Pig Sushi Bento

I made pig out of sushi today. But before I go on to the bentos, I would like to share the boys' new bento bags from Trudeau.


The bento bags are sponsored by the very nice people from Trudeau Corp. It's called the Trudeau Fuel triangular lunch bag.


I like that it is insulated and closes and opens easily with velcro.


And the best part is that it comes with a wide base. This is important for transporting charabens, aka decorated lunchboxes. With a wide base, the lunchbox can lay flat in the lunch bag, which means a more likely chance for the decorations to be intact at lunch time. :)


Lunch today is sushi stuffed with fish sausage.


The boys also had slamon, veggie rolls and strawberries.


Sushi for them to bring to School.


They also had salmon and grapes.


Curry chicken for dinner last night. :)


Kept some of the curry from last night and cooked it with noodles for lunch today.

Items used for today's bentos:

Frog Bento

It's Monday again, so back to preparing bentos. So tired this morning though, another busy weekend last week. It's frog theme for today. :)


Frogs are coloured with deco furi and shaped with a bear cutter. :)


My fridge is out of fruits, forgot to get some over the weekends. They boys had onigiri, meat patties and veggie rolls for lunch.


Used Pandan bread for this, the pink portion is kamaboko. The sandwich is shaped with the Panda sandwich mould.


Managed to dig out 2 slices of pineapple from the fridge. -_- Jam filled bread, pineapples and meat patty for snack in School.

Items in today's bentos:

Meatball Bear Bento

Posting today's bentos a little late today. IT is off early for School, so I could not post at my usual timing. Taking the chance to post, while they are taking dinner and catching their favourite cartoon now. Then, we'll be off again to IT's School for Mid-Autumn celebrations.


Shaped meatballs into bears for today. :)


For lunch, they had pasta cooked aglio olio style, meatballs, broccoli, grapes and strawberries.


I packed pasta for their snack boxes too.


Bear holding onto candy. :)


Chicken carbonara for dinner on Wednesday. I wanted to share the recipe but had no time then, so am posting this today instead. Fast one dish meal, recipe below. :)

CHICKEN CARBONARA RECIPE

Ingredients: 
Serves 4
300g pasta of your preference (I'm using fettuccine here)
2 chicken breast
1 tbsp soya sauce
pinch of salt
1 tsp cornflour
2 tbsp minced garlic
1 egg
100ml heavy cooking cream
5 slices of bacon
half a broccoli
3 tbsp grated parmesan cheese

Method:

1. Slice chicken breast into small pieces, marinade with soya sauce, pinch of salt and cornflour. Leave aside for at least 10 minutes.
2. Chop broccoli into small pieces, blanch and set aside.
3. Cut bacon into small pieces, fry till brown.Set aside.
4. Add a little olive oil, when heated up, add garlic, stir fry for a while and add chicken pieces, stir fry till no longer pink. Dish out and set aside.
5. Whisk egg with cream and pinch of salt, set aside.
6. Cook pasta according to package instructions.
7. Once pasta is cooked, drain and keep around 1/3 of the water.
8. Add the cream mixture from step 5. Mix well. This has to be done once the pasta is cooked, the piping hot pasta will cook the egg.
9. Toss in the chicken, bacon and broccoli.

Items used for today's bentos:

Sausage Bunny Bento

Did you manage to find the bento treasure at the Pirate hop yesterday? Congrats, if you did and I hope you had fun along the way. :) You still have until Sunday midnight EST to enter the giveaway. Trust me, the treasure is worth the extra effort, you won't want to miss it. Hope over to my pirate post to do the hop if you have not. :)

The boys asked for cold soba for today, but I forgot to buy some yesterday, so I packed them some cold somen instead. :)


Made sausage bunnies to decorate the bento. :)


For lunch, I packed cold somen, grilled chicken, grapes and strawberries. They are having lunch at home, so I just kept the somen sauce in the fridge.


I packed their somen in thermal containers for School.


I also packed grilled chicken and grapes for them.

Items used for today's bentos:

Pirate Bento Hop and Giveaway

Ahoy, Mateys! It's "Talk Like A Pirate Day". I'm joining a pirate hop with my fellow bento bloggers and friends. This time, it's more exciting, because you get to collect map pieces and enter a giveaway to win attractive gift certificates which lets you purchase bento goodies. The map and details are at the end of the post. :)


Jmama has kindly sponsored these Pirate picks last month and I've been keeping them since they are just perfect for my Pirate bentos today. Please check out Jmama for other such toppers and picks. :)


Jmama also enclosed these pirate eye patches for the boys as well, thank you very much, the boys love them. :)


Pirate lunch I made today, the boys are made from brown rice and nori. And the map is made from cheese and nori.


They also had fried chicken, broccoli and strawberries for lunch.


Sausage monkeys in barrels for their snack boxes. :)


I packed sausage buns, fried chicken and grapes for them to bring to School. :)

Now, details on how to take get your URL to enter the giveaway. Every blog in the hop has a piece of the map to the bento booty treasure - a giveaway! As you go through the hop, collect the pieces and put them in the right order to find out where to enter! You'll probably need something to write with, because there are 39 blogs to visit, so 39 pieces to collect! 37 pieces will spell the URL, and 2 bonus pieces with words on them will get you 2 entries to win!

Copy down the letter and number on the map above.

Now go on to the next blog, collect the next letter and fill that in. You can click HERE to print the worksheet above.

Please click on the image above to go over to Biting the Hand that Feeds you and check out Ludicrous Mama's awesome Pirate bento. And just keep going from there till you collect all the 39 map pieces. Good luck in the Giveaway! :)