(# 238) Curry couscous and fried shrimp

I made two identical bento for tomorrow's lunch.
It contains some couscous cooked in coconut milk and curry powder, fried jumbo shrimp wrapped in lumpia skin/wraps, steamed broccoli, baby carrots and fresh kiwi.

I also packed low sodium soy sauce in a tiny bottle.

See you all next week, have a fabulous weekend :):)

(# 237) Smoked salmon sandwich

Nothing's special for tomorrow's bento, hubby worked late on Wednesday so I fixed the boys some simple Indonesian dinner and we have no leftovers. So I prepared some sandwiches for tomorrow's lunch.

For the sandwich I use oat bread, smeared with honey mustard and home-made smoked salmon plus lettuce, no tomatoes *my son requested to omit the tomatoes so it wont be slippery he said * :P

Inside the upper tier are some home-made hummus with baby carrots packed in a separated lil containers, next to it are some heirloom tomatoes, black olives, sliced apples dusted with cinnamon and fresh fig.

(# 236) Couscous and chicken bento

Happy Monday everyone :)
Up for tomorrow's bento I packed some couscous salad with garlic, olive oil and heirloom tomatoes.
There's also some chicken strip, sweet corn and cuke.

Fruit and snacks are packed separately (not pictured)

(# 235) Mac&cheese and chicken bento

I only took one picture for tomorrow's bento.
It contents some white shells mac & cheese with some roasted cauliflower, fried chicken, cuke and yellow tomato.

I also made "I love U" letters with some carrots.

(# 234) Afternoon fruit snack

I have no bento to post but have this cute afternoon snack containing fresh kiwi, black berries, banana, fresh fig and some crackers with double cream brie, doesn't it look cute?

Have a fabulous weekend :)

(# 233) Beef bulgogi gimbap, bunny bento

I prepared some gimbap/kimbap upon my boys request for tomorrow's bento.
Good thing I always have some nori in the pantry.

There are some yellow and purple carrots, apple dusted with cinnamon and yellow carrot. I also pack some home-made apple sauce for snack time (not pictured)

(# 232) Roasted Chicken, galaxy bento

Hello my bento pals,
I hope you are all having a great weekend.

We went to Anacortes today and stopped by the farmers market on the way home, I got some rainbow carrots, cauliflower, sweet corn, blue berries and so on and so on, what FUN!

For tomorrow's bento I prepared some leftovers roasted chicken, some sauted potatoes and sweet peppers, sweet corn, rainbow carrots (too bad the color isn't showing :( ...) but they are orange, yellow and purple.

I realized everything was too pale in colors so I put some Italian parsley. Was thinking on steaming some broccoli but I do not want to waste, so it is what it is :P
I also made a star, moon, space ship and some other galaxy stuff from cheese, I hope it won't be melted by lunch time :D
There are also some blue berries packed separately, and some yoghurt for snack time.

(# 231) Brown bear bento

Wrapping up this week's bento I prepared brown bear made from regular jasmine rice, I used bear mold then I sprinkled some Indonesian roasted coconut (serundeng) that I brought from Indonesia during the visit. The boys love it!!

I stuffed the box with steamed broccoli and sweet corn.
On the next tier are some teriyaki chicken and sliced apples dusted with cinnamon.

Here is another pic :

(# 230) Roasted potatoes and chicken sausage

Just a quick post for tomorrow's bento :

I prepared some pan roasted potatoes, chicken sausage and pan roasted sweet peppers, everything was so quick and easy, super fast super simple yet super yummy *according to my kids :D*

I also made a mommy and baby cheese whales, there also are some carrots and fresh plum from the garden.

Here's a close up pic :

  

And another pictures :

Everything are the same except for the cheese cut out, I made a mommy and baby birds :)

(# 229) Tricolor fusili pasta bento

For tomorrow's bento I prepared leftovers pasta dinner, I must say I spent forever trying to cut the cheese ..LOL ...
I used the dragon cutter but there are some tears here and there especially on the feet parts, so for the 2nd bento I used the butterfly cutter, turned out the same... took me forever to release the cheese, next time I'll stick with carrot :P so much easier :-), anyway here are the pictures :

I packed some orange on the next tier along with fresh plum and black berries from the back yard.

(# 228) Beef Bulgogi Gimbab Bento

What's up with me and Korean food lately? almost all of the new bento posts are contains Korean food.
We loooovee Korean food :) it's simple, easy to prepare yet so scrumptious according to my kids :P and I don't blame them ....

For tomorrow's lunch I prepared some beef bulgogi gimbab/kimbap with ebi furay, I made some ebi furay from scratch and I must say I am so happy with the result, hubby said he can just eat the whole plate ...
The ebi furay I made *however* is not the kind that using panko bread, but regular tempura batter, so maybe I should mention shrimp tempura instead? well, I can careless about the name this time :P

On the next tier I packed some fresh pineapple along with some sweet mini peppers.

Have a pleasant evening :)

(# 227) Beef bulgogi and rice

Another simple bento from yesterday's lunch :

That was actually leftovers from late lunch the other day, we went out to Korean fast food in Lynnwood, we ordered too much, I forgot the portion here is always HUGE ... after spent holiday for 2.5 months in Indonesia :P where the portion are much smaller compared to here.

First tier contains white rice sprinkled with furikake, beef bulgogi, and some cukes. I also put some takuwan to make it more colorful.
There are some fresh black berries from our backyard in the second tier, some kiwis and red cherries.

(#226) Back to school bento, Korean Noodle Salad

Hello everyone :) I am back on to bento making and blogging after 2.5 months vacation in Indonesia :)
This will be a very short and quick post as I am still battling with severe jetleg :P

I made this simple Korean noodle salad for first day of back to school :

There are shredded lettuce, egg, soba noodle, julened carrot and cucumber and asian salad dressing packed in a little bottle.

Here's the 2nd pic :

Happy Tuesday :)