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A creative use hubby came up with for leftover salad, Papa’s Asian-Style Pork and Chicken with Greens Medley:

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For this dish, hubby used sliced pork lightly sautéed in sesame oil, dried sliced garlic chips, minced ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, white pepper, chicken broth, chopped bok choy, rosemary, and leftover Hot & Tangy Mixed Greens with Chicken Salad served on a bed of rice and sprinkled with cracked toasted sesame seeds.

This is a tomatoless summer salad that combines several unexpected ingredients: Hot & Tangy Mixed Greens with Chicken Salad:

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The salad consisted of sliced Chinese cabbage, bok choy, watercress, carrots, and red onion, with diced red bell pepper, avocado, and boiled chicken tossed in a dressing of minced garlic, sesame oil, olive oil, red pepper flakes, garlic and chili sauce, coriander, oyster sauce, and lime juice. To complete the summertime meal, I served assorted cheeses with mini-croissants.

This option in the local convenience store bento boxes contained a myriad of edibles: mountain vegetables, seaweed, potatoes, potato croquette, chicken, hamburger, deep-freied pork luncheon meat in an herbed batter, deep-fried shrimp, hard-boiled egg, and rice sprinkled with herb.

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This a meal hubby put together using a sandwich consisting of egg salad, ham and cheese, and iceberg lettuce as the entrée. To accompany the sandwich hubby used red-pepper potato chips, dill pickles, cherry tomatoes, and cream of mushroom soup.

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This is a pastry being offered at a local convenience store.

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With alll the humidity, hubby was in the mood for something quick and simple, Papa’s Simple Fried Rice:

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In this version, hubby used seasame oil, spam (pork luncehon meat), red onion, garlic chives, soy sauce, white pepper, and rice.

This small bento from a local grocery store had rice, goya (bitter melon) chanpuru, chicken, and pickled ginger root.

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As a side dish to the goya chanpuru bento, hubby ate this Japanese “Fast Food” – Mozuku (a slightly slimy type of seaweed in a lemony-vinegar flavored juice).

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This is an easy way to have a cool meal during the hot summer days, Summer Salad:

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This tasty salad consisted of iceberg lettuce, arugula, Hubby’s salad greens, tuna, scampi, avocado, cherry tomatoes, bacon chunks, basil, parsley, oregano, lemon juice, white pepper, ared bell pepper topped with a creamy French dressing. To accompany the salad, we had assorted cheese wraps.

This local convenience store version of bento consisted of spaghetti, deep-fried shrimp with tartar sauce, hamburger, deep-fried chicken, a thin slice of pork, potato salad, corn niblets, and rice with toasted sesame seeds.

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This is a tasty treat from one of the local convenience stores.

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