an almost-vegetarian bento.


Happy March everybody! It's been a while. I have been on a phone camera kick lately. That's why I was absent from the blog. I feel like I finally got the hang of shooting bentos with my smartphone. Of course I've been using my camera as well, but it's so much fun to take pictures of foods with a smartphone and edit them with photo apps, isn't it? I think this kick will continue for a while. By the way, I edited these pictures with Snapseed. This app is so handy to make boring pictures look better and fun to play around with. It has been updated recently and is even easier to use than before.