Bento2016#Jun03~Snoopy/Jackie/Domokun/Chicks

30.05.16 (Monday)

• Snoopy: Rice (chicken floss underneath), freehand scissor cut out nori detailed.
• Mini Snoopy: Quail eggs, freehand scissor cut out nori detailed.
• Side dishes: Kiwi fruit, prawn gyoza, pea sprouts.

 31.05.16 (Tuesday)

• Jackie: Chicken katsu by using Jackie cookie cutter to cut out the shaped. Add on cheese and nori for the detailed. Punch out paw nori for extra touched.
• Side dishes: stir-fried okra, rice, orange (sprinkle sour plum on top), mayo.

 

01.06.16 (Wednesday)

 

• Domokun: Tofu skin and freehand penknife cut out the shaped. Add on crabstick for mouth and bouquet of flower. Punch out nori eyes using puncher.
• Side dishes: Rice, cauliflower, carrots, sweet sauce chicken drummet, kiwi fruits inside the egg case.

02.06.16 (Thursday)

 

• Chicks: Mashed potatoes, punch out nori detailed using puncher and carrots for beak/feathers
• Side dishes: Rice covered by pumpkin floss, curry chicken with potatoes, bok choy, carrots and orange slices.

 

Bento2016#Mar25~Easter Bunny/Pooh Bear/Chicks

 21.03.2016 Monday
Easter Mofy Bunny: Shaped the rice into head/ears/arms using cling wrap
Orange rice: Mixed rice with ketchup for ears and heart shaped mouth
Yellow quail egg: Turmeric juice
Blue quail egg: Blue pea flower extract
Purple quail egg: Mulberry juice
How to cut kiwi fruit: Please view the tutorial @foodbycherry IG that I've shared at IG
First arrange the Mofy head and silicon cup into the Monbento lunchbox. Filled up the rest with stir-fried french beans & carrots. Next arranged the ears and arms ^_^  
 

22.03.2016 Tuesday

Winnie the Pooh: Sunny side up egg. Please click HERE for the tutorial

Rice underneath the pea sprouts, button mushrooms and dark sweet sauce chicken dishes. 

Cut the oranges into bite size just to fit in the container and add on sour plum on top.

 

24.03.2016 Thursday

Mama hen: Mashed pumpkin mixed with rice

Baby chicks: Quail eggs soaked with turmeric juice

Side dishes: Broccoli, gyoza (chicken) and kiwi flower  

Bento2015#Apr24~Bento&Co Sandwich Bento 2015 Contest

Did you see the result from Bento&Co Sandwich Bento Contest at FB? My sandwich bento are among the 10 finalists! I was so excited to spot my sandwich at FB and couldn't believe it! This is my 3rd times to participate Bento&Co contest. Is a challenging and fun making whenever I decided to joined in the contest each year. 

So this year theme is about creating sandwich. If you follow my blog, I hardly make sandwiches bento for my daughter lunch. Pretty hard to think or create and the rules that Bento&Co looking for.... really need to do some homework on it! So this round, I focus on the sandwich. I love my sandwiches with eggs fillings so I get the idea of creating "EGGS" sandwiches ^_^ Different kind of eggs such as hard boiled eggs, century eggs and quail eggs! Yums! I toasted whole wheat bread and trim for the perfect sizes. Here's my sandwich ingredients:

•  6 pieces of whole wheat bread (toasted)
• 1 hard boiled egg (large and I use kampung egg)
• 1 century egg
• 2 quail eggs (for extra touch to make chicks)
• lettuce/tomatoes/cheese/mayonnaise
• orange and grapes as well cut out tomato rose for decoration

Not forgetting create some cute chicks but I focus on the sandwiches for taking photos. Because that's the main contest. Well, to create yellow quail egg simply soak at turmeric water and remember to stir. As for the other two-tone quail egg, I soak half and leave some white part. The dark brown color, I mix water and some black food colouring but after soaking the color wasn't black =_="

Arrange neatly for each sandwiches into the Monbento box and filled up the rest of the side dishes. Next, is the photo takings! I took countless shots.... really a lot and only can pick ONE for the contest. Oh gosh.... how I wish can submit more than one with different angles... hahaha....

