Happy Bento B38 30/8/12

I came across nice pics of cameras and decided to try and see if I can produce a camera bento. But the end result doesn't seem very nice ;((

For the camera, I used bread, nori, cheese and orange marmalade.

Condiments include multivitamin, pocky sticks and precious jewels biscuits.

Happy Bento B37 29/8/12

With the recent craze among friends who did angry bird cake pops for their kiddos' teachers as teachers' day gift, it dawn on me that I should try to do an angry bird bento.

1) For the triangle bird, it is bread triangles with four berries jam with cheese, corn kernels and nori.
2) For the red angry bird, I use rice crackers, cheese, imitation crab stick, nori and corn kernels.
3) For the golden pig, I used golden kiwi, nori and cheese.

Last but not least, papaya and multivitamins(in a little box in the middle). I was surprised and happy that I could actually do this angry bird bento!

I had sourced for a few ideas and will do them soon :)

Happy Bento B36 29/8/12

Today's inspiration after two days of rest, is from cookie monster. I love to see him gobble up his cookies haha!

With that idea, I can up with my sandwich monsters- one with blue eyes and one with yellow eyes. the sandwich is filled with fish finger, lettuce, cheese and chopped tomatoes.

Condiments include choco biscuit(under the corn kernels), corn kernels, homemade tartar sauce( under multivitamin box), multivitamins, precious jewels biscuit and hawthorns slices. :)

As the weather is quite cold these days due to frequent rains, hence I made some ginger tea for my hubbie.

Homemade ginger tea
1) slices of ginger
2) honey chrysanthemum rock sugar
3) a few drops of lime

Procedures
1) buy old ginger from wet market or supermarket. peel off the skin and wash thoroughly. crush the ginger a bit and slice it. (thickness based on personal preference).

2) fill a pot with water ( any amount that you like, I recommend 2litres ) and bring it to boil.

3) once boiled, add in the sliced ginger. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes.

4) after 10 minutes, place some honey chrysanthemum rock sugar into the tea. Let it simmer for another 5 minutes before you off the fire.

5) serve with a few drops of lime.

Home-made tartar sauce

Ingredients
1) mayonnaise
2) lemon juice
3) sugar or honey (optional)
4) mixed Italian herbs or any Fav choice of Italian herbs.

Procedure
1) scoop a tsp of mayonnaise into a bowl.
2) add in lemon juice, drop wise.( The level of sourness depends on individual .)
3) add in a small amount of Italian herbs.


Optional: you may add in a tiny drop of honey or a pinch of sugar into the mixture.

Happy Bento B35 27/8/12

The bento meant for tomorrow is really simple. I wanted to do a piggy bento but was really way too tired to design one. Hence I decided to used cutters to do a very simple one.. Yawn.

Happy Bento B34 26/8/12

Monday (M) represents Mickey and Minnie mouse hee :)

Though Monday is a blue day, still both Mickey and Minnie decided to go out for a date :) can you see the heart shape that appear from their love and cupid's blue arrow? keke

Happy Bento B33 24/8/12

This bento is for my hubbie who has to camp overnight in office to clear his work! Sigh life as an assist auditor.. Not as if he is earning big bucks for ot...

I still use melody pita triangles as per yesterday. Condiments wise, I have grapes balloons, orange quarters, sweet corn kernels, hello panda biscuit under the melody pita triangles and multivitamin pill box.

Happy Bento B32 24/8/12

Today's Friday!! Suppose to be happy but hubbie has to work till Saturday :((((

To cheer him up, I decided to do melody triangles. This is my first time shaping with free hand and thus the shape is not very nice yet. I will try again.

Melody triangle- pita bread, carrot strips, French bean strips, chicken karaage.
condiments - apple shaped kiwis,grapes, edamame sticks, hello panda biscuits, pocky sticks and vitamin pills (in little white box)

Happy Bento B30 22/8/12

I wanted to do Humpty Dumpty but realized that my pita bread is kinda rounded. Hence, I will do my Humpty Dumpty bento another time.instead I have Mr Happy with me keke.

