#42 Gloomy Puppy

Gloomy Puppy was inspired by one of Japanese bento books, it was made from rice and mixed with decofuri. As for decoration I used baby asparagus, cheese, seaweed and cucumber and heart-shaped food picks. The companion dish were thinly sliced pork belly rolled with asparagus and carrot, tofu sandwich, flower ham, carrot and sliced navel orange.

Mini Bibimbap

My latest cooking experiment is a bibimbap, a Korean Cuisine. The recipe is adapted from Maangchi website. If you like Korean cuisine then you must check her blog promptly as you can find variety of Korean cuisine which is very yummy and delicious for sure. I made a petit size bibimbap so I named it Mini Bibimbap as the actual bibimbap serving will be much bigger than mine & it’s normally served in hot-stone bowl. Since, I do not have it then I use ceramic bowl instead

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Lotus Root-Pork Ribs Soup

I am not expert in cooking. I start learning to make simple dish for my family. Today's post is about Lotus Root Soup with Pork Ribs. It's an easy dish what I need is rib or meat (here I use pork ribs). It's also alright to use beef-ribs or chicken as an alternative choices. Another ingredients are sliced cut lotus root, pepper-corn, Chinese red-dates, garlic, soy sauce and salt. Chinese celery or coriander leaves and spring onions as sprinkles.It also obtains a fragrant smell to the soup.

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#41 Sleepy Bear Sandwich

This is simple sandwich for today. I cut the sliced squared bread into half & spread with butter and layer it with sliced cheese, green coral lettuce and mayonnaise adding the blanched flower-shaped carrot as decoration. Besides, flower-shaped ham, rolled cheese-ham, octopus & flower-shaped wiener as companion to the sandwich.

#40 Kiiroitori Bento

I made Kiiroitori shaped Bento using yellow decofuri while wakame is used to decorate facial expression.Bear-shaped Cocktail wieners, store-bought potato cutlet (bought at Tesco), fried potato wedge, brocolli and flower-shaped carrot are all I have inside the box. The other box consisted of round-shaped Vietnamese dragon fruit.

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Ayam Bumbu Bali

Here I made Ayam Bumbu Bali. This cooking style is widely found in East Java especially at the food stalls where the economy rice is served.

Recipe was adopted from http://dapoerkoe.blogspot.com/2007/05/telur-balado.html.

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#39 Sakana Bento

Happy Monday to everyone..

I made this fish-shaped sushi bento last September and I just managed to post it today. It's quite easy and handy since I used mini fish shaped sushi-mold, you can also try it out. The colored rice used decofuri. The other The other dish: flower-shaped hams, seafood tofu, sliced chicken with worcestershire sauce, sliced azuki red bean mooncake ( I bought it from Jusco as it coincided with mooncake festival), few slices of orange, blanced broccoli, lettuce and red radish.

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Sauted Squid

This is my favourite food during my childhood time. My mother used to cook this dish for us. All my siblings enjoy eating it too especially when the dish added with cut-bird chillies and stir-fry together with the squid and other ingredients. We could taste the spicy yet chewy-yummy squid at once. Finally, I tried to cook this dish however it's still not comparable to the mother's cooking. I think my sister cooked better than me.

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#38 Bow-tie Onigiri

Today's date is Friday 11th November 2011 and it's very unique number 11.11.11. isn't it? And tomorrow will be weekend again. Happy weekend to everyone...hope you have a great fun. I am posting bento again. It's cubed rice tied with chive resembling a wrapped gift. I used tomatoes & chili sauce to color the rice and stuffed rice with spicy chicken floss mixed with mayonnaise. Ribbon picks used to secure the knot. The rests are lettuce, few slices of blanched carrot, strawberry & green kiwi. Both small containers filled with mayo and chili sauce respectively.

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#37 Fish Bone Bento

Hello......

I'm back after being idle for some times. Here is my fish bone bento for today. I used small cube rice mold & colored few cubed rice using purple decofuri. I also used mini puncher to cut out the fish bone shaped. The rests are fried chicken strips, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, grapes and several types of egg-cooking styles such as two-tones tamagoyaki, chives omelette and flower egg-sheet. Ahaaaa..yeaaa...a lot of egg cooking varieties.

Blossom Canape

I saw half baguette still lying down on the table so I decided to make canapé with tuna spread and cheddar smoked cheese. I cut the baguette into thin slice and spread over the tuna adding with blossom cut flower cheese & chili sauce as garnish.

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#36 Halloween Party Bento

I supposed to post this Halloween themed bento yesterday but I couldn't make it. Instead I do posting today and hope it's not too late. This bento is made to participate the Halloween Celebration which was due on 31th October 2011. My bento box consists of few slices of fried chicken, tamagoyaki, rolled ham baby corn, sweet peas, cherry tomatoes, Korilakkuma wearing witch's hat made from rice ball, half-cut orange and carrot resembled to Jack O Lantern, Boo the cutest ghost made from cheese and nori and stick them to a food pick.

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