The basketball rice ball

I was able to make a cute lunch box today, so the first is introduction of Today's Baon.

Today's Baon

• Basketball rice balls

• Karaage (Japanese bone less fried chicken)

• Boiled broccoli 

• Orange and tomato

The ingredients of basketballs are  ketchup and dried laver seaweed. The hot rice is mixed with ketchup and roll it into a ball. When you roll it into a ball, it is easier to use cling wrap. Cut a dried laver seaweed into thin strips and decorate it on the rice ball like basketball.

It's good for boy's lunch box! Try it!

Next up is how to store the green leaf lettuce.

The green-leaf lettuce is used for decoration of food also other than salad. The food becomes look more delicious by decoration of lettuce. The lettuce is ingredient essential for the Japanese style lunch box.

The lettuce is delicate and it often becomes stale when I buy it at supermarket. 

However, you can restore the lettuce's crispness and maintain freshness by proper treatment.

1. A wet paper towel put in the large size plastic container.

2. Wash the lettuce carefully and separate the lettuce.

3. Put the lettuce on the wet paper towel in the plastic container.

4. Cover with a wet paper towel and put plastic cover. Keep it in refrigerator.

After one to two hours, it is just right to delicious salad. For salad, it is also effective to keep the lettuce in cold water with ice after washing. 

You can keep freshness about a week in the refrigerator. You can use fresh lettuce anytime!