Mothering Corner

It’s my second attempt in creating a dragon bento, especially after my boy said that the previous dragon looked like a cow.

Due to time and space constraints, I decided to make a speedy bento with sandwich balls and quail eggs, instead of fulfilling my boy’s wish of having this dragon.

I would be out of my mind if I want to fix that dragon!

So, instead of picking a kyaraben challenge, the mom decided to do a simpler one.

Another dragon bento, with sandwich balls, quail eggs and fruits.

And a girlie dragon for my gal.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

My boy drew this black angry bird in my sketch book and told me to find some time and fix one for him. At first, I thought of brushing off his request but he said something yesterday while eating his plain looking bento in the car, Mommy, you don’t pack nice nice bentos often anymore huh? O.o

Ok boy, there you have it! It’s a last minute thingy as initially, I only planned to pack fruits and sweet potatoes for the kids, and after looking at the plain looking bentos, I decided to add a quail egg wrapped in nori and decorated it as the black angry bird. The red angry bird was cut from rose apple, and I realized now that I didn’t decorate it well. It didn’t have the white feathery top on its head.

Black Angry Bird Bento

Angry Birds Fruity Bento

It’s a busy busy Tuesday for me, so I can’t blog much about today’s bento. Here’s what I packed for the kids…Pikachu in pokemon ball bento box!

My gal’s sleeping Pikachu.

The Pikachu was made by 2 quail eggs, dyed in yellow. You can do so with some turmeric powder mixed with water, or yellow food gel and immerse the eggs in for about 20 minutes. I did by keeping them in a container and keep them refrigerated over night. Then I pinned the Pikachu on the garlic bread with spaghetti strips so that it won’t move around.

My boy’s Pokemon Ball bento

I did one for my boy too. In fact, he helped me in cutting the tiny decorative details.

After days of plain looking bentos, I decided to decorate 2 quail eggs for today’s snack.

Do you know who they are? They are Crayon Shin Chan and his dog. It’s a speedy bento, so maybe Shin Chan doesn’t look like himself. LOL! Anyway, my boy likes it.

But he has declared to me that maybe, just maybe he won’t need me to pack him after school bento anymore. He’s going to primary 1 next week, and he would like to buy food from the cafeteria like the rest. So, my boy has grown up huh?

Actually, packing kyaraben bento for my boy is getting harder and harder. As he grows, his interests have changed from simple characters as Pooh bear to harder ones like Ben 10 and Naruto. I can’t possible fulfill all his bento fantasies as much as I like. But it’s a great “journey” for both of us, and I’m glad that I have a blog which captures most of the bentos I’ve made for him over 3 years.

As for my gal, I might still be packing for her because she has to  wait for her brother before I pick them up from school. She will finish school earlier but I won’t be picking her up on time.

Lets see how things go when school starts next week.

My kids are waking up later during this summer break, and some times, it’s way past 9am. Needless to say, I’m late for work everyday. Thus, I have some spare time in the morning to prepare the soup, mop the laminate flooring or do the laundry. But this morning, I decided to pack them snack bentos, and added Snoopy in their bento meals.

I prepared some quail eggs and pinned them together with spaghetti strips.

I punched Snoopy’s ear with this leaf puncher, and cut off the tip.

Stack the nori on cheese and cut it out by a toothpick or exacto knife

Pin the ear on Snoopy

Add facial details on Snoopy

There you go! A simple Snoopy Bento

I decorated a Sleeping Snoopy too.

When my boy was a toddler, he was very fascinated by owls. I bought him a couple of books about owls, but there weren’t many. Even clothes with owl characters are not a lot, except one or 2 from the Owl in Pooh’s bear collection. After some time, he switched his interests to horses and dinosaurs. LOL!

Then last night, out of the blue, he took out his old owl books and asked me to read to him. They are in Chinese, and my boy can’t read Chinese. Nonetheless, I read and translated the stories to him, and he said, “I remember these books, I used to love owls.”

That’s why I felt like fixing an owl bento today. There are a mother owl and 2 owlets, cut from quail eggs.

Owls Bento

My gal’s bento

As much as I felt like I’m walking down the memory lane, the owls didn’t excite my boy anymore. He said he would prefer me to fix him a Naruto bento. O.o

That shows how much my boy has grown up!

It’s a brand new year, and hopefully it’s going to be a great year for us. Our kids are back to school again after a short break, and mommy is back to bento-ing. I fixed them some sandwiches, nuggets, and fruits in their after school meals, and I added a quail egg decorated as a bunny to signify Year 2011.

My gal’s New Year Bento

This is for my boy.

Again, Happy New Year everyone and I hope that all of us will have a great year ahead.

I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

Have a great celebration with your loved ones ya!

Have I mentioned that the weather is great? I guess I did! The kids are wearing jackets to school these days, and some times, just a vest. I saw some cute scarfs the other day, so maybe I will get some for my kids but not for school though. Just in case their friends might pull their scarfs! You know, when kids play, they can be out of control some times.

To signify how great the weather is this week, I made a simple “winter” in Thailand bento consisted of 2 quail eggs, mini pizzas and some fruits. Here are the bentos:

My boy’s bento, with a boy wearing a scarf to represent the change of weather.

If you are wondering why the quail eggs looked round, that’s because I used the “bottom” round part as the front and the oblong part as the part before pinning them up with food pick. Alternately, you can try to shape the quail egg when it’s still hot.

This is for my gal.

Yippie! My kids are back to school for the new term today, and my office is back to being an OFFICE, instead of looking more like a daycare center. No more pillows and matouk or blankets scattering on my office sofa, no more toys and iPad lying around on the floor, and no more nuisance and noise! I admit that I miss them being around but I can work in peace now with them being back to school.

Both kids took a while to get up early this morning, but they didn’t fuss much at breakfast and getting ready for school. Actually, they are excited to meet with their friends again and they packed some jelly for their friends too.

I was running out of idea and time again this Monday morning, so I came out with 2 simple and speedy bentos, which took me less than 15 minutes in packing and decorating.

My gal’s back to school bento with quail eggs, chicken nuggets, apple, rambutan and strawberries.

This bento belongs to my boy.

Have a great time at school, kids!