Innie or Outie

Here’s another new chicken meal chocked full of herbs, Minty Ginger-Basil Chicken Dinner:

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This meal consisted of chicken in a mint, ginger, basil, walnut, soy sauce, white pepper, clove, and olive oil marinade on a bed of mushroom, leek, and garlic rice – garnished with a fresh basil sprig; accompanied with a small iceberg lettuce, cherry tomato, and black olive salad – drizzled with creamy cheese dressing and dried oregano flakes; and garnished with chopped fresh basil. Here’s a brief video with further details.

This is a simple and flavorful dish hubby created, Papa’s Chunky Asian-Flavor “Hamburger Helper”:

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For this dish, hubby used olive oil, hamburger, minced garlic paste, chunky carrot, onion, and bell pepper, fresh mushrooms, toubanjyan sauce, oyster sauce, corn starch, rice, and cracked black sesame seeds.

This is another of a local convenience store’s versions of bento with creamy chunky potato and sausage, omelette, pork luncheon meat, bean sprout and spam mix, deep-fried pork cutlet, rice, and pickled plum.

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Here’s another simple pasta meal that can be made in minutes, Basil-Tomato Sauce Pasta Dinner:

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The meal consisted of chopped red onion and spicy sausage sautéed in olive oil with canned diced tomatoes and sauce, minced garlic paste, soy sauce, white pepper, chopped fresh mushrooms, and fresh basil leaves added; then tossed with freshly cooked pasta. As an accompaniment, bleu cheese and black olive slices on whole wheat dinner roll slices. View a video with further details here.

This simple dish has a spicy twist, Papa’s Curried Fried-Rice Dinner:

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For the meal hubby used chopped canned oysters, shrimp, carrot, and onion sautéed in olive oil; then added curry powder, chicken broth granules, and precooked rice. Accompaning the dish was a small salad of iceberg lettuce, homegrown arugula and salad greens, sliced cherry tomatoes, and chopped chives; topped with a creamy cheese dressing; and sprinkled with bacon bits.

Hubby’s hooked and on a roll, Papa’s Snack Sandwich#3:

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This mini-sandwich version consisted of iceberg lettuce, cured bacon, sliced cherry tomato, red onion, cheddar cheese, and fresh basil on a whole wheat dinner roll slathered with mayonnaise and whole grain mustard.

Here’s another flavorful and simple meal from a variety of influences, Ginger-Almond Rice & Shrimp Wrap Dinner:

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The meal consisted of a shrimp sautéed in sesame oil with red onion, bell pepper, white pepper, red chili pepper flakes, minced ginger paste, and shikwasa juice mixture in a lettuce and miso-covered tortilla wrap; diced pickled-ginger and toasted almond rice; and soup of choice (in this case miso). A brief video with further details is available here.

Another tasty and simple creation by hubby, Papa’s Snack Sandwich#2:

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This creation consisted of iceburg lettuce, red onion slice, ham, and cheddar cheese on a whole wheat dinner roll slathered with a thin layer of whole grain mustard and mayonnaise, then topped with a Spanish olive.

This is a bento box from another local convenience store with seaweed, yakinoodle with ginger, boiled egg, gobo-carrot mix, dumpling, deep-fried fish, potoato croquette, mashed potato salad, ginger, pickled plum, and rice with black sesame seeds.

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Another of the local convenience store bento boxes with shrimp tenpura, mackerel, scrambled egg, kamaboko, veggie tenpura, hamburger, konyaku with seaweed, minced pork in wonton dumpling, pickled plum, and rice with black sesame seeds.

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