bento 170 – hello kitty and more

i have not made any hello kitty lately. this will be my first for year 2011. a simple bento for me! =) update: added this to shannon’s what’s for lunch post. these were the bento gadgets i used to make HK. my kids’s sammies with condensed milk, steamed chicken nuggets and mini taiwan sausages. note:  both kids complaint [...]

bento 164 – bunny and hello kitty

an express snack bento – butter and meat floss sammies with boiled cocktail sausages and quail eggs.  kiwi slices as fruit of the day! s’s bunny sandwich  and bear clown quail eggs. k’s hello kitty angel and flower sandwich. (k saw a sun here!) i pinned the sausages with ramen stick. i will be posting [...]

bento 148 – hello kitty clelebrates halloween

yeah, hello kitty in her lion suit celebrates halloween. this was my simple dinner bento of fried rice, edamame, carrots, tomatoes and kiwi. this is how i did it.  i missed out the mini flower plunger. used carrot, cheese, fish ball, and nori (seaweed). ‘edamame’ green spider with musical notes punch-out nori as legs. my beloved hk in [...]

bento 140 – quail eggs

today’s express bentos were all in one “bamboo steamed” – rice, sausages, fish cakes, broccoli, carrots and overnight dinner dishes. also boiled some quail eggs and added fruits of the day , gigantic strawberries and starfuit. this was s’s. mr bunny and bear quail eggs bento. k’s sweetie pie quail eggs bento and mommy’s? … hello [...]

bento 139 – pokemon eevee and hello kitty

s made a special charaben bento request. he wanted an aura pokemon called lucario! hmnn… this will probably need hours considering the colour and details involved! yes, if it is on a weekend, as a special project that we can do together. definitely not something i would want to attempt in the wee morning. =P he chose [...]

bento 134 – hello kitty and twin sister, mimi bento

m (my colleague), asked me to prepare a hello kitty bento for her niece who is celebrating her birthday today.  i am always in ‘ready mode’ to spread some, and more bento love!  like me, her niece is also a big hello kitty fan, i hope she will be pleasantly surprised and all smiles after receiving/eating [...]

bento 130 – hello kitty onigiri

this was my bento prepared and eaten 2 weeks ago. i was too lazy to post earlier since the kids were away, on holiday in their grand parents home.  i took this opportunity to watch  tv and just do nothing… hehe… in this bento – oyster mushroom chicken, stir fried tau kua with anchovies and spinach. the hello kitty bento box is a [...]

bento 124 – 3 in 1 day, banana cake, mini sammies and mooncakes

i wanted to bake banana cake last week and had barred anyone from eating that 3 remaining very large bananas for 3 days. hehe .. they were super ripe last thursday morning, so i skipped bento-ing to bake. my son agreed to buy ‘healthy’ food from the canteen on condition that i give him extra allowance. usually he’ll eat [...]

bento 109 – mousy ‘hotdogs’ and hello kitty, again!

i didnt make any bento this morning.  these were last friday’s which had lots of sausages or as we called at home, hot dogs. i was so inspired by alice’s bento fun – bear sausage tutorial, i wanted to try making one that morning.  i didnt have the plump and short sausages, just the normal long and thin ones.  the bear turned [...]

bento 105 – tiger and hippo omelette

this week’s theme will be healthy, light and balanced bento.  i will try not to use processed food this week, at least not the  cheese and ham! lol! my kids love eggs.  today’s express charaben – tiger and hippo omelette. my son said it looked like a bear.  probably because i used the mini teddy cutter (for [...]