Eating in a box

I confess there's not really a good cohesive theme for this box. I just got two things of free food product and decided to just throw something yummy together. Above you see my attempt at creative swirling with the cream in the soup but it just looks like weird modern art. I need more practice. So part of being plugged into the food blog community I seem to get product samples a lot. By no means do they say, "hey you must shill for us" or obligate me to do so, but I figure it's nice if I find a product useful to put in a nice blurb at the very least, I like to let my bento eaters benefit as well. Kinda like the foodblogger events, I go, I write a nice entry about it. This is no different, but I figure it's important that I disclaimer that I did get free stuff, I'm using free stuff, and I've decided to write about the free stuff I got. I'm no professional so I'm in no obligation to disclose all this stuff, but I figure it shouldn't hurt to be up...

I'm back! I think life has settled a bit to allow me to return to some bento-ing. Today's bento started with some inspiration from my recent cruise vacation. My wife loved the various fruit based cold soups we had and wanted to share to yummy goodness. This spawned the idea of a light summer menu, nothing too flashy here just a nice respite from the harsh summer heat. We start off with a Cream of Strawberry soup. Very simple and delicious soup with a hint of sweetness. It's made as a copycat of the soup we had on board the ship. (they had other flavors too like blueberry, melon etc). I can only describe it like a less sweet lighter version of melted strawberry icecream. I know weird huh? The main entree was a baja fish taco/wrap. Self assembly required on this one some folks like a lot of green some folks don't. I used sable cod here a nice flaky white fish with a wonderful soft texture. I would have saved half the money by going with normal cod, but at the time there w...