OK, I know I haven’t actually posted any bento photos recently. Small sprog has been making her own bento and I haven’t made any. *gasp*
Actually I haven’t been at work, but that’s another story.
Here’s the bento I made for small sprog tonight……
We’ve got from the top left:
Jam filled Gyozas! with cheese hearts to decorate.
Carrot and cucumber flowers
mini raisn box, cherry tomatoes on a skewer.
Meat bites on bone picks and a strawberry jelly cup.
The jam gyozas are wrapped in cling film as we make our bento up the night before. No way is there time in this house in the morning! The cling wrap will stop them drying out in the fridge overnight.
Another pic of the bento making in progress….
don’t look at the bottom of my sarnies, OK? The bread isn’t squishy enough or I put too much jam in and the bread split!
Carrots were sliced up on my borner v slicer to keep them even. I then stamped out the shapes I wanted from the slices.
The rest are in the fridge for bento on Friday.
People often ask what happens to leftovers when you cut out cute shapes from food for bento?
Well in my case, the carrots above have been put in a zip lock baggie and frozen. I’ll keep filling this baggie up as I make bento, then at some point the carrots will be used in soups, stews and casseroles or even just steamed for a plated dinner. It adds a bit of interest when hubs picks up a carrot with a flower shape cut out!
Here’s what I do to my leftover cheese….
It will get melted into a toastie for my lunch tomorrow. Or it might stay in the box a little longer to be used in hubs lunch on Friday, who knows?
Here’s a bento for small sprog from last week…..
Carrot and cucumber sticks, mini cherry tomatoes, babybel cheese, ham sandwiches, side car of dried fruit.
Oh and some goodies from the Asian foodstore a while back…….
Frozen char siu bun (nomnomnom!)
Kewpie Mayonnaise (nomnomnom!)
Cute sauce dipping bowls to add to my asian dinner set and some daifuku. This is a green tea flavour filled with red bean. If it’s as nice as the plain white was I ate that day, it will be yummy :0)
OK, I think I’m all caught up for now, see you soon!
