Archive for the 'Dietary' Category - 4
Published by Biggie on August 28th, 2007 tagged bento, glutenfree
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I love Singapore-Malaysian food. Nonya cuisine is the fusion that arose when male Chinese migrant workers moved to Singapore and Malaysia four centuries ago and married Malay women, and the cuisines merged in a most delicious fashion. Today’s lunches have skate wing (also known as ray, or stingray), which I had for the first time […]
Published by Biggie on August 28th, 2007 tagged bento, glutenfree, curry, rice, salad, fish or seafood, for kids | 19 Comments »
This week I misjudged the heat level when making kimchi fried rice for dinner, and it wound up being too spicy for my preschooler. Although I usually serve him the same things that we eat in order to broaden his palate (and make things easier on me), this is one of the only times I’ll […]
Published by Biggie on August 25th, 2007 tagged bento, glutenfree, meat, rice, tofu, lactose free, for kids | 10 Comments »
Consider this lunch a bomb — a meatball and rice “bomb”. I came across this rice ball variation in a Japanese-language onigiri cookbook, where it was called a “bakudan onigiri”, or “bomb onigiri”. It’s pretty straightforward: with your hands or ball-shaped onigiri mold (photo below), cover a meatball with short- or medium-grain rice, then completely […]
Published by Biggie on August 23rd, 2007 tagged bento, meat, onigiri or sushi, rice, lactose free, for kids, recipe | 16 Comments »
Ever pack a tuna salad sandwich for lunch, then feel embarrassed when the smell wafts through the room as you unwrap it? I don’t want food odor to keep me from packing whatever I want for lunch, though, so here are some measures you can take to slow the spread of strong food smells.
Isolate the […]
Published by Biggie on August 22nd, 2007 tagged bento, dumplings or buns, eggs, meat, rice, lactose free, for kids, tips | 13 Comments »
I packed number of unusual fruits and vegetables in our meals today, the most interesting of which is the striking red fruit of the strawberry tree (”arbutus berries”). I haven’t seen this fruit in stores, but our friend Vincent from the African island of Réunion picked them from trees in the neighborhood with Bug. I […]