Flexing those Muscles

Flexing those Muscles

Image by Renée S.
We walked into Sushi Marché and were greeted by a pair of pulsing beauties. I had to take a picture of them.

Also seen on: www.nowpublic.com/environment/robert-de-niro-restaurant-c...

California Rollin'

Image by Phil Dragash
just another picture of that California Roll I made in 2009. A while ago.

Beautiful Bluefin

Image by Renée S.
Chef Lee just had a delivery that morning. Guess what treats were in store for us?? :)

We walked into Sushi Marché and were greeted by a pair of pulsing beauties. I had to take a picture of them.

Also seen on: www.nowpublic.com/environment/robert-de-niro-restaurant-c...
and
www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=11&am...

Atsuta Matsuri 1985 - Furankufuruto

Image by jondresner
Japanese is written left to right, when written horizontally, and right to left when written vertically. It's been this way for decades, but there's one major exception: Japanese can also be read front to back (technically, it's vertical writing read right to left, but the lines are only one character long) and often is on trucks and, as you can see here, on banners.

What makes this really interesting is the failure to transcribe the Japanese -- "furankufuruto" aka "frankfurter" -- correctly. Read front to back, it's "furuto furanku" -- "furter-frank" -- but read in English order it's "uknaruf oturuf" which isn't anything in any language.

19th of October Bento

Image by toadstool ring
I think it's a bit too summery looking for a fall bento, but living in LA, it doesn't exactly feel like fall, especially since I've gotten used to fall being cold.

So I still feel like summer. And I guess the bento reflects that.

We had very little rice at home, otherwise I would have put more. It was weird that we ran out of rice...because we usually have too much. But I didn't have enough time to cook more, so I just put in the one rice star.

The main container has one rice star (with furikake),one egg tamagoyaki (this is only my second, so you can't see the layers, but I'm hoping to improve. recipe by Maki at JustBento: justbento.com/handbook/recipe-collection-mains/1-egg-tama..., shrimp, green bell pepper, baby carrot, tomato, radish slices (I felt so healthy!).

The desert container has: raspberries (in season cause this is California...), kiwi (behind the raspberries), cereal (Kashi's Honey Sunshine), cookie, and inside the blue strawberry container, choc chips.

Edited using picnik :) I really like the way it came out after the picnik edits. I don't want to use picnik to create something completely different, but I feel like using picnik tools shows the bento the way it looked in actual life, and shows the picture to its full potential.