Owl Bento

 

Hello, how are you? Today it's so hard for me to wake up early, blame it on the long weekend I had. lol.

Today I make Owl Bento. The brown owl made from rice mixed with Indonesian sweet soy sauce. My daughter loves it very much, she usually eats it with sunny side up egg. The rest of dishes are bread crumb cream dory, flower egg ( must have item in the lunch box ), blanched broccoli, and baby corn. The owl's face detail are cheese and nori.

Have a nice day, everyone!

Koala and Racoon Bento

 

It's weekend already..Yeayy... I always happy when it comes to weekend, because I can relax and have more 'Me' time .

Today I'll post what I made today and yesterday. Today I make super simple koala bento for my daughter's lunch. I used boiled egg shaper to make the heart egg, cute isn't it? It comes with 4 shapes, but too bad I only have 3 shapes ( diamond, flower, and heart ). Instead of star, I have double heart. 

This is yesterday's bento. Yesterday I made Racoon, but some of my friends said it is Agent OSO. hihihi... 

Have a nice weekend, everyone!

Mickey Mouse Tsum-Tsum

 

Yesterday my friend invited me to play Disney Tsum Tsum, I fell in love with the Tsum-Tsum's chibi characters. So today I try to make Mickey Mouse. Just wait for another Tsum-Tsum characters.

Have a nice day!

Happy Family

 

Today's bento was requested by my daughter herself. Last night while we were watching TV, she asked me to make her white mommy chicken and yellow cute chicks for her lunch today. She told me to put boiled egg yolk for the yellow chicks. Gene doesn't lie, right? I think she will become an excellent bento artist in the future!

Rilakkuma is Here...

 

This bento was inspired by a Rilakkuma stuffed toy that I saw in one of the online shop here. First time I saw it, I fell in love with the cuteness of it, so I told myself to make the Rilakkuma as a bento. 

Here is my other Rilakkuma bento, this time I used rice molder which is goes with the cutter and puncher. It's so handy!

Here is the molder set that I used for the picture above.  You can find the details and buy it in Bento USA .

Have a nice weekend, everyone! See you on the next posts..

Bunny Parade

 

Hello, my friends! How are you?

Finally I can update my blog again after six months hiatus from bento-ing and blogging. I'm so happy I can be here again. I'm starting to do bento again for my daughter since June 2014 because she needs to bring snack and lunch box to her school. At first my hands was stiff, I forgot all the steps and bento tools that I have. Hehe.. But now, I'm starting to get used to them again and hopefully my hands and skill will get better and better again. I was so nervous on the first day making bento again, but I was happy when I found out that my daughter loves it and finished her snack.

I'm still struggling with the quality of my bento pictures because I took it around 5am and I'm doing it inside my kitchen with minimum lighting. Usually I use natural lighting for my pictures, so now I have to think ways to produce a good pictures with artificial lighting. So, please bear with me with the not so good pictures, because I'm still learning how to do photography with artificial lighting.

Well, here are my other Bunny Bento that I made previously. Have a nice day, friends!

Have an Oink Day!

I made this pancake for my daughter's after school snack time. She was surprised when she saw it.

I used pancake mix to make the pancake. The eyes are raisins and the tail I used chocolate spread. Simple yet cute!

Rilakkuma and Kiiritoiri Bento

Today's Bento is my Come Back Bento in 2014. Hopefully the spirit of Bento-ing will always stay with me. ^.^

Rilakkuma and Kiiritoiri Bento is my daughter's request, so thanks for the idea. The Rilakkuma made from plain rice mixed with sweet soy sauce and I hand mould it. The details for the face is seaweed and cheese. The cute little bird, Kiiritoiri made from Tamagoyaki and the details for the face is seaweed and carrot for the beak. Inside the box are chicken teriyaki, kani salad, blanch broccoli, zucchini, and pink fish sausage as a flowers.

I seldom to make bento nowadays, so it took longer time for me to make it. I forgot which cutter and puncher I should use. But the result is Ok for me and my daughter loves it when she found out. I'm a happy mom!

Merry Christmas

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday for my dear blogger friends, hopefully it's not too late! I supposed to post it yesterday, but the internet at my house was very slow and I don't know what happened with it.

Yesterday we celebrate our Christmas in Indonesian's ambassador house, they always have open house during Christmas every year. There were plenty of Indonesian food there and our tummy were pleased. :D

I managed to make Christmas cupcakes this year, cute aren't they? I got the idea from the internet and tried to make it by my own. The cupcake itself is Oreo Vanilla Cupcakes with Cookies and Cream Buttercream Frosting.

Hello Kitty Tang Yuan

Yesterday was Winter Solistice Festival and I remember that I made this cute Hello Kitty Tang Yuen before. 

In my country, Indonesia, Tang Yuan is called "Ronde". The ingredients are glutinous rice flour and water, if we want the tang yuan to be colorful, we can add a food coloring into the paste. Usually I put peanut paste inside it too. There are 2 kinds of soup for this tang yuan: clear soup and brownish soup. The clear soup is made from water, sugar, ginger with pandan leaves and brownish soup is made from palm sugar, water, ginger with pandan leaves. For me, both are good and suitable for the rainy and cold season.

I didn't manage to make tutorial for my Hello Kitty Tang Yuan, but I will post the tutorial soon!

Mun Tofu

Mun Tofu is one of our family’s favorite food. It’s a simple dish which is easy to cook and healthy also. Today I only used the ingredients which is available in my fridge, so it’s very simple. I bought the tofu in korean grocery store because the taste and texture is much better than the local tofu.

Here is my way to cook my Mun Tofu.

Mun Tofu

Ingredients:

4 cloves garlic, minced

3 cm ginger, smashed

1 Korean Tofu, cut cube

300 grams minced pork and chicken ( mixed )

3 spring onion

300 ml chicken broth

Oil

Sesame oil

Corn starch dissolve with water for thickening the soup

 Seasoning:

 2 tbsp fish sauce

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine

White pepper

Salt

Sugar

Direction

1. Marinate the pork and chicken with fish sauce and sauce for 20 minutes

2. Heat oil and sesame oil in the pan, saute minced garlic and smashed ginger until fragrant

3. Add the marinated pork and chicken, salt and pepper and saute until almost cooked

4. Add the chicken broth and boil it. Taste it.

5. If the taste already good, add dissolved corn starch until the soup is thickened

6. Add tofu and spring onion.

7. Add Chinese cooking wine right before you turn off the heat.