Originally posted at by CMKA over at my bento photo blog!

Originally posted at by CMKA over at my bento photo blog!

Originally posted at by CMKA over at my bento photo blog!

Baked chicken, broccoli and rice with stir fried peppers, sausage crabs and meatballs.

This is a microwave contraption comes apart and the two Mickey Mouse head compartments are filled with your batter or cake mix, then little back end plates fit over the mix and it goes into the microwave. When it’s done you take it out and remove the back plates, which have made impressions in the cake for you to spoon filling into. Then you place one side of the cake on top of the other and use the enclosed plastic sealer to seal the the blasted thing – now you should have a finished, stuffed waffle!

I plan on testing it out with some honey wheat waffle batter and cream cheese filling! I have no idea how long you’re supposed to cook these things but I’ll tinker around and let you know what I find out. Squee!

First on the menu is my gushing over a yummy breakfast of still-kind-of-warm, egg-y Casey’s doughnuts and vanilla cappuccino, the last of the doughnuts gets to be pictured as if it’s important, lol.

Secondly, something weird happened to me last night. I was sitting downstairs with some folks and the Mormon missionaries talking about everything and the subject of bento came up. All of the sudden Lou was excited to talk, she wants to start a bento buffet here and have me come on her radio program to talk about bento.

While I love the idea of spreading some bento joy to the onigiri-less masses, it worries me that she wants to talk about this all of the sudden considering she’s kind of insane, lol.

Not a very fancy bento today, in fact this awesome little ‘bento box’ is one of the plastic take-out containers from China King (which is why it’s a tad too big for my bento today). Here’s what deliciousness awaits you:

BBQ Lamb Onigiri, Sweet Wasabi Chicken Onigiri, Hard Boiled Egg, Carrot Slices, Almonds, Chocolate Chips:

I’m actually reading the recipes on this website, all of which seem a bit on the complicated side (like Jerked Leg of Goat) and wondering if it’s something I could do? Some of the ingredients include ginger and dark brown sugar, it just sounds sweet, tangy and delicious. I’d love to try my hand at this, I wonder if it would be too hard to dress up goat meat for use in a bento box? I said pot stickers earlier, but this jerked leg of goat actually sounds like it would be great with rice if you cut it up into small pieces and filled out an empty niche in your bento box with it.

It would definitely be unique, plus goat is so good for you compared to other meats and is actually very low fat. The problem remains, as always, where do you buy goat meat? You can’t get it out here, though. I live in the middle of hog country and you’re lucky if you can get chicken or beef at a decent price, so until now I thought goat meat was out of the question because it was hard to come by out here. But the website I’m surfing right now, the one I’ve been talking about with all of these amazing goat recipes? It’s for a company called Gedalias that actually sells farm raised goat meat over the internet. It’s not expensive, they have a lot of different cuts including ground if you want to make burgers. It’s such a great idea! It would be a great gift for anyone you know who loves to cook and loves to try new things. If you’ve ordered from them, I’d love to hear about your experiences!