In the left picture are the items that I put as a base layer for the bento. I filled in shredded lettuce, chocolate picky sticks (red packs), grapes, apples(checked and non checked), mixed salad(corn kernels, edamame beans, carrots).

On the right hand side is the bento with Mr Happy on it. He is so happy as he can hold both his umbrella and chicken drumstick at the same time! haha

Happy Bento B31 23/8/12

Today's bento is an inspiration from the watermelon pics that I had come across online :) However, the use of pita bread to make my watermelon pizza is my own idea :)

watermelon pizza - pita bread, imitation crab stick, edamame beans, cheddar cheese and white cheese slices.

Condiments in the box - sweet corn kernels, previous gems biscuits, orange quarters, banana and pocky choco sticks (red pack).

I bet my recipient is going to have an even greater surprise to find pizza in his bento box kekeke.

Happy Bento B29 21/8/12

You might have noticed that the amount of food in my bento box is getting bigger! Well, my hubbie, who is the bento recipient, says that he gets hungry by dinner time and at times, the company only order dinner around 8 plus or don even order! haiz, life of a worker! Hence the appearance of packets of biscuits, crackers and etc that will be appearing as part of my bentos regularly.

Today's bento was an inspiration from the fun and laughter of kids that went from house to house for their Hari Raya celebration the past two days.
The photo on the left shows the front of the sandwiches. The photo on the right shows the top view of the sandwiches and the condiments in the bento box.

- Cheeky kids: pita pouches filled with fish fingers and lettuce.
-mix salad of corn kernels, edamame beans and sunny carrots.
-a banana and two hello panda packs for refreshments.

Happy Bento B28 18/8/12

Today is a busy day for the mouse, elephants and bear! They are having a meeting to discuss about their party for the upcoming Hari Raya celebration!
But the elephants are scared of the mouse, that parked itself on the kiwi and apple rocks! Despite their enormous size, the elephants chose to squeeze and gather at the other side.
Haha what a timid creature the elephants are!!

Happy Bento B27 15/8/12

Today's bento is an inspiration from a& w :)) however I can't do the curly fries that I love so much :( Instead I have spicy wedges to replace that. I made a French fries pinch and put them in :))

The following link shows step by step method of folding the pouch:
http://www.ehow.com/how_12137938_fold-french-fry-cone-holders-parchment-paper.html


For the handroll which is in place of corny dog, I did a fish finger and lettuce handroll. There are also tomato dango and penguin golden kiwi to go along.

Happy Bento B26 14/8/12

Today's idea came from a red riding hood teapot and cup set made in Korea. I noticed it in a boutique in A shopping centre and fell in love with it instantly!

Thus I used that idea and convert it into my bento. However, I realized that red riding hood can't be red riding hood today as I had run out of red kani :((( How sad can this be!! End up I had to use cheese and turn her to be yellow riding hood. :((

The story goes to say yellow riding hood ( wrap with orange marmalade) was on her way to visit her grandma when she passed by a forest! She stood around for a while to admire the flowers ( cherry tomatoes) and crystal birds (picks). Suddenly she noticed blinking eyes and saw a pack of wolves (sausages with cucumber and nori) staring at her! She was horrified.

To get the shape of Yellow riding hood, I used a heart shape cutter to cut out the shape and trim to fit the shape.

Happy Bento B25 13/8/12

Today is a Monday.. yes, yes... Bluessss... Hence to make things easier, I decided to do a wrap bento.

For the wrap, I used wholemeal wrap. For the filling, I used crispy chicken, lettuce, Japanese cucumber and cherry tomatoes for fillings.

For a healthier meal, I have orange and mix edamame with corn.

Hope the colours does help in removing the blues for me and you too. :)

Happy Bento B24 10/8/12

After a fun day of watching planes zoomed by and fireworks from the National Day Parade, we were so tired that we literally fell asleep once we reached home. Even so, I had planned to try out a piggy bento for my hubbie the next day.

Alas, I woke up late, thus didn't have time to cook the sausages meant to do my pigs :(( End up, I did a ladybird one. Just as well since it is also in my to-do list. But I am not very happy as I do not have time to cut out the centre line of the body and eyes :(( What to do, time is running out.

