Bento #32 - Fish Alien

Fish Alien???

The 1st thing Owein asked when he saw the bento was,

O: Mummy, is it alien?

M: Erm, does it look like an alien? It is suppose to be fish.

O: Orh ... then fish alien loh!

*Faint*


Had planned to do a bento copy but failed totally ... lol. My rabbit cutter too rabbit like already unlike the original works. Oh well, though it did not turned out as well, another bento made and Owein came back with an empty box. I guess that's what matter most.

Bento #31

Hmm ... it is another day that I totally had no idea what to pack and hence fall back to staring into my tool box.

Picked out a CAR sandwich cutter for Owein's breakfast this time.

Spread some nutella on the bread, fill up space with vitamins (in the container) and some biscuits ... VIOLA~~ Something really simple this morning and fast to put together.

Oswald gets a box to school today too. He'd set his eye on the cranberry cheese bun which I'd bought but by the time I got back, he'd already finish his breakfast. So in order to taste it, he suggest that he brings to school to eat. Being a bento addict, I took the chance to dress up his box a little. The bun took up most of the space in the box, hence can only add some biscuits to 'color' up the box.

Bento #30 - Hey! Mr Apple Man

Owein's teacher had requested for Owein to eat breakfast in school instead of at home. Reason being that he would talk to kids in his group and due to that, they always cannot finish their food in time. So to stop Owein from talking, got to keep his mouth busy eating!!! LOL

Oh well, good in a way ... probably would wake up my bento mojo because now got to pack food for Owein EVERYDAY!!! Oh boy ...

Haven't been packing food for the boys ... getting a little rusty. In the end, I just open my tool box and see what's good. Spotted an APPLE cutter which I had bought in mind to make cookies for teacher's day. Took that out and started cutting the bread with it. Initially had intended to just leave it as it is. But after staring at it for awhile, decided to give it a face. Owein was there to choose the shapes. I just did as I was told to and the apple tured out to be like this ...

When completed, I showed it to Owein and he went "Hey! Mr Apple Man."

Bento #29 - Just A Bento

Had not been making bentos for the boys lately. Too much 'energy' spent preparing meals for the family, totally out of strength mentally and physically to do any bentos.

But out of the blue, Oswald requested for a box today. Luckily I had picked up some buns from Four Leaves earlier when I was out doing marketing.

I'd slap on some butter on the bun and quickly assemble the bento for him. I am sure he would enjoy his food during recess because it is packed with his favourite kind of bun and topped with his favourite snack.

Still Storming In My Kitchen

A few weeks had past and I am still storming in my kitchen. Had been whipping up dishes instead of packing bentos of late. Feels good to be whipping up dishes that often and people enjoyed eating those food. But it is really tiring cooking up a storm. Come to think of it, I really do prefer baking than cooking.


30 July 2013

Top - Chinese Spinach in Broth
Middle - Pan Fry Black Pomfret
Bottom - Ox Tail Soup

Simple dishes but took me 1/2 a day to prepare.


31 July 2013

It is total indulgence for tonight. Tonight's 加料 dish is BAKED SCALLOPS!!! Managed to picked up a bag of scallops on shell from the wholesaler for $10 a bag. There are about 9 huge scallops in there. Topped the frozen scallops with cheese and black pepper, sent to bake and viola. Juicy and cheezy scallops are ready to eat!!!


5 Aug 2013

Always hate to think what to cook on MONDAYS. Markets are closed and can only shop at supermarket for ingredients. However, selection is limited too as whatever that is availabe are mostly 'left overs' from the weekend operations. You can only see what it available and make the best out of it.

After a round in the supermarket, managed to picked up the ingredients required for a new recipe that I'd planned to tried out.

Left: Pork Strips w Bamboo Shoots and Black Fungus. The new dish that I'd tried. A dish that is easily acceptable generally except for the bamboo shoots. It is something not everyone could accept the taste. Hubby even suggest to replace that with cucumber instead and he believe would make the dish nicer.

Right: 豆苗. An ordinary day to day type of vegetable. So hard to decide what vegetables to eat sometimes.


13 Aug 2013

Tuesdays = FISH DAY!!!

Being lazy, I'd decided to just make 1 type of fish and everyone eats the same. Fish of the day = COD STEAK!!! Very easy to prepare fish and most of all it is yummy!!!

Also trying out a new sauce introduced by a friend. It is a Japanese sauce specifically used to fry bean sprouts, so I was told. Sauce was bought from Media-ya. Bought 50 cents worth of bean sprouts to give this sauce a try. Verdict ... it taste as good as our friend claims. Now this opens up to another alternate way to cook our bean sprouts.


15 Aug 2013

Menu for tonight:-

1. Buttered Broccoli and Corn for the boys.
2. 卤炸猪排, a new recipe that I'd tried out. Taste of the pork turned out not bad but did not really like the tapioca flour coat for deep frying. It turned kinda soggy after being returned to be simmered in the sauce.
3. Stir Fry Baby Kai Lan.
4. 玉竹排骨汤.


All these are the missing dishes from my lack of updates lately. Not forgetting PIGGING OUT sessions with neighbors and friends recently. We had a BBQ night with Roast Beef and Lamb Chops that I'd made together with many other nice seafood and meats. I also had invited neighbours to our place for dinner which I had fed them with Roast Chicken, Sweet Sour Pork, Pig Stomach Soup etc.

It had been a long time since I had been that active in my kitchen cooking up a storm. Though I'd enjoyed it but seriously, I do hope my cooking days will end soon. Almost run out of ideas what to cook already!!!