raw egg bento

pasta salad, chard, broccoli croquette

beef and tomato mixed with panko and raw egg on rice

here is shmantz's first bento! i wuz very impressed with the presentation. do you like the use of the chard and green onions?

the pasta salad is just pasta, diced bell pepper and italian dressing to taste. i blanched the chard in salt water and squeezed out all the excess liquid. the broccoli croquette wuz another handy frozen filler on sale at shaw's.

now, here's where it gets interesting. the menu i left shmantz said "gyu yanagawa donburi". he called to ask which one, and i said, "the sliced beef with the egg swirled in. it's in the rectangular container." shmantz took this to mean, "the ground beef and tomato mix with panko and raw egg chunks. it's in the round container." so he ate the uncooked leftover filling that i used in the stuffed bell pepper. the verdict? "it wuz awesome!" good thing we use egg beaters so it's probably pasteurized. "even so, there's only like a 0.01% chance of getting salmonella. you can eat raw eggs," says shmantz.