In this box, the blueberry jam sandwiches are the hills, blue berries and cherries are the plants found along the trails. The lady bugs are made up of nori and cherry tomatoes. The dots are punched out from nori cutters.

Happy Bento B23 8/8/12

Tomorrow is Singapore's National Day and there's still work today, thus I decided to do a bento relating to SG's birthday :))

Today's theme is about miffy the rabbit and his friends visiting the rare tulip garden for national day picnic.

Miffy and friends - bread with 2
flavours: st
dalfour's four
berries jam/
cheese
Rare tulips - cocktail sausages,
cherry halves, blueberries
pavement - corn kernels and
edamame beans.


I will be taking a break tomorrow bento to go and catch the fireworks and planes zooming by .. Till then , happy holidays n happy birthday Singapore !

Happy Bento B22 7/8/12

These few days, I was talking to a friend and somehow, this bento idea came into my mind.

Life is beautiful, live it to the fullest.

Drumsticks- biscuits
Sandwich- lettuce, fish fingers, cheese
sunflower- cucumber petals and tomato
orange quarters.

Happy bento B21 6/8/12

Today is a blur Monday to me.. I had a hard time dragging myself out from my comfy bed to prepare bento.

Having only 15 mins, this is what I came up with- lilo and stitch triangles.

The triangles are imprinted with lilo n stitch prints and filled with st dalfour's four berries jam. In one silicon cup I have a fresh prune while the other is filled with edamame beans.

Happy Bento B20

A lazy day leads to a lacy bento.

Lace is nori punched with craft puncher, baguette slices with Japanese cucumber, tuna and both yellow and white cheese.

Happy Bento B19

Look at the loots of Marie cats! they went for overnight fishing trip and came back with such a huge harvest!! Look at those fishes (whole meal bread, white and yellow cheese) and green mussels (edamame beans)!

Happy Bento B18

The weather is so nice today: sunny and breezy :) Hence doraemon and doraemin goes out to the beach with butterfly balloons.

Happy Bento B17

Inspired by the Japanese animae, Naruto,I came up with this sushi bento :) sushi is made up of bread, cucumber, tuna, carrot and cheese.
The fibre part comprise of tulip cucumber and carrot sunflower.
The vitamins part come from apple rabbit.

Happy Bento B16

My big guy is slowly recovering from his week 2 of illness. To help him recover faster, this bento consist of lotsa vitamins!

Grape fruits, grapes and saint dalfour's orange marmalade wholemeal bread

Happy Bento B15

Sugar bunnies and friend wishes my hubbie a speedy recovery:) yes, my guy is super sick for the past two weeks: chills and for a week followed by fever, sore throat and running nose! ooo.. strong stubborn virus!

The sugar bunnies is made up of freshly made Yamazaki raisin loaf.

Happy Bento B14

Today's bento is a bit special as I used focaccia bread by Gardenia! Yes, my hubbie's favorite kind of sandwiches :) This is a really nice and fragrant bread for a sandwich, love it to bits.

Happy Bento B13

Today's bento- grilled sandwich with green tea.

The sandwich is made up of whole meal bread with cheese, lettuce and grilled salmon fish fingers. Ooh so yummy.

Happy Bento B12

Detox bento for the world hee :) Just love fresh salads and end up with this as a bento.

Happy Bento B11

I just got my alphabet cutters from phoon huat and decided to have some fun with it :) Since its Friday the 13th, I want to have a smooth sailing and happy day, thus this Friday bento.

This bento is made up of tomato tulips, cherries with animal picks, carrot fishes, banana whales as well as bed of lettuces. Sandwich is made up of cheese

Happy Bento B10

This is a rilakkuma n korrilakkuma bento made up of cherries, black berries, edamame beans, bread with otah filling.

In this bento, the food picks, green baran as grass are some of the items I purchased from Daiso's outlets.

The snails are made up of strips of bread edges that are rolled up and fastened using a bento pick.

Happy Bento B9

This bento is inspired by a picture I came across on the Net. I decided to give it a try to create the sausage fish and sotong and both turned out to be a success! The story theme is that fish playing tug of war and sotongs having soccer game.

