Bento #24 : It's Bear Again

Cinderella has been sick since last week. It really breaks my heart to see her coughing, sneezing, and having diarrhea. I thought it was a regular flu. Instead, it is actually an allergic reaction to milk.
She has developed skin rashes since she was a baby. And by almost 2 years, the allergy has changed into rhinitis, and just recently, diarrhea. She lose 400 grams during this diarrhea, which makes her fall from 15 percentile to 5 percentile in just a week. She looks sooo skinny that it breaks my heart *sob sob*
I brought her two weeks ago to a nutritionist and she recommended this special formula milk which is high in calorie but low in casein. Cinderella actually loved it. So she drank quite a lot of it. After 4 days, she developed all those allergy symptoms.
Any ways, she lost her appetite because of the bloating. And I have to try my head to toe to get her to eat. I cooked her porridge, oatmeal, soup, fritters, and the list go on and on and on... She kept refusing to eat. Well, she actually ate, but it is only half or a third from what she usually has. So I made her this bento, to cheer her up...

In this bento : beef roulade and veggies

Bento #22 : Grumpy Bear

I am a bit bored with the cheery, smiley bento faces that I made before. So, just for fun, I made this grumpy bear. I have so much fun making it. I also made the usual "shocked" face for Cinderella since she loves this kind of faces before.
By the end of the day, when I pick her up at school and look at the snack box, Cinderella left the grumpy bear. And she said to me that she didn't like the bear. Hee hee.. I guess because it looked so grumpy.... The bear reminds me of Badz Badz Maru.. He is so cute (and also so grumpy). I think I would want him in my bento someday.
Inside the bento is two mini buns which was sliced in the middle and stuffed with shredded cheese, butter and sugar.

Bento # 13 : Yellow Rice Bear Bento

It's the second time in this week that I cook Cinderella yellow rice. The first succesfull attempt for giving her yellow rice makes me spirited. Yellow rice is one of my favourite food, and I'd like to have it more often on my dining table. =)
This week, Cinderella also begins her school again after one month of holiday. On day one, she shred her tears for a minute and then forgot totally about her mom. On day two, she was totally ready for school. No whining in the morning at all. Oh, and yes, this time, Cinderella officially brings her bento to school! After several weeks of having bento at home, now she can have them at school.

In this picture : yellow rice, meat floss, tofu tempura, carrot and green beans rolled with omelette, cucumber and broccoli.

Bento #03 : Bee bento

I made this as a lunch box for our trip to Bandung. My hubby's cousin was having a wedding party in Bandung. Of course we would have to attend the wedding. The journey was actually only 2 hours by car. But I guess I need to bring her lunch box. Just in case, there was traffic.
This was by far the most complicated bento I made.
When I saw the bee bento picture in the bento book, I thought it would be quite simple to create. But boy I was wrong. The egg sheet was too thick and made it hard to roll the rice in it. The experience of stuffing a lunch box until packed was also quite difficult. Luckily I had some broccoli to fill the gap. I used monster meatball, smoked ham, rolled omelette and steamed veggies as the filler.
Cinderella's cousins were also coming with us in this trip. And they were so amazed to see the bento. There was "Oohhh" and "Ahhhh.. cute!" Cinderella was very proud. She ate everything.
The only thing that was a disappointment was the melting cheese. Anyone knew how to prevent the cheese from melting?

Bento # 01 : Beary Cute Bento

There's always the first thing for everything. This was my first bento. I am very excited about it. I bought 4 bento book from Japan and I can't stop drooling over the books. I want a bento that is not too complicated for several reasons:
1. I am a bento beginner
2. Cinderella is still the most important thing in my life to me. I don't want spending hours and hours of bento decorating and neglect my baby girl.
But still, the bento has to look cute to catch her attention.
Thus my choice for the very first bento lies to this Beary Cute Bento. It is soooo simple to make (with nori puncher on my hand). I would only have to make two burgers, one is bigger (as the head) and one is smaller (for the ears). I loveeeee the simplicity.


Please pardon my photograph. I really need to learn how to take picture beautifully. This is done by a pocket camera with minimum lighting.
On the left : beef burger with hidden carrot. On the right : Veggie fried rice (carrot and peas)
Cinderella was so thrilled to see her first bento. She ate everything! The food decoration only took me 10 minutes. Everybody was happy =)
Oh yes, I must admit that this is not a real bento, since I used plate instead of lunch box. Still, I think the art of bento can be applied everywhere, not only for lunch box. Won't you agree? =)