Onigiri bento

A small bento for little girl today.  There are 2 types of onigiri, the black and white onigiri are rice and Korean sesame seaweed with ham filling whereas the light brown onigiri are rice and sesame furikake with cheese filling.

I bought this Korean sesame seaweed last week from Jusco, little girl like it very much.

The mickey mouse packet is the furikake little girl begged me to buy sometimes ago.

On the right of the box was some left-over fried egg with bacon, tomato and baby corn; and 5 little grape tomatoes.

Little girl asked me why there were no fruits in her bento, well, she is having cough, she may have tomatoes for fruit-lah.

She left 2 onigiri today, think it was too much rice for her.

Strawberry daifuku

These was the 1st attempt of strawberry daifuku I made last friday.  I tried the recipe from Bento Pet. It was not difficult to made the mochi but it was tough to make the daifuku round, I think I need more practices.

I made another batch with the left-over anko this evening, they are better looking now ;)  (Those in white with pink heart).

I mixed a few drops of strawberry syrup into the mochi to make the pink colored mochi.  And since I was out of anko for filling, I dipped the strawberries into melted chocolate and let it cold in the fridge.

Little girl helped me molded these pink hearts with the remaining mochi, she was having lots of fun, rolling the mochi, molding the hearts, playing with flour....  She even said she will have a few hearts for her breakfast tomorrow.

Baked potato balls

I got this recipe from one of my favorite TV program "生活智慧王".  I have got the potato balls done in half an hour, fast huh!  Another simple and fast recipe.  ;)

The original recipe from the program:

1 big potato     -   cook and mash it

1 piece bread   -   cut into small pieces

1 egg yolk

30g melt butter

pinch of salt and pepper

Mash everything together, form into small balls, bake for 20 minutes, put on some cheese and bake for another 5 minutes.

I modified it slightly to this, and baked it in oven toaster for 15 minutes only:

3 small potatoes

1 piece bread

1 egg yolk

dash of mayo

2 party cubes of savory cheese bites

5g butter

pinch of pepper

The above photo was how it looks after coming out from the oven toaster.  And below was after I garnished it with mayo and sprinkled with seaweed flakes, yum yum....

I had 5 for little girl as her after school snack in the car.

I'm back

Hello, everybody!  I'm back at last, had post in a few back-dated entries last nite til past 3am!!!  Happy reading!

Oh, my little Macbook, miss u so much!

Last but not least, happy National Day!  Merdeka!  Merdeka!  Merdeka!      ;) 

中華涼麵 Chinese style cold noodle

Didn't eat at home last nite cos dinner at mum's place after yoga.  Therefore, gotta think of something to finish up the leftover ingredients after making the "Jalur Gemilang" bento.  Went thru my recipe "bible", found this one that I copied from another manga "妙廚老爹".

Another simple and easy recipe:

1. Cut ham, fried egg, crab sticks, cucumber into julienne size

2. Tear eggplant into short, thin strips

3. Cook noodle according to packet instruction (I used angel hair)

4. Mix the sauce: 2 tbs shoyu, 2 tbs dashi, 3 tbs vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar), 3 tbs sugar, 1 tbs sesame oil and 1 tbs sesame

5. Rinse noodle with cold water, drain well

6. Place noodle in bowl, top with ham, fried egg, crab stick, cucumber and eggplant and scoop a few spoonful of sauce over, done.

I like the sauce very much, a bit of everything, sweet, sour, salty, very appetizing.  Hubby and little girl liked it too.

Jalur Gemilang Bento

This is the month of our national day, and little girl's school were having the related theme too.  I'd been thinking of doing something related to this theme for a while.  Hm...  Why not our flag, since it's so colourful, it will of course attract little girl's attention.  She learned the flag's name last year, and couldn't stop telling us whenever she sees one.

Then I struggled on what ingredients to use for the colours (blue, yellow, red and white), as I don wanna use any artificial colouring.  Also, what others additional ingredients to use in order to fill up her little tummy, rice, noodles, or bread?  There were so many ???? on my head.

Blue had been very difficult for me, the only ingredient with the nearest colour that I can think off is eggplant. Yeah, I know, it's purple, but had been thinking hard, still couldn't think of anything in blue. Can you think of any, please advice.

After the school holiday, I went to SS2 pasar malam with little girl, she asked me to buy crab sticks, ah, 2 colours in one ingredient, red and white.  Before that, I thought of using tomato sauce for the red and mayo or fried egg white for the white, but they were not that good comparing to this, phew, little girl helped me out on this.

As for the yellow, aiya, simple, just fried egg loh!

Then on Tue, asked little girl, "What do u want to have for your bento this Thu, rice, mee, meehoon or bread?"  She answered me bread.  Ok, why don I make her a sandwich roll!  I was very excited after having all the questions solved and kept practicing to decorate the bento in my mind.

I asked little girl on wed, "Do u know what are u going to have for your bento?  It's about national day.", She answered me happily "Is it the national flag?"  Hey, she knew!

So on the Thu morning, microwaved the eggplant and crab sticks, then fried egg.  Took a piece of bread, cut off the "pei-pei" (outer brown skin), and rolled it flat with a roller pin.  Placed it on top of a sling film (so that may roll into a sandwich roll), spread butter on bread, put on a piece of lettuce, followed with some cream cheese, then ham, then some mayo to act as glue.  Started decorating the flag then, cut out the skin of eggplant, followed with the moon and star fried egg using cookie mold, and long pieces of red and white crabstick.

When little girl opened her bento box, "Wah, mummy, Jalur Gemilang!"  Even one of her friend came over to see it, “那是國旗嗎?"  Hee hee, happy to hear their little conversations.

"Mummy, I don want the purple thing, ok?"  Even little girl said it is purple, not blue, sigh!  Little girl preferred to eat the flag first, then only she allowed me to roll up the sandwich.

A happy day for me to see little girl finished up her bento again.

Strawberry and mango sandwich

I made this for lunch (or tea?) today, yeah, a very simple one:

1. Took out the leftover baguette from freezer, cut it half lengthwise and toasted it

2. Spread peanut butter at one side of the baguette and black sesame jam at another side

3. Halved a bunch of strawberries, stuffed all into the baguette with a few slices of mango, done.

I ate the sandwich with the ice cold pineapple enzyme, satisfy.

I'm handicapped!

It had been more than a week I didn't blog.  My MacBook is at the service centre since last Thu, don know when can I get it back.  

Oh!  Just like what little girl said "I miss my MacBook!"

Roast chicken wing bacon

I found this recipe sometime ago at wokkingmum's blog, it doesn't look very difficult to cook, so I gave it a try.

This was how the wings looked after wrapping with bacon. I didn't follow the recipe fully, skipped the garlic, cos lazy to skin off the skin.

After staying in the oven for 45mins, the bacon turned a bit crispy, and the smell and taste was just awesome.

Hubby already finished half the wing before I took this photo, and me too, can't resist it, took a bite from the wing on right site, can u see it?

Little girl likes this wing very much, she tore out all the bacon, bite the wing, swapped to bacon, then wing, bacon... After downing the wing, she finished up the remaining bacon with rice. Patting her little full tummy happily in front of TV after her meal. :)

Pear and orange soup

I found this pear and orange deep inside my fridge this morning, I believe they'd been sitting there for a long while and I was not brave to eat them raw.  Thus I dig out the long kept 枸杞, 蜜棗 and rock sugar to cook this dessert.

This was how it looks after half an hour cooking, yummy!  Full of the taste of pear with a hint of orange, not bad.  My brother like it too!