Boxes of Love

Bento # 3 ~Mix and Match~

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:23:33 GMT

My 3rd bento made on 13 July 2006 (Thursday)

~Description~
x_Main Course_x

1. Mix and Match Bento
Left: 3 chicken nuggets at the base, 5 pork ball flowers with Thai baby cucumber slices as bases and 2 crab sticks as borders. A roll of roasted peanuts on the left. Broccoli forest on the most top right corner. 2 food sticks comprising of sausages, crabstick, baby corn and cucumber.
Right: Low GI rice, baby cucumber, baby corn and ladies' finger slices.

2. Instant Japanese Curry

3. Orange Juice (Packet)

x_Teatime_x
Bread Cakes
2 Burger Bread cut into 4 slices with ham, cheese and butter inside,mini sugared biscuits as topping.

*Time Taken*
3 1/2 hours
(1/2 hour for bread cakes, 2 hours for cooking, 1 hour for designing)

*Memo*
I call this bento Mix and Match because I just cooked all the food with not much design in mind and then just try to design it later. Quite an ad hoc effort.Bento made from left over food again. I don't really like how this bento turned out._. the colours are really dull. guess, i better gambate next time ne! haha.

Bento # 2 ~Flower Power~

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:56:19 GMT

Yay! My second bento made on 11 July 2006 (Tuesday)

~Description~

x_Main Course_x
1. Flower Power Bento
Top: Broccoli and 4 sausage flowers, 3 prawns, half an egg, Tempura fish, 3 fish fingers hidden under 4 slices of Thai baby cucumber, baby corn, mixed peas
Bottom: Low GI rice, potato and carrot flowers, ladies' finger for leaves

2. Potato and Carrot Salad
Left over potato and carrot from the bento cut into small cubes and mixed with butter, lettuce on top. (haha, this tastes really horrible, so don't even try it. I merely experimented on it)

3. Apple and Aloe Vera Fruit Juice (Packet)

x_Teatime_x
Mini Bread Swiss Roll
Gardenia wholemeal and white bread made into rolls with ham, cheese and butter.

*Time Taken*
4 hours in total
(1 hour for making bread roll, 3 hours for making the bento and salad)

*Memo*
This bento is made from the left over food (tons of them) bought for the first. Bento is designed on the spot but i pretty much love how it turned out. ^^ yays!

Bento # 1 ~Strawberry Yuki Mouse~

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:41 GMT

Minna-san Konnichiwa!

In my first post, I shall post my first ever bento made on 10 JULY 2006 (Monday) ^^

~Description~

x_Main Course_x
1. Strawberry Yuki Bento
Left: Low GI rice, picnic ham cut into the shape of Yuki mouse, strawberries
Right: 3 chicken nuggets, 3 prawns, broccoli and sausage flowers on the left column, 3 fish nuggets, 2 seafood gyoza, lettuce with a little chicky carved out of an egg on the right column. Mixed peas in the middle colummn.

2. Japanese Curry
Curry made from Japanese Curry mix (I forgot the brand ._.) and potatos and carrots cut into different shapes.

3. Green Tea (Can)

x_Dessert_x
Strawberries and Ferrero Rocher chocolates

*Time Taken*
More than 10 hours
(At least 3 hours for designing, 5 hours to make bento set, and quite a number of hours for buying the ingredients)

*INSPIRATION*
This bento design was inspired by this dp of Yuki from Fruit Basket Anime >>

*Memo*
I loooooooooooovvvvvveeeee this bento SOOOO MUCH! well, because it is my FIRST BENTO and it turned out EXACTLY as I had imagined in my mind. I really feel a sense of achievement when I saw the finished product. ^^ *self pat pat*