Thank you for reading my posts and if you like my sandwich bento or view more delicious sandwiches bento from other finalists. Just click HERE to vote. Only one vote for per person and will end on April 27th (Monday). Thank you so much for your support and appreciate bottom of my heart. Hugs!

Congratulation to all 10 finalist and click HERE to view two winners ^_^ Super amazing!

Bento2014#Jul15~Chirp Chirp Chick

Count down!!! 3 more days towards my kids final term school long break ^_^ Getting lazy to make details kyaraben hahaha....today's quick and simple bento Chirp...chirp....chicks!!! Almost can't use the hard boiled egg while peel off the shell =_=" Part of the egg white not nice so I just trim it :D Luckily still presentable!

Here's the close up Chick not Kiiroitori cause Kiiroitori mouth different from here ^_^ Cold charcoal soba noodles (forgot to add the sauce into the picture). Put the half hard boiled egg (kampung egg) on top and decorate nori for details. The yellow lips made from fondants. Due to the orange yolk so didn't want to add carrot to made Kiiroitori so change idea made into Chick ^_^ Still cute right?

Side dishes contains: Broccoli, sweet corn, yam samosa, chicken seaweed wrap.

Simple and quick bento lunch! Have a nice Tuesday!

Bento2014#May20~Kiiroitori French Toast

It's Tuesday!!! Less food and light lunch for my kids. So I made french toast (wheat bread/eggs/sugar) and made kawaii Kiiroitori for my daughter only. What about my son? I just arrange it neatly into his lunchbox :D

Trim the french toast to fits in the lunchbox. Eyes/feet made from kambu and carrot for nose. I wanted to made flower egg so I tried out using quail egg to cook it :p To made sunny up egg view at my tutorial HERE. Same method but just using quail egg.

Kiiroitori cutter to cut out the watermelons and I cut out cucumber as leave as well ^_^ Small chick sauce container, I add one gummy for her :)

Simple and cute Kiiroitori French Toast for today's post. I hope you will like it! Happy Tuesday! 

Hello Kitty Chicks Dinner Foodart

Today I'm posting my last night dinner foodart for myself :D Haha....why not my daughter?? Because she can't wait to eat the drumettes!!! So she had her dinner plate first while I still shaping, cutting, pasting..... >_<"

Well, simple dinner dishes for my family. Just happen to came out the idea of HK dressed up as chick! Didn't do any sketches but just like that....haha...

Ingredients:

• Hello Kitty   : rice and use Hello Kitty nori puncher for details. Corn for nose
• Chicks          : mashed egg yolk mix with rice, orange capsicum for mouth
• Nest              : chicken floss
• Side dishes   : Marinate chicken drumettes with soy sauce & corn flour then airfry it. 
• Veggies         : Stir-fry french beans with fresh button mushroom & carrots. 
• Fruits           : Oranges & kiwi fruits

Bon-appetit! Hope you will enjoy reading my today's post and like it! Thank you so much ^_^

Kiiroitori Kyaraben Foodart

Just few more days.....it's New Year 2014!!! And I'm going to made one more final post for this year 2013 ^_^ Making dinner foodart since my kids still on school holiday but ending soon :D So what's for dinner? I made Kiiroiitori character ^_^ I tried to make it simple and arranged my cooking dishes onto the plate. 

I made one lovely female kiiroitori with huge pink bow on top :D And add few more kiiroitori eggsheet. 

• To made rice version kiiroitori: Mashed the eggyolk and mixed with rice.
• To made pink rice: Pink furikake mixed with rice
• To made small kiiroitori: Used kiiroitori cutter to cut out from eggsheet & add nori details.

At the mini pot, I add red bean and add one kiiroitori on top for the cuteness ^_^ What do you think? Will build up the appetite?? Hahaha....

Other side dishes, I just arrange the spinach, shimeji mushroom, eggsheet as flowers, cherry tomato and salmon tempura. Honestly, I have no idea to arrange the spinach vegies =_=" So end up looks weird or no theme at all.....hahaha.... Well, I do hope you will enjoy reading my post and like my Kiiroitori Foodart! Here I wish you all "Advance Happy New Year 2014"  

Bento#Nov21~Little Chicks Bento

I still have left over egg sheet so I thought of making design egg sheet. Just a simple design to make them into Little Chicks ^_^ Still can be improve as I only use one medium egg white for this design. Will try again for better result! So, today's lunch I cooked fried rice and cover with Little Chicks egg sheet. 

