Foodarts!

Last month, I made quite a few foodarts mainly for Little A's lunch / tea breaks during weekends. Little A is a girl with lots of imaginations and comments. She will comment every foodart or bento that I've made. Loves her comments always as it is so cute to me :)

1) Keroppi 

Little snacks for Little A tea break, bread with pandan kaya (coconut egg jam) and nori for the details. Served with a cup of homemade soy milk. 

2) My Melody, pink soba

Using pink soba to make My Melody, Little A's loves food in bite size which is easier for her to eat and she can finished the food very fast. So I made these small little My Melody for her lunch.

3) Totoro, deco steam cake 

First attempt on making the deco steamed cake, I tried out the recipe from Little Miss Bento .Loves her recipes very much, it is easy and yummy.

4) Rilakkuma and Friends, noodles

Using Mee Poh (thick noodles) to make these Rilakkuma and Korilakkuma. Scrambled eggs for Kiroitori. Again it is in bite size for Little A :)

5) Busy Bees

A toast art using quail eggs for the bees. I soaked the quail eggs in the turmeric water and the quail eggs turn to lovely yellow colour just nice for me to transform them into bees. Place them on the cheese and added nori for the details.

6)  Baby Pooh

Make another nori cutting, lazy me make the baby Pooh so big, easier for me to cut...lol!

7) Mini dumplings

This foodart is to celebrate Duanwu Festival / Dragon Boat Festival. On this day, we will eat glutinous rice dumpling. I don't know how to make the glutinous rice dumpling but I love to eat :P So I make my own version of  mini rice dumplings with different fillings.

Hope you enjoy my foodart! ^_^

Update, update, update! (Bento #125 ~ #132)

Have been so busy lately and I still have so many posts to update. I think I couldn't make it to post them one by one so now I'm gonna post all the bentos and foodart together in two posts. Very short cut huh?! Lol.

For this post, I'm gonna share all the bentos that I've made for the past few weeks :D

1) Little Tiger Cub!

The little cub is made from egg sheet, pink kamoboko for the nose, egg white and seaweeds for the rest.

2) Mr. Happy!

I remember this bento is specially made for Little A. She woke up and request to bring bento to school so I made a quick bento for her. She finished the whole bento.

Simple Mr. Happy is made from barbecue flavored cheddar cheese and seaweed.

3) Mother's Day Bento - Lucy and Snoopy
Snoopy : Flowers for me?

Lucy : Stop dreaming Snoopy! The flowers are for all wonderful moms out there! :D

4) Pooh and Piglet Onigiri

5) Little Girl Bento

Minced meat for the hair, egg sheet for face, imitation crabsticks for cheek and flower, seaweeds for the eyes and mouth. 

6) My Neighbor Totoro

7) Little A!

This little girl in the bento is Little A but when Little A saw the bento she said the girl doesn't looks like her because she does not have any eyebrows! Lol!

8) Pluto!

Bento for Little A!

Hope you like my bento creations. Will post another post for my food art! ^_^

Food Art ~ Totoro is reading?

Oh no, oh no, so sorry that I've been so long not updating my blog......have been busy with my work......I still have so many posts to update, hopefully can update all the posts as soon as possible. For latest bento, please follow me on my instagram, you can find the icon at the side of the blog :D

Today, I'm sharing the food art that I made on last month. April 23 is World Book Day and I made a reading Totoro for Big E. Big E laughed so happily when she saw the reading Totoro, I remembered she said "mummy I didn't know that Totoro knows how to read and he looks so hardworking! Lol!

Totoro is made of rice mixed with black sesame powder, add nori and cheese for the details and air-fried spaghetti strips for the whiskers. The book is made of carrot. Big E had yakitori and big red juicy strawberries for her meal.

Lunch ~ Totoro!

Sharing last Sunday dinner for Little A. She requested Totoro for her dinner. Ah! that is good, I love request where I do not need to crack my brain for ideas (but provided the request is within my capabilities, don't give me those which I do not know where to start! Lol!)

Totoro is rice with nori and cheese. Air-fried spaghetti for the whiskers. Dust bunnies are meatballs, nori and cheese.

We had carrot soup and air fried salmon for dinner.

Totoro is holding balloons! ^_^

Bento #71 ~ My Neighbor Totoro ~

Hmm....making Totoro again :P This was made on last Saturday for Little A's tea break. I've took some picture of the making process. Hope it helps for the beginner ^_^

Below is the tutorial:-

Here is the ingredients : Bread (I use carrot bread), nori, quail eggs, puncher, tweezer and scissors.

Place the bento box on the bread and press out the shape so that it fits into the bento box.

Add the fillings and place the bread in the bento box.

Cut the quail egg in to half and cut a V shape for the ear of the little Totoro. Add nori for the black eyes.

Use the cutter to cut the balance of the quail egg for the eyes of Big Totoro. You may use bigger size of straw for this. Add nori for the black eyes (forgot to take photo :P)

Use the same cutter, place on the cheese to press out the shape for the dust bunnies. 

Next, place the cheese on the nori and cut out the shape.

I use the balance quail eggs for the eyes (white part). You may replace it with cheese.

Use puncher to punch out the eyes (black part). You may free hand cut it out the shape too.

Arrange them in the bento box.

Free hand cut out the whiskers.

Finally, arrange all in the box. ^_^

Hope you'll like this simple tutorial :D

Bento #56 ~ Totoro and Friends ~

This bento was done on last Saturday for Big E and Little A's lunch. Big E bought a Totoro plush toy and she is so happy that request for a Totoro lunch. I was following the Totoro plush toy for the making of Totoro bento and didn't realise that the Totoro plush toy does not have whiskers. So end up my Totoro also no whiskers. Lol! I only realised after the photo shooting and it was too late cos they have start eating it @.@ Told Big E about the missing whiskers, luckily she reply "for me it looks the same, still looks like Totoro" 

I mix some sesame powder on the rice to make the color of Totoro. Eyes are cheese and nori. In another bento box, I use half of a hard boiled to make another white Totoro and wrapped the rice with nori for the dust bunny. Serve with fried chicken, carrot tamagoyaki and a bowl of hot vege fish soup.

And here is my Totoro without whiskers :P

And Big E's favourite Totoro plush toy :)