Bento2015#Mar31~Winnie the Pooh

Simple Tuesday lunch for today ^_^ I pan-fried roti prata (bought frozen pack) and cover with egg sheet on top to make Winnie the Pooh for decoration. Freehand scissor cut out the nori details for Pooh and add ketchup for cheeks :) Quick and easy steps :D
 

Some sugar inside Pooh sauce container, chicken drumette, grapes and Japanese cucumber as leave.
 

I hope you like today's quick and easy Winnie the Pooh bento. Have a lovely day!

Bento2015#Mar24~Hello Kitty Burger

Bought some Japanese Snow breads so I decided to make Hello Kitty Burger for her simple lunch ^_^ 
 

Here is the close up Hello Kitty burger. Freehand scissor cut out nori details and I add some mayonnaise before I stick onto the bread. Cut out strawberry as red bow and secure it with spaghetti. Ketchup for cheeks and nose make of egg.

Burger fillings contain egg, cheese, spam, lettuce and some mayonnaise. I add some grapes and strawberry Kitty for her desserts. Click HERE to view the youtube tutorial that I learned from :) But I use nori for Hello Kitty details instead of chocolate.

I hope you like today's simple Hello Kitty Burger bento. Have a nice day and thank you for reading.

Bento2015#Mar10~Hello Kitty Pancake

I always want to try out making design pancake after saw some talented friends at my Instagram. If you have instagram or FB do check out "Bellchan_cooking_bento" awesome creations! I add the FB link HERE ^_^ 
Since is Tuesday with less foods so I decided to have making pancakes but what an ugly Hello Kitty =_=" Gosh..... I make four pieces but end up only one presentable :p  I think the strawberry Kitty-chan much more prettier! Hahaha...

So long have not make this strawberry Hello Kitty with apple inside. If you have the semi-circle curve tools can easily scoop out the apple and strawberry. Just remove the strawberry then add the apple. Very easy! Lastly add in nori for the details.

As for Hello Kitty pancake, I'm sure some of you can see some tutorial from youtube how make. Just add some of the pancake mixture with cocoa powder. I pour the brown mixture to a sauce bottle so that I can draw out the design. Sorry that I don't have time to do the picture tutorial because all of my bento lunch did it early morning with limited time. No camera man to help me hahaha 

Anyway, I put some kaya jam at the sauce container for her to spread pancakes. Have a lovely day!

Ugly Caterpillar Steamed Bun

Opps....busy making this caterpillar steamed buns in the morning and I almost give up =_=" Followed the ingredients from the recipe books and still find the dough sticky and hard to roll....argh...afraid adding extra flour will cause the failure result....and yes I did add some and looks like baking not fun at all some times ^__^ Well, I'm lucky that I've 3 lovely people in my life will taste my failure steamed buns especially my sweet daughter said it still cute mummy!!

Here is the closer look of my ugly caterpillars ^_^ Is matcha flavours for green body and strawberry flavours for pink eyes/legs. Dark chocolate for the eyes!! 

Well, hope you like it and have a great weekend dear readers! Hugs!

Mantou anyone?? Piggy & Hello Kitty

It's Saturday and why I'm here writing on weekend? Well, just have the "good" mood doing some baking :p Yes, I'm the kind of follow my mood swing on baking...haha....so today I made simple piggy mantou and hello kitty mantou. My very 1st attempt making character design and still need lots of practice to make it better ^_^ Really admire those who can baked and cooked!

 Bought this recipe book quite some time but didn't make the effort of making it =_=" Love to flipped the pages but lack of motivation of doing it compare making bento :D

Here is my Piggy Mantou. The recipe book that I followed was supposely in pink colours for the nose and ears but I don't have the ingredients. So I did some changes by mixing cooked pumpkin for the orange colour.

I tried out making Hello Kitty Mantou as well and didn't turn out pretty :p Well, as long my kids love it and enjoy making together means a whole world to me ^_^ The whiskers I add chocolate rice before steam it and it melts nicely (surprised me) Eye balls were black candy (bought from bakery shop)

Ta-da....end of hard work for today!! Haha....not sure when will I gain back the "good" mood on baking :) Happy Weekend to all! 

Bento#Sept13~Pooh Bento Snack

Yay!! I love Friday and this weekend will be longer for us due to next Monday is a Public Holiday! I don't have to wake up early and kids can enjoy playing, watching, perhaps will go shopping together ^_^ So for today's bento snack, I transform the chicken floss wrap (bought from local bakery shop) into Winnie the Pooh character. I don't have to make lunch bento on Friday because kids school hour until late noon so usually will pick them up then had lunch together. 

