Water Boils: Demystifying Brown Bagging

I know it’s been a while and I don’t yet have the energy to do the full bento post ritual, listing the ingredients and giving you the recipes; but hey at least I am brown bagging my lunch for the first time in months. This is particularly challenging because not only I moved to a much bigger city with way too many restaurants for me to try, but also my food budget has increased dramatically. The above meal didn’t even start with the idea of taking lunch to work, it was simply a rare homecooked dinner of pasta and roasted fennel. But suddenly it hit me. It was time to start lunchboxing.