Just to make you all hungry...

[telophase]

...my lunch for today consists of:

Box 1:

Rice
Black Beans (simmered with soy sauce and sugar - mmm good)

Box 2:

Chicken Dumplings
Sweet Simmered Shiitake
Salted Cucumber
Grape tomatoes

All from Sunday's mad cooking spree, packed in two small square bento boxes.

I am already hungry and it's only 9:20. Luckily I have another slice of bread to toast to hold me until lunch.

Comments

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

"Sweet Simmered Shiitake!" Sounds like something a Japanese superhero would say when shocked.

[cicer.livejournal.com]

The black beans sound very nommy. How do you make them?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Empty 1 can black beans into a pot without draining. (If you make black beans from scratch, when cooked add water just to cover.) Simmer with sugar over low heat for 15 minutes. Stir in soy sauce, remove from heat. Nommy warm or cold.

The measurements are a bit odd, since the original recipe calls for beans as if you're cooking them from scratch. So for every 3 cups of cooked beans (1 cup dry if you start from scratch), you want 1 cup sugar and one Tb soy sauce. The can I had - 15 ounces - was really almost 2 cups, so I cut the measurements on the sugar and soy sauce by a third.