Bento #121 ~ Bunny, Bunny, Bunnies Everywhere

Late post again :P Too busy to write blog......Hopefully will have more time for myself.......

Sharing a bento which I made on last week. I made bunnies, it was my first Easter theme bento for this year.

Made three cute little onigiri bunnies, as usual, added nori for the details and cute picks for them too! Lastly add some color gel for their cheeks! Simple bento with air-fried salmon and tempura prawns. And not to forget to add some strawberries to complete the meal ^_^

Bento #119 ~ Snoopy and Friends

Today, I make Snoopy, Charlie Brown and his sister Sally. Initial planned, there is another Woodstock onigiri but due to the time is very rush I couldn't make it. So only three of them. Hopefully one day I can finish all the Peanuts characters in one bento box :D

The three characters are onigiri, so the Snoopy is round too...heheh. I mixed some light soy sauce in the rice for Charlie and Sally. Add nori for the details and chicken floss for Sally's hair.

In the bento, there are grilled salmon, honey soy sauce drumettes and strawberries. 

Bento #105 ~ Chinese New Year Bunny

Chinese New Year is around the corner and I've made a bunny taking two tangerines. Hmm.....looks like the bunny is going to 拜年 ^_^

Bunny is onigiri with nori for the details, cheese for the teeth and color gel for the cheeks. I've made a red hat for the bunny using tomato and cheese. The initial plan does not have the hat but after finished making I decided to add a hat for the bunny :P

In the bento, there are meatballs in teriyaki sauce, gyoza, fried beancurd and chikuwa.

Here is the bunny without the red hat, which one do you prefer? Hehe......

A closer look of the bunny......

I wish everyone here a Happy and Prosperous New Year! :D

Bento #102 ~ My Melody

Ah, Sanrio character again! Hehe......Today I've made My Melody's bento for Big E. My Melody is one of my favourite Sanrio character. Love her cuteness and sweet looks ^_^

My Melody is rice mixed with sakura denbu. The face is hanpen with nori and cheese for the details and the ribbon is imitation crabstick.

Today's menu, air-fried meatballs and strawberries. The air-fried meatballs are my girls all time favourite and I love to make this for my girls as I can add many different vegetables in the meatballs. 

The flowers are made from balance hanpen and imitation crabsticks using flower cutter.

Bento #100 ~ Cony and Moon from LINE

Wow, wow, wow! Happy New Year! Welcome 2014! How times flies today is the first anniversary for my blog. Hehehe..... First day of new year, Big E starts her school too, she is in Primary 5 this year. Weird to start school on the first day of new year but Big E is happy to go to school, she can't wait to meet her classmates ^_^

Today, I make Cony and Moon from LINE, Big E's favourite apps. As usual, hand molded the shape of onigiri. I wrapped teriyaki chicken fillet with mayo in the onigiri, which currently is Big E's favourite ways to eat onigiri :) Wordings are cheese on imitation crabsticks. In another box, I added in the balance teriyaki chicken with mayo in the container, baby bell pepper and grapes.

Bento #99 ~ Christmas Pandas ~

Today is Christmas Eve, yesterday I made this Christmas pandas for the girls. Simple and fast bento as the pandas are using rice mould to make with nori for the details. Using imitation crabsticks to make the hats and scarfs for the panda.

I'm using dim sum basket which I bought quite long ago. Love the feel! In the box, there are pork roll with mushroom in teriyaki sauce, tamagoyaki and blanched broccoli.

Have a Blessed Christmas! Cheers! :D

Bento #98 ~ Birthday Bento

Late post again :P This bento was specially made for my sister's birthday!

Last Friday, was my sister's birthday so I planned to make a birthday bento for her. Actually last year, I did make a birthday bento for her too....but too bad she was not in town and this surprise bento ends up gone to Big E's tummy...hehe. So this year, I make this birthday bento again and this round I make sure my sis is in town :D

I make a happy little girl holding a present. Big E asked me "Is this little girl me? I'm holding the present to give yiyi?" I replied "No, that's MUMMY holding the present" then Big E said "Mummy?? Mummy looks so cute?" LOL

Little girl is rice mixed with some ketchup. Hand moulded the shape. Hair is cheese and nori. The present is rice molded in cube added a cute flower pick and imitation crabsticks for the ribbon.

 A closer look of the little girl ^_^

 In another box, there are gyozas, fried meatballs, some tomaotoes and baby bell pepper.

Have a view of my last year birthday bento for my dearest sis! 

Bento #96 ~ Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer!