Freehand scissor nori cut for Pooh face features and I use oval shape cutter to cut out the bread skin for Pooh's ears. To stick the nori, I add kaya spread or you can use jam or mayonnaise. Bear shape marshmallows, strawberry, grapes and strawberry kit-kat ^_^ I hope you will like today's simple snack and wish you all have a great weekend! Hugs!

Bento#Sept05~Let's be FRIENDS!

Today I'm sharing bento snack instead of lunch! This is today's bento school snack that I've made for my girl ^_^ After the school open, she met new friends! Especially a girl from Japan :) So this gave me an idea of making "Let's be Friends" bento snack! My girl joined in the fun with me as she wants to hand-on! 

Here is the bento tools I've used. Just need two different type of flavor cheese, nori seaweed, bread and your kids favourite jams!

Very simple bento snack! The only tricky part will be freehand scissor cut out the nori seaweed for hair :p I like freehand scissor!!! Hehehe.... Two friends with two different flavor that I spread chocolate & strawberry. Both cheese girls on top of the peanut butter sandwich with pretty flower wax paper. Some cherry tomato and matcha mochi! I hope you will like this simple ideas ^_^

「6種常備食材X媽媽愛的佳餚！」 Hippomum's recipe~Banana Bread pg.130

                               「6種常備食材X媽媽愛的佳餚！」第130-131页香蕉核桃面包 

Today I'm going to share my 2nd tried out from Hippomum's new recipe book. My mum gave me some ripened banana so instead of making the same old recipe I thought of Hippomum's new recipe book pg. 130-131 since all the ingredients I have except one but it turns out really yummy!
Frankly speaking I'm not good on baking but Hippomum's recipe looks simple and easy to learn ^_^ So when you've over ripened banana don't forgot you still can bake banana bread instead of banana cake! 

I add more banana as I don't want to waste it so for Hippomum's Banana Bread can just used spatula to mixed even you don't have electric mixer at home ^_^ Sound great right? I like it because less washing baking tools :p Haha!

Time to bake and my dry kitchen smell wonderful when almost done!!! Even my two kids can't wait for me to slice :) 

Ta-da....yummy delicious Banana Bread recipe by Hippomum. Many more awesome recipe to try out so go grab one copy or click the below picture for online purchase :)

                                                     「6種常備食材X媽媽愛的佳餚！」

Bento#July12~Lion Sandwiches Bento

Yesterday at Facebook saw Rie's Bento and Cooking fan page posted sandwiches bento. Very good ideas of using cling wrap to wrap the sandwich and tie with pretty ribbons. I'm sure most of you already well known her awesome bento works! So here is my kids school bento snack, inspired by Rie. I made "Lion Sandwiches" with eggs, mayonnaise, tomato and cucumber (balance of the salad at the side food cup). I used flower cutter (2 different sizes) to made the sandwiches after adding the egg salad. On top of the sandwich, I made "Lion" eggsheet, nori and smoked ham. I also add sweet pea for some green touch :)

Apricot and strawberry as well as the balance egg salad mayonnaise with honey cherr tomato roses and cucumber leaves ^_^

I hope you will this "Lion Sandwiches Bento" and I'm looking forward for the weekend ^_^ Yay....no morning wake up call etc.... Cheers!

Bento#July10~Froggy Bento Snack

Today is a Public Holiday so we all went out for window shopping and I bought some kuih lapis and sponge cake (lazy mummy) :p So here I made simple froggy bento snack for tomorrow school ^_^

Here are the bento cutters for making the froggy ^_^

 A closer look of the male froggy & female froggy :) Punch out the nori eyes and freehand cut out the holes and lashes. Cheese for mouth.

Honey cherry tomato with cute froggy picks ^_^ Apricot and strawberry for dessert and one box of raisin too! I hope you will like this simple cute froggy bento snack :) Cheers!

Bento#July08~Tooth Decay Bento Lunch

Today I'm going to follow Hippomum's 『你也可以輕鬆做的愛心便當75種』bento book. This is also part of the rules to enter her Facebook page month of July 2013 bento submission. Anyway, I liked ALL of Hippomum's bentos but this "Tooth Decay" bento attracted me to made because my daughter two days ago, her milk tooth dropped after she bites the fishball :D Well, is not her tooth decay but is her milk tooth!!! Seem that she still have pre-molars and molars to go =_="

Tooth made from fishballs, cheese, nori, crabstick and toasted spaghetti strips.
Candy made from carrot and crabstick that I freely knife cut.

