Bento#Feb05~Happy Family CNY Greetings!

Hope you all won't get bored of my CNY theme bento :p Today's lunch I cooked fried rice. Not much of ingredients as I don't have any vegetables left at my fridge only cucumber =_="

My daughter's lunch bento ^_^ Mother and daughter greetings! I'm not that expert can cut out the nori for "福" word. Too tiny!!! So I did some photoshop to add :D I steamed sweet potatoes and rolled as ball for mother and daughter face and hands. Freehand cut out nori for eyes, lashes, nose and hair. The lips used puncher to punch out. Some flower sausages and crab stick for fire crackers that I don't have the time to make it more nicer :)

This is for my son's lunch bento ^_^ Father and son greetings! Everything the same as sister bento but different faces :) Freehand cut the nori only for nose and son's eyebrow. The rest I used puncher to punch.

 

Some persimmon for dessert. Hope this festive CNY greetings will bring LUCK to you all and in good health too! Hugs & Cheers!

Bento#Feb04~CNY Wealth Of Flowering花开富贵

I'm making another CNY theme for snack bento~Wealth Of Flowering花开富贵~ As you can see the flower blooming!! Pretty right? I just used flower cutter mold that I've bought from 100 yens shop :)

Take one slice of bread (if used color bread even better). Take the flower cutter mold to cut out then I spread some strawberry chocolate and sprinkle some crushed pink fondant on top.

The second flower blooming in yellow and white colour. Same method, I cut out slice of white bread then cut out egg sheet for yellow colour. Combine the bread and egg sheet together by overlapping each other. You can used ham instead of egg sheet ^_^ Just have fun with the flower cutter!

Next, I put the alphabets "Wealth Of Flower" fondant on top of cheese and stick to the nori. Follow the flower shape and cut out the nori then put to toaster to toast a bit. Next, I add mandarin orange with leaf pick :)

Lastly, I added haw flakes, raisin and marshmallow to filled up the empty part. I hope you will like this simple CNY theme bento ^_^ Cheers! 

 This is flower cutter mold that I used for this bento ^_^

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Bento#Feb03~CNY Rilakkuma in Snake costume

Good Day everyone as Chinese New Year getting nearer!! I will try my best to design CNY theme bento for this week ^_^ Rilakkuma wears "Snake" costume as coming year will be "Snake". And my son born in Snake Year so he's kind of HAPPY that is his YEAR! Haha....

Rilakkuma made from Inari skin wrap cooked rice. Used puncher to punch the nori for eyes  and nose. Freehand cut the nori for mouth. The snake, I mixed green sprinkles food to cooked rice. Used cling wrap to wrap out the snake head shape and combine Rilakkuma together. Arranged to the bento box then only add snake body. Cut some crab stick for snake white body and add nori strips. Finally, filled up all the holes with sweet corn, sausages, crab stick as flower and edamame with picks. Also cut two persimmon as mandarin orange for CNY ^_^

Hope today's lunch bento, you will like it! Hugs & Cheers! 

Bento#Feb02~Piggy Sandwich & Pineapple Piggy Tart

Simple snack for my girl~Piggy Sandwich with homebaked pineapple tarts~
I did a tutorial post so if you would like to see, please click this LINK

Lovely piggy pineapple tart that I baked yesterday ^@^. Just nice for today's theme bento!! Adorable?? Hehe....

I made double piggy sandwiches with two different fillings inside. One of the sandwich was butter/kaya and the bottom one sandwich was chocolate/strawberry.

Some prunes and marshmallow. Simple and quick bento!! Hope you will like it too ^_^ Cheers!

Piggy Sandwich Mould Tutorial

 Hello, I'm going to showed you tutorial of piggy sandwich mould that I bought from 100 Yens Shop. 

This is piggy sandwich mould looked ^@^

Step 2: Put the white part to your bread.

Step 3: Cut out two pieces of bread.

Step 4: Add any fillings at one of the bread.

Step 5: Take the 2nd piece of bread cover the fillings.

Step 6: Put the blue pig mould on top then pressed.

Step 7: After pressed and removed the piggy from the moulds.

Step 8: Punch out nori with puncher for eyes.

Step 9: Nori eyes and as for the nose just freehand cut the nori.

Step 10: Stick the nori with some mayo/ketchup/jam/kaya etc...

Freehand cut the circle nori and nose.

You may add cheese on top or ham for pink nose ^@^

 Hope this tutorial can help out those just started to bento! Happy Bento-ing!!

CNY Pineapple Tarts!!!

It's Saturday!!! I'm going to do some baking since I've bought the pineapple paste (lazy to make so for convenient buy one packet) Well, my first time baking cookies so better starts busy!!! I don't have extra hands to take pictures so the photos all taken by my hubby :) Hugs! 

I choose my mother's recipe pastry as when I'm young, she used to baked lots of goodies!! Well, looks like passed on to me but I'm a bit lazy to baked :p Another things was the pastry not many ingredients just Flour/Butter/Eggs!!!

But if you like to see better photo tutorial can always go to this link: Mothering Corner   I followed the "piggy" tutorial shapes but used my mother's recipe pastry :) At the link is pretty easy to understand with the step by step pictures. Thumbs up for Mothering Corner blogs! I liked it so much ^_^

Looked at my two darlings helped me to rolled the pineapples paste!! Too big!!! It will be became giant tarts  =_=" Oh well....at least they both helped me out and enjoyed!! Hugs to them :)

My first badge of pineapple tarts that you can see some of the piggies really huge!! Haha.....those already eaten by my two darlings.....

Next coming up, I make smiley sun flower pineapple tarts :) DIY to do the flower as I only have flower cutter but the middle part, I need to used my fingers to pressed set in to fit the paste nicely and used small fork to poke surround. Gosh.....I should have buy the flower cutter for tarts! 

I did some snakes design but not as cute as pig >@< 

My young helper!! She helps me to put the fondants for eyes and pastry for the lips.

Ta-da....did I passed? Home baked pineapple tarts for my family ^_^ I made piggy tarts, smiley sunflower tarts, pineapple tarts and the traditional tarts. 

Salute to those who have been baking CNY cookies!!! Hours of baking but just few second can eats few tarts gone =_="

Hope you all have a great weekend!! 

Bento#Feb01~Gong Xi Fa Cai恭喜发财CNY Bento

Today's dinner I make Chinese New Year theme bento~Gong Xi Fa Cai~ Time to practice some CNY theme ideas!!! Since after cooked dinner for my family, I've the time to prepared this cute laughing girl holds mandarin orange :)

A closer looked for cute girl laughing until her eyes closed!! Once again, freehand scissor cut out nori for girl's eyes, eyebrows, nose, hair and mouth. As I'm making a bigger face girl so her eyes are much more easier to cut :) For her face and hands, I mixed some tomato ketchup with cooked rice then used cling wrap to wrap out. Crab stick for girl's dress and I added eggyolk sheet on top of the crab stick. As for her pretty hat, I added eggwhite sheet first then slowly decorate with cucumer for leaf, crabstick for flower and small patterns. Eggyolk sheet for the yellow parts :p I also wrap nori with rice to showed the braid hairstyle and scissor cut "X". After done the braids looked great! 

Cooked some ginger prawns  and bean curd soup. As the girl was the main character so I just add "CNY" picks and flags so won't be too complicated :)

What do you think of this cute girl? Hope you all will like her cheerful smiles ^_^

Here I wish you all have a wonderful coming weekends! Hugs!