Bento diary, tiffin edition

[darkemeralds]

It was only a matter of time before I succumbed to the lure of lunch-boxes and bought another one.



Meet my new tiffin, India's answer to the bento box.



It's more capacious than my bento box, so I made whole-wheat pita bread to fit. Those are half and quarter pitas in the bottom tier, plus a nice blob of hummus, also home-made, and asparagus dividers.

How do you eat yogurt with chopsticks? Dip the blueberries in it. How do you eat cooked mung beans with chopsticks? Very slowly. (I couldn't locate my spoon!)

The box, when stacked and locked down, isn't watertight, but you could transport soup in it if you kept it upright. The round shape and larger capacity open up some possibilities for less dense food, like bread. I sense some Indian cookery coming on.

Comments

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it? I should have put something in the photo for scale. The box is only about five inches in diameter, and what you're looking at is actually both lunch and breakfast.

But definitely, filling the tiffin in the stuffed-to-the-gills manner of the bento box would result in a meal for two.

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

Darn - for a minute there, I thought that looked like my kind of diet! :-)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I'm re-watching S4 of Buffy, and last night I watched the Halloween episode centering around a small woodcut of a demon...with the caption "actual size."

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Ha! One of Buffy's most Jossy moments.