Bento2016#Jun10~WinnieThePooh/MyMelody/Totoro

07.06.16 (Tuesday)

• Winnie The Pooh: Yellow rice made out from hard boiled egg yolk mixed with rice. Freehand scissor cut out nori for Pooh detailed.
• Side dishes: Pea sprouts, shiitake mushroom, seaweed chicken wrap and apple.

08.06.16 (Wednesday)

• My Melody: Pink rice made out from Biogreen Pink Lady Oatmilk powder mixed with rice since I don't have sakura denbu at home ^_^ The pink colour turned out pretty well and I don't have to worried anymore whenever running out of ingredients. 
• Blue ribbon: Hard boiled egg soaked with blue pea flower extract (no time to soaked it longer so the blue turned out lighter) 
• Side dishes: Brocooli, chicken katsu, carrots cut into star shaped and some grapes.

09.06.16 (Thursday)

•  Chu Totoro: Pastel blue hard boiled egg soaked overnight with blue pea flower water
• Eyes: Cheese and nori
• Dishes: Organic noodles, carrots, prawn gyoza, milk cabbage and oranges (not shown) 

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#Apr22~Sanrio Character Bentos

18.04.16 (Monday)

Simple Gudetama designed made out of boiled quail eggs ^_^ I just trimmed out the opened quail eggs and lay on top of the rice. Freehand scissor out the nori detailed. For side dishes have stir-fried okra, pandan chicken wrap and some seedless grapes.

19.04.16 (Tuesday)

My girl requested for noodles. Luckily I bought some during the weekend :) To made My Melody, I used beetroot noodles for the pink touched and pumpkin noodles for the face.  It's pretty easy create if you have the My Melody lunchbox. Looks kawaii right? Freehand scissor cut out the nori detailed and nose made of sweet corn. Flowers crabstick on top of My Melody was cut out by using cookie cutter. As for side dishes have spinach, miso soup, chicken drummets and some oranges.

20.04.16 (Wednesday)

 Conitnued my noodles theme ^_^ This round I made Hello Kitty and as usual using the lunchbox by filled up the pumpkin noodles and nori detailed. Cut out the crabstick for the red bow and sweet corn for nose. As for side dishes have stir-fried veggies with shimeji mushroom, miso soup and chicken katsu.

21.04.16 (Thursday)

 Opps..... noodles theme again :D Do you like Cinnamoroll? Since I have the lunchbox and why not continued my Sanrio Noodle Themes bento ^_^ Frankly speaking I'm not happy with the blue touched and my girl why don't I put nori detailed? Oh well, perhaps next time! To made the blue touched, I mixed the rice with bluepea flower extract. Carrot for cheeks. As for side dishes have cauliflower and carrots flowers, shrimp gyoza and miso again (my girl loves miso soup for her noodles)

 

Bento2016#Feb19~Back to school bento

GongXiFaCai! Still in CNY moods and kids back to school this week ^_^ I'm back to my bento routine....yawn* Hopefully I can continue maintain my blog and one day when my kids grown up will bring back the sweet memories <3

Day 1: 15/2/16 (Monday)

Lots of PANDAS

After one week of bento break, I always will think of panda due to sleepy and dark circle :D So here I shaped the panda with cling wrap instead of using panda rice mould. Freehand scissor cut out the panda nori details and quite easy even though not using the panda rice mould set. Give it a try if you don't have any panda rice mould set. 

For side dishes have broccoli, half of the hard boiled egg (another half for my son's bento), panda chicken wrapped and some carrots. 

Day 2: 16/02/2016 (Tuesday)

Bear Mashed Potatoes

 I cooked some soba noodles (bought at organic store) that my girl requested. To make my bento cute, I added the mashed potatoes shaped as bear. Freehand scissor cut out the nori eyes and punched out the mouth detailed. Lastly, I added some cute food picks to let it stands out.

Day 3: 17/02/2016 (Wednesday)

Bonbonribbon Vs. My Melody

On this day I made Bonbon ribbon vs My Melody since my girl loves both of these Sanrio characters. Wonder which characters you like the most among these two? To made the rice pink, I added pink sakura denbu (bought local store that selling Japan goods). Immitation crabstick for the ribbon/flower. As for side dishes have drummets, pea sprouts and mashed potatoes (top coat with mayo and parsley flakes).

