A bento (or o-bento) is a Japanese style lunch, usually defined by being rice based, with various small meats and vegetables and great effort is put into the presentation. Indeed, some of the ones from Japan can only be described as works of art.

But I’d never seen a Steampunk one – so I created one. Above you can see the cogs (which are cut from two different kinds of cold sausage) are lying on a bed of rice. The ‘holes’ in the cogs are made from little pieces of nori (that black seaweed paper you get around sushi).

Anyway, proof if it was needed that Steampunk can pop up anywhere – in clothing, films, and now food! Maybe you’d like to make some cog-burgers, or cog-cucumber salad? It can be as fun (and as nutricious) as you like (For more bento, please see the Bento-Lunch Community, or my LJ British Bento.)

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 8th, 2006 at 6:14 pm by Tinkergirl and is filed under Projects.