Little Chicks Egg Sheet:
First I use egg shape cutter to cut out my left over egg sheet. I cut out 4 chicks to fit in well into my bento box. Next, take an egg & just want the eggwhite to make this design. Mixed the eggwhite with some cornstarch/water and strain to a new bowl. Take a non-stick pan, pour the eggwhite mixture then lay the cut out oval egg shape on top.  Let it rest and make sure turn off the heat as you don't want the eggwhites over cooked :p
Final touch is to add nori for cute different expression. 

As for side dish I just add tamagoyaki, cherry tomato, ketchup (chick sauce container), fish cake, oranges, cucumber and apple as leaves.

Ta-da....simple lunch bento for today and I hope you will like it ^_^ Have a great day! Cheers!

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Bento#Nov14~Chicks Makisushi

Kids requested sushi for their lunch bento last night so I read through my Japanese sushi book for ideas. I found this chicks look pretty easy but too bad I'm not sure how to make the orange part for the chick mouth due to lack of ingredients =_=" End up I just rolled with rice and nori then after cut out the makisushi, I add orange capsicum on top to replaced. Hehe....did I passed?? Well, this is my 1st attempt so I need to practice more to make it better :)

Here is the closer look of my humble Chicks Makisushi. All together in the bento box have four makisush. Below is the details:

Yellow rice: Rice mix with yellow furikake
White rice: Rice as cracked shell
Craked "w" : Inari with nori
Orange part : Orange capsicum use round cutter to cut

Spend too long for making the chicks!! The only side dishes  I can managed was just adding some strawberry, lettuce, quail eggs (soak with turmeric powder water), ketchup (chick sauce cup) and hawflakes. Well, I hope you will like my today's post "Chicks Makisushi" ^_^ Cheers!
  
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Bento#Oct09~Totoro & Chick Bento

Today's lunch bento cooked Nissin Japanese Ramen (Instant Noodle) ^_^ I want to made My Neighbor Totoro theme bento only but I don't have the time to decorate the hard boiled egg as Totoro so end up I decorate as CHICK =_=" Oh well, my star chick still looks cute right?

Turn the cocktail sausages into Totoro. Cheese, nori and toasted spaghetti for all the Totoro details. Broccoli at the bottom and decorate with leaf picks for Totoro head ^_^

Cut the hard boiled egg into half. I did used the star shape egg mould to shape and the yolk turn out pretty well that I wanted to made Totoro as well but....not enough time so I turn it into pretty chick! Punch out the nori using puncher except the eye lashes ^_^

Well, I hope you will like today's lunch bento "Totoro & Chick" bento ^_^ Have a nice day to you all :)

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Bento#May20A~Penguins & Chicks Kyaraben

Today I'm going to show you making cute bento snack when running out of lettuce or kids don't eat lettuce at all or perhaps want to make simple bento ^_^ As you can see, I made cute Penguins & Chicks in this bento box. Mostly using silicon food cups and barans.

A closer look of the kyaraben. To made the bread into balls, just trim away the bread corners/skin. Add your children favourite fillings and wrap it using cling wrap. The yellow bread was corn bread and the Penguins, I used wheat bread or if you have white bread would be better ^_^ To made it look like penguin, just scissor cut the nori for penguin head. I spread some honey and used the cling wrap to wrap again. Leave it for few second before removing the cling wrap. Next, arrange the silicon food cups and put the penguins/chicks inside the food cups. Punch the nori eyes and add kamaboko for mouth or you can use sausage/carrots etc. I secured the mouth with spaghetti strips (if your children too young to take away the spaghetti strips, just spread jam/mayo etc.)

Inside the chick container, I add some raisins. Some grapes and haw flakes.

I hope you will like this simple bento snack! Cheers!

Bento#03~McDonald Hello Kitty

Too bad I can't collect the Hong Kong McDonald Hello Kitty :( So I suprised my daughter by making as bento for her school snack ^^ For making as duckling, you need corn bread or carrot bread. I took some step by step picture, hope you'll can understand.

The yellow blouse I did trim again (no picture) due to match the face & look balance.