Simple deco sushi for lunch ^_^ I make these pumpkin deco sushi for my daughter's Halloween theme bento lunch. It looks easy from the Japanese sushi book tutorial but when comes to hands-on =_=" Anyway, I don't have the fishcake for the mouth so I use Japanese cucumber instead :) Still look good right?
To make the rice orange in colour, I mix the rice with furikake or you may use ketchup :) Japanese cucumber for the eyes/nose/mouth. Wrap the cucumber with nori then only arrange to make into pumpkin.
For side dishes have potato cheese croquette, broccoli and chikuwa. Freehand scissor cut out the nori to make a bat and put on top of the cheese.
I hope you like this simple Pumpkin Deco Sushi.
One week school holidays break will be over soon and I'm happy kids back to school next week but the sad part is I got to wake up early =_=" Oh well, I made this girly bento for my last night dinner. Inspired by my dear friend Tata-chan from BonitaFood of her cute smiley curly girl bento using food picks as decoration at her Instagram account (click the highlight link to view). Think about it, I have quite a lot of picks just hiding inside the store cabinets :p
Here's the close up girl onigiri that I made two but the other one is hiding behind :D The front girl onigiri with blue bunny pick on top and I coated with chicken floss as hair and yellow fondant as nose. Punch out nori for the face features and I added red pick for ribbon.
Last night dishes for my family have stir-fried milk cabbage with squids and carrots, steamed minced pork with egg, spam meat that I used prawn cutter and lastly mushroom soup.
I hope you like this simple dinner food art. Happy Friday!
It's baking time since I have some orange sweet potatoes to make deco steamed pao ^_^ This round I make Rilakkuma using the same recipe but just add some cocoa powder for brown colour. To view the recipe can visit HERE my previous Winnie The Pooh Deco Steamed Buns.
I prepared the dough at late evening while cooking dinner for my family. Well, I'm happy that the dough rise up well and time to shape into Rilakkuma. On the other hand, my girl already helped me rolled the red beans into 12 balls each ball is 10g for the pao fillings. Each dough I use 40g for each ball and I make sure have balance dough to the ears ^_^
To make brown dough, I mix some cocoa powder to the natural dough. This took me quite some time to knead it until smooth. (*Sorry that I didn't use any measurement for the cocoa powder, all base on the brown colour that I prefer)
To make black detail simply add the natural dough with some charcoal powder and knead until smooth.
The balance black dough just nice to create Jiji Cat ^_^ While steaming, the pao skin not as smooth as the Rilakkuma =_="
I hope you will like this Rilakkuma Deco Steamed Buns. Happy Thursday!
This week will stayed at home with my kids due to their one week school mid term break but will drop by when office need me ^_^ I'm so lucky working with my dad if not I won't be able to take so many days leave =_="
Yesterday we had our lunch outside so today I just cook simple dishes to fill up their tummy :D I noticed have some orange sweet potatoes so why not steamed it and make some foodart. The balance mashed potatoes can make into deco steamed buns! Hope I'm not lazy later after update today's blog. Lol!
Here's the close up Hello Kitty on pumpkin made of mashed sweet potatoes. Freehand scissor cut out nori details for the black hat, black ribbon with bat and face features. Cheese to support the nori and Kitty-chan nose. Divide into three to make the pumpkin and add nori face details ^_^
Side dishes have pan-fried potato wedges, chicken star nuggets, baby cabbage with squids and lastly I add one packet of furikake to cover up the white background plate.
Hope you like it and have a lovely day!
Some thing cute for her lunch instead of continue making Halloween theme ^_^ This round I will make a brown bear that likes sea creatures (using food picks). It's easy to make your theme bento by adding few cute picks! Think about it, I hardly use lots of food picks for my bento nowadays.... unless is the ribbon picks :D
Here's the closer look of my brown bear make of rice onigiri coat with chicken floss. Nori for the details! Arrange the bear first then slowly cover up the rest of the dishes (baby cabbage, carrots, ginger chicken, quail eggs and grapes)
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I hope you like today's sharing and guess what? Next week is my kids school one week break not because of the bad haze but mid term break =_=" Anyway, I might have time spending on baking....hehehe.....
Happy Thursday!
My 2nd Halloween Bento for this year ^_^ Do you know which Japanese animated film from the bento above? I'm sure very easy right? It is from "Spirited Away" character called as "No-Face (Kaonashi)" and "Bou" (Yubaba's son that turn into a mouse).
Here's the close up characters. To create "No-Face" nori, you may draw on a baking paper first and trim out together with nori. I skip it by just freehand scissor cut out the nori :p Opps! Cheese for the No-Face with nori details as well ^_^ To create "Bou", simply mix the mashed potato with little bit of charcoal powder to make it grey. Finish off with nori details! Lastly, I add two "Sootballs" and I followed the picture from Google search image.
For side dishes have pandan chicken wraps, fishballs (bats nori on top) and grapes.
I hope you like my Spirited Away for Halloween Theme bento.
Have a great day and thank you for your visit!
Yay! Kids back to school today although the haze still bad this morning. I was at home on leave to stayed with my kids for the past two days (main job is to cook and make sure they don't just PLAY but revision). So what's for today lunch bento? I can't think of any idea but I want to try out playing with the mashed potato using the cream flower mould ^_^ (saw it at Snapdish)
Here's the close up Hello Kitty mashed potato. Underneath is rice with some chicken floss. Honestly, this is my first attempt using the cream flower mould for the potato and is not easy compare to icing cream =_=" I took quite some time to squeeze out the mashed potato because some flower shape not nice so I redo. Freehand scissor cut out the nori details for Hello Kitty, nose make of corn and crabstick for the red bow.
For side dishes have spinach, fish balls in Hello Kitty design and gyoza.
I hope you like today's sharing bento. Have a lovely day and hope the weather will be better.
