Thursday, February 25, 2010

Castle Cake


Not a bento, but definitely still food. This is a cake i made for my english class after we read Frankenstein. It is a three tier chocolate cake with grey icing, chocolate doors, graves, and fruit leather stained glass windows. One of the coolest cakes i've ever made!

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Totoro Love


Who wouldn't love this adorable little guy? It took me forever to actually eat him. I found this tutorial for totoro on AnnaTheRedBento Factory, i absolutely love her site and wish i could've made my sandwich half as nice as hers! It is a peanut butter and honey sandwich on wheat bread. With celery and carrot sticks, clementines and red pepper. So adorably delicious!

Sushi Love


So i decided to try some sushi! Of course it is all vegetarian, so its just a cucumber carrot roll, and its not very tight at that. If anybody has any pointers about how to roll sushi please comment!! Also recipes would be appreciated! On the top tier i have peaches and below the sushi is some celery. Yum!

More Valentines day Love


I have to say I'm quite proud of this bento!! It is just simply rice, shaped into hearts with the cookie cutters my boyfriend got me for valentines day <3!, and broccoli with carrot flowers in the bottom tier, carrot sticks with cheese flowers and grapes in the top tier. Some bentos i kinda feel sad about eating, this was one of them. it was just so cute! but so delicious, and of course healthy as always!

Monday, February 15, 2010

Valentine's Love


This is one of my favorite bentos i have made so far! Heart shaped rice with nori, broccoli with carrot flowers, a mini muffin with a piggy face and strawberries with heart shaped kiwi!! Since i had no school last week i didn't have the chance to make valentines day bentos so this week will, hopefully, be all love!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

More Soba Love


Yet another soba noodle bento (okay, so I made a huge batch of them, and i can't let them go to waste!) I thought to make it a bit more pretty i would add some flowers with my new cookie cutters i got! I got them at a cooking supply store in the strip district. If you're near Pittsburgh and love markets and stuff, you HAVE to go to the strip district. It is amazing, i felt like a kid in the candy store there, especially in the Japanese market and Tea shop. Back to the bento, I have my normal soba noodle salad with some carrots (of course) and peaches. If anybody knows how to slice up carrots so they look more appealing than just sticks tell me!!!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Falafel Love


I decided to have something new for lunch..the answer: falafel!! If you've never had this middle easter treat your missing out!! These little chickpea nuggets from heaven are set on a carrot that i cut up (I'm still in love with these carrots, I'm not orange though...yet) and a little bit of broccoli. On the top tier I have some sliced peach..my favorite fruit. This is a relatively healthy lunch since instead of frying the falafel i baked it. This only affects the flavor slightly, but the fried ones are amazing.