For breakfast: Baked & Wired‘s new cupcake, Teresa’s Birthday Cupcake, which is chocolate cake with maple frosting. Paired with a few sips of coffee to balance out the sweetness. The cake was deliciously moist and almost fudgey, but the frosting was too sweet and I ended up scraping most of it off.

Lunch: Raisins, Parmesan reggiano in the container, matzah, un-frosted shredded wheat, blueberry marshmallow/yogurt concoction. Spinach and cheese ravioli with basil sprinkled with Parmesan reggiano, Shilla chocolate coconut roll cake on the side.

This was actually a Croque Madame that I enjoyed at Kafe Leopold on Labor Day, but I couldn’t finish it all so ate the eggs off if it, saved it and ate it for lunch today. Strangely, all the things I hate (mustard, pickles) come together perfectly in this sandwich and taste absolutely delicious.

I also found a Totoro furoshiki when I was cleaning up the apartment this weekend. I thought this was a handkerchief, but I realized it was a totally awesome furoshiki and I made use of it as soon as possible~

Shilla Choco-Coconut roll cake slice to the left of the sandwich and some Cape Cod Cracked Sea Salt (40% reduced fat) Potato Chips. I don’t like potato chips and never eat them, but these are delicious.  Watermelon yogurt in the background that I didn’t eat. The chocolate coconut roll cake really reminded me of German Chocolate cake that I used to eat when I was little. It was missing a little bit of caramel, but the general taste was still there.

I keep going places with my parents and every time I’m out with them, we go to the local Shilla and load up on pastries (Literally, fill a nice, woven basket with pastries).  It’s ridiculous. I need to eat my way through a napoleon, the rest of this roll cake, a custard bun, cream cheese croissant, and a steamed castella. Not to mention I broke down at the Asian Market and bought a whole roll of Matcha Castella. Hopefully the fridge will keep them nice and fresh for me.

Aug 31st – These are some of the leftovers from making the special fashion show bento on Sunday. On the left is some okonomiyaki-takoyaki balls with Remy’s brother from Ratatouille sticking out. The red container behind him holds the different sauces (kewpie, okonomiyaki, bonito flakes). The smaller picture to the left shows the okonomiyaki all dressed-up and ready to eat. On the left is a char siu bao (nikuman in Japanese) and some pieces of a brownie cake cookie thing I picked up from the local Korean bakery.

Sept 1st – A plain turkey and roasted-red-pepper-hummus sandwich and some chex mix to snack on.

Sept 2nd – These were leftovers from a great meal I had the day before with my friend Stephanie. Stephanie needed cheering up from her horrible job so I brought a goodie bag and we went out to eat at a local Indian restuarant named Jaipur. We had ordered Paneer-Pakora, Garlic Naan, and each an entree (chicken for her, lamb curry for me). I also ordered some naan and Kadhai Chholey to go for my boyfriend with like three containers of mint chutney. As you can imagine, we both went home with bags full of food and I used them to make lunch for me and my boyfriend. My Ms. Bento holds some rice and Rarah Maas with some garlic naan on the side. White bean and walnut manju for dessert and chai tea to drink.

Sept 3rd – Another plain turkey and roasted-red-pepper-hummus sandwich and Shilla brownie-bread for dessert.

Sept 4th – This isn’t a bento, but it’s made with all the love leftover from our five year anniversary the day before!The bread is from our dinner the night before at Inox, and has turkey, roasted red pepper hummus and oodles of baby spinach. Shilla bakery coffee manju and a canteloupe yogurt.