Happy Birthday Indonesia

Hello...

It was 17 August again...and every year we celebrate our Independence day ^,^ 

This time, this is the bento that I made 

What is inside:

* Wheat bread filled with butter and rice chocolate

Decorated with kani on top, which represented our red and white national flag 

* Cheddar cheese in dark and pale yellow of flowers

* Mixed veggie salad with mayo, salt and pepper

* Pan fried sausages, with cute faces of puppy and kitty

* Colorful jellies in a cup

* Boiled quail eggs, decorated with nori, to represent our kids

Aside of jelly cup, I inserted rolled-kani, just to fill the empty gap.

We had fun in participating into some races within our neighbourhood to celebrate the event, such as eating crackers (makan kerupuk), fashion shows, running from one point to another, in a very short distance, while carrying a marble onto a spoon, catching baby eels, and others. The best part was, everyone got a prize! Well, winning the race was not as important as being together in our local community.

Catch you later!

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Happy Easter, Olaf..

That greeting is for you, too...

Yeap, all of you..

Happy Easter!
Hope you had a great Easter holidays :)

On the Easter day, kids wanted to go swimming.

Knowing by heart that they must be very pretty hungry when coming out from the pool :b

So, I made this bento.

Inside the box:

* Inarizushi

some of them, formed as in a brown bunny while some others as rice-bags stuffed with different kind of toppings such as chicken floss, chopped ham and edamame.

His cute brown face, completed with color-matching long ears :) Well, I just stuffed everything with white rice. Yes, including the both ears.

* Pink Kamaboko. Love the bright color and I just feeling playful with the cutting.

* Pan-fried ham, store-bought frozen ham

* Onion rings, store-bought too, just deep fried them

* Edamame

* Blanched broccoli

* Strawberries

* Kani 

* Mini tamagoyaki

* White bunny, from white rice onigiri, with her partly-pinkish-long-ears thanks to Kani sheet, of course. She is smiling pretty with blue ribbon foodpick and holding a "decorated Easter egg" This egg was actually a furikake-sprinkled-onigiri.

I spent an hour making this bento from scratch, from blanching the inari pouches bla-bla-bla I do not have to mention all the cooking, right?..yawn :D.... until assembling them into the box. 

Three kids finished them in less than 15 minutes. 

Straight. 

Hm.....lucky me *wide grin*

Everyone...... meet Olaf..

He is made from rounded white bread filled with strawberry jam.

The button is from halved chocolate chips, this is store bought.

I used Pokky as his hands 

The eyes are from cheese and nori sheets

The nose comes from a steamed carrot

The hair and mouth are from nori sheet

Again, I use cheese sheet for his single teeth.

He has two cheese-rolled bread, edamame, blanched broccoli, strawberries and steamed egg mixture with frozen vegetables inside a paper cup.

My daughter excitedly imagining the comments from her classmates.

...Kids... {^,^}
She loves Frozen the movie. All of my kids do.

Until next time.

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The excitement continues

Hello hello...

This is the post about latest bento making.

In welcoming Christmas, my bento theme is simply about the festive season

If you have Instagram account and follow mine (yennyhandoko) you will be aware that these bento-es had been uploaded to my account earlier.

The Christmas tree

The content of box:

* Blanched brocolli, formed in a tree, decorated with frozen-bought carrot, corn and peas, also from sliced zucchini and cheese star.

It put that brocolli tree unto bed of white rice, for sturdy position

* Kamaboko rose with green bean leaves

* Santa sausages

* snowman from quail eggs

* Sauteed green beans and champignon mushroom

* Strawberries

I ate this as my lunch

The snack bento

Kids like to swim in public swimming pool nearby our house.

I imagined they will be hungry, thus I made this snack bento.

Mister J helped me in preparing the sandwiches. He filled them all with lettuce, egg sheet, cheese sheet and fried ham. Completed with mayo and ketchup. 

I already prepared the ingredients while he just smeared the bread and stacked them. He is so proud that he can help out.

Aside from sandwiches, I put some fried sausages, few blanched broccoli, flower-y egg sheet and kani sheet (in white and red color). Lastly, I put some strawberries.

I intentionally did both snow man and santa from quail eggs - to get the touch of a Christmas-y box - I used the left-over kani sticks and decorated the faces with nori and ketchup.

Some friends asked me about the cute snowman
Here is a closer look

To combine two boiled eggs, I used raw angel-hair (or spaghetti) pasta.

Later on, I wrapped red kani sheet as to perform a scarf. Again, I used raw pasta to tie-in the two parts of scarf. As to make sure, the snowman will be shaken-proof, the kani sheet was secured in several points with the egg.

For facial expression, I put nori punched-out and dab few ketchup using toothpick for his rosy cheek.

For final touch, I inserted the food pics as his arms and blue hat.

Voila....does he look comfy and adorable? >,<

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Compilation

Hello...

I am so so busy lately (it is a lame excuse, I know...) but it was genuinely tricky to find some time for me to sit down and update this blog.