Another one month is Christmas! Christmas mood is on! ^_^ I love Christmas more than any other festivals. So I've started to make Christmas bento ^_^ This bento was last Sunday's dinner for the girls. I've made Rudolph the red nose reindeer.

Reindeer is made of rice wrapped in inari, cherry tomato for the nose, sausages for the antlers and ears, cheese and nori for the details.

A closer look of the reindeers......

In another box, there are teriyaki meatballs, corns, brocolli, strawberries and baby bell pepper that I love to eat. So that is meant for me :D I've carved a Christmas tree on the apple and add some cute reindeer picks in the box. Of course this two boxes of food is not enough for my girls, they have additional dishes for their dinner ^_^

Bento #95 ~ The Little Ladybug

Little A's story books always give me lots of inspirations. I love to transform these storybooks into bento especially those that Little A's currently reads, she will be very excited with all these storybook bento :)

As we currently are reading on The Grouchy Ladybug from Eric Carle, I've made this little ladybug for Little A's dinner. Little A always complain about the grouchy ladybug, so when I told her I'm going to make it for her dinner, she remind me to make the kind ladybug instead of the grouchy ladybug ..... :D

Ladybug is made of rice mixed with tomato sauce and nori. The antennae are uncooked spaghetti and corn. In the bento, there are honey soy chicken, air-fried meatballs, broccoli and sweet corns. All are Little A's favourites :)

Bento#94 ～ Happy Onigiri

Lately have been slow with my blogging.....:P This happy onigiri was made on last week for Big E and my niece. Simple Onigiri in inari with nori for the details. Decorating gel for the cheeks and add cute picks for them. In the bento, there are strawberries and air-fried meatballs, which is currently Big E favourite, she can have it everyday :)

Bento #88 ~ Cute Little Ghost

Hello, it's Monday again! Me is late again.....hahaha! I'm consider a "regular oversleeper" (*shy). But luckily not oversleep until my girl late for school but just late for my bento making. So today's bento is also a very rush bento, I only left 20 mins to complete everything from cooking to arranging. Phew! Luckily finished it on time :P

Today, I make a cute little ghost for Big E. Actually wanted to make more complex details for the ghost but no time for it so keep for next round. Hehe.....

Rice onigiri for the cute little ghost, with carrot for the hat, nori and imitation crabstick for the details, not to forget dabbing a little ketchup on the cheeks :)

Today's dishes we have Japanese Potato Salad and Potato Salad Pork Roll. Recipes from Just One Cookbook Love her recipes, it is easy and tasty and most important my kids love it! Do check it out her blog ^_^

And here is my cute little ghost :)

The Japanese Potato Salad that we love ^_^

Bento #87 ~ Halloween Bear

Hi, I'm back with my bento-ing! We had a great family trip to Macau / Hongkong and of course we will not missed out the kids favourite, Disneyland ^_^

Today's bento is my first Halloween bento of this year. Actually I've not plan to make any Halloween bento as we don't celebrate Halloween and the girls have not much interest on it. But this has changed after we are back from Disneyland. With all the Halloween theme in the park, the girls seems delighted to see it. I will post some of the photos that I've snapped in Disneyland at the bottom of this post.

Back to bento, I've make Halloween bear using rice mixed with colored furikake, sausage for the ear and nori for the details. The hat is made from nori and cheese. The bear is holding a pumpkin deco ring :)

 A closer look of the Halloween bear.......

In another box, there are gyoza and bread crumbed salmon decorate with some Halloween picks.

And here is some of the photos that I took in Disneyland, Hongkong.

Bento #83 ~ Miffy

Today's bento theme is Miffy, one of Big E's favourite! I love Miffy too, and it is quite simple to do as it does not have much details.

Miffy is made of onigiri, free hand moulded the shape. Add nori for the details and imitation crabstick for the dress.

In the bento, there are bread crumbed salmon, seafood beancurd and chikuwa.

Hope you like this Miffy too :D

Bento #82 ~ Little Red Riding Hood

This bento was Little A's dinner. Lately she loves to read the story of Little Red Riding Hood. So I made this theme for her. She was so happy when she saw the bento and immediately she ate up all the teeth of the wolf. She said "Mummy you see I ate all the teeth, the wolf cannot eat little red riding hood anymore! Lol! My cute Little A always full of imagination ^_^

Little red riding hood is made from rice onigiri, with nori and cheese for the details. I use red colour wax paper for the red hood. The sneaky fox is inari (beancurd skin) wrapped with braised chicken and potato. Some broccoli and sweet corns for her too.

