Viva La BENTO!
No, I didn't make this BENTO lunchbox. BUT ... I'm on a mission to make one today! I love that there are whole communities dedicated to subjects I know literally nada about. Take the Bento Box. I think it's a Japanese thing. (Yes, I could google it, but it's way more fun to just guess. Besides, I don't need to KNOW everything, yanno? Ha.) Anyway, my point! I think the Bento Box is a type of box used for holding regular school lunches/work lunches? But if you spend any time searching "Bento Box" on Pinterest, I'm telling you, it's SO SO MUCH MORE! Now, I've made one before. About 3 years ago we did a panda rice Bento thingy for the kids' school lunches. I loved it. So much so, I photographed it. (How else Dave know that I'd painstakingly hand-crafted cheese and rice into random shapes?) I think the kids thought it was cool ... but I also think they were worried their mom was losing her marbles. (Which I was .....