Bento #48: Aquarium!

BENTO FROM HELL leaked all over my favorite tokidoki bag 

grumble grumble

s-so on sunday the derby damez went to the new england aquarium \o/

it was kind of a blast 

i got to the pub too early and actually ran into another skater at the works while i was getting a bagel to kill time (I'M SO BAD WITH NAMES HNNGH I'LL HAVE THEM ALL DOWN SOON I'M DOING BETTER) which was funny but she wasn't going on the trip sadly

BUT aside from a lot of stops on the way and death ann almost blowing up having to pee on the way to alewife we made it and it was very fun

bubble teeeeea it's not tea stop but it's better than nothing 

which is what i get here

i don't have a lot of pictures of the aquarium partly because it was dark and my phone does not take the best pictures and partly because we were being given a lovely tour by the lovely leah (as seen gesturing conversationally in the photo above- she works with the sea turtles how fricken' cool is that) and i didn't want to miss anything

but i do have pictures of the improv everywhere no-pants subway ride we ran into

CALLED IT BEING A FLASH MOB

b-but i don't like to brag <3

'we forgot our pants' YEAH RIGHT 

Bento #47: Donburiiiii

Chicken and beef stir-fry and steamed rice. (approx. 350 cal)

another new box to try out todayyy


i-it's got bunnies on it which makes it super-exciting


this one was from my sister thanks evaaa <3

bunnyyyyy


i haven't had a donburi box before (one tier specifically for rice, one for stuff to put over the rice) and now i have two so you'll see another soon \o/


peace!

Bento #46: I'm Baaaack

Leftover shepherd's pie, leftover broccoli, blueberries, and vanilla yogurt- 

approx. a million calories and a kind of ugly photo

s-see i told you i'd cook today

if you call cooking yesterday and the day before and heating them up again cooking;

but i've cut my calories down again so now is as good a time as any to use up the temptation of the shepherd's pie in the fridge why did i make a whole pan whyyyy

Vanilla + cinnamon = tastes good man

this is all packed in one of the new boxes i got this christmas

it's got little nesting dolls and some (from what i can tell; only took one semester) sorta nonsense french on it

gotta love it

You are french and make no sense but you are cute so I forgive you

like my other long two-tier box it has the problem of being kind of hard to fill when it isn't just rice in the small tier but i think i'll figure it out

thanks mom <3

Un-Bento #13: Last Un-Bento for Awhile I Swear;;

I-it's just my skates came is all.

s-so um i'm back in keene and um

my skate stuff caaaaame

but the boots are too smaaaaall

so um i guess i'll have to return them and get new ones

i've had fun flailing around my apartment (WHOSE FLOOR IS DEFINITELY NOT LEVEL I AM NOT IMAGINING THIS FFF) on them for awhile though so i guess that's alright even if they pinched my toes

i'll just have to borrow skates again this week orz

happy new year everybody and i'll get cooking again tomorrow you can count on me

And my wheeeeeeeeelssssss man this lens rocks

Un-Bento #12: A Good Haul

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. Blog pictures will be fun from now on~

so what did everybody get for christmas


i got some fun stuff


i hope everyone had a good day and that nobody is getting stuck in this blizzard we're supposed to be having


merry christmas!


p.s.

I hope we get snowed in so I can read thissss <3

Un-Bento #11: The Christmas Taco

so at our house on christmas eve our family does something that is apparently kind of weird


see nobody except my stepdad really ever wants a whole 'nother turkey dinner like a month after thanksgiving


i don't want to eat one


nobody wants to cook one


i'm usually in the kitchen all day making christmas presents this time of year anyway because spoilers everyone gets cookies


so we do the christmas taco


it's fast


it's easy


it's red and green


what more do you people want


it'll be christmas in 13 minutes i need to play more ragnarok i mean play with the android phone i got for making the dean's list this semester (3.85 baby awww yeahhhh) i mean uh sleep and wait for santa yes


GOODNIGHT MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY TACOS

Un-Bento #10: I'M ENJOYING A TREAT DERRICK

The latest Hanukkah cookies.

s-so our family is roughly as late as three late things and we are having our Hanukkah party tomorrow night

we have a big yankee swap every year and being in college i don't really ever have much to contribute so i thought i'd make up a box of cookies and truffles

oreo cheesecake truffles

i know you're interested now

Sad naked truffles. :c

they're made by food processing a package of oreo cookies and mixing the whole thing in with an 8-ounce glub of cream cheese

roll them into balls and refrigerate for a short period of time until they stop being greasy and falling apart

they are delicious

e-especially after you cover them in chocolate and or more oreo crumblies

anyway here's a dreidel cookie for funsies

and the recipe for extra funsies:

delicious non-denominational sugar cookies

ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (or less if you use salted butter)
• • • 3/4 cup butter
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

1. preheat oven to 325 degrees F (~165 C)
2. combine the flour and salt in a middly-size bowl
3. cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until it's super fluffy and awesome
4. add the egg and vanilla and beat until well blended
5. scrape down sides of bowl and add the flour mix and then beat it until it's combined BUT DON'T MIX IT TOO MUCH (it will seem like it is too dry and not mixy and terrible but do the next part anyway)
6. gather the dough into a ball then make the ball into a disk and refrigerate until cold (like an hour or so)
7. roll out dough on a floured surface or between two pieces of parchment paper (rubber spacers make uniform rolling easy)
8. use cookie cutters to make fun shapes and then bake for 13 minutes
9. ENJOY A TREAT DERRICK 

delicious non-denominational royal icing

ingredients

$7.99 plus tax because connecticut is lame like that

1. drive to joanne fabrics
2. buy royal icing in a bottle
3. once at home try to open the cap by stabbing
4. after stabbing hand realize that cap twists open like glue
5. microwave bottle according to package directions
6. frost cookies
7. decorate cookies with sugar if you want or just leave icing to dry
8. DERRICKKKKK