Leftovers Bento Box or Nishime Part 2

I've been fiddling around with my camera since I finally read the instructions last week. Argghh...to my dismay it appears that the bento box pics looked a lot better before I pushed a button here, toggled to another setting there. Voila, I totally messed it up. "If it's not broken, don't fix it" never rang truer than in this situation.

Anyways... back to bento boxes. This box is filled with leftover nishime from a couple days ago. There was plenty of broth in the original batch and so I stretched out the servings by tossing in a few extra items like the pink and white kamaboko. Again, there were many leftover slices from yesterday's sammich bento so I combined. Mixing and matching. Saba Man has requested more protein in his lunches so I obliged with tamagoyaki. I think going forward, his fruit will be carried in a separate sidecar or we'll do it "old school" with a whole apple or banana tucked inside his lunch bag.

Or, I could use a larger bento box for him. Can you imagine me packing his lunch in the baseball game bento box!

3 Bento Box Lunches (updated)

Short post because it's so late. I made some Insalata Caprese (shock) with those yummy heirloom tomatoes I bought yesterday. I used buffalo mozzarella instead of the usual, normal cow cheese. OMG, so delish. Is the buffalo kind healthier? I. Don't. Care. It's remarkably good. In short, 3 bento boxes for tomorrow; 2 for Saba Man and the new little square box for me.

This bento box is my new favorite; it's super cute. (read: portion control) It's my first Lock & Lock box and I'm hooked and if you see an obsessed ,middle aged woman staring at the display of these boxes at Central Market this weekend; giggling is okay but laughing and pointing is not.

Nope, not a Tomato.

It's an eggplant. How cool are these? I don't know the variety and neither did the vendors. They were so beautiful; how could any bento maker resist? They lost their color a bit after cooking but not their taste! Yummy with curry sauce and placed in the square bento box. Along with the eggplant is a 2 egg tamagoyaki, namasu made with those carrots in the photo, figs, saturn peach and those ubiquitous champagne grapes.