Stitch Day ,,, Bento # 27

It's have been more than a week I didn't post my bento to my blog ,, (^0^) ,, since I always get stuck in traffic jam on my way home after dropped my kids ,,  experience of being stuck in the middle of vehicles, I felt so powerless to get out of it or to move as fast as I would like to (0x0)

So for more than a week, I didn't have time to go back home again after dropped the kids  ,, 

Everyday, I prepared their breakfast and lunch all together early in the morning, so I didn't have enough time to made cute one ,, (^^,)

and since today is Sunday, I'd prefer stay at home, to enjoy the day without any traffic jam ,,,,, yippppiiiieeeee \(^0^)/ ,,

I started the day with made this breakfast for my girls. For today theme, my kids choose "Stitch" theme for their bentos.

For breakfast, I made ham and cheese sandwich ,,, and add some sausages in the box ,,,

and For lunch I prepared seafood fried rice. I decorated the fried rice with stitch face made from cheese and add some fish ball at top.

Enjoy your meals girls and happy sunday all (^0^)

Charmy Kitty ,,, Bento # 026

Charmy Kitty n Friends

This bento was special request from my youngest daughter. She's got some kitty stickers from her friend, and asked me to make charmy kitty bento.

I had a shrimp in my refrigerator, so I cooked simple and quick one ,,,  "shrimp with oyster sauce"

My daughters really liked quail eggs, and wanted me to put these eggs again in their lunch box.

I decorated the box with brocolly, carrots, and flower egg ,, simple decoration ,,, (^^,)

That's it for today post ,, I will post another bento tomorrow ,,(^^,)

Cute Bunny ,,, Bento # 025

Cute Bunny Bento

For last tuesday, I made Indonesian Beef Stew (semur daging). Semur is Indonesian style slow braised stew with spice. 

Because I made this semur for children, so I used Minced Beef. I shaped the beef like a meat ball, and then simmered the beef in sweet soy sauce spiced with garlic, shallot, nutmeg, and I added pepper and salt.

I add quail egg and fried tofu. Decorated the bentos with brocolly and carrots.

and happily ,, they liked it ,, (^^,)

 

Marie Cat Lunch ,, Bento # 024

I haven't been posting bentos for most of this week, since I have to busy to post and blog last week (^^,).

I made several bentos for my kids' lunch last week ,,  and on last Monday I came up with salmon, as one of my favourite, and happily my girls love salmon too.

Here's my marie cat bento which I packed in Zojirushi Lunch Jar

Inside the lunch jar : Steam Rice with marie cat character, Salmon Teriyaki, fish ball, and chicken ball. I decorated the jar with brocolly and carrots. 

I made 2 bentos for my 2 girls ,, (^^,)

Snoopy and Woodstock ,, Bento # 023

Thanks GOD it's friday (^^,)

Busy week after long school holiday ,, so many things to do, and so limited times (^0^)

This morning I promised to prepared my kids' breakfast and lunch ,, so I came up with this chocolate and cheese sandwich ,, with snoopy and woodstock character ,, but my girl wanted to give her friends another character sandwich, so I made them dorami, bear, and rabbit sandwich (^^,) ,,

For my girls' lunch ,, I prepare one theme, snoopy and woodstock bento. I filled the box with rice, tamago egg, and indonesian style fried chicken (one of their favorite food). 

 

Kid's Cooking Class ,, Tour de sushi Tei

Herewith another activity of my kids during their school holiday (^^,)

Tour de Sushi Tei ,,

They learned to make sushi by themselves ,, so excited. This was their chance to make their own Sushi.

 All the ingredients already prepared by Sushi Tei Restaurant, and here's the ingredients :

sushi rice, tamago egg, crab, sweet corn, kani kamaboko, avokado, kyuri, Japanese mayonnaise and nori

They learned how to make the sushi and fun sushi rolling lessons ,,, guided by Sushi Tei chef.

 And at the end of the class, they can eat their yummy sushi. Wooww they showed their best sushi ,,,,, what an experience ,,,  

My kids really enjoyed the time  and had a lots of fun. 

Chinese Dumplings (Guo Tie/Kuo Tie)

Today I made "Chinese Dumplings" for my kids. In my family these called Guo Tie / Kuo Tie. Guo Tie are so popular among the Chinese people.

I had this guo tie recipe from my grandmother ,, She taught me how to make guo tie when I was a kid, and I usually watched and helped her cook guo tie every Chinese New Year (^^,)

I started with make my own guo tie skin (the dough), with flour and water ,, The dough will be difficult to knead for a while, and after that the texture went soft and easy to knead. I have to make the skin so thin and round shape, so I can wrap  the filling in perfect shape ,, see the tutorial below to create guo tie skin ,,

 

 

 

The filling for guo tie can be variant, but my version today was so simple. I filled the dumpling with ground pork, chopped shrimp, vermicelli, kuchai (it's like a spring onion), and slices of fried eggs, sesame oil, sugar, pepper, and soy sauce. Stir all the ingredients for a while until well blended. Then wrap the guo tie. 

For my kids, They'd preffered a deep fried guo tie because they like crispy skin ,,,  (^0^) enjoy your guo tie ,,, kids ,,