Bento: Chicken Stir Fry (189)

I’m so feeling the love with this bento tonight.  Tonight, I’m going to go to sleep with a big ol’ smile on my face because my lunch for tomorrow is packed, my kitchen is clean, and I have leftovers for another day or so of bento.  WOOHOO!  I can’t tell you how very seldom that happens.

Tomorrow’s bento includes:
Large tier: chicken stir fry with broccoli and orange sweet peppers, chunky carrot kinpira
Small tier: Orange and blueberry skewers, chocolate covered pretzels.

I found a recipe for a stir fry sauce that used hoisin as its base.  I love it!  It’s the first stir fry sauce I’ve found I actually like.  I plan to share the recipe with you all soon.  I didn’t take pictures tonight since I wasn’t sure how it would come out.  I’ve had alot of kitchen failures lately and was worried this would be another one.

At first, I had cut the carrots into small chunks to include in the stir fry.  Then, I realized all I had left was orange peppers.  I decided that was too much orange looking stuff in the stir fry, plus I needed a “side dish” so to speak.  Instead, I used them to make a carrot kinpira follow Just Bento’s recipe.  They came out pretty well, though I think I overcooked it a bit.

And because I can, here is a picture of tonight’s stir fry dinner.  I didn’t have any noodles for stir fry.  Normally, I used a pack of ramen noodles.  I had to make do with thin linguine noodles, but it worked out well I think.

And now for a completely random picture, or maybe not too terribly random.  When I made my recent Ichiban Kan order, I ordered something that was completely unneccessary, but I wanted it.  I really like the looks of their key caps and think this mushroom one is just too cute.  Don’t you agree.  Heheheheee.  It brings a nice grin to my face for a quick buck. 

Be the bento everyone and have a great Wednessday (when it gets here!)