Tofu Mango Pudding

1 block mori-nu silken tofu — soft, well drained
1 mango
5 packets splenda or agave nectar
Cinnamon

Combine tofu, mango and sweetener of choice in blender.  Transfer to plastic container, cover and pop in fridge for a couple of hours or freezer for 1 hour.  Spoon in dessert bowls (4) and sprinkle with cinnamon.  So good!!

*Try it with your favorite fruit.  Just replace the mango.  I’ve also made with mango and strawberries and it was rockin’!

I’m tired after making this one!  First time making Inarizushi and it was so easy with the frozen wrappers.  Made my second batch of sushi rice for the filler and it came out perfect… think I have my technique down.  The Okinawan potatoes make an appearance for the second time.  Still good but need to think of some other things to do with them other than just the balls.  Also first time trying the dried rambutan.  I picked it up at Trader Joe’s yesterday thinking I’d give it a try.  It’s not as sweet as I’d expect.  It’s different, can’t really explain it.  Maybe it’ll grow on me!

Box 1: Dried Rambutan, strawberries, Okinawan potato balls, Inarizushi, bear sauce holder with soy sauce. Box 2: Broccoli stalk kinpira, carrot sticks, grapes and bear egg. 450 calories.

Some of my bento photos are featured in a news article on NowPublic.com
Not sure how cool this is but I was pretty excited to be asked!   Read the story.

Popped into the Asian market this morning and grabbed these kumquats. If you’ve never had them before, they are similar to an orange however they tend to be a little bit more sour. No need to peel either, just be careful of the seeds inside.

Also have fake chicken salad in there.   So super easy to make.  (Go to recipe.)

Box 1: Mock curried "chicken" salad, kumquats. (cucumber, carrot, green onion, lettuce garnishes). Box 2: Pasta salad with black olives, green onion and vinaigrette. (carrot and green onion garnishes) 360 Calories.

You’ll need:
Seitan or other mock chicken
low fat mayonnaise or vegan mayo (to taste)
curry powder (to taste)

Optional:
Red grapes
Green onion
Cashews
Salt
Pepper
Watercress

Mix all ingredients together and chill for at least 1 hour then serve on bread, wrap or on a bed of lettuce.  YUMMY!

Today’s Bento Lunch. Still need to get some extra large eggs for those molds!! Tried to spruce up my wabbit with some nori, but he kinda looks worse.

Box 1: Hard boiled egg rabbit, grapes, carrot flowers, mini egg rolls Box 2: Green plum slices, cheese under the carrot cutouts, green olives. Small cup: Roasted green peas 415 Calories.

Crazy for kabobs.  I got a little “skewered” away here.

Salad with lowfat italian dressing, meatless italian sausage and yellow pepper kabob, fruit kabobs, pretzel sticks and celery with PB2/Cream Cheese dip, almonds and yogurt raisins. 450 Calories.

Panda’s in paradise.  Love my new little sauce holders!

Box 1 = leftover sushi rice with tofu, snow peas, green olives, veggie sushi, pandie bottle holding soy sauce Box 2 = yogurt raisins and almonds, strawberries, mango, melon, grapes and a single 'lil pandie cookie just to up the cute factor. 360 Calories

So I tried for the first time to make sushi.  I was slightly askerred but I did a bunch of research and just dove in.  Everything turned out brilliantly!  My biggest worry was the sushi rice.  It ended up being perfect.. well as perfect as it could be for someone who didn’t train for ages on just making rice.  Of course, it was all vegetarian.  Pete was going to get tuna to put in his but he didn’t know exactly what type to get so decided to just suffer with only veggies.  Boohoo, Poor thing!

Ingredients and supplies for the sushi:

Ingredients for the miso soup (Pete made this (shocking right?) – it was awesome by the way!)

Rice done and cooled… fanning it was oh so much fun!

Sushi rolled:

Sushi rolled using sesame soy wrapper:

Final dinner.  Had a bit of sake with it too as a treat.. oh yea, we don’t screw around up in here!

Used my new egg mold today.  Supposed to be a bear but didn’t come out great… thinking I need some bigger eggs.

Vegetarian Noodles, Broccoli, Edamame dumplings, soy sauce fishey, carrots, grapes, mini banana muffins, hard boiled egg. 332 calories