Oh dear. Two months since my last bento. No excuses. I'm back in the saddle and ready to step up to the plate (how would you do that). Growing up we often had breakfast food for supper, especially Sunday night. Cold cereal, occasionally raised (yeast) waffles which sometimes had cooked strips of bacon laid on the waffle iron before the batter was poured. I really like breakfast food but don't like to eat much of a breakfast, so a brunch bento is just the ticket.
My new bento box is hard plastic from Good Grips, 900ml (3plus cups) so I don't want to fill it full. It's a number five and marked no BPA, but I'll still avoid heating anything in it beyond warm. This article from the NY Times talks about which plastics are currently regarded as safe (1,2,4,5) but that's just for now. It seems prudent to avoid plastic as much as possible.
The small white container has half peanut butter (Hannaford's natural creamy) and half maple cream (the front shiny half the flash caught), which is just maple heated and then cooled and beaten like fudge - from my friend Deb Davis in Underhill. Peanut butter and maple have a great affinity for each other, and peanut butter spread on french toast and then drizzled with maple syrup has always been a favorite.
The bread is raisin bread with a hint of cinnamon, from La Panciata in Northfield, available at most local groceries - Hannaford, Price Chopper, and Mac's. (I discovered this bread makes incredible toasted cheese sandwiches, too). The bacon is Dakin Farms ends and pieces. I rubbed the cut banana with one of the open sides of a grapefruit section. Recognize the little green spoon? It used to come with French's mustard. antique!
What makes a product local? I don't know where the pigs came from, and the wheat from the bread almost certainly wasn't grown in Vermont, although there are now about 15 Vermont wheat growers, and you can get local organic ale made from local wheat - Wolaver's
This bento: scrambled eggs with bacon, cinnamon raisin toast with peanut butter and maple syrup, grapefruit sections, banana and grapes.
Local foods: bacon, bread, maple syrup
Local foods: bacon, bread, maple syrup
Lovely. I have some great glass freezer/microwave containers that I got at TJ Maxx--they're made by Glasslock, and come in lots of sizes. Andrea Chesman's White Bean Salad with Sun Dried Tomato is wonderful, by the way, and would look great in a bento box.
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