Bento #34

Last night's dinner:

Little rounds of faces (rice), samosa, sausage, stewed chicken, omelette, spinach, marble cake. Didn't put the strawberries in as the kids were too hungry and was hurrying me to quickly take the photo.

Bento #32 and #33

Bento #32: Breakfast last Saturday - ham sandwiches, grapes, butter cookies. Love the butter cookies, it is a no-brand type which brings back fond memories when I was a kid....from those market stalls selling biscuits/cookies by weight.
Bento #33: This was a "bento" done by Bubbles, who is only 5 yrs old. I think she has some talent in this! This is actually porridge, served with a simple omelette in the shape of a heart, with peas and fishcake slices.

*sorry, don't know why the photo orientation cannot be right, tried a few times!

Bento #30 and #31

Bento in the garden: Rice with spinach leaves, dried Chinese mushrooms, with cheese butterfly and ham flowers. On the right are quails eggs and purple grapes.

Walk down the lane: Rice with chicken and carrot stew, broccoli and prawns and little "footsteps". Fruits for dessert - apples and grapes. Did you see the homemade pick? Bubbles drew and coloured the little bear face. Now we can save $ and make our own picks!

Bento #29

This is a backdated meal. Tri-coloured shell-shaped pasta served with chicken in tomato sauce, with chicken and beef sausages. 2 plain crackers and mandarin orange segments.

Usually I have to separate the sauce from the pasta, as Buttercup is really particular. She prefers her pasta free of sauce. Depends on her mood whether she will put any topping on her pasta at all.

Bento #28

Tonight's dinner for the gals. Bubbles did the deco. Looks like a clown to me.

Chicken, mushroom and peas in their fav cheesy sauce (just a simple sauce of milk plus cheese slices melted). White rice with pork floss. Added a almond jelly and apple slices to complete the meal. The marshmellow was an encouragement sweet.

Bubbles polished everything off her plate tonight. Perhaps it is the sense of pride of her work.

Ours was also a chicken-based meal. White rice, green curry with local eggplants and peas. Sliced chillies and dried parsley for garnish.

Bento #27

Wow! Time really flies! It has been a while since my last post.

Frankly, have not been doing much baking and bentoing recently. Too many things to keep me busy. Strangely, at times there is this feeling of guilt for not updating my blog.

This is the recent dinner for my gals. Heart-shaped riceballs with stirfried cauliflower and carrots, 2 "dinosaur" chicken nuggets, minced meat omelette, stewed potatoes with meat and peas. Dessert was two-coloured grapes plus yoghurt.

The plate was bought from Daiso (went shopping again!) , a steal at S$2. :)

Bento #26

This was actually a leftover dinner which I brought as lunch to the office the next day. Spiral pasta sprinked with dried parsley, and creamy chicken sauce. Yum. A mandarin orange completes the meal. Satisfying.

Bento #23, #24, #25

Bento#23: Blanched cauliflower, stir-fried chicken with carrots and onions (not featured here because the kids won't have any onions- unless it comes in the form of doughnut rings aka onion rings), fried cabbage with dried shrimps. Dragonfruit cubes were served. Told them a white lie that they were jellyfruits. At least it made them try the fruit.

Bento #24: Popcorn chicken (ketchup in green container), fried kailan with carrot rounds, steamed threadfin fish. Jellyfruit plus kiwi, served with the everfavourite flower marshmallow.

Bento #25: This was one of the dinners last week. I think it was pork slices in soysauce, fried french beans, plus a "bird's nest with 2 eggs" (aka fishball + spinach). They love spinach and fishball combo, esp cooked as a soup. No complaints from me - easy peasy to cook anyway. :P

Bento #18 & #19

Bento #18: Contented doggy lying on a bed of sprouts and spinach under the carrot sun. Skewered porkballs + fishball. Dessert: Green grapes. The doggy was made of minced pork and shredded carrot (sneaking in veges in the gals' food hehehe) patties.

Bento #19: Fish-shaped egg (cannot see the imprint very clearly, as the eggs were not the correct size, again!). Rice served with fishball, nugget, braised threadfin fish (aka ikan kurau). On the "garden bed" are kailan stems (they are huge stems) with pretty marshmellow flowers. Green grapes were for dessert once again.

