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Is this the most damage done since the Canadians came for a visit?

Fawn pug in a cone sitting on a dog bed with the cone planted against the ground, looking like she gave up. Next to her is a sleeping brindle french bulldog.

Eventually, they just give up.

Japanese style hambagu bento inside of a two tiered bento box. The box on the left has white rice and a hambagu on it. The hambagu is covered in a sauce. The box on the right has a summer salad with strawberries, corn, avocado lettuce and spinach between two silicon cups. The cups have a fruit salad with peaches, pineapple and blueberries and a strawberry fluff salad.

Happy Bento Friday! Classic Japanese hambagu with sauce and rice. Comes with a salad of spinach, lettuce, strawberries, avocado, and freshly sweet corn tossed in olive oil and lemon juice, fruit salad of peaches, pineapple, and blueberries, and strawberry fluff salad. いただきます。

#bento #bentofriday

On the bottom are two bento boxes divided in half with a fruit salad of cranberry, pineapple, and mandarin oranges on top and a tossed salad of napa cabbage, broccoli florets, bell peppers, and strawberry vinaigrette on the bottom. The top two bento boxes have salmon mayo on top of white rice on the left and chicken mayo on top of white rice on the right.

Happy Bento Friday! Today's main is two kinds open face onigiri. Salmon mayo and chicken mayo on rice with a salad of cabbage, bell peppers, broccoli florets, and a cherry tomato in a strawberry vinaigrette and a cranberry, pineapple, mandarin orange fruit salad. いただきます。

#bento #bentofriday

First pizza with well browned cheese. Definitely on the thick side.

Shot of the underside of the first pizza. Lightly browned crust.

Hard launched second pizza. Not as well shaped and cheese is over cooked on the side it touched the bottom.

Undershot of the crust of the second pizza. Better browning than the first.

Tried my hand at homemade pizza with a new electric pizza oven. First one is definitely on the thick side, the second had a hard launch. Both were delicious. Three kinds of mozzarella and provolone.

#pizza

Two-tiered bento box with niku miso over udon on the right and inside-out egg roll salad, fruit salad, and pickles on the left.

Today's bento is niku miso udon. Niku miso sauce made with akai miso over udon noodles with a side of inside-out egg roll salad, a blueberry, raspberry, and banana fruit salad, and two kinds of pickles.

A two-tiered bento box with gyudon over white rice on one side and strawberries, stir-fried broccoli, and tamagoyaki on the other.

Last week's was a gyudon bento. Gyudon over white rice with broccoli stir-fried with lao gan ma, tamagoyaki, fresh strawberries, ham blossoms, and cheese rabbits.

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I decided it was time to start #bentofriday back up for my wife and her co-workers last week. I forgot to post then, so here is last week's #bento and this week's. I at least five or six bento for them every week. いただきます。

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And just when I'm feeling nostalgic about working at a law firm...

Is that a bowl of Naf Naf?

Long piece of fried cod, shorter piece of fried flounder, chips, and a side of mushy peas

Long piece of fried cod, shorter piece of fried flounder, chips, and a side of mushy peas

A stuffed toy flounder looks at the fried fish in shock and horror

I made British fish and chips tonight, complete with mushy peas. Flounder and cod. Tasted great.

My stuffed flounder,
pancake, disagrees.

#fishandchips

Cinnamon and gold raisin bread from the side

Rosemary potato bread loaf from the side

Cranberry walnut load of bread from the side

I’ve been keeping myself busy making lots of breads with my new bread machine.

It is a delicious distraction from everything going on.

loaf of fresh oat bread from the narrow side

loaf of fresh oat bread from the wide side

view of the crumb of the white oak bread

I also made more bread. A loaf of white oat bread. Haven’t had any yet but the missus says it is pretty good. A definitely dented one side getting it out of the bread machine.

Egg soboro and niku miso in a round, donburi style bento box. Has fresh red raspberries and cherry tomatoes in a little box on the side.

