| More cooking? No! More pretty lunchboxes? Yes! |
[Apr. 27th, 2008|12:21 pm] |
New lunch! I think I'm so into bento lunch box making because it's the only creative outlet I have at the moment. Cooking and arranging is much less work for my wrist than, say, knitting and playing my viola. Although I am dying to play my viola. My emg is on Tuesday and my consultation with the doctor is May 1st. They're probably going to tell me I need surgery. Bleh.
Moving right along...
This time it's shrimp and avocado rolls. The rice didn't come out as sticky as I wanted, so they look pretty sloppy, but delicious! The soaking in lime juice worked to keep the avocados looking pretty and green and gave them a little extra kick without being too OMGLIME, so I did it again today.
Next I'm either going to try a pasta dish with turkey meatballs or some sort of omelet that I can bake in the little cup I baked the shepherd's pie in. (Which was good, except the potatoes were really bland. And it needed more veggies on the inside. I'll know for next time.) The cherry tomatoes with cheddar were too good to pass up again. I'll come up with something different for my lunch on Tuesday.
Wow. I might actually learn to cook something during this. Weird.
Story time now.
I sing at work a lot. And dance too, but only when whoever I'm working with will join me and that's really only when I'm working with Jes, but singing is kind-of my thing. Jes and I were closing last night, she was in the back doing dishes and I was out front packing the food away and singing my little heart out at a reasonably quiet volume. Anyway, this middle-aged Pakistani man and his barely-off-the-boat Russian wife who had tried to order a smoothie earlier and couldn't get the words out so we just made her whatever we guessed was what she wanted and just happened to be right... so this guy and his wife come up and the guy tells me I have a very nice voice and I should go somewhere and sing for money. I thanked him and said I used to sing, but I don't anymore except at work, so he was welcome to pay me more to sing there. He laughed and asked me more music questions and I got on the subject of me being an English major, studying toward being a teacher.
Long story short, I now am an English tutor. He just emailed me, so I have to send him my schedule, and then he's going to pay me to come in an hour before my shift two to four times in the next two weeks to practice with him.
It's not a music student, but I'll certainly take it. Wewt. |
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So looking at your last bento, I had this idea but forgot to tell you!
I think next time, you should get some fresh mozzarella, and then put that and a small basil leaf and some salt and pepper in the middle of your tomatoes. Instant mini caprese!
That is also a great idea! I've mostly been working with what's in the fridge... kindof a survival experiment [;)]. But the next time my mom goes food shopping, I'll see if she'll pick some up.
Nikki T... skilled in the many arts of life - viola, singing, speaking words good, bento bits, amongst other things.
I can... err... umm... write some bits and... umm... you got me beat, sweetie.
You'd have me beat if you'd actually write something. -prod-
I like this bento; it's really colorful! :) If you can get your hands on some colored cupcake wrappers, those work nicely as dividers. Also, I recommend fried chicken if you like that. Because I had some today and it was sooo good. My inner Japanese is happy <3 I vote you should try TamagoyakiAlso, have you checked out bentotv.com?
No fried foods for me, unfortunately. My stomach is a complainer.
The metal cupcake wrappers and the colored ones too are on my grocery list!
how exactly do you put yourself out there for tutoring? craigslist?
also, we should move in together, so that you can send me to school with a bento lunch. teehee!
I would be so up for rooming if only to send you off with cute little lunches.
I use connections and word of mouth usually. This guy kinda hired me because I sing pretty. -shrug- If I were really serious about it, as unserious as it may sound, I would use craigslist definitely. And make my own website. | |
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