Bento2016#May27~Gudetama/HelloKitty/Totoro/Mickey/Minnie

23.05.16 (Monday)

Gudetama

On Monday, I made Gudetama still sleeping Zzz.... because I'm on the sleepy mode too :D Gudetama made of hard boiled eggs and nori detailed. Side dishes have bacon, broccoli, carrots and plum. Simple and easy designed ^_^

24.05.16 (Tuesday)

Mickey & Minnie

On Tuesday, I made Disney Mickey & Minnie Mouse Tsum Tsum. Freehand scissor cut out both disney character nori detailed then shaped two big onigiri for heads and four smaller onigiri for ears. Inside onigiri with chicken floss fillings and side dishes have prawn gyoza, cheese tofu and spinach.

25.05.16 (Wednesday)

My Neighbor Totoro

On Wednesday, I made Totoro theme bento. First, I filled up the rice then add the cut out Totoro tofu skin (freehand scissor cut out Totoro). Next cover up the broccoli on top of the rice and lastly add on Totoro detailed. Side dishes have pan-fried fish fillet, potatoes wedges and fruits (apple/oranges/sour plum)

26.05.16 (Thursday)

Gudetama Hello Kitty

On Thursday, I combined Gudetama and Hello Kitty into one ^_^ Gudetama yellow rice made of hard boiled egg yolk mixed with rice. Kitty-chan just plain rice and nori detailed. As for side dishes have pea, carrots, hard boiled egg (1 slice), taiwanese sausage and plum.

Bento2016#May20~Miffy/Sanrio/SanX

16.05.16 (Monday)

Sleepy Miffy

When comes to Monday, I felt like sleepy mode each time :D Perhaps due to  the weekend no alarm buzz so I can sleep longer! So Monday bento, I made sleepy Miffy Zzz.... Miffy made out of rice. Just shaped them into three parts (face & ears) Arranged them into the lunch box and filled up the holes by adding okra and prawns. At another two small containers, I added tamagoyaki, fish rolls and oranges sprinkle sour plum on top.

17.05.16 (Tuesday)

Rilakkuma Hello Kitty

On Tuesday, I prepared Rilakkuma & Hello Kitty for my theme bento. I spend some time on cooking the aubergine and pan-fried the pork slices as well some rolled together with okra. Since after done cooking all the dishes, I left less time on shaping my theme so I just filled up the brown rice (dark sweet sauce mixed rice) and left some part of white rice for Hello Kitty. Freehand scissor cut out the nori detailed and cheese for nose. Easy right? Hope you like it!

18.05.16 (Wednesday)

San-x Meat Patties

 On Wednesday, I stir-fried bee hoon for my kids's lunch box. Every day rice will made them bored so I need do some changes :D Honestly, I'm not really good on cooking but I felt lucky that my kids will eat whatever I cooked for them. Stir-fried bee hoon was my first attempt and it turned out "thumbs up" after I got feedback from them when I picked them up after school. To made cute theme, I cooked meat patties and one patty melted cheese on top for my Kiiroitori and the patty just leave if as Rilakkuma. Punched out nori by using puncher and arranged the detailed. 

19.06.16 (Thursday)

Sanrio & San-x

On Thursday, I combined the Sanrio characters & San-x character into one bento box. This bento box can be found at Daiso store and just nice for me to create into different characters. As you can see from the above photo, I created each square box into Hellot Kitty, My Melody, Kerropi and lastly Rilakkuma as I can't think of which Sanrio character brown in color so ended I made Rilakkuma instead :D 

• Hello Kitty : Rice/Nori/Apple
• My Melody: Noodles/Carrot/Cheese/Nori/Tofu skin
• Kerropi: Broccoli/Cheese/Carrot/Nori/Apple
• Rillakuma: Rice at bottom then covered up with minced meat on top. Cheese and nori

 

 

Bento2016#May13~Panda/Snoopy/Sheep/Puppy

09.05.16 (Monday)

Panda cuddles

My belated Mother's Day bento "Mama Panda & Baby Pandas" I simply followed the panda lunch box cover design ^_^ Pretty easy by cutting the nori detailed and filled up all the rice. Baby pandas made out of quail eggs and nori detailed. This time I added red ribbon pick for female pandas :) As for side dishes have prawns and pea sprouts.

10.05.16 (Tuesday)

Peanuts Snoopy & Woodstock

On Tuesday, I made a quick and easy bento for Snoopy & Woodstock. As you can see from the above photo that Snoopy was made of rice (filled up all) Freehand scissor cut out nori detailed and Woodstock made out of egg sheet with nori detailed as well. I added some broccoli on top of Woodstock to let it stand out more better. At another container, I prepared one piece of chicken katsu cut into few bite size, broccoli, honey cherry tomato and some seedless grapes.

11.05.16 (Wednesday)

Sheep Bento

 Baa baa..... white sheep bento for my daughter's Wednesday lunch box. I mixed little bit of dark sweet sauce with rice for the sheep face/ears. The fur made out of cauliflower that I filled up on top of the rice. Freehand scissor cut out the nori detailed and how I wished my eyelashes can be as long as the sheep lashes :p Side dishes have gyoza, carrots and oranges.

12.05.16 (Thursday)

Puppies sausages

 On Thursday, I cooked simple stir-fried noodles for her lunch and add on sausages on top into puppies designed. Puppies ears made out of oval shaped fishballs and nori for all the face detailed. All the tiny flowers were cut out from the crabstick and side dishes have baby bok choy (chinese cabbage) and slices of orange

 

Bento2016#May06~Rilakkuma/Olaf/Kodomonohi

03.05.16 (Tuesday)

Rilakkuma Spam

On Tuesday I cooked some soba noodles for her lunch and deco the spam meat into Rilakkuma character ^_^ I used cookie cutter to cut out the Rilakkuma shaped and the detailed were cheese for ears, nori and the white part made of rice. Broccoli, carrots and grapes as side dishes. 

04.05.16 (Wednesday)

Olaf Bento

On Wednesday bento, I just followed the Olaf lunchbox cover for my girl's lunch ^_^ I didn't shaped the Olaf rice balls into firm shaped but just arranged it neatly and add-on the nori detailed. Freehand scissor cut out the nori details except the snowflakes (puncher) Carrot for Olaf nose and side dishes have cauliflower, sesame chicken, tamagoyaki and orange slices.

05.05.16 (Thursday)

Kodomo no Hi

On 5th May 2016,  I made Japan Children's Day bento since it's the actual day of the festival. It is a day set aside to respect children's personalities and to celebrate their happiness. This year I just made the carp streamer designed compared to my passed years bentos :p 

• Blue carp : Mashed potatoes and dap blue pea flower extract on top
• Yellow carp: Tamagoyaki and red part crabstick for fins
• Green carp: Broccoli

Underneath was rice and side dishes have pandan chicken wrap, quail eggs and grapes.