Bentos # 92 - Inarizushi

I found tofu pouch /aburaage at a Korean supermarket in Sri Hartamas at 50% discount. It has only 1+ week left until expiry date. But still a good deal, so bought two packets, the other for my sis, Biblo. Those who follow her blog would know this happened beginning of the month, and I'm only posting now. Anyway, the Korean tofu pouches taste the same as Japanese. The only difference is the shape - these are cut diagonally into triangles, unlike the Japanese ones, which are rectangles.

I made some for d'hubby's morning break, stuffed with rice mixed with Korean seaweed; with some dumplings and fishpaste/filament ball. See the empty space in the middle? That was reserved for edamame, only d'hubby couldn't wait another minute for me to take them out from the pot and dry them. He didn't say anything, but turned on his car engine (which is very loud). So I hastily snapped a pic and send it off. Of course with no sauce, but that just serves him right for being so rude! *_*

The kids had the same for lunch, complete with the edamame.
As for me, I had a big brunch of nasi lemak with sotong and kerang after the annoying incident. Felt much better after that... *_*

Bento # 85 - # 91 - Adult bentos for morning break

Since the kids had been eating out or having takeaways, I decided to pack bento for d'hubby instead. He prefers to lunch with colleagues, so these bentos were for his morning break. These bentos went back 1 month ago. I was contemplating not to post this as the bentos were rather boring. But thought my dear sis, Biblo, needed some encouragement to post her bentos which are also not of the kawaii category.

Bento #85 - just simple ham, cheese & lettuce sandwich, swiss roll and Kueh Bahulu.

Bento # 86 - futomaki, unagi maki, curry puff (from Ikea which has less and less fillings), a small piece of brownie and packet soju from the Bento party organised by Bentopet and Emily. Thanks! Those came in handy as I don't think d'hubby will be impressed by cutesy container... hehe..Bento # 87 - Mixed herb pita bread with french garlic ham, lettuce & capsicum, with flower & roll from sandwich ham and cheddar cheese.
The blue bento box is actually a Mickey Mouse box, which d'hubby said didn't suit his image..... haha. So I tried this round black box below for Bento #88. Looked good. In reality, after I took the photo, I couldn't fit the upper container (with fruits) on top of the lower container although the later wasn't filled to the brim. The upper container takes up almost 1/3 of the bottom container's space. I had to rearrange the items to accommodate that. So it's actually pretty small. No wonder my sis had to bring two of these boxes for lunch.

Bento # 89 - Bakchang (made by a SIL's grandmother) cut into half to fit in the box, garnished with capsicum & lettuce, mini mandarin oranges and honeydew.

Bento # 90 - chicken curry puff, longan, peanut angku kueh, and mini mandarins.

Bento # 91 - charsiew pau, siumai, prawn wrap, edamame, grapes and mini mandarin.
So my dear sis, I've posted my boring bentos. Now your turn!! No more excuse that your bento is boring.

Fantastic Four

Blessed Mom and Angeline passed me this tag some time ago. Shame on me for taking so long to do it.... ^_^



Four places I go over and over:-
-Solaris Mont Kiara for kids' classes, various cafe and Cold Storage;
-Toys'R'Us during this hols for free entertainment;
-BookRental shop in Desa Sri Hartamas for my reading fix;
-Mysoju.com for a daily dose of Korean/Taiwan drama.


Four people who email me regularly:-
-My eldest sis (passing on jokes etc, only she got the email address wrong and my hubby who gets a copy at his office email will tell me about it);
-My hubby (more jokes);
-hubby's aunt in Sg (religious / inspirational messages and updates on grandchildren);
-spammers.


Four of my favorite places to eat:-
-Japanese restaurant in Renaissance Hotel for all-you-can-eat buffet on Saturdays;
-Delicious at Bangsar Village;
-Ming Room at BSC for yummy dimsum;
-Any place with good Nasi Lemak


Four places I’d rather be:-
-In Tokyo, buying Bento Accessories;
-In Brisbane, enjoying the holiday Blessed Mom & Family just had ^_*;
-In Paris, because I've not been there and would love to sit at a cafe sipping coffee *hint, hint to d'hubby*;
-In Singapore, for Christmas..... oh wait... I'll be there next week.... *_* ..... I love over-commercialised Christmas, better than oh-so-boring all-shops-are closed Christmas in Western countries.


