what can you do with string cheese?

sweet and sour meatballs, onigiri

spinach and cheese quiche, tomato and cheese skewers, maple-roasted sweet potatoes

so it turns out that i'm not very good at taking pictures. sorrie ryan, i do not have sexy lighting. *tear*

however, shmantz enjoyed his bento 2day. he requested only furikake onigiri next time. so much for trying to be artistic. the meatball recipe is quite easy. i placed a single layer of meatballs into an 8x8 baking pan and added enuf water to just cover the bottom of the pan. i covered the pan with aluminum foil and put it in the toaster oven at 320° for 20 minutes (until it cooked through). in a sauce pan, i combined equal parts of pomegranate jelly and sweet chili sauce, and simmered the cooked meatballs in it for 15 minutes.

the maple-syrup sweet potatoes is from the food network. i did my best to cut down the recipe since i only used half of a small sweet potato instead of 2.5lbs. there is no rating on the website, so i asked shmantz to rate it.

me: on a scale of 1-5 stars, what would you rate the sweet potatoes?

shmantz: awesome.

me: o.O

for the tomato and cheese skewers, i wuz trying to think of something creative i could do with the string cheese. i cut one stick of string cheese into 8 long pieces. i tied 6 into knots and used those for the skewers, and diced up the rest to throw into the quiche. i'm not really impressed with the string cheese knots. if you have a creative suggestion on how to use string cheese, pleez share!

the quiche is quite easy. dice up four leaves of baby spinach. add spinach and diced string cheese to one beaten egg. add salt to taste. mix well. pour into a cupcake pan and bake in the toaster oven at 320° for 10 minutes, or until the egg is set. if you are not using all the cupcake slots in the pan, make sure to pour enuf water into each slot to cover the bottom of the pan (so you don't burn your pan). as you can see, i overcooked my quiche so it asploded. luckily, shmantz thought that wuz how it's supposed to look, and ate it happily.

bonus picture: bbq skewers!!! (the recipe made 26 skewers.)