I was in a little bad luck this whole week but that didn’t put me down when finally I am able to see the money in my PayPal account has reached an amount equivalent to the Canon Speedlite 580EX II. Woot!  And because of that excitement, I’ve prepared a slightly heavy bento for the kids. Each of them brought home a piece of untouched chicken.  Wasting food only.  Must find a day to lecture the kids!

Instead of filling the house with smoky and oily smelly so early in the morning, I’ve decided to fry them the night before and the next morning, just pop them into the microwave.  That way, I do not have to rush in the morning too.  I just need to scramble an egg before emptying a can of bake beans into it.  In a separate pot, boiled a little water with salt and blanched the french beans and carrot sticks.

I did all that under five minutes but spent the next 20 minutes arranging the food and decorating them with punched nori sheet.  Oh, not forgetting taking pictures. *sticking out tongue*

p/s:  I am still excited thinking of the external flash. *snigger*

My new bento tools - an egg frying pan. Good thing the heart shape pan ran out of stock. If not, I would have been twenty ringgit poorer. I lugged home the star and a flower shape tho. They are good for sunny side up. Too bad the kids never like egg yolk. They just threw them away.

We are in a little spring theme today. Kids had a pandan flavoured mantou, blanched french beans with ham, sausage sandwich between 2 pieces of blanched carrot and an egg with ketchup. Look at the fast finger. Baby Princess had quick hands. She is totally nuts over ketchup and fresh tomatoes.

It is a drag to wake up at 6.30am everyday just to prepare the bento for kids. At times especially mid week when I really needed my beauty sleep, I’ll prepare some quick food for them. They had pandan swiss roll, puddings and cultured milk. There you go, the three basic nutrients - calcium, protein and carbohydrate in this simple meal.

I am still posting my bento from last week when the kids was still having their school term break holiday. We all had mini chicken ham burger while I had something extra i.e. egg salad (I heart chu!) with blanched broccoli and emperor pear.  The bread is about the size of a 8 y/o palm so they looks rather cute in actual.

I woke up pretty early one fine morning and had the left over rice fried with salted fish. The kitchen was quickly fill up with pungent smell so early in the morning I was so afraid the neighbour will start swearing. I felt so fresh cos it is indeed quite aromatic! I added some raisins into it for fiber and had them wrapped up in thin egg like the nasi pattaya.

A little dessert on the side - I had freshly cut organic zucchini and triangle juicy and sweet watermelon.

Today marked the first day of school after 2 weeks of school break. I was so tired that I can’t drag myself up from bed to prepare anything for the kids. One reason is because of the petrol hiked price. No motivation to go to work even and I almost didn’t want to update anything in my blog. Since morning, I just wish that the hiked price is just a dream. And that calculator keep on showing me the same figure. That figure! Even after the rebates of RM625.00 from the Government, I still need to fork out RM1.2k extra per year. *sigh…

Back to the topic, this is post dated Bento box I’ve prepared for Hubby since the kids is having a 2 weeks school break. The night before, I was thinking what type of adult food that is suitable to serve in a bento box. Since I have tiny (very very tiny) anchovies which I’ve bought from my previous trip to Pulau Ketam and organic cucumber lying in the fridge, I thought maybe I should prepare some ‘fake’ nasi lemak.

Rice - coconut milk = ‘Fake’

Which is the factor of a good nasi lemak? Should it be the perfection of rice or the sambal. I would say the sambal. However, the sambal didn’t do justice in the pic. I had the anchovies fried in oil till crispy and drizzled with some sugar. I couldn’t find a tea cup as the mould for the rice so I just the triangle onigiri.

For dessert, we had tulips watermelon. So childish can die!

For my portion, this is how my bento looks like.

I had a bigger serving cos this is gonna be my brunch. And that eggs…. this is resulted from the morning upside down timing I just love it like that. All mushed up! *bluek* Didn’t include the sambal in this pic cos I know they won’t turn out well.

Good thing the school holiday is here. At least my brain can take a 2 weeks break from all the mind cracking and sleep deprived too. Since I don’t have to prepare food for the school going kids, this time round, I’m going to pamper myself with all the ooo.. and ahh…

For the first time, this is Mummy’s bento consist of 3 mini egg tarts, cherries and chequered rose apple.

I made triangle onigiri using the sushi mould with a piece of pizza flavored sausage on the center. I also cut out a stripe from the nori sheet to wrap around the edge.

I know kids don’t fancy rice too much so I gave them more sausages on the skewer and some baby carrot. Far back is an orange.

Nothing fancy today. The kids each brought a piece of their Daddy’s birthday cake to school - jelly layered sponge cake and I still have pearl corn lying in the fridge. Decided to include more fruits to their diet so I just simply throw in some grapes.

To me, I would prefer to use a sushi mould rather than the bamboo mat. The reason is, with the mould I can never get the shape wrong as I am very fussy and particular to make sure all of them are in the same size.

You just need to scoop your vinegar rice in the mould and press them down.

Transfer rolled up rice to the nori sheet and viola, all done under a minute.

It is important to cut up the sushi with a very sharp knife to avoid any breaking.

All these are my children’s favourite food. They had edamame, pearl corn that we bought from Cameron Highlands and the sushi. Oh, just incase if you are admiring the flower, good thing is, it is edible! They are marshmallow actually. lol