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 # 11 : The Fail Big Bird

I flipped through my bento book and found this Big Bird bento. Well, he's not actually the number one character that Cinderella loves. She loves Elmo the most! But, I dreaded the red color of Elmo's hair. I don't think I want to use too much food coloring. And since Elmo has the redest red hair, I guess I will have to use quite a lot colorings. So I guess I can play it safe with Big Bird. I use shredded omellete for his feather.
But the end results turns out not too good. It looked like a huge chick to me. Tee Hee.... Anyway, Cinderella doesn't seem to matter. I used yellow rice under the shredded omellete. (Cinderella used to hate yellow rice very much). But this time, she finished them all. Yayyyy!!!!

I also include the bento making step by step :

Step 1 & 2 : Half a quail egg as eye balls. Put nori as the eyelid and the pupil

Step 3. Form rice into half sphere. Put shredded omellete as the feather.

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Step 4 : Use cheese to cut two triangles as the beak and ham/sausage as the tounge. Put the vegetables in groups (carrot with carrot, green beans with green beans). I found that grouping makes it look better.

Step 5 : I cooked coconut stewed beef (empal daging) to compliment the yellow rice. Yellow rice is never a complete set without it. And while it was certainly delicious, the look of it, brown, a bit oily, was not really appetizing. So I put the flower carrot to decorate it a bit. I use a cutter to get the smoothest shape. Well, I must say that this cutter really helps me a lot.

Step 6 : Serve it with a big smile and a lotsa of enthusiasm. Kids pick up our feelings!