About a week ago, all 3 of our angels fell ill at the same time. They got stomach flu. A kind of disease that many kids have recently. They slowly get well now, while one kid has faster recovery speed than another. However, I find bento-making is really help me to ease the tension. 

So, here they are

I being told about a bakery that sells white bread in cute form aside from regular bread and cakes. They have in form of Mickey Mouse's face, Winnie the Pooh's (the one that I bought) and Hello Kitty's. That's what I saw. I don't know if they are making something else. The shop is nearby my house so I just looked around and purchased one pack. 

I just smeared one piece with mayonnaise after buttered-pan-fried for few minutes, then to put chicken floss, before to sandwiched it with the second piece. Kids just love it. I am not sure if they love the shape of bread or my choice for bread's filling. I hope it is both :)

 

The plan to do bibimbap was stored quite some time in my agenda, I meant for adult. Because in previous time, I made bento bibimbap for kids.

So, my hubby is lucky enough to get this for his lunch.

I made it with all quick sauteed of beef minced, bean sprout, string beans, carrots, baby corn and red bell pepper on top of white rice. They are nicely covered with sunny side up fried egg. He definitely love it and to eat it with gochujang.

I just forgot to sprinkle sesame seed for final touch >,<

Another bakery that I found in my house's area, is selling purple and green toast bread. They are made from purple sweet potato and pandan leaves.

Whenever, I passed it by, I like to buy them. During one hot afternoon, while everyone is taking a nap, I made this for my big boy. 

The bread is stuffed with chicken floss. From purple bread, I made a cute bear, while from green one, I made a silly frog. The rest of the facial expressions are using cheese sheet and nori. On their side is a couple of gyoza and halved of quail egg.

Get well soon, my angel *kiss kiss*

--I blame my shaky hand for the blurred picture--

It is time to return to school after the sick leave.

Since I still have some purple and green bread left, I just add some tamagoyaki (I love making tamagoyaki, don't know why..), cherry tomatoes and grapes.

Wish you a nice day in school.

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Meet Brown and Cony

Anyone using LINE lately?

Disclaimer: I am not a representative of LINE and do not intend to promote it either.

But it did inspire me for today's bento.

They have stickers that kids and I like, some of them are Brown and Cony.

Inside the box:

* Plain bread, decorated as Brown. Filled and smeared with chocolate paste.

On top is cheese sheet for nose and punched nori.

* Plain bread, decorated as Cony. Filled with cheese sheet.

On top is cheese sheet for hand, kani for her ears and cheek, also punched nori for facial expression.

* Boiled squared tofu, edamame and rose apples.

By the way, the rose apples came from our own front yard. The tree is so productive!

At first, I wanted to make round shapes for both Brown and Cony as to closely imitate the original stickers. However, considering that my girl will usually swing her lunchbox back and forth, I took the safe way in shaping the bread.

For a quick glance, perhaps my work isn't the best imitation but I admire the kids' imagination. Upon finishing, kids directly asked me "you do Brown and Cony, don't you?"

Geezzz... :D

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Mantou again

Good day....

I have a half-package mantou that I need to finish. 

However, frankly speaking, I did not have any idea what to do with mantou other than the usual deep fried and steam them.

For deep fried, I usually dip it with sweet condensed milk. It is yummy definitely, but I wish to have something else.

So these are what I have came up with

The content of box
* 2 pieces of mantou that I slitted on top part, to get flat surface.
smeared them with salted butter, dust the cocoa powder and fine sugar.
* rolled egg sheet
* star boiled carrots
* cherry tomatoes
* edamame

I should try to re-make as to have smooth cocoa images.

 

For some others, I put them on a plate.

* Mantou with chocolate rice and sprinkled parmesan

* Mantou with chocolate rice and cheddar star

* Mantou with scrambled egg, mayo and sprinkled furikake

* Cherry tomatoes

* Flower-y mango pudding

Mister J took the salty (egg-filling) mantou while miss L and mister B grabbed the sweet (chocolate-filling) mantou. 

They are officially start school holiday by today ....

By mid July, the twins will be third graders and the little boy in kindergarten.

Time flies so fast.

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Bread lately

Hello ^,^

Lately, I like to make bento with bread.

What's inside:

French toast dusted with fine sugar, potato croquet, edamame, mandarin and strawberries

What's inside:

Wheat bread filled with tuna mayo, added with heart-ham on top; rolled egg and mixed berries.

Starting today, the twins will have final exams for a week.
Hope they do well :)

Also, today is my last day in my detox program he he he
I will make a celebration bento for myself on tomorrow *wide grin*

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Mantou Bento

Hi there...

I have been eye-ing mantou for making a bento in quite some time.

The frozen mantou is easily be found in local supermarkets. We usually either steam or fried it for a while before to eat it.

#259 snack for kids

What's inside

Panko fried mantou filled with homemade teriyaki beef; a cup filled with seaweed and another cup filled with mixed berries.

It was their first time to have it ....and the kids love it.
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