Four TV shows I could watch over and over:-
Can only think of one - Friends, my all time favourite which I'm still watching on Astro 10 years on. I may watch certain episodes of some Korean/Taiwanese drama a few times... but doubt I'll still watch them for the next 10 years.


Four people I think will respond:-
-Biblo
-Emily
-Kel
-Arlene

Fancy Sushi for dinner

I was bowled over by Kel's fancy sushi here. And she has very kindly translated the tutorial she got from a Mandarin website to English. Thanks again Kel!

When I showed the pic to the kids to show them what they'll be having for dinner, Boylet wasn't keen on the flower. So I googled and managed to find one with a boat instead here.

And my product... not too good, looked more like a flagpole than a boat... haha. But I give myself a pass for a first attempt *thick skin ^_^*. The flag was ebikko mixed with rice with a filament stick in the middle, and the pole and 'boat' was egg. My eldest sis, took one look and said "What for!" What a party pooper.

That's what the kids had for dinner: fancy sushi, ebikko/filament stick maki, baby octopus gunkanmaki, seaweed/tofu soup and fruits - watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew.
Of course, Babylet came running when she saw the camera. And here she is with her current favourite pose.

Hand-me-downs

Periodically, I would look through Girlet's and Boylets outgrown clothings to either give away or let Babylet use. I found this pair of beaded slippers that Girlet used to wear.


Babylet tried on the slippers, and I told her, "wah, your new shoes are so pretty". Babylet was very proud and walked around the house with it, beaming away, like this.

Then came Girlet, who took a look at the slippers and said "Those are my old shoes". Immediately, Babylet's expression changed to this.

She took off the slippers and said "I want MeiMei's new shoes". Oopsie! Kids can be so vain even at the age of 27 months. By the way, I took the angry expression pic after the incident just for this post, and vain Babylet is ever ready to pose for the camera. She can turn on her glaring look very well, huh?

Bento # 84 - Stomping Elephants

This bento was from two weeks ago. As it was the last bento for Girlet to bring to Kindergarten, I thought to make a themed bento which she has always enjoyed. I looked at my bento stuff and having found some elephant mould, cutter and sauce container, decided to make a elephant themed bento. This took some planning as I had to make elephant shaped chicken nuggets ahead (see previous post).

Top : Jelly, Elephant container with tomato sauce, edamame and filament stick on elephant picks

Bottom : Elephant nugget, elephant onigiri, with carrots separating them, and coral lettuce to make it look like a jungle. And of course elephant fork and spoon too.

I tried to make the eye and ear for the nugget too, but the seaweed would not adhere as the nugget were not smooth. Couldn't think of how to improve the looks of the elephant nugget, any thoughts?

Baked Chicken Nuggets

Oh my, time has flown. I made this two weeks ago. I don't usually follow recipes exactly. Just put bits together according to what I have on hand or thought interesting. For this, I combined the recipes from allrecipes, here and youtube, forgot link.

I used chicken breast meat, because too lazy to debone the drumstick. However, I did pound (or whatever the correct word is) on the breast meat to tenderize it. Then I used metal cookie cutters to mark the outline (weren't sharp enough to cut through the meat) and cut with kitchen scissors. The leftover bits were left as strips and cooked the same way. (Not pictured here cos not pretty *_*)

I mixed plain flour with powdered parmesan cheese and pepper. Then put the flour mixture, beaten egg and crushed cornflakes onto their respective plates, arranging them in an assembly line. First the meat was rolled in the flour mixture, then dipped into egg, and covered with the crushed cornflakes. Then baked in the oven at 190*C for 15 minutes. And the results were healthful, crunchy chicken nuggets. The meat was tender but a tad dry. But the crunchiness made up for it.

The older kids had a few pieces each. Fussy babylet came to admire the results but refused to try. She ended up with milk for dinner again. She's already 27 months - old enough for "If you don't eat dinner, you can jolly well starve" routine yet?

Another question. Besides dinosaur nuggets from NTUC on my Singapore shopping list, what other nuggets to add?