Thor & Iron Man Bento

Happy Mother's Day! We spent our Mother's Day at home. IT's exams start next week, so we spent our weekend revising at home. -_- Preparing the boys for exams has to be one of my least favourite part of parenting. IT's workload this year is crazy, they have so much homework to do everyday, I can't even give him much additional work or do much revision with him earlier.

I did not managed to make any Mother's Day themed bento this year, also missed out on Star Wars and Earth Day bentos as well, I did not plan in advance and ended up with no time to make them at the last minute.


I'm sharing another two Avengers themed bento. This bento is Thor.


This side dishes for this were cheese baked prawns, garlic asparagus and pork bulgogi.


To make Thor, I used rice (coloured using ketchup), egg sheet, cheese, nori and ham. I wrapped a slice of ham using aluminium foil for his helmet. I used The Laughing Cow cheese cube and asparagus for Thor's hammer.


This one is Iron Man, I used red bell pepper, cheese and nori to craft him, I placed the parts on top of rice.


The side dishes for this were broccoli, tamagoyaki, grilled wings and carrots. Iron man has got to be our favourite out of the four Avengers themed bentos, because......


......his mask is removable, lol.


The boys kept playing with his mask before they started eating. They said Tony Stark looks too funny. -_-


Here are the four Avengers themed bentos I made. Which one do you like? If you missed out my post on Captain America and Hulk, you can click HERE to check it out.


My flowers for this Mother's Day. My boys passed me a stalk of carnation and rose bought by my hubby. They said the carnation was from them and the rose was from hubby, lol. I did not get any Mother's Day cards on that day, because I told my boys to make them after the exams are over.


My Mother's Day cards from my boys, which they made after the exams.

Captain America & Hulk Bento

Have you watched the newly released Avengers: Age of Ultron yet? The boys want to watch, but we need to revise for IT's upcoming exams, so we'll probably wait till his exams are over. Hopefully the movie will still be screening by then.

 
Meanwhile, I thought I'll make them Avengers themed bentos first, lol. I started off with Captain America. I managed to dye ham blue using butterfly pea flower, which is also known as blue pea flower. I've been wanting to try it since my Mario bento last year, but did not test it out till now. I simply dyed the water blue using butterfly pea flower first, and then I used an almost white coloured ham and soaked it in the blue water. This slice of ham in the picture was soaked only for a while, I left another piece in there longer to test out and that piece turned out a darker shade.


Happy that it worked, I've used butterfly pea flower to colour my rice countless times, and have also tried it on noodles, egg white and kamaboko successfully. I've even used it to make blue bread way back in 2012, see this post HERE, I used the blue bread to make Cookie Monster.

I know some of you have feedback that you can't get hold of the flowers from where you stay, there's actually another good way to colour your rice blue naturally, use red cabbage. It works for egg white and kamaboko, but for cooking rice, you need to add a bit of baking soda before you use the water to cook the rice. I've not tried it on ham, I'll update when I do. :)


Captain America was made using rice, ham, cheese, red bell peppers and nori. The side dishes were garlic baked prawns, beef enoki rolls and broccoli.


The second bento I made was Hulk. He looks like he needs a hair cut, lol. -_-


The side dishes for this was salmon, sweet peas, baby carrots and cherry tomatoes.


Hulk was made using rice coloured with mashed peas. I used red cabbage for his pants and charcoal noodles for his hair. The charcoal noodles were the same batch as the ones I made for Harry Potter's hair much earlier. I divided some of the noodles into small packs and froze them at that time.