Breakfast

Breakfast was Jacob’s Hi-Fibre Crackers toasted with chili tuna topped with cheese, dragon fruits and a cup of coffee. And a cup of coffee still wasn’t enough for my big kid. He requested a glass of MILO Sejuk. It’s Nestle’s new product where you can add cold water instead of hot water and it’s soluble. Cold water is not enough, my kid said “Put ice ya”.

Deng Deng Deng Deng…Stitch Bento for his birthday! My big kid said “Eeyer, you made Stitch for me”. Sounded happy to see his favourite cartoon character. This is worth the effort.

Here are the dishes:
Top left: Egg salad with green peas, artificial crab sticks, and prawns
Top right: Three pan fried wantons
Bottom left: BBQ chickens
Bottom right: Edamame and chili sauce in the Stitch tub for the French Fries
There are also two love shaped carrots ^_^

Here is the rice. The rice were mixed with the food coloring bought from 100 Yen shop and then shaped into the Stitch face with a Stitch mould. I topped the ears with sakura denbu, the face details were punched out from nori with my Stitch puncher and the eyeballs are actually the white rice. I somehow feel that this Stitch looks more like a koala bear. Doesn’t it? Compared with my previous Stitch Bento, I feel my previous Stitch onigiri looked more like Stitch and I cut the facial details out from nori myself for my previous Stitch Bento. Did the expensive Stitch puncher failed me? Cut out the happy birthday with alphabet cutter and the birthday word was in short form because ran out of space. Lol. The two yellow things are the candles. Hahaha!

Next to the rice are some French fries. Yes, this big kid loves French fries a lot.

Koala Bear or Stitch?

Today’s fruits: Apple, Orange and a tiny piece of dragon fruit :p

A better view of the fruit bento. The dragon fruit is really tiny ooo

As I’m writing this post, I received a message from hubby at 1.08pm “Yeah, wash hand n bento time!”. Looks like he’s looking forward to his lunch time.

Happy Birthday, Darling! ^_^

This omelette is so cute, isn’t it? Not only that it’s in a heart shape, it has got a smiley face on it ^_^ Hubby cooked it for me on my birthday before he went to work I was still in bed that day when he made it because I really couldn’t wake up. >_<

He made some salad and an omelette for me as breakfast. But I didn’t eat it as breakfast, instead, I kept and ate with my rice as lunch.

Besides breakfast, this hubby was so cute to come home and cook dinner too. He cooked spaghetti with mushroom sausages and tomatoes, and a baked salmon.

Here is another dish that he made, salads and baked chicken breast with mushrooms in BBQ sauce.

This is the first time that he cooked for me all by himself and believe me, they tasted good. But there’s still room for improvement. Hahaha!

A Piece of Green Tea Cake for Me

It’s been so long that I haven’t eaten this yummy green tea cake from The Ritz cake house in Tanjung Tokong. I wanted a piece of cake on my birthday but I don’t really like cakes and I’ve forgotten there is this green tea cake that I like so much. Thanks baby for the cake. As I’m writing this blog, I am missing the taste of it. I want a piece of green tea cake now!

Me and My Cake

Gigi was not interested in celebrating my birthday. She was watching the TV.

This is hubby singing happy birthday song to me. Gigi looking so innocent ^_^

This is the 9th time that hubby celebrated my birthday for me and I know there are more to come in the future

After I made a wish. . .1, 2, 3. . .blow the candle and I can eat the cake already ^_^ When I finished the cake, I realised that I made the wrong wish :”(

Today, I packed a Pinky Bento for my big kid with a new bento box, a new round container as a bowl for the rice and a new pair of chopsticks. I bought these bento boxes and chopsticks at the 100 Yen Shop in Tanjung Tokong last Sunday. I love the pink colour so much but I think it’s too girlish to use it for hubby. So I asked “It’s too pinkish right? You’ll feel shy to take out your bento at lunch?” He said “No, it’s fine. I like pink.” So if you’re here reading the blog for the first time, it’s a bento from a wife to a husband, not daughter

This bento box is priced at RM20.90 if I’m not mistaken. It has four small separate containers in it, makes packing bento easier. There’s another same type of bento box which has 2 tier, priced at RM29.90. The bottom tier is just a big tier with no small separate containers.

This bento is packed with cold mushroom salad, stir fried bitter gourd with bean paste and tom yam chicken with baby corns. Hubby gets to enjoy some fruits after lunch, kiwi and plum.

Here’s a bowl of rice with some black sesame seeds. My big kid likes to eat with chopsticks and a bowl so I got this idea of packing rice in a small round container for him so that he can hold the container like holding a bowl and eat with chopsticks. Hope he enjoys his lunch today.

Since this is a bento requested by my big kid, I named it A Requested Bento. I’ve limited time to prepare it and I had to leave from home at 5pm to the factory to avoid the traffic jams on road later when kids finish school and others finish works. It took me 45mins to reach.

I simply made the rice into round shapes and the top one are decorated with black sesame seeds. There are more than 10 rice balls in the container. In the same container, there are pan fried pork marinated with soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper and shao xin jiu.  For veggies, I stir fried bok choy with mushrooms and carrots. To add colour, I packed in two cherry tomatoes. There’s also a bowl of bitter gourd soup.

And this was my bento which I brought to eat together with my big kid.

After dinner, we shared the fruits And I spent my time reading newspaper and surfing online in his office while waiting for him to finish work. Hubby said he feels so different and so excited every time I go to see him at work and I should go more often. “Ok, Ok. I will” (whispered in my heart)

Here comes the second bento in year 2011. My previous Kick Start Bento really does its job to kill the lazy worms in me so that I can start making bentos again. But this bento is a week after the previous bento. Not good enough!

I made a vegetarian bento because I didn’t go to the market and no meats in the fridge already

I tried to make triangle onigiri but they didn’t turn out nicely, don’t really know how to wrap it properly Will have to do some research and find out how. The rice are cooked with dried mushrooms and then mixed with nattos. Next to the onigiri are spinach tamagoyaki. First time making tamagoyaki and it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. Turned out not bad, I think.

For the veggies, I grilled them in the oven with olive oil, salt and pepper except for the stir fried black fungus with carrots, onion and chinese celery.

As usual, the rest of the dishes are simply put into my bento. You can see the failed onigiri that I made. They’re broken. I packed the other two which are looking nicer into hubby’s bento but as hubby ate them, the rice fell apart. Maybe I mixed too much mushrooms and nattos that there were too little rice to hold them together. Shall try again soon.