It's time to get spookyliciousss!!!

I am going to load lots of pictures this time.

Last Sunday we were invited by one of our good friends to the pumpkins carving party, the party was GREAT! I love the atmosphere, the food, the people, everything was awesome, and we really had a great time. It was so nice to see some of our old friends from Salmonberry Montessori School. And after seeing lot's of pumpkins and all the Halloween stuff I was so in the mood in making some Halloween bentos this week. Yeahh!! that's right! It’s time to get some spookyliciouss meal:

Let's get started! I pack a very thin layer of steamed rice for B, and I made the pumpkins from carrots, I use nori for the face and the bat.

For the side dish I put some beef teriyaki and one piece of teriyaki meatball in a tiger food picks. Next to it are some fresh cherry tomatoes, steamed asparagus and some fresh flower carrots.

This is the picture all together. I also pack him some fresh apples and gold fish for the snack time.

My next spookylicious bento is for D :

The menu is exactly the same with the one for B, only I packed it in a Zojirushi bento box. So instead of making the same pumpkins and a bat, I made him spider web using nori.

My next Halloween bento is just a sandwich, I pack 2 different sandwiches, chicken sandwich for D and PB&J for B.

B keep requesting me to pack him a PB&J sandwich, he probably sees some other kids at school having that. This is actually the first time I have a peanut butter after GOSH! like 7 years or so? we never have peanut butter since we knew D is allergic to peanut.

I was so worry that he would be bothered by the smell but thanks God he seems to be fine. I was very carefull using the utensil and make sure D is not expose to it. So anyway ... no biggy ... it’s just a sandwich, it would not be too long to prepare.

Let me start with the chicken sandwich one, I use a provolone cheese to make cute little ghosts and use some nori for the face. I wasn't quite happy with the result because the cheese on top of a whole grain white bread is not really visible enough. So next time I'll use whole wheat bread instead.

I use a tulip cookie cutter and turned it upside down, and it looks close enough to a ghost! (I think ;-)

The letter BOO is made out of some fresh carrots. Not bad huh?

Next to the sandwich is some steamed asparagus, sweet corn, fresh sliced cucumber and cherry tomatoes.

Here's the picture including some fresh sliced apples and gold fish:

Now for the PB&J sandwich bento, I pack everything’s the same except for the sandwich and here's the picture :

Okay friends, enough for now, more halloween bento to come!

Tuna sandwich bento

I pack tuna sandwiches quite often, not only because its super easy to prepare but my oldest son D is the biggest fan of tuna sandwiches, he actually wouldn't mind getting the same thing everyday!
Getting some idea from another bento bloger I put together this cute tuna sandwich that I know its gonna put a smile on his face.

Anyway, I shaped the tuna sandwich using empanada maker, but you have to flaten the bread with the rolling pin and then lay the bread in the middle of empanada maker, put some tuna filling in it then press it together,  WALAHH!!!! beautiful tuna sandwich is created!!! don't forget to cut the edges with the kitchen scissor.

I bought the alphabet cutter at michaels the other day, its actually for cake decorating, but I thought I can use it the bento. The letter O is kind a hard to get out because it is so tight as you can see on the picture its a little broken, well not bad for the frist timer, I'll have lots of practicie in the future.

So anyway, I put the sandwich on top of fresh lettuce leave, I arraged the word LOVE U that I made out of cheese on top of the tuna sandwich, and the rest are some grape tomatoes, sweet peas and steamed baby carrots.

Belows are just some pictures of tuna sandwich bentos that I made in the past :

Have a great FUN weekend everyone!

Simple spinach quichee

Here is a new delish dish that I put together for my son's lunch. It's very simple and super easy to make because I use a frozen pie dish, and frozen spinach leaves.
I mixed together some heavy cream, eggs, parmesan cheese, lil dash of garlic powder and pepper, I did not add any salt into it because the parmesan cheese is quite salty. Then add the frozen spinach into the mixture (don't forget to squize the excessive juice) stir it together and pour it into the pie dish, springkle it with more parmesan cheese then bake it in the 375F oven till done (it's about 40 - 45 minutes). Cover the edges of the pie skin with tin foil to avoid burn.

For the bento, I divided the pie with cute plastic elephant dividers and I stacked some fresh red and yellow bell pepper next to it, the rest are fresh lettuce leave and steamed baby carrots.

I also packed fresh oranges and apples in a separate box. I peeled some of the apple skin off using the X-acto knife to shape a diamond pattern.

Tamagoyaki bento

This is one of my old bento picture :


I use my 3 tiers bento boxes, the size of the boxes are soooo small but its just perfect for my lil one. I made a simple fried rice with a sweet corn and fish cake and added just a lil soy sauce into it. On the 2nd tier is a tamagoyaki that I made using some receipe I found OL, sliced fresh tomatoes and soy sauce packed in a lil bottle.
On the last tier I have some sauted crimini mushroom, next to it is a fresh cucumber and carrots pickle relish pack in a cute little separate bowl. For a snack I threw in some cookies that I got from the asian market.
As I said earlier that this is one of my old bento pictures, I am now more aware and carefull on buying some snacks or some food product from asian market since the government and the FDA warnings about food safety issues on some imported products from China.

New bento kits ...yipppiiiiiieeee!!!!

I am a bento enthusiast!! ... I am always excited whenever I get some new bento gadgets. Here are some of them that I got a couple weeks ago :

This is a dreamland eggmold, haven't try them yet but the seller has included the instructions in english, so will see if I can make it as perfect as the picture ..*crossing my fingers*
I have to cook the eggs separately, as you can see the eggs would come out in 4 different shapes: heart, diamond, star and flower. It also comes with the egg yolk separator.

The seller is pretty generous to give me this extra bento kits, an animals food pics ... aren't they cute? Love them

Will add some more pictures later on because I have received some other bento kits, I just couldn't find the picture in my files right now.

Rice with roasted seaweeds bento

My boys are crazy about this korean style roasted seaweed. Sometimes they request it for a snack. But they also love to eat it with plain steamed rice. I don't blame them ... it tastes good!

I like to buy roasted seaweeds in a big package then cut it into small sizes, instead of buying the single serve one because its way much cheaper and also they would not struggle opening the plastic plus there won't be too much garbage at school.

I shaped the rice using a bear shape onigiri rice mold, and I put nori face on top of them. I arranged the rice with some steamed broccoli in between so they wont be sticking together.

On the next bowl as you can see there are fresh pears, apples and sugar peas laid in a lettuce bed :

For snack time I packed them rice crackers with seaweed flavor.