Day 4: 18/02/16 (Thursday)

Lots of HELLO KITTY

Bought another type of noodles from organic store. It's pumpkin noodles ^_^ This is simple designed and pretty easy to prepared. Hello Kitty face features made of kambu, carrots for flower and ribbon (I used hello kitty cutter). Some broccoli to made the divider, gyozas and tangerines with little touched up with nori :)

Bento2015#Dec02~My Melody Snowman

Christmas Theme bento continue and this round I got inspired by talented mother of two girls from Japan @Naocoisa Instagram or SnapDish her recent "My Melody Snowman" bento. Check out her Instagram account or SnapDish account for all of her amazing bentos and perhaps you might already followed her ^_^ 

Here's the close up My Melody Snowman. Underneath is stir-fried spinach with garlic and put My Melody on top. Crabstick for the scarf and snowflakes. I was in a hurry so just grab one of the eye pick (back view) from "BentoUSA" for My Melody hand since I need white color :D

As for side dishes have homecooked beef meat balls and some grapes. 

I hope you like this cute My Melody Snowman bento. 

Bento2015#Jun23~My Melody Bento

It's time for less food on every Tuesday so here I decided to use My Melody 3-tier lunch boxes. One of my daughter favourite lunch box especially with few container to open ^_^ She likes to have different container contain different dishes :D Seems fun for her!

The first container for the main character~My Melody~ I put the rice first then cover up with chicken floss then add My Melody on top. I use crabstick for My Melody and since the red part not enough so I filled up with ketchup ^_^ Freehand scissor cut out the eyelashes nori details and sweet corn for the nose.

The 2nd container contain fishballs, carrots, french beans and spring oinion egg roll pancake. 
The 3 rd container contain some grapes.

I hope you like this My Melody simple bento ^_^

Bento2015#Apr13~My Melody Mashed Potato

Kids request for fried rice so I cooked tomato egg fried rice ^_^ To create a theme, I use mashed potato to make My Melody as decoration since I'm using the Melody lunch box. I prefer to follow the lunch box character unless the box is plain then I will create other theme.
 

Arrange the tomato egg fried rice into the box first then add My Melody mashed potato on top. I mix some sakura denbu and little bit of ketchup together with the mashed potato to create pink touch. Shape it by using hands (wet hands) then add the original mashed potato as face. Punch out some nori eyes/mouth and cheese for nose. Lastly, I add some broccoli to brings out My Melody more stunning ^_^ 
 

For side dishes have broccoli, meat patties and oranges.
 

I hope you like this My Melody bento and pretty easy to create simple cartoon by using mashed potato. Have fun making when you've potatoes at home :)

Bento2015#Feb10~My Melody Pancake

Yay! Finally got My Melody pancake pan by the help from my schoolmate who works in Singapore. Felt so blessed that she helped me purchased whenever I need books from Kinokuniya Singapore. I collected during the weekend and my daughter can't wait for Tuesday to come! Hahaha.... it's Tuesday less food for her so I make one and is big! Luckily I have one bento lunchbox that can fits perfectly ^_^ 
 

Here's the close up My Melody Pancake ^_^ Pretty right? 
 

For side dishes have airfry honey drumette, grapes and some honey for the pancake. I hope you like today's post and happy Tuesday! 

Here's the My Melody book that you can get it from Kinokuniya Bookstores. It comes with a recipe book (in Japanese with pictures sadly I can't read =_=") and the pan.

Bento2014#Dec10~My Melody X-mas

My 3rd Christmas Theme bento ~My Melody X-mas~ This round My Melody wears the hat ^_^ Decorate the Christmas Tree and starts count down.....ho ho ho.....
 

Here's the close up My Melody X-mas ^_^ To made pink rice, I mixed the rice with sakura denbu. Shape it using cling wrap and freehand scissor cut out nori for eyes & of course eyeslashes! *Sparkling eyes*  Cheese for nose and crabstick for hat!
 

For side dishes have pea sprout, sweet pea/carrot as Christmas Tree, stir-fried potatoes and panda chicken wrap.

I hope you like My Melody X-mas Bento too! Happy Wednesday!

Bento2014#Aug27~My Melody Quail Eggs

Do you like My Melody? Today's lunch I cooked fried rice (egg & fishballs) and made My Melody from quail eggs. No time to add a bench for her (figurines as picture above) so I just let My Melody stands ^_^ Just a simple design and ideas from the figurines. 

Here is the closer looks of the quail eggs to transform into My Melody by just adding nori, cheese and tomato ketchup :) The body quail egg cover with veggie to look like a dress. Easy & quick right?

