Bento#163: A Dinosaur Bento for Lunch
I don’t cook when we were staying in Malaysia as my mother-in-law is a very good cook, and she basically prepares breakfast, lunch and dinner 6 days a week. She’s always in the kitchen by the clock, and some times, she will be busier especially on those festive Chinese holidays. Besides that, she won’t ask us for help, and even my ex-maid did not have to cook, but just cleaned the house. It is quite a big house, so the maid had her whole day occupied with cleaning and laundry already.
Thus, I’ve only started cooking daily since we moved here. My mom was pretty worried if I could manage the meals, but it seems like my kids and hubby are very well fed. LOL! But then, I don’t prepare fancy meals, and I only do simple dishes. By the time we get home on weekdays, it’s about 7pm, and I have to get dinner ready in less than an hour. So, it’s more like a veggie dish, a protein dish and a pot of soup. I would normally prepare my soup a night before with the slow cooker, especially Chinese herbs so that the soup is tastier.
Since Ellena is curious about my normal cooking, oh well, here’s what my kids and I had for lunch just now.
It’s stir-fried bokchoy with garlic and minced pork, and soy sauced sea bass. My lotus soup was still in the slow cooker when the photo was taken.
It’s public holiday here in Thailand, and I’m at home with kids again. So, I might as well serve their lunch in bentos.
My kids’ lunch before decoration.
My boy has been bugging me for a dinosaur bento with rice, thus today’s theme is dinosaur again.
The tools used.
And here’s the bentos:
My boy’s lunch was served in stainless steel lunch box so that I could easily warm it up. I think my lotus soup looked kind of oily huh? LOL! Maybe it’s because I boiled the soup with skinless chicken thighs and drumsticks…
Here’s my gal’s lunch which was smaller in portion.
Due to MIL’s influence, hubby and my kids only drink the soup, but they won’t eat the soup ingredients. It looks kind of wasteful, but MIL said all the nutrients are already in the soup so we don’t eat the meat nor the ingredients. But maybe I will eat some of the groundnuts boiled in the soup, I just love groundnuts!
So, Ellena, my cooking looks plain huh? 
Wow… *sulate* Amy!!!! Your homecook food is just as good as your bento…. Love the way you present your kids’ lunchbox…. wow.. i love brown rice leh.. if my son will to eat that like your kids then it will be the best mother’s day gift ….lol….
Is the Dino make from eggsheet? hehehe…tell u hor, my boy already grab that Dino cutter from Daiso last wk leh.. mb i can give your idea a go…this weekend… :p Thanks
Ellena, really simple cooking, I don’t know how to make fancy dishes.
Oh ya, I forgot to mention, it’s eggsheet for the dinos.
Nice & yummy! Even though I not married, I did prepare foods for kid especially on Saturday where my mom babysit. Kids loves it when there is lots of colors & when foods come to them in different they use to be. For sure they will eat up all the foods. Hehe…
Beautiful lunch! The sea bass looks fantastic, just like your bentos.
hihi,
may i know how to prepare the egg sheet that it appears yellow and not like fried eggs? tks.
I don’t think your food looks plain, it’s just normal every day food. But sometimes when we take photos of soup, they do appear oilier than they actually are.
Thanks Eva, Susan and SIG.
Joyce, you can fry it but I always have a problem of tearing the egg sheet when I try to flip it over. Thus, this time I did it by toasting the egg sheet in the oven by pouring the egg mixture on the tray (spread some butter first to prevent it from sticking on). It’s my first attempt, and besides the part that it’s a bit hard to remove it, which I shall try again with aluminum foil, the egg sheet turned out pretty well.
oh……use oven arh…..my oven died liao……i tried frying but always ended up with brown patches. wonder will using your method of aluminium foil on a frying pan helps? heee…….