Bento 150 – mummies rice balls

coming sunday is halloween.  last few days to make halloween-theme bentos!  =)   for those who like me are not familiar with halloween celebration, click here to find out more. this was my first rice ball/onigiri. mummy onigiri mixed with hard boiled egg. k’s, a girlie version. included one girl ‘ghost’ bread egg onigiri, also my first [...]

bento 133 – bear cutter series; what has a short body, webbed digits, protruding eyes?

bear cutter series no – 5 .  let’s see, we had bear, dog, tiger, pig and now … croak! croak! ribbit…froggies. i cut bread with the bear cutter, then cut seaweed with a craft knife using the same cutter to trace the outline.  s didnt like cheese so i use nutella spread to stick nori on to bread. eyes [...]

bento 128 – doraemon and ms bearie

i made my first ‘xiao ding dang’ , i.e. doraemon! i was inspired by ai ping’s. mine was also tanned as i dont have blue food colouring.  i made sandwiches, and used the ‘crusted’ outer bread to get a different colour.   my dear boy cannot recognize him and guessed it was a mouse, a cat , a bunny, [...]

bento 120 – more with silicone moulds!

i used the same silicon moulds again. =) this time to cook an egg. i separated the egg white and yolk because i wanted yellow for the bear’s muzzle and middle part of the flower. i didnt whisk the egg, hoping for a smooth sheet (less air bubbles?). all went well, until i poured the egg yolk. lesson learnt here is that [...]

bento 103 – ham and cheese no more…

i think we had had ham and cheese sandwich overdose! today’s bento was rice and seaweed chicken for s and just seaweed chicken and apple for k. in this bento – star cut chicken ham, seaweed chicken and ‘rabbit’ apple.  the mini pig container had sweet soya sauce.  i love this stainless steel round container.  it’s size is [...]

bento 96 – pretty lambs

as mentioned in my previous post, i am going to prepare bento characters based on the ‘bento t-shirt’ for the next few days. today’s the lamb, and this is my interpretation. in this bento, i cooked the egg white and yolk and separately. used cloud and round (one big and small) cutters to make the lamb. [...]

bento 47 – hello kitty and mr mousy

For my dearest Mei Mei ! Hello kitty enough for her to last one month.. Haha.. Until my next bento, my next trip home. A case of hello kitty overdose!

bento 33 – friday is fruit day

Today is kids school fruit day. They are advised to bring one type of fruit to school each Friday. K mentioned that the teacher would give them a sticker if they do so. The collected stickers could be exchange for a gift. She wanted to bring the apple whole and not cut. I cut s’s [...]

bento 23 – catty and fishy

Made simple snacks, bread with nutella / milk, cut apple using Mickey cutters and m&ms.   I didn’t prepare mine as I have dinner with colleagues tonight, and didn’t want to carry the lunch box along. Partly also because I didn’t prepare yesterday and didn’t have time this morning. Plus I am super tired. I didn’t [...]