For side dish: Slices of oranges, mini grapes, chicken seaweed wrap.

Hope you like this My Melody theme bento. Happy Wednesday! 

Bento2014#Jun24~My Melody Inarizushi

Less food for today's lunch ^_^ I made inarizushi and shape My Melody kyaraben and rest on top of the inarizushi :) I don't have Mizkan sushi pink mix so I just use ketchup to mix the rice and use My Melody cookie cutter as mould to shape the outline. To avoid sticky, I use cling wrap and pressed the rice.

First, made the inarizushi then rest at the bottom. Next, shape My Melody then rest on top ^_^ Simple right? I add two mini rice balls for My Melody and decorate with ribbon & flower using crabstick and corns. I tried to capture both My Melody but I find it hard =_=" Cause it will blocked the image.....sigh....

I carved apple leave and also made apple roses ^_^ How to made? 

Just cut the apple half and slice thinly for the petals. Add all the apple slices and cover with water then let it boil until soft. Remove the apple and strain the water by putting on top of the kitchen towel. Next, take the smallest slice of apple to start making roses. 

The other half apple, I cut it to make it as leave. To see the tutorial can click HERE

Ta-da....can you spot the other smilling My Melody? That's the reason I can't capture nicely if close up =_=" Well, hope you like it! Happy Tuesday! 

Bento2014#Jun09~My Melody Obento

Do you like Sanrio My Melody? My daughter and I love it ^_^ I hardly make this character due to lack of pink furikake as well need to shape the ear compare to easy making Hello Kitty character :D So I search around to shop for Japanese food items at my local area and I manage to bought kamaboko! Yay!  There you go My Melody for today's lunch bento. Pretty easy by just using the My Melody cookie cutter to cut kamaboko as today's theme :)

Here's the close up look of My Melody kamaboko. I add the nori details and egg sheet as nose. Underneath is rice and cover up with minced meat. Insert ribbon pick for My Melody and holding a cupcake pick that my daughter choose ^_^

For side dishes: Chicken seaweed, tamagoyaki, spinach and cherry tomato as rose.

I hope you like this simple My Melody Obento lunch ^_^ Happy Monday!
 

Bento2014#Feb05~My Melody Valentine

After one week of CNY school breaks!!! Resting, eating, visiting and today back to school. Poor thing for my kids still on CNY holidays mood :D As for me.....hmm.....start to think of make some Valentine's Day theme bento. I asked my daughter which character she would like to see for her bento lunch? She wants "My Melody" so without a doubt, last night did a quick sketched and here is my simple My Melody Valentine's Day bento creation ^_^

I cooked shell pasta for today's lunch bento and covered with crabstick (white part) so that I can put My Melody made of cheese on top. I used My Melody cutter to cut out the cheese and spread Mizhan Sushi Pink on top :p I wanted to used the red part of crabstick for My Melody but in the other hand I want to brings out the red hearts to stand out.....so end up I spread the sushi pink on the cheese :) 

For side dishes: Sweet minced beef and broccoli with cute My Melody picks for deco ^_^ Add some red hearts (crabstick).

Tomato pasta sauce hiding underneath the blueberries with a small container and some mandarin oranges around it.

Ta-daa......Simple Happy Valentine's Day designed with cute My Melody full of  LOVE ^_^ I hope you will like today's post. Hugs!!! 


  

Bento2014#Jan16~My Melody Birthday

Do you like My Melody? Also do you know that My Melody birthday falls on 18th January? I don't know but since I saw it from the Google and decided to made an advance birthday bento for My Melody theme ^_^ Both Hello Kitty & My Melody Sanrio characters my daughter loved it so much and I prefer My Melody due to it's a rabbit!!! Haha....

Ingredients:

• Pink : Mixed the rice with Mizkan sushi pink
• White : Rice
• Eyes/Lip : Kombu
• Yellow : Sweet corn
• Red : Imitation crabstick

Ingredients:

• Green : Broccoli
• Yellow : Sweet corn
• Birthday cake : Fishcake, kombu, crabstick, corn for candle light 
• Brown : Minced beef
• My Melody sauce container : Mayonnaise
• Dessert : Small mandarin orange

I hope you will like my today's My Melody Birthday bento and good news for me that tomorrow is a Public Holiday!!! Woohoo....long weekend with more cleaning to do....hahaha....next week I should start making Chinese New Year bento creation!!! Lastly, Happy Birthday to My Melody <3