Bear-bear Pasta Bento (316)

Bought a few bags of pasta from S'pore during the Dec school holiday, one of it was this bear-bear shaped pasta.

I accidentally over-cooked the pasta, and it turned a bit too soft, it was broken apart after I mixed in the sauce, luckily little girl didn't give me any fuss while having it for lunch :p

Used about 30 minutes to prepare the bolognese sauce as I gotta cooked it from scratch, then about 10 minutes to pack the bento.

Bear shaped pasta with bolognese sauce

A bunch of grapes & a marshmallow

Closer view of the cute bear shaped pasta

Wantan Noodle and Nuggets Bento (315)

Cooked 2 'bundles' of thick wantan noodle for our lunch and the bento.  Bento was prepared fast, used about 15 minutes for the cooking and fixing time only.

Some blanched lettuce and wantan noodle mixed with soy sauce & oyster sauce

2 alphabet chicken nuggets and a baby mandarin

Bear-bear and Rabbit Friends Bento (314)

Took some leftover steamed mince pork (one of my favorite dish) from mum yesterday, used a bit for the bear shaped onigiri.  Whereas the rabbit shaped onigiri were mixed with pan-fried salmon.

Used about 25 minutes for the bento preparation.

2 Bear-bear onigiri

Rice mixed with steamed mince pork with tai-tao-choy 大头菜

2 rabbit onigiri

Rice mixed with pan-fried salmon

2 baby mandarins

Fried Glass Noodle Wraps Bento (313)

Little girl adores the rice paper wraps so much that she encored again for today's bento :p

I stir-fried the glass noodle with fish cake, dried prawn and shredded cabbage, had the noodle wrapped in the rice paper along with few slices of chicken frank and cucumber.

Bento was ready in about 30 minutes.

Fried glass noodle wraps

4 skewers of chicken frank & cucumber cubes,

a bear container of ketchup & mayo,

and a baby mandarin

Luncheon Meat, Cabbage & Dried Small Shrimps Fried Rice

My bowl of fried rice

A few weeks ago, I found this dried small shrimps 虾皮 at Seremban market, I didn't buy it until last Sun, decided to get a little to try out the taste.  MIL was worried when I said I wanna buy it, she even asked the shopper could it be edible by human :p

I sauteed the dried small shrimps with a bit of oil with medium flame, they got crispy & fragrant after the heating process with a nice golden brown color.

I simple put together luncheon meat and cabbage for the fried rice and top it with the cooked dried small shrimps, it was so fragrant & yummy!

The cooked dried small shrimps

Little girl's fried rice wrapped in rice paper

Green Tea Chiffon Cake

I didn't bake anything for little girl on her 2010 birthday, since it is her Chinese calender birthday today, I decided to bake her a simple cake with the limited ingredients I had on hand.

Ingredients
90ml milk
110g self-raising flour
10g green tea powder
5 egg yolks
30g honey
60g oil

5 egg whites
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
60g sugar

Shared 1/2 of the cake with my friends, all of them thot that I'd baked a pandan chiffon when they looked at the color :p

Rice Paper Wraps Bento (312)

It is little girl's Chinese calender birthday today, I made 3 pink hard-boiled eggs for our breakfast, but little girl took all 3 (2 into her tummy & 1 for the bento)!!

Little girl had her 1st experienced making and eating the rice paper wraps during the school holidays which was introduced by BIL, she loved & enjoyed it very much.  Thus when I told her that I making this for her bento, she was really delighted and insisted to do the wraps herself.

I got the ingredients ready in the morning, blanched and sliced.  The ingredients I prepared for the wraps were cucumber, baby corns, chicken frank and a dash of mayo.

I couldn't tell how much time I used for this bento, as it was partially prepared by little girl which was kaka-caucauing most of the time.

Rice paper wraps with cucumber as separator avoiding them sticking to each other

A bear container of mayo & ketchup,

a rabbit tube of soy sauce,

a pink hard-boiled egg,

and some edamame

Less Than 3 Minutes Bento (311)

I'd off my alarm this morning, instead of snoozing it, thus I was left with 50 minutes to brush, bento, shower, dress up, make up & extreme light breakfast (the leftover bread crust from the bento), I was really on fast forward mode til I managed to leave the house.

The bento was completed in less than 3 minutes, it was a butter and marmite sandwich, cut with the mold and inclusive of 2 baby mandarins.

Luckily little girl has agreed to have sandwich for her bento instead of others that involving cooking process, phew...

Soba Rolls (310)

Last nite,

LG:  Ma... can I have soba for lunch 2moro?
Me:  Huh...  but mummy gotta goto work early, I prepare it for your bento, ok?
LG:  Alright, but I want it with seaweed
Me:  Seaweed?
LG:  Ya, like sushi roll
Me:  Ooh... ok

Little girl is planning her own menu nowadays, which is good for me, as I don have to crack my head for what to prepare :p

I waked up early to prepare the bento, then waked her up and sent her off to mum's place b4 I headed to the city.  Used about 25 minutes for the bento.

4 cucumber soba rolls and 4 cucumber & luncheon meat soba rolls

2 baby mandarins

Happy New 2011 Rabbit Year Bento (309)

Happy New Year!  Wishing everybody who read this blog all the best in this cute little rabbit year :p

I'm sorry that I was absent for almost a month, as it was school holiday, I don have to prepare bento,  also, I was busy with assignments at work during the period.

Now, school starts today, little girl was very excited this morning, waked up early for her tuition (yeah, I have started her tuition for Malay & Chinese, cos I find myself can't really teach her the Malay anymore), lunch & off to school happily.  Psss....  she didn't show any 'drama' at all this year, I am so glad that my little girl has grown up at last :)

Back to the bento, I promised little girl to make her rabbits bento as it is the year of rabbit.  And when I asked her what she wanna have for the bento, she said rice which was very rare as she hated rice, when I questioned her for reason, she told me that rice is white and it matches the color of rabbit :p  so sweet, made my life so much easier :)

Used about 20 minutes for the bento.

Rabbits (white rice, sausage & nori) were on a ground (pieces of roast duck) of grass (shredded cucumber) and flowers (baby corn)

Left: 2 baby mandarins

Right top: a bear container of ketchup & mayo

Right bottom: more roast duck & baby corn flowers

Note of the day

The new bento box I gotta from Spore