Broccoli, cucumber, carrots, smoked ham as flower, chicken cutlet, apricot and cherry tomato. Underneath the tooth fishballs, I add rice with seasoning and cover with nori. The Tooth Decay idea comes from Hippomum's bento book. And many more awesome bentos recipes and ideas from the book if you can understand mandarin. But if you don't understand how to read, you still can understand her how she made her bento by looking at the pictures!! Just like I don't understand Japanese but still purchased Japanese bento books!!

Here is the looked of Hippomum's bento book and good news is there will be book two coming out soon!! Yay....going to grab one ^_^

Bento#July07~My Melody Bento Snack

It's happy Sunday and pretty hot weather =_=" I'm sure you all have a wonderful weekend! I made simple bento snack for tomorrow school snack ~My Melody~ Bought chiffon pandan cake so just arranged into bento box and add "My Melody" cheese/nori on top.

I traced My Melody image to tracing paper and scissor cut out together with nori. The lips nori used puncher to cut and as for the pink flower, I add crushed pink fondants. 

Some strawberry and apricot at the side. I hope you will like this super easy My Melody snack ^_^ Cheers!

Bento#July05~Minions Bento Snack

Opps.....I can't helped it :p Got to made Minions bento again after my hubby bought from
McDonald Minions 1st batch collections (Malaysia) yesterday ^_^ He didn't buy 3 sets of happy meals but just purchased the 3 Minions toys. Adorable right?? Haha..

Minion made from cheese and nori. Eyeballs made from bread and all freehand trim out the cheese (use toothpick) and cut out nori. To made Minion uniform, as usual I crushed blue fondants then add on the cheese. Tiny teeth used alphabet cutter to cut the cheese.

Side dishes: strawberry, grapes, apricot, honey cherry tomato and cucumber leaf. 

Today I hope can manage to purchase Despicable Me 2 movie tickets for evening shows because is Friday! Going to "Buy 1 Free 1" movie tickets by using Citibank credit card. So excited!!! 
I hope you will like this Minions Bento snack ^_^ Cheers! 

Bento#July01~Singing Bone Hello Kitty

Last week was the last McDonald Singing Bone Hello Kitty collection in Singapore!!! My sister and I didn't managed to collect the Ugly Duckling HK so this final piece HK my sister's hubby was so sweet that he drove in Singapore before midnight and queue to purchased ^_^ I am thankful to my brother in law ^_^ So here I made "Singing Bone Hello Kitty" sandwich for my daughter bento snack :) 

I traced out HK and scissor cut together with nori then add on top of the cheese. As you can see one of the bone was bigger due to I missed out and forgot to cut =_=" So I have to used toothpick to slowly trim out from the cheese. To made the ribbon, I used toothpick to trim out the cheese then add crushed pink fondants. Little black cat also followed the same step as HK method but paste on egg sheet.

The background of the houses and bat were freehand scissor cut out nori (lazy to trace so do it freely) Underneath I add tuna sandwich and add egg sheet on top. 

I hope you will like this "Singing Bone Hello Kitty" bento snack ^_^ Finally finished all 6 different Hello Kitty themes except two of them were made last year. If you missed out or like to see the rest of the McDonald Hello Kitty bentos. Please click the link below:

• Wizard Of Oz The Lion
  
• Mc Delivery Witch Hello Kitty
• Little Red Riding Hood
• The Frog Prince
• Ugly Duckling
• Singing Bone

Thank you so much for all the "LIKE" at my Facebook page or Instagram. You all were the BEST!
Here I shared my Singing Bone at the link below "What's For Lunch Wednesday" from BentoLunch.Net's blog! 
 

Bento#June24A~Monsters University

Last Friday brought my kids watched Monsters University so I thought of made one since it's been quite some times I'm lazy to made character snack :p Again I'm using Trudeau Fuel bento box for this snack since I need a square box. Just nice and fits well for both MU characters! Since is about university must have some study tools so the only picks I can find was crayon picks that was sponsored by Bento Berries. 

Mike Wazowski made from laughing cow cheese spread with crushed green fondants onto corn bread. 
Sulley Sullivan also made from laughing cow cheese spread with crushed blue fondants onto corn bread.
Both characters were two slices of corn bread with peanut butter but the top piece decorate into Mike & Sulley. 
Nori/seaweed for the details.

Some grapes and a pack of strawberry Kit-Kat. I hope you will like this simple ideas but waste little bit of time crushing those fondants. My family enjoyed the movie so much especially Mike Wazowski young age was totally CUTE!!!