I used to make bento for my wife and her coworkers every Friday. Now I just make them occasionally. Today’s bento is egg soboro and niku miso over white rice with fresh red raspberries and cherry tomatoes. いただきます。 #bentofriday #bento

fresh baked loaf of white bread with a light crust from the wide side

fresh baked loaf of white bread from the narrow side

picture of the crumb of a slice of fresh baked white bread

Today, I broke out my new bread machine and made a plain, white loaf of bread. We may have eaten half of it in accident.

a baking pan full of 10 melon pan

cross section of a piping hot melon pan

Yesterday, the wife and I made melon pan together. It turned out nearly as good as from bakeries in Japan. Pretty pleased with it. #melonpan

You should check out Kilbeggan's oat cookies sometime. Amazing biscuits as well.

That may be the single best thumbnail for an AI story I've ever read.

brie, brussels sprouts, ground pork and jellied cranberry sauce on a potato bun. with sweet potato tots

havarti, brussels sprouts, ground pork and jellied cranberry sauce on a potato bun. with fried pickles

Was inspired by Bob’s Burgers #bobsburgers make a perfect brussels sprouts burger.

First attempt: brie, brussels sprouts, and ground pork over jellied cranberry sauce. Almost.

Second attempt: harvati, brussels sprouts, and ground pork over jellied cranberry sauce. This is it. #burgers

I'm gonna go with all of the above.

tonkatsu with shredded cabbage, carrot and sweet pepper quick pickles in rice and apple cider vinegar, and white rice

gyudon on white rice

New Year’s called for me making Japanese food. So I made #tonkatsu for the Eve and #gyudon for the Day. Nit as good as restaurants in Japan but still delicious.

monjayaki with scallion, pork, and raw egg

monjayaki with mentaiko, mochi cubes, and cheese

Osaka style okonomiyaki

Today’s Japanese food sharing is monjayaki and okonomiyaki. We are no strangers to okonomiyaki but the monjayaki was new and delicious. #okonomiyaki #monjayaki

Honey butter roll

melon pan

chocolate banana melon pan, chocolate chip melon pan, chocolate melon pan, cinnamon melon pan

Still with the baked goods. 3/3

caramel coronet/caramel butt hole

croquette bread, chocolate danish, french toast, apple danish, pizza

croquette bread, premium weiner, egg and ham bread, and spicy sweet famichiki (fried chicken)

foot long curry bread

Baked goodness continued. 2/3

Cheese and currant bread, garlic cheese bread, cream cheese bun

Sugar donut, fish sandwhich, curry bread

Egg and ham bread, fish sandwich, fig custard danish, mandarin custard danish

egg and ham bread, fish sandwich, mandarin danish, fig danish

When we’re in Japan, we eat breakfast in the Kyoto style. That means we get lots of baked goods. I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed eating the goods. 1/3

KYK - Premium cutlet set

I guess I stopped taking pictures of #tonkatsu after 5. Ah well, plenty more was had. 2/2

Tonkatsu Wako - Extra Large set

Food Court Miso style tonkatsu

Tonkatsu Wako - Premium tonkatsu set

KYK - Rolled cutlet

Continuing the food from Japan posts, today is all of the #tonkatsu eaten. I had quite a bit. 1/2

Chicken nanban curry with a hamburg on the side

Special edition keychains

Special nikukai curry

Tonkatsu curry

Without anything else more important to talk about, how about more Japanese food? We really like the CoCo Ichibanya chain and will hit it when we can't think of anything else for a meal. #curryrice #curryraisu #cocoichibanya

Ramen Todai from Kyoto Station

Tori Paitan from Ramen Hayashida in Asakusa

Special Seasonal Miso Ramen from Ramen Takahashi in Ueno

What could be better for a first post than showing off some of the #ramen from the last few weeks in Japan. Wish I was still in Japan eating more.