Cat Catching Fish in Soup

The food art I'm sharing today is inspired by a Latte art I saw. :)


I made this last Wednesday, the date is shown in the calendar in the picture, lol. The cat is made from mashed potato and nori. It's actually very easy and fast to make this.


The fish swimming in the carrot soup are made from toasted bread.


This is another bowl of soup I made, does this cat looks like it's going to catch the fish? Lol.

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Cowardly Lion Hello Kitty

The MacDonalds here have just launched the Hello Kitty Fairy Tales collection around two weeks ago. Initially, I only intended to buy the Little Red Riding Hood Hello Kitty and witch Hello Kitty. However, the witch Hello Kitty can only be bought via McDelivery, so I ended up getting Cowardly Lion Hello Kitty as well. Still unsure if I should just get them all, this series is really kawaii but I know I will just chuck them aside eventually like what happened to my past collections. -_-


Here's the cute Cowardly Lion Hello Kitty plushie.


I made a similar version out of bread last Tuesday. :)


Some parts of the bread broke. -_-


And here's Hello Kitty packed in a bento. I intend to make Red Riding Hood Hello Kitty tomorrow. However, I still have a backlog of stuff to post, so I will probably share that next week. :)

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Mashed Potato Bear

I made Shepherd's Pie for dinner last Thursday. There are lots of different recipes to make this, but I'm sharing a recipe we like at the end of this post. :)


I made a bear out of mashed potatoes to decorate the pie. Simply mash potatoes and mix with a little butter and salt. Leave it to chill in the fridge before you start moulding.


Hope you have a relaxing weekend, just like this bear! :)

SHEPHERD'S PIE

Ingredients:
For the filling:
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, diced
300g minced beef
1 carrot, diced
1 can of tomato puree
200ml beef stock
sea salt and black pepper, to taste

For the topping:
600g potatoes, peeled and quartered
2 tbsp butter
sea salt and black pepper, to taste
50ml milk
100g shredded mozzarella

Method:

1. Boil potato in water till soft.
2. Drain potatoes, mash and season with butter, milk, salt and black pepper.
3. Heat up olive oil in pan, add onions and cook till soft.
4. Add minced beef, stir to break up lumps.
5. Add carrot, tomatoes and beef stock.
6. Simmer till the carrots are cooked, seasoned with sea salt and black pepper.
7. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
8. Spread meat mixture at the bottom of an oven proof baking dish.
9. Cover with mashed potatoes and sprinkle mozzarella on top.
10. Bake till cheese turns golden brown. 

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Panda & Cat on Soup

I did some fast decor on soup last week, with the help of CuteZcute. Cutters are really useful if you want to add some decor on your food fast. I am also sharing an easy carrot soup recipe at the end of the post. :)


Panda on carrot soup.


I cut out the wrap and toasted it, before placing it on soup.


This is cat and fish, on pumpkin soup.


The cat and fish are toasted bread. :) These are easy and fast to make, food art isn't always time consuming. :)

CARROT SOUP

Ingredients:
1 tbsp butter
1 onion, minced
4 cups chicken broth
6 large carrots, peeled and sliced
1 cup whipping cream
Salt and black pepper, to taste

Method:

1. Melt the butter in a soup pot over medium heat, add in onions and cook till limp.
2. Add broth and carrots.
3. Cover and bring to boil.
4. Reduce heat and simmer till carrots are soft.
5. Working in small batches, pour soup into blender and puree till smooth.
6. Return to the pan and add in whipping cream, stir over high heat. 
7. Season with salt and black pepper.

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Rilakkuma Bread & Soup

I don't know why, but I ended up just as busy during the School holidays. I guess it's because we are out longer everyday, so it's a mad rush for me once we reach home, as I've to cook dinner and clear housework. -_- The charabens I'm sharing today were done last week.


The butter rolls are filled with sausages. I'm happy that my boys will eat lettuce with their buns now. I should try filling their bentos with lettuce and hopefully they will eat it with rice too. :p


I grilled some honey baked wings for them too.


Rilakkuma ears are made of sausage and cheese. Korilakkuma and Kiiroitori are both made from hard boiled egg.


I made this sleeping Rilakkuma before the Vesak Day holiday. I was looking for a sleeping Rilakkuma graphic online and decided on this one. Coincidentally, 5AM Bento has done a similar version  as well, hers was done on bread and is much nicer than mine. :)


This was tomato soup, and Rilakkuma was cut out from wrap before toasting. :)

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Strawberry Sushi Cake

I received a pleasant surprise when I went to meet IT's teacher last week. Even though he did not meet my expectations for his two languages, he still managed to top the class with his overall results. :) He's really happy and motivated upon hearing this. :) He has always been very careless and has difficulty staying focused, but this time, after all the pep talk, I do see some improvement in this aspect recently. :) I hope that he will be able to keep it up. :)


I made these strawberry sushi cakes last Tuesday. The strawberries are made from mashed potatoes. I kept some of the mashed potato left after making the piggy on LT's birthday sushi cake. However, it was not a good idea to do that, the mashed potatoes were not as smooth after being kept a day in the fridge. :(


The pink portion of sushi rice is coloured with Sakura denbu. There was no side dishes at the time of photo taking, I wanted to get a shot of these before the sun set. So, I made these first before cooking dinner. -_-


Here's a fast ramen lunch I cooked for myself that day, with one of my favourite spicy chilli dip. :)

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