Can you tell? I missed my little window of sunlight :( It is definitely time to look at some lighting options.

I love potstickers (gyoza)! It’s been a while since we had them so I thought it was about time.

I made the filling a little different. I had the usual: ground beef, ginger, garlic, chopped green onion, soy sauce, and little mirin. But I also added some of those really fine clear noodles (the package doesn’t have any English and I can’t remember what they’re called, hahaha!). I really like the addition of the noodles, it broke up the meat chunks and added a good texture.



To go along with it I made some fried rice and attempted to make green beans. I had these gorgeous fresh green beans and decided to just heat them up in the oven with a little butter and salt (I like them super crunchy, not cooked, just a little warm). I checked on them when they were almost done, turned the oven off and made a mental note to take them out in about a minute or two. Half an hour later I opened the oven... Lets just say that they looked like they had aged 100 years, lol! All the water had been cooked out of them and they were dull green wrinkly sticks of bleh. That’s what I get for not just steaming them on the stove.

So, there isn’t any green in today’s bentos, *sigh*, but they are still really tasty. Hubs’ bento is the one in the Lunchbots Uno and mine is packed in the 3-tier sakura bento. They both contain potstickers, fried rice, orange slices, mango, and grape tomatoes.

There are only 2 more lunch days this week and I still haven’t made an Easter themed bento! I don’t even have any ideas... yet. I’m still waiting for the spark of inspiration. If you have an Easter themed bento and want to link to it in the comments I would LOVE to see it!!!

Happy Bento-ing!

Tags: bento, lunchbots, gyoza, fried rice