{"id":693,"date":"2010-03-22T19:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=693"},"modified":"2010-03-22T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:36:48","slug":"breakfast-bento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/22\/breakfast-bento\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Bento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Breakfast Bento by NoelFigart, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/noelfigart\/4454772629\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2798\/4454772629_09e3d5b4f7_m.jpg\" alt=\"Breakfast Bento\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>This is a breakfast bento I did\u00a0for tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m opening the gym, so I&#8217;ll be up very early.\u00a0 I also need to get in my weight training before I teach, so I won&#8217;t have a lot of time between that and getting to the place where I&#8217;m teaching a class.\u00a0 Sure, the class has pastries and stuff, but I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/nosdiet.com\/\">No-Sing<\/a> and I hate teaching on a sugar high.\u00a0 Hence the bento.<\/p>\n<p>The bento case is actually supposed to be an onigiri case.\u00a0 Yes, onigiri for breakfast is also pretty tasty, but I wanted eggs.\u00a0 So the lower case has two hard-boiled eggs and some grape tomatoes.\u00a0 The other half has some sliced kumquats, a cucumber slice divider, and some sliced strawberries.\u00a0 All in all, a nice breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that one couldn&#8217;t pack a meal that pays no attention to\u00a0aesthetics. \u00a0But I&#8217;ve always liked food to look kinda nifty. \u00a0When I was a Brownie scout, the handbook had a recipe that was basically a fruit salad in the shape of a clown. \u00a0I thought it was awesome. \u00a0 I used to make a fruit salad with an apple base, where the apple was scooped out and the salad served in the hollow of the apple. \u00a0(I probably haven&#8217;t made that in 30 years, Lord knows why&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>And as goofy as it sounds, an attractive meal is somehow more satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a breakfast bento I did\u00a0for tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m opening the gym, so I&#8217;ll be up very early.\u00a0 I also need to get in my weight training before I teach, so I won&#8217;t have a lot of time between that and getting to the place where I&#8217;m teaching a class.\u00a0 Sure, the class has pastries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/22\/breakfast-bento\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breakfast Bento&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bento","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}