Bentos #14, #15, #16

Bento #14: Star onigiri topped with animal biscuit, served with seafood rolls and steamed minced pork with egg and stir-fried pak choy. Fruit: apples.

The seafood rolls were store bought and it looked nice when sliced - it had seaweed, green onions and imitation crabstick. Steamed minced pork is always a favourite for the gals, as the pork juices just go so well with the steam eggs.


Bento #15: Heart-shaped rice with braised chicken drumstick for Blossom. Oven toasted ngoh hiang and stir-fried spinach. On the right is a nest of quail eggs and "chicks". Fruit: extra sweet strawberry.
Finally had some time on my hands to experiment making the quail egg chicks. Sesame seed for the eyes and strawberry/tomato for the beaks. Next time should use carrot for the beaks as I think that may look better.
Bento #16: This is the "monster" bento. Spinach hair and char siew eyes and roast pork for the grin. Dessert was papaya cubes.

Bento #13

Last night's dinner:
Rice with smiley peas, braised meatballs and mushrooms, siew mai, steamed threadfin fish (partially hidden), fried ikan bilis snack (aka anchovies)
And guess what fruit was served?

Bento #12

I think this was a Saturday's dinner.

Ribbon pasta, with diced chicken in cream sauce, and flower carrots. Dessert: Apples also cut with same flower cutter, and orange jelly.

The gals cleaned up their plates (or shd I say boxes). They usually love pasta in cream sauce.

Bento #11

Stir-fried Spinach with ikan bilis, deep fried ikan bilis snack, fish fingers (with ketchup in blue container). Dessert was kiwi cubes.

Realised that it was quite a "fishy" meal. :P

Bento #10

Rice with edamame beans, roasted pork slices with leeks in dark soy sauce (yummy), braised fish* in taucheo sauce, heart-shaped jelly with purple grapes. *dun ask me what fish it was, it was not labelled and I usually have little clue what type of fish it is

Blossom loves those wafer roses that come with dishes at some Chinese restarants. When we went to Sheng Siong supermarket, she saw it and requested for some to go with her bento.

Bento #9

Bento Dinner:
Fried ngoh hiang, honey roasted chicken (stir-fried with white mushrooms and peas*) served with mandarin oranges and apple "ice-cream cones".

*My Bubbles will only have peas as her form of vege. I am at my wits end. I have bought a packet of frozen edamame, hopefully it becomes an alternative source...

Bento #8 - with new bento box

Bentomania catching up! Saw this lovely My Melody 2-tiered bento box on Sunday and could not resist adding it to my kitchen. The 2 tiers have separate lids to keep the food from spilling out and the box comes with a spoon. So much thought went into the design of this box.
Here's what I filled the box today - for my lunch later. Bottom tier: fried rice with scrambled eggs, stir-fried broccoli, roast chicken which was a leftover for last night's dinner. Top tier: Sliced cucumbers with mayo (in monkey mayo case), mandarin oranges plus a choco for dessert (or as a reward to myself? hehehe)
Do you think this would be too much for lunch? I have a feeling it would be...

Bento #7 - lunch

Lunch for work - on 2 separate days. But as you can see, it is fried rice again. There will be one day in the week when I will fry some leftover rice for Blossom in the morning - kept for her lunch before she boards the school bus later. And it also becomes my lunch. 2-in-1!
Love my new lunch bag - from Daiso again.

Bento #6

Yesterday's dinner: rice with charsiew, batang fish in taucheo sauce, brown mushrooms, peas for Bubbles and carrot flower. The gals love the apple slices in the shape of bear. DH thot it was Mickey Mouse. :P

Bento #5

Contents: Rice with steamed pomfret, cherry tomatoes, baby corn, boiled eggs, sliced golden kiwi
For Bubbles:

For Blossom:
For Buttercup:

Bento #4

This dinner bento was eaten in a jiffy. The cubed luncheon meat and potatoes probably explain why. With the recent luncheon meat scare, the popular brand has been taken off the shelves of the supermarkets. This one on the shelf was a little known brand to me. Its texture was softer than the 'original' and the taste was slightly different. This was what my mom and I thought. But the gals didn't suspect anything different. Again, their favourite fishballs had a place in the bento.