Dragonfly Bento Box: Gyoza, sunset

Friday, August 29, 2014

Gyoza, sunset

#339

We love Japanese food so much so that I learned how to cook it at home referencing Nami's receipe at Just One Cookbookook book and Makiko Itoh at The Just Bento Cookbook and Just Hungry. Japanese Gyoza dumplings are one of our favourite that I always made a large batch and freeze it. It was bento friendly too. Receipe is easy peasy lemon squeezy. Except preparation can be quite time consuming since I have to fold the dumpling skins. But it's worth making because it's really yummy. The lunchbox simply contains pan-fried gyoza, blanched shanghai green, a cheery tomato and some black grapes.

We used to be able see sunrise from our window because of the open spacious field we faced in front of our apartment. However, the spacious land had been planned for housing development by the government. After enjoying many years of gorgeous sunrise in the morning, the view now was blocked by high rise HDB ("Housing Development Board") apartments. I really miss it!

Lately, I just swopped my boy's soccer training session from Saturday mornings to Thursday evening. With the encouragement from my son, I started a healthy regime for myself by brisk walking round the artificial turf whilst my son was playing. As the sun sets in the evening, I spotted beautiful orange and pink hues across the sky. I wonder whether the students who stays in the dormitory bother to notice it. The pictures was taken at the same venue but look how different was the skyline!