Fruit Salad Bento, Chocolate Bread, and Black Forest Cake

I made up some fruit salad bentos today, since A had a half day and wanted a lighter meal than she'd had the rest of the week. During the weekend, I made up some delicious chocolate bread and a black foest cake, the first one for the sake of chocolate bread, the second for the sake of valentines day. If you're wondering how I'm blogging about the future, it's because I'm a lazy butt, so I post blogs with the date of whichever meal they correspond to, even if it takes me a few days to get around to pulling the photos off my camera and posting them.


Except this time, I forgot to take photos! surprise!


The fruit salad bento was made of cantaloupe, orange, grapes, cucumber slices, and something I forget.  It was tasty, but disappeard too fast to photograph.

Later, chocolate bread happened, which was great. Recipe:

make up a batch of bread dough, however you like. leave it for a final rise, and then kneed it with cocoa powder, rolling it out into as thin a sheet as you can bother too. For flakiest results, coat in cocoa, roll out, fold up, and repeat. Once you're done, spread a layer of chocolate chips or nutella all over, except the edges. Roll it up tightly, seal or fold in the edges, and bake in a 375-400F oven until it sounds hollow when tapped with a knife, probably 20-30 minutes. Chill it in the fridge if you've got the patience, because once it's cooled, the chocolate chips resolidify in sheets inside the bread, which is grand.

For valentines day (and every special occasion, really), we've established a black forest cake tradition. This time, the cake was drizzled with baileys liquour, and the whipped cream was heavily spiked with the stuff. It's delicious.

Oh, and I made up a huge batch of fried rice with pork/chicken/eggs and whatever veggies we had on hand, so that should be in most of the bentos next week. Yum yum yum.