Sausages:
1) For the fish sausage, slit a line two centimeters from one end of the sausage. (do not cut too deep into the sausage, not more than half the sausage depth) For the body, do cross cross slits. (same thing, do not cut too deep into the sausage) Finally, steam the sausage and the slits show up nicely!
2) for the sotongs, cut the sausage into half diagonally. At the end of the diagonal slit, use a paring knife to slit the tips to make its tentacles. Steam the sausage and let the tentacles curl!

The tug of war is made up of apple slices.

Happy Bento B8

I pored through the web and saw many cute Disney bentos. Hence I decided to try out.

The story of this bento is that, chip and dale went out to play :)

Happy Bento B7

This bento is full of red colour- red minestrone soup, red apple rabbits and homemade garlic bread.

For the garlic bread, the garlic butter is made up of butter, minced garlic n mix herb.

For the minestrone soup, I use campbell select minestrone with fresh potatoes, onions and chicken fillet.

For apple rabbit, I used the link below:

http://japanesefood.about.com/od/howtocook/ss/how_to_make_apple_rabbits.htm

Happy Bento B6

Today is detox day. Gotta be kinder to our systems after days of heavy meals.

Salad ingredients include cherry tomatoes, baby corn, boiled crab sticks and lettuce.

Sauce: Italian dressing

Drink: lychee soda :)

Happy Bento B5

Today's bento is a bit different. Yes, wraps!

Ingredients used for fillings include, grilled chicken patties, Japanese cucumber, lettuce, cherry tomatoes and a bit of mayonnaise. Bon Appetit.

Happy Bento B4

This is my fourth bento. Hubbie wanted something simple and fast to eat. Hence the happy kiddos sandwiches. The filling comprises of leftover roasted chicken bought from supermarket :)

Happy Bento B3

This bento is a very simple one. It comprises of only sandwiches. The sandwich with a boy's face is filled with homemade egg mayonnaise. The other which is imprinted with the words "good morning" is filled with tuna.

haha, I did these two as they represent the sleepyhead in my house- my hubbie hee :)

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For those who are keen to make your egg mayonnaise as filling for bread, it is as follows:

Homemade egg mayonnaise

ingredients:

1 white onion
2 hard boiled eggs, remove shells
A dash of pepper
A dash of salt to taste (your preference for level of saltiness)
A small amount of sugar
2 tbsp Mayonnaise
mixed herb (optional)


procedure:

1) diced the hard boiled eggs into cube
sizes and put it in a mixing bowl
2) chopped up the white onion and
place it in the mixing bowl with the
diced eggs.
3) add salt, pepper, sugar, mixed herbs
and mayonnaise into the mixing
bowl. (you can adjust the amount of
mayonnaise you want).
4) Mix well. You may use it as it is or
chilled it and use it later.

Happy Bento B2

This happy bento, done on 12/07/12, is known as the energy bento. I noticed that my hubbie looks very tired and drained these days due to his work. Thus, hopefully, this bento gives him the energy to boost up for work :)

Items in the box includes, chicken essence, preserved plum, want want cracker, pineapple tart (in golden pack) and last but not least, golden fish fingers with lettuce and tomato sandwiches.

Happy Bento B1

This bento, which I shall call it B1, is my very first bento done on 11/7/12.

This bento consist of two hotdog buns n sliced apples. I arranged my sliced apples such that it looks like a whole apple, except for the stalk n core. I used only aluminum n plastic bags, nothing fanciful.

A big welcome

Hi! Welcome to my happy bento.I never knew about the fun in creating bentos until I started reading again during my period of suffering and recuperation from severe lower back pain. Throughout this whole period of time, I count my blessings to have a doting, caring and supportive hubby to look after me.( despite the fact that he has a crazy working schedule) Seeing how stressful his work can be, I decided to do something that can motivate and cheer him on :)

As I can only rest, I decided to do some reading, besides watching tv programs and dramas :) Happiness :)) It was this period that I chanced upon books which can fulfill my requirements to make happy bentos :)

The creations that I posted here are specially prepared to bring happiness and motivation to all, especially my hubby. Sit tight as you travel with me in this happy bento journey :)