Tutorial ~ Little Girl Onigiri

Today, I'm sharing the tutorial for the little girl with two piggytails that I've done for my niece on last week. Make it again for Little A's dinner with the help of Big E, saw her hands? Hehe...and she was so happy and told Little A that dinner was prepared by her. Lol!

Here is the tutorial:-

Ingredients : Rice, egg sheets, nori (seaweed), cling wrap, ketchup, spaghetti, picks, small scissors, tweezer and cheese (forgot to take photo) :P

Using cling wrap to wrap the rice ball, you can make whatever size that you like. Since this is for Little A, I'm making a smaller size of rice ball.

Place an egg sheet on the rice ball and fix the position using spaghetti.

Next, fold the egg sheet into half, using a knife to cut the egg sheet. Be careful, do not cut off the egg sheet.

Roll the egg sheet.

Using picks to fix the position of the egg sheet on the rice ball.

Cut out the details using small scissors and place them on the rice ball.

Cut two small circle from the cheese and place them on the eyes. Add the eyelashes too

 Lastly, dab some ketchup on the cheeks.

And here is the completed little girl onigiri ^_^

I transformed the little girl to a little princess by adding a crown pick for her and a black gown using nori. The black gown was inspired by Samantha Lee. Check it out her great ideas at http://www.leesamantha.com/ 

Bento #80 ~ Pretty Girl Bento

Today's bento is specially made for my niece. She is having her UPSR (Primary 6) exam today. The exam last for three days. Instead of exam theme bento, I made a pretty girl with two pigtails for my pretty niece. And I added a small victory hand sign pick for her to encourage her :)

Pretty girl is made of onigiri, egg sheet for the hair and pigtails, nori and cheese for the details. And lastly dabbed some ketchup for the cheeks. I made this pretty girl before in bread version. Click here to see the bento.

In the bento, there are gyozas, seafood beancurds, chikuwa, sausages and grapes.

Good luck dear! ^_^

Bento #75 ~ Little Bunny for My Little Girl ~

This was done on last Saturday for Little A's dinner inspired by Big E new phone casing :) She bought a new phone casing with a big bunny behind the casing. The bunny is so cute that Little A told me that she wants it too. Hmm.....so make one cute bunny for her and she was so happy with it.

Bunny is made of rice, hand molded the shape with fish sausage, cheese and nori for the details. I added a basket of vege and carrots for her. Basket is made of fried pork wrapped with egg sheets and nori for the details. Decorate with some blanched broccoli and carrots.

Little A said "Mummy, I love the bunny and the big carrot!" Basket become carrot?! Hahaha :D

Bento #74 ~ Three Little Bears ~

This bento was done on Monday for Little A. Rules for Little A's bento got to be simple with all favourite foods and her choices are not much....bread with jam / cheese and fruits >.< 

I made three cute little bears for her. Bears are made of bread skin. I use the cutter to cut out the shape and add nori for the details. Lastly decorate with cute picks. 

Show Little A the bento before she left for school. She asked "mummy, where is the Goldilock?" Oh no, she thought I'm making Goldilock and the Three Bears! No choice, end up I replied "Goldilock has run away when she saw the bears! Lol! :P

Bento #73 ~ Anpanman Onigiri

I've not tried to make Anpanman before. Hmm.....this is my first time. In fact, I've bought a set of Anpanman cutters for quite some times but till now I've not use it before :P Shall use the cutter and make some sandwiches for Little A :)  

I made three different expressions of Anpanman....no, no, no, should be four, the smaller size is made of fishball. Anpanman are rice onigiri mixed with some ketchup. Details are imitation crabstick and nori.

In another bento box, there are air-fried belly pork roll with seaweed, Fuzhou fishballs and grapes.

A closer look of the Anpanman ^_^

 And the cute little Anpanman :D

Bento #72 ~ Mama Hen and the Little Chicks

Start school again and start bento-ing again. The kids had a very enjoyable holidays. But for me is more tired than school time....hahaha.

Today's sharing is what I made on last Saturday for Little A's dinner. Happy mama hen and the little chicks :)
Mama hen is made of hard-boiled egg with imitation crabsticks for the apron, corn for the mouth and nori for the eyes. The wings are also slice of hard-boiled eggs. Baby chicks are rice mixed with mashed egg yolk. Details are nori and dabbed some ketchup for the cheeks.

In the bento, there are air-fried belly pork roll with seaweed, broccolli and grapes.