Friday 30 September 2011

Bunnies Bento

I wanted to make pink bunnies today, but I did not have enough pink coloring in the packet to color my batch of rice. So I thought I'll just use a bit of red, and they'll turn out pink. Disaster! That did not work and I ended up with unevenly colored orangy red rice. :( Duh, me and my 'genius' idea. :( I should have just left them white, coz I made one of them from bread and that turned out the nicest.

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IT's bento for recess, in the box are bread ball with pork floss, breadcrumbs coated meatballs, grapes and jellybeans.

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IT's lunch bento, in the box are rice, breadcrumbs coated meatballs, jellybeans and golden kiwi.

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LT's lunch bento, same items as IT's lunch.

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LT's bento for school, in the box are rice, breadcrumb coated meatballs, jellybeans and grapes.

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LT is bringing a bento to school today, so there 4 bentos for today. :)

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Mummy's having korean spicy squid and ham/cheese omelette. This spicy squid is a good alternative to sambal squid when I'm lazy to grind the spices. :P

Thursday 29 September 2011

Pikachu Onigiri Tutorial

This is a tutorial for the Pikachu bento I posted on Monday. Please note that I'm using mixed grain rice and cheese in this tutorial, instead of sushi rice and egg sheet. If you are doing it, I suggest you try with sushi rice instead, and make the onigiri smaller as cheese is thicker than egg sheet.

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First, shape your rice. You can use a rice mold if you have one.

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If you do not have a rice mold, you can use a cling wrap to shape the rice.

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Cut out a slice of seaweed to wrap round the rice.

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Use the seaweed as a guide to cut out a slice of cheese.

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Wrap them around your onigiris.

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Punch out 2 circles for Pikachu's cheeks. You can also use a straw to do this.

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Then, cut out 2 circles with a round cutter, this is for the pokemon ball. You'll understand in a while why I skipped to this step.

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Cut off abt 1/3 of the circle.

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And that's why I am doing the pokemon ball first, so they can be colored with Pikachu's cheeks. I use Wilton color mist for this, you can also rub on some red coloring. Then leave them in the fridge while you move on to the next step.

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I'm using the yellow puncher to get pikachu's mouth, and the green puncher to get his eyes.

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Punch out the nori and add them on the cheese.

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Assemble back the pokemon ball.

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Cut out a strip of nori and add on the ball.

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Using a straw, cut out a small circle for the pokemon ball. Sorry, I forgot to take a pic for the next step. You have to punch out a small circle from nori and add on the cheese circle.

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Cut out pikachu's ears using a toothpick. If you are using egg sheets, you can fold the egg sheet in half and use a scissor to cut it out instead.

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Add on the ears.

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Cut out some triangles from nori and add to the tips of Pikachu's ears. You can also cut some rice to add on his eyes. :))

Angry Birds Bento

For the bento today, I actually pre-cut the cheese yesterday evening, coz I was worried I might not have enough time to do up the bento this morning. And it was a great idea, because I finished up the bentos really fast this morning. :) I asked the boys to choose the angry birds they wanted, had to limit their choices though, coz I do not want to make so many of those birds. :P

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IT's bento, in the box are mix sandwiches(jam/ham/cheese/nutella), ngoh hiang and orange.

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LT's bento, same items as IT's, except he gets grapes, instead of orange.

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IT's bento, in the box are mix sandwiches and fishballs. Does it look like the angry bird guarding the eggs here? :)

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And that's their bentos for today. I only realised I forgot the "circle" on top of black bird's head, after I'm done with the bento. So I just left it, must remember to add in when I make next time.

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My lunch for today, in the box are chicken with baked beans and scallop/corn/asparagus in XO sauce.

Wednesday 28 September 2011

Doraemon Bento

If you remembered, I mentioned in an earlier post that I prepared egg sheets, as I am planning to make a Doraemon bento this week. But I did not use them today for my bento, my younger one does not fancy eggs and he keeps telling me not to use the egg sheets for his bento. :( So, I took out some cheese and colored them instead, and he's happy.

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IT's bento, with fried salmon drizzled with soy sauce and orange.

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LT's bento, with salmon and strawberries. He does not like orange.

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IT's bento for school, with peanut butter sammy, orange and grapes.

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The bentos I made today. :)

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My lunch for today is broccoli stir fried with beancurds and five spice meatballs. It's so good, I can just eat it on it's own. This is one of my favourite meatballs recipe, check it out at Rasa Malaysia.

Tuesday 27 September 2011

Hello Kitty/ Rilakkuma / Pikachu Bento

Hahaha, I know those 3 characters do not go together, but I've them all in my bento today. The reason is coz of the cutter I am using, I got it from Daiso. However, I can't take credit for this beautiful idea, I copied it from a Japanese site. :) I fell in love with it when I saw it quite sometime ago, and went to buy the cutter. But I was lazy to work on it till now. :)

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LT's bento, with ham/cheese sandwich, fried pork nuggets, golden kiwi, strawberries, blueberries.

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IT's bento, same items as above.

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IT's bento for recess, with nutella sandwich. If you noticed, I put a cap pick to make it Dear Daniel, instead of Hello Kitty. Hehe, I do not want him to get teased in school.

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A pic of their bentos this morning. :)

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And this is the cutter that I used.

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My lunchie for today, broccoli/oyster mushrooms stir fry and fried pork nuggets.

Items used in the bentos:

Monday 26 September 2011

Pikachu Bento

I finally dropped by Daiso last night, but there was nothing new at the bento section, so I did not buy anything from there. I ended up buying some pretty plates instead. :)

The bento for today is Pikachu, made out of egg sheets. I am planning to make Doreamon this week, so I made some blue/red/yellow egg sheets yesterday and kept them in the freezer. I was wondering what other characters I can make with the balanced egg sheets and Pikachu came to mind, so it's Pokemon theme bentos for today. :) The Pokemon ball is made out of cheese and nori, red portion was sprayed on with Wilton color mist.

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LT's bento, with furikake onigiris and nuggets. I put his fruits in another bowl, coz there was not enough space. I need a bigger lunch box!

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IT's bento, with furikake onigiris, nuggets and golden kiwi. There's a tear on the egg sheet. :(

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IT's bento for recess, with furikake onigiris and nuggets. I'm out of filler items, my fridge is quite empty, so I stuffed some wax paper at the side instead. :P

Friday 23 September 2011

Stitch Bento

IT's going on an excursion with his school today to Singapore Discovery Centre. He's really looking forward to the trip, I hope he will have fun there! :) We have never been there before, so we are waiting to fetch him, so that he can tell us all about the place. I packed a bigger bento for him for school today, as there will be no need for him to rush and finish his food so that he can play. I also gave him an extra box of biscuits to share with his friends. :)

Today Stitch theme was requested by LT, he saw Stitch preview on TV this week and he's been bugging me to make him a Stitch bento. I actually have the Stitch puncher set but I did not use them today, as I prefer a cuter version of Stitch. LT loves it, but IT says he wants a fierce looking Stitch. My boy, if I had known, I would have used the puncher and save myself the trouble. I will make a fierce Stitch the next time.

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IT's bento for school, in the box are chicken nuggets, ham/egg sandwich, orange and potato chips! :))

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LT's bento, to be eaten at home, in the box are jam sandwich, chicken nuggets, orange and potato chips.

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LT's bento for school, in the box are ham/cheese sandwich, chicken nuggets and grapes.

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IT's bento, to be eaten at home, in the box are ham/cheese sandwich, chicken nuggets and orange.

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My mapo tofo, with extra dose of szechuan peppercorns. :)

Happy weekends everyone! :)