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Eating boring salad for lunch? Not me!<br />
Thanks to <a href="https://bit.ly/2Gj8rm5" target="_blank">Hello Kitty Veggie Cutter</a> from <a href="https://en.bentoandco.com/discount/FUNBENTOBOX5" target="_blank">BENTO&CO</a>, my salad bento is very cute and fun to eat.<br />
Add water and a couple of sliced carrots in a microwave-safe bowl. Cook for about 30 minutes, rinse them in cold water and cut them out with the veggie cutter. What I like about this is that it includes facial features. One step and done!<br />
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For the rice balls, I cut a piece of nori seaweed with a decorative paper cutter from DAISO.</div>
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It creates a nice lace effect. It's not made for food, so wash or sanitize it before use.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2JNN8de" target="_blank">White & Red Retro Moda Lunch Box</a> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2YZ10Yr" target="_blank">Hello Kitty Onigiri Mold Set</a> from them and love both!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bento box is BPA free and made in Japan. Great size for kids, but also for working women like me. It provides a right amount of energy </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">and I love the simple and stylish design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s available in red and blue, so get matching bento boxes with different colors with your child ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can make Hello Kitty shape easily with the mold.</span></div>
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Watched the Disney movie "Ratatouille " and got inspired to make a mouse bento.<br />
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These are skillet shaped measuring spoons.<br />
Received this as a souvenir from Japan!<br />
I had seen some moms put it in bento boxes, so I was excited when I got this.<br />
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Got Dutch Oven shaped salad containers and sauce containers at a dollar store called Seria when I visited my family in Japan early this year. How cute these are!!!!!<br />
Daiso is well known Japanese dollar store here in California, but Seria is as mush popular as Daiso in Japan. Must go to store when you visit Japan! They have tons of cute and quality items.<br />
Oh, the white bento box in the top picture is from Seria too! And mini grilled pans and a mini measuring bowl..<br />
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I colored quail eggs with plant based food coloring from Whole Foods Market.<br />
Just put a couple of drops of blue and red in a glass and add water to make a nice purple color.<br />
Soaked cooked and shelled quail eggs for about 30 minutes to color the eggs.<br />
I used to use vegetables like beets to color eggs, but not anymore.<br />
These are made with vegetables. I can use this food coloring without guilt.<br />
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We got tons of nectarines in our backyard.<br />
Made jams, pies and BBQ sauce. I marinated chicken with the BBQ sauce and grilled it for dinner.<br />
It was yummy! Used the leftover for the bento.<br />
Recipe-> <a href="https://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/peach-barbecue-sauce.html" target="_blank">Peach BBQ Sauce</a> (Replace peach with nectarines)<br />
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<br />Mayumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613330898184638088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740690483827742495.post-25661656236302002802019-07-14T22:42:00.000-07:002019-07-14T22:43:26.737-07:00Cute Colorful Plastic Wrap<br />
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Found these<a href="https://www.hitachi-chem.co.jp/barbapapa/#section-Product" target="_blank"> colorful plastic wrap</a> in Japan!<br />
Available in blue, pink and yellow. You can make more colors by layering different colors.<br />
Blue + Pink = Purple<br />
Blue + Yellow = Green<br />
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You can make cute lunch to go really quick with these.<br />
Shape cooked Japanese rice in a piece of plastic wrap to create round shape.<br />
Cut<a href="https://www.michaels.com/classic-chalkboard-labels-by-recollections/10263671.html" target="_blank"> chalkboard stickers </a>to make masks.<br />
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Lama or Llama...? Not sure which one is correct, but this is rice lama and beets pink curry!<br />
Made white curry and added beets puree to make cute pink color.<br />
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piece of plastic wrap and put 10g of rice on each. Make flat round pieces
with the small rice balls. This will become owl’s stomachs. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
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mix well to add color. </span><span style="background: white; color: #171717; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Divide</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Meiryo",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> into 2 on plastic wrap.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li style="background: white; color: #171717; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Add the filling in the center of the rice.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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press with your finger to make space for the white rice stomach.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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press together, wrapping tightly with plastic wrap.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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4th of July is just around the corner!<br />
What are you planning to do on the holiday?<br />
If you going on a picnic, how about taking these cute bears with you?😍<br />
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I created mini burgers with mini tomatoes, basil mozzarella cheese!<br />
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For dessert, I made <a href="https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/blueberry-bran-muffins-4720585" target="_blank">Blueberry Bran Muffins</a> and packed with strawberries and cherries that I bought at a local farmers market.<br />
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I visited my family in Japan a couple month ago. I was looking for a cute lunch box for picnic use and found this at Afternoon Tea shop in my hometown.!!<br />
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I like the color, size and quality of this. They change the design seasonally, so would love to purchase different one next time I go to Japan!<div>
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Packed cute teddy bear rice balls and panda chocolate sandwiches, egg sandwiches, fresh vegetables and fruits! </div>
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Purchased edible flower mix at Seedgeeks a while back.<br />
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Planted in spring and it has been blooming non stop lately!<br />
It's really beautiful and inspired me to make this bento. (Curry and Rice)<br />
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I wrap with them with wet paper towel, place in a ziplock container and store them in fridge.<br />
It lasted about a week!<br />
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More bento idea with edible flowers to come:)<br />
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I use rice for 90% of my bento, but today's bento is bread!!<br />
Just cut out slices of bread with cookie cutters and place them on beautiful color veges.<br />
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I used a bear shape one to make a frog.<br />
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Tomato (for heart backdrop)</div>
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<li> Place vegetables and cheese in locations shown for character backdrop coloring.</li>
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Got beautiful rainbow chard at farmers market and inspired to make unicorn bento.<br />
I've seen cute unicorn cakes on Pinterest and had been thinking about making unicorn theme something.<br />
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Just cut off stems and pickle with similar color ones for about one hour.<br />
Then just thinly slice and use it for unicorn mane.<br />
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For the purple flowers that I put on the unicorn's head, I boiled purple cabbage with water and place sliced radishes in it to color it into purple. The cabbage water is blue, but if you marinade about over one hour, the pink color of radish starts blending in blue water and create nice purple color.<br />
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I'm not sure if you can see it, but I put the video ↓ :)<br />
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The full step-by-step recipe will be on JapanUp! August issue;)<br />
Will post here when I get the artwork from them!<br />
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Got a lot of beautiful, colorful and yummy vegetables at farmers market last Sunday.<br />
Since not party plan for the memorial day, I made a lot of side dishes for my bento for this week.<br />
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1. Roasted beets with honey and lomon<br />
2. Salmon patties<br />
3. Japanese-style sesame rainbow chard<br />
4.Marinated baby heirloom tomatoes<br />
5. Peperoncino cabbage<br />
6. Hoeny-Lemon braised sweet potato and carrot<br />
7. Sauteed yellow mushroom and zucchini<br />
8. Pickled radishes<br />
9. Kinpira carrot and sweet potato<br />
10. Cream braised radishes<br />
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Also I made vegetable soup with excess vegetables.<br />
Oh, and chocolate cream with cauliflower;) It's my favorite healthy farm-fresh dessert!<br />
(<a href="http://84thand3rd.com/2014/08/21/vegan-chocolate-buttercream-dairy-free-gluten-free-soy-free-nut-free-refined-sugar-free-probably-paleo-too/" target="_blank">recipe here</a>)<br />
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Easy and fun bento using a bear shape cookie cutter from Daiso!<br />
I love Daiso so much.... I think I go there every week:)<br />
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I made Japanese omelet to create a train, but you can use whatever...<br />
Just cut them into rectangle shapes. ex, vegetables, cheese, tofu, etc..<br />
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What you need:</div>
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Cooked Rice</div>
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Carrot</div>
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Japanese Omelet</div>
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2. Cut a piece of nori seaweed into a thin trip and place on the rice as shown</div>
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3. Add short cuts of nori seaweed as shown to create rails.</div>
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4. Create a Japanese omelet and slice to get 2 rectangle shapes. </div>
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5. Cut out a sliced carrot with a bear shape cookie cutter.</div>
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6.Place the egg and carrot on the rice. Also placed sliced olives to create wheels.</div>
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7. Cut a piece of nori seaweed with a scissors or a seaweed puncher and create the pace parts. Also make small squares for windows.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebrating the soon to launch Tanoshi kids computer! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">'Tanoshii' means Fun in Japanese.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They offer Fun + Safe + Educational computer for school-age kids!</span><br />
<a href="http://tanoshiinc.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">tanoshiinc.com</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Follow them on twitter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/tanoshikids" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">@TanoshiKids</span></a>Mayumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613330898184638088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740690483827742495.post-23265314652857474972017-05-04T22:46:00.001-07:002017-05-04T22:46:12.647-07:00Vegetarian "Fish" sushi bento <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tomorrow is Chilidren's day! I made koinobori bento for Japan Up! May issue.<br />
Vegetarian 'Fish' sushi bneto :P<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Koinobori is Japanese colorful carp windsocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Carp is a symbol of strength and success in Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Japanese hang these windsocks outside for Children's Day (May 5th) to bring good luck to their kids health and success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One set of the windsocks usually comes with 3 sizes. The big one symbolize father,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the medium one mother and the small one child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Make a Japanese omelet. Or you can use a store-bought one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Make 3 different sizes of oblong shapes by slicing a cucumber, omelet and red pepper. Also cut right side end as shown to create tails for fishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Make 3 small rice balls in sizes that match up well with fish pieces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Make a long thin strips with a sheet of nori seaweed as shown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Place fish piece on rice and wrap with seaweed strip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Create round eyes by poking a slice of cheese with a straw and other parts by cutting from a piece of nori seaweed with a seaweed puncher or scissors.</span></div>
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Weather is getting warm and beautiful flowers are blooming everywhere!<br />
I'm growing organic micro-greens on a windowsill in my kitchen.<br />
They look so happy with bright sunshine.<br />
I have purchased edible flower seeds mix at Etsy. I think it's time to sow it now:)<br />
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I colored rice with naturally colored tart plum sesame seeds and shaped into flower shape with a mold that I purchased in Japan.<br />
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When I use smaller bento boxes, I like to press rice with this mold into a compact rice cake.<br />
It also makes a bento very pretty:)Mayumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613330898184638088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740690483827742495.post-43569757659450631442017-03-16T20:16:00.000-07:002017-03-16T20:16:05.655-07:00Omelet Rice Bento <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sneak peak at the April issue of JapanUp! magazine.<br />
Created bunny omelet rice bento just in time for Easter :)<br />
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It's hanami season!<br />
Hanami is a Japanese way of celebrating cherry blossom season.<br />
It is common to have a picnic under cherry blossom trees with your family or friends.<br />
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3 colored dango is a popular spring food and often eaten at hanami.<br />
Dango is a Japanese dumplings related to mochi.