Bento2015#Sep10~Keroppi Cha-Soba

Let's have Cha-soba for lunch ^_^ So which Sanrio character that is "Green"? Yes it is "Keroppi" :D All you have to do just prepare the dishes and arrange it neatly to make Keroppi character.

Other than cha-soba, I also mix some charcoal soba for extra touch :p Keroppi eyes make of hard boiled egg (white) and nori. Red cheeks make of crabstick.

 

For side dishes have pea sprouts, flower cheese sausage that you can click HERE for tutorial and mandarin oranges. Some soy sauce for the soba at the froggy sauce bottle.

I hope you like this simple Keroppi Bento ^_^ 

Flower Sausage Tutorial

I manage to snap few shots for the sausage step by step. This is using half of the sausage to create a flower. It also apply to whole sausage with the same step to create another flower patterns. Click HERE to visit my flower bento using whole sausage. For this half sausage, I follow the steps from one of the Japanese Sausage Book that I purchased during my Japan trips. To view the "Lion Bento" click HERE ^_^ 

 

• Boil the sausage and after cooked just cut into half.

 

• Use knife to cut each gap in 1cm or less. Is up to you and make sure the gap line not near to each other.

•  After you have cut the lines will look like the above photo.

• Turn into circle to get flower design. 

I shared the above tutorial at my Instagram. Hope you have fun making or you may check out this Japanese sausage book that can get it from Kinokuniya Bookstore. To view the book just visit my Flower Bento LINK.

Bento#Oct16~Flower Blooming Bento

Today's post will be "Flower Blooming Bento" Simple and quick bento that I don't have to cooked fried rice for this bento! The brown rice was cooked rice mixed with dark sweet sauce and furikake. I just made egg sheet and transform them to flower shapes. Arrange steamed okra as stem and small okra decorate it on top of chikuwa. Beautify them with insects food picks ^_^ And you can easily make a simple lunch bento for your little ones!

For side dishes, I add broccoli, sausage cut into heart shape and Figo brands fish paste ball. Finally add few animal/mushroom picks sponsored by Bento Berries ^_^ I hope you will like this simple lunch bento and have a nice Wednesday!

What I've used:

Bento#Sept23~Honey Bee with Happy Flower Bento

~Honey Bees Bento~

Today's lunch bento theme will be Honey Bee with Happy Flower Bento ^_^ I cooked egg fried rice from leftover rice. And boiled the quail eggs for decoration as flower! This is quite a simple bento lunch, just need to arrange the food for this theme.

Honey bee head cut out from cheese using circle cutter and body freely cut out using toothpick. Punch out nori for the face and scissor cut out the strips for bee body. Cucumber as leaves. Sausages for flower petals and quail egg as flower. Below picture will be the closer look of the Happy Flower!

Happy Flower Bento for my son ^_^ Both bento have the same flowers but my girl gets huge Honey Bees! I'm glad that my 12th years old son allowed me to add the flower face features ^_^ But the bee picks & flower picks after photo takings he removed it  =_=" Oh well....as long he brings homecooked bento to school I'm happy with it!

I hope you will like both of my bentos ^_^ Happy Monday!! Cheers!

What I've used:

Bento#June19~Flower Sausage Bento

Today's lunch suppose to made makisushi but it didn't turn out well so need to let them hide underneath the flower sausage ^_^ Haha....I felt like Plan A failed...still have Plan B!!!
I'm not the expert of making complicated sausage designed! Simple ones I know but this flower sausage idea was learned from a Japanese book. I add crabroll in the middle to cover the holes after turn the sausage into flower and secure with spaghetti strip. Next, I punch the nori for smiley face using puncher ^_^ Carrot as roses and sweet peas at the sides.

You may noticed that the close up flower sausage above photo without adding a ribbon pick :p I actually missed out until when I took some photos only realized! My daughter will likes it whenever making any character bento by adding the ribbon pick meaning is a GIRL ^_^ Well, I hope you will like this flower sausage bento lunch. I will try to do the tutorial photos when I'm free or if you can't wait....may just look out for the Japanese (all about Sausage designed) book at Kinokuniya Bookstore :) I bought the book during my Japan trips ^_^ Cheers! 

Latest update for readers who wants to know the book. I took a picture for your reference. Hope it helps ^_^ 

ISBN: 978-4-7572-1834-5

 

Bento#May10~Mother's Day Plum Flower Makisushi

This bento box is for Mother's Day theme bento. I made Plum Flower Makisushi for my lunch ^_^ I arranged all four makisushi to my new doll bento box that my dearest sister helped me bought from Osaka, Japan. Love it!

The orange rice made from mashed orange sweet potato mixed rice and rolled with nori. Made five rolled. The purple rice was mashed purple potato mixed rice and rolled with nori. Combined all of them into flower and pressed together. Next, add white rice to one piece of rectangle shape nori and add the ready flower sushi on top then rolled into makisushi. 

To cut the leave cucumber, I learn from youtube that shared by Rie's Bento Cooking Facebook page. Here is the link if you like to try out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJhn-4b3Hc& feature=youtu.be I add tamagoyaki, kiwi fruits, grapes, strawberry, kamaboko, cucumber as leave and cherry tomato as rose.

I hope you will like this Mother's Day Plum Flower Makisushi theme bento. Wish all wonderful mummies good health and have a great time with your loved ones! Cheers!

Here is my daughter's porridge that I cooked some minced sweet pork transform into Rilakkuma Kyaraben with a loving heart to cheer her up and get well soon. 

Bento#April25~Spring Flower Theme Bento

Today's lunch I made Spring Flower theme bento as I wanted to try out making rose flower from cherry tomato so I thought it will be great to have lots of FLOWER in today's lunch ^_^ When I do my decoration....seem that I add too much!! Hope you won't find it too complicated! Hehe....

I cooked macaroni pasta with cheese then pour to the bento box. I made two onigiri and put on top of the macaroni. To made the onigiri blossom flower, I used cutter to cut crabstick then arranged it on top. Add lettuce around the onigiri and finished all the decoration. To made the rose flower, I cut out cherry tomato skin then followed the circular movement to made. 

As for another container, I put the sweet corn into food cup then decorate it with open sweet pea and another rose tomato. Cut out kamaboko and also made tamagoyaki. I also add sausages but already covered by the tamagoyaki and kiwi slices.

I hope you will this Spring Flower Theme bento ^_^ Have a great day and I will post my Pasta bento later.