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February 11, 2008

Chicken Lettuce Wraps (178)

I was driving in to work this morning when I heard the radio hosts I listen to talking about a "Hawaii Chair". As soon as I got to work I looked it up and it just about split my sides open watching it.



That is just too funny. I'm lucky I wasn't drinking water when I saw it.

Today's bento is almost entirely from Costco. As usual, the Costco chicken was a big part of the weekend meals and I chopped up a lot of the white meat this morning and made the lettuce wraps I've made before. This time I added some diced bell pepper into the mixture to give it more color and veggies.


The grape tomatoes, kiwi, blueberries, lettuce, chicken, bell peppers, and raspberries are all bought from Costco. The only thing messing up the all-Costconess of it is the two little carrot flowers. Dang those carrot flowers!! ^_^ Here's a blurry close-up:


I ate some of the blueberries Saturday and I dunno why but they taste like they have sand in the middle. I'm debating taking them back and telling them this and getting an exchange. I know they don't normally taste this way but I'll see if maybe I just had a few bad berries in the bunch I picked up to eat.

I finally got some real gardening done this weekend and cleaned up all my dead tomato plants. While I was pulling weeds I discovered that a stray tomato must have fallen to the ground and then had the seeds dispersed all over the yard because I found at least 10 tomato plants sprung up all over the place. Some had no leaves and I didn't understand why until I found the gigantor caterpillar on a nearby plant. The most bizzare discovery though, was the little pools of shrimps. My kids have little play pots and pans in the yard that have been collecting rain water and I was about to dump one out when I noticed there was a bunch of tiny little pink "things" in it. Upon further inspection, I found that they were actually dozens of tiny little itty bitty dead shrimps.

At first I thought maybe they were there because of the little container of seashells Baby Girl had left out, but then I found more little containers nowhere near the shells container that had MORE dead shrimps. It was very weird and quite stink.

The yard looks neater now and hopefully next week we can plant some edamame plants. :D

I noticed that a bunch of my earliest blog entries were using pictures from my Swapsonian domain, which I have basically given up hope on. I'm so pissed with Ipowerweb that I'm never using them again. I continue to pay for a broken domain and cannot get my files off the server. I wait forever on the phone and in chats and no one seems to know how to help me. Ipowerweb can SUCK IT! Anyway, I fixed the pics to use my Flickr ones.

5 comments:

Sherry said...

Just wanted to pipe in and say that I have been a long time "lurker" of your blog. I just love it and you crack me up. My mom is Korean and I love when you mention the Korean food - usually starts up a craving! Anyway, your bento looked so good today, I had to comment. Thanks for all the work you put into this blog. I think I need to go on a bento diet!

Pikko said...

Thanks so much for reading and for the nice comment! I'm the same way, I read or hear about Korean food and I just want to go get some, even if it's just a plate of veggies!

Anonymous said...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DHiqVygN-w0

You can actually change the speed, haha. Oh my... It's a work out staying on the chair.

Anonymous said...

I love your blog~ I think next week I'll to make your wraps.

Anonymous said...

Hawaii chair... o_O ROFL! I have to so stop watching these at work...

And for iPowerWeb, I wasn't happy with them either. After one year, I terminated and went to GoDaddy. They do have some quirks, but far less problems than iPowerWeb.