Potato and Broccoli Frittata

A simple lunch for little girl and her bento.

Ingredient:
1 potato, skinned, cut to bite size
1/4 broccoli, cut to bite size
2 eggs
some mozzarella cheese
salt and pepper

1.  Lightly deep fry the potato til just cook
2. Meantime, blanch broccoli
3. Beat 2 eggs, mix in cook potato, broccoli and mozzarella cheese, season with salt & pepper
4. Oil and heat pan, pour egg mixture into pan, cover with lid, cook with low fire til bottom turn golden brown.

Fish Roe & Mayo Salmon Onigiri Bento (383)

After a long and busy weekend, my bento looked so simple and lazy :p  

Busy like a bee during last weekend as it was my cousin Steven & Sandy's wedding, and it was a 3 days event!  Not only that, aunt and cousin LC flew in from HK, we were busy visiting, chatting and shopping too.  Oh well, not entirely that, actually I was totally knocked off for half a day on Sat, not bcos of my cough or cold, but I was having terrible hang over after a crazy nite of wine drinking on the wedding dinner before :p  It was a lovely and full of fun wedding.  Congratulation to both of u again, Steven + Sandy!

Fish roe with mayo salmon filling onigiri

Both fried fish roe & salmon were leftover from our dinner b4 weekend.  Since I was too lazy to use the stove, I just threw them into the toaster oven to heat them up while the leftover rice being heat up in the microwave oven.  Once they were ready, mashed the fish roe with the rice, and squeezed in some mayo into the salmon flakes, then had them molded in a heart shaped mold.

Nectarine wedges and candy

Corn Fritters Bento (382)

Invented my own version of corn fritters this morning, love the taste!  The ingredients were rough estimated as I just put everything together with my feel :p

Ingredients
Corn kennels from 1 Cameron corn
1 chicken frankfurter, cubed
1 stalk spring onion, diced
1 egg
2 tbsp bread flour
1 tbsp glutinous rice flour
1 tbsp milk
Pinch of salt and pepper

Mix all ingredients together, fried with small amount of batter til both sides turned golden brown.

Corn fritters

A container of mayo and ketchup, nectarine wedges and lots of candy to share with friends

Stuffed Squid Bento (381)

Bought little girl's some squids yesterday, cooked 3 for dinner (stir fried), and kept 2 for her brunch this morning and this bento.  The squid was stuffed with tomato fried rice and mozzarella cheese, then wrapped in aluminum foil, baked for 15 minutes in toaster oven.  This stuffed squid was one of little girl favorite food, she will always keep reminding me of cooking it for her.

Squid stuffed with tomato fried rice and some mozzarella cheese

Left: Steamed Cameron sweet corn

Right: Nectarine rabbits

More fruits - dragon fruit blocks

Sausage & Cucumber Maki Bento (380)

Me:  You wanna have sushi for bento 2mr?
LG:  Yes, but can you made more pls?  My friends will come attack my food
Me:  Ok, will make a big bento for u and ur friends

So, that's why a huge amount of rice in the bento :p

Sausage and cucumber maki sushi

Lobster balls and cucumber skewers

Dragon fruit flowers

Roti Canai Wraps Bento (379)

Roti Canai Wraps Bento

Roti canai wrapped with egg omelet, meat floss and mayo

2 cherries and a candy

Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheesy Balls)

Have known about this cheesy balls for long after googling thru the web, at last able to put my hands together to bake a batch of this yummy treat :p

Adapted the recipe from Cuca Brazuca.  I halved the recipe to make do about 30 little cheesy balls.

Ingredients
250g Tapioca starch
1 cup milk
1/2 cup corn oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 tsp salt

1. Boil the milk, oil and salt together
2. Pour the hot mixture into a large bowl containing tapioca starch, mix with a wooden spoon
3. Let it cool and mix in the cheese and eggs
4. Get your hands in there to squelch everything together into a smooth thick dough
5. Separate and roll dough into little golf size balls
6. Place the dough balls on a tray
7. Bake at preheat oven at 190C for 15 minutes
8. Reduce the temperature to 150C and cook for another 15 minutes

Crackly shell with gooey center

Baked Macaroni Bento (378)

Baked macaroni bento

Baked macaroni

Sausage & cheese bun bought from The Loaf Cafe Pavilion

plum wedges, a cherry and a candy

My Simple Lunch - Ci Fan Tuan 糍饭团

Have you ever eaten 糍饭团, one of the famous breakfast in Shanghai.  It is the glutinous rice wrap with pork floss, youtiao 油条 (or yao char kuai) and pickled mustard plant 榨菜.

I bought a few mini youtiao last night and had 2 left after our breakfast this morning, while driving back home after sending little girl to school, I thought of this suddenly.  I have all the ingredients at home except glutinous rice, well, why should I trouble myself on cooking the glutinous rice, since I have some rice left in the fridge :)

So, after re-heating the leftover rice, wrapped the rice with the ingredients listed on top, I was happily enjoying my simple lunch after 5 minutes.

 

Er, not having it with sweetened or savory soy milk (usually eaten with 糍饭团 in Shanghai) but black coffee :p 

and having my self made picked cabbage (recipe adapted from Carol) and the last mini youtiao

The ingredients in the rice: youtiao, pork floss and picked mustard

Side Note:
A lot of my friends have been asking me why am I not updating any bento or bakes in my blog lately.  Not that I have given up on bentoing & baking but I really have lack of time to take photo and post it up.  Even though I am working from home, the time required for me to spend between work and home really killing me, I have to rush all the times, splitting myself from conference calls, replying emails, preparing bento, cooking lunch, and etc.

Also, most of the bento I made lately were so simple that I really paiseh (shameful in Hokkien) to post up, even little girl has been complaining that I seldom make her cute bento :p

So, friends & little girl, I promise I will try my best to make some cute bento, take photos and post them up for you to salivating on :p

Mayo Salmon & Cucumber Maki (377)

Little girl requested a big bento for her to share with her friends, made do with this easy and fast to make maki.

Mayo salmon & cucumber maki

 Hami melon balls and fish balls