Olympics 2012 ~ ‘Yay, I win I win!’

27 Friday Jul 2012

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‘Yay, I win I win!’

Today, the London Olympics will begin with the opening ceremonies. I have been excited about it and made this Olympics themed bento for my 3 and 5 year old girls last week. I told them it’s the chance for the world to come together and experienced each other’s culture through sports (they don’t really understand what I’m saying though hahaha).

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Since I needed 3 faces as the winners, I thought I should have all of them in different colours. Too ambitious and I ended up making myself too busy with nothing. Worse is, couldn’t tell the difference from the pictures.

1. Stir fry the rice with ketchup + onion = for pink face

2. Stir fry the rice with soy sauce + onion = for brown face

How to make this?

Tools: Scissor, Toothpick, Nori, Food picks (optional).

Ingredients: Rice, Nori sheet (seaweed), Cheese slice, 1 tsp Mayonnaise.

Method:

1. Use cling wrap to shape the rice.

2. Cut out nori for the hair, eyes, mouth and other details you wanted to ‘colour’ it black.

3. Used toothpick to draw the shape of the award on the cheese slice.

4. Dip toothpick with some mayonnaise to transfer and glue the nori on the rice balls.

5. Decorate the bento as you wish.

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Hope you like this Olympics themed bento.

-enjoy the games-

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Cute Cows for Lunch

22 Sunday Jul 2012

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I posted this on Instagram during December, 2011. Many of you should know I’m super duper slow in blogging. Thank you for being patience with me.

This is the rice version of Moo Moo Cow sandwiches. You can follow the step-by-step here too.

Tools: Scissor, Toothpick, Knife, Cling wrap.

Ingredients: Rice, Nori sheet (seaweed), cheese slice, Ham, 1 tsp Mayonnaise.

Method:

1. Use cling wrap to mold the rice into 2 square shapes.

2. Cut nori for the eyes, nose, and black prints on the cows from the scissor.

3. Use knife to cut out 2 square shapes for the faces from the cheese slice. And 2 smaller rectangle shapes for the nose from the ham.

4. Use toothpick to draw the ears, nose ring and tails on the cheese slice. You can see how I do it here.

5. Dip toothpick with some mayonnaise to transfer and glue the nori on the rice.

I hope you enjoy making these cute cows.

Ideas adapted from Anna The Red.

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Happy Piano Girls

19 Thursday Jul 2012

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Cute girls singing & playing the piano.

Servings : For my 2 little girls.

Tools : Scissor, music note nori puncher (optional), knife, toothpick, cling wrap.

Ingredients: 2 bowls of rice, 2 Eggs, Nori sheet (seaweed), Carrot and 1 tsp Mayonnaise.

Method:

1. Mold 2 big round shaped rice balls (for the face), 4 small round shaped rice balls (hands), and a rectangle shaped rice ball (piano) with cling wrap.

2. Cut out nori with scissor or nori puncher for the eyes, eyelashes, freckles, mouth, hands, piano keyboard and music notes.

3. Cut out the egg sheet for the hair. Always cut out a bigger piece then trim down the edges little by little.

3. Use knife to carve the carrot into flowers.

4. Dip toothpick with tiny bit of mayonnaise to transfer and glue all the cut out nori on the food.

I hope you like this creation.

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Cute Panda

13 Friday Jul 2012

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Cute Pandas

HOW TO MAKE

Tools: Scissors, drinking straw, toothpick.
1. Mold the rice with cling wrap.
2. Cut out nori for the parts you want them to look black (ears, eyes, mouth, hands).
3. Cut out ham from the drinking straw for the nose.
4. Ketchup/ ham for the blushing cheeks.

Tips: Use toothpick to pick up and transfer the nori. Mayonnaise as glue.

Characters food making should be fun, inspiring and inexpensive. I don’t want to spend too much time searching and buying all kind of gadgets and end up neglecting or forgetting them. So I tried to stick to the basics. I used what I normally have in my kitchen or it must be easy to be found in the markets around my neighbourhood.

P.S. My apology for the low quality of my pictures. It was all taken by iPhone 4 and with my favourite Valencia filter on Instagram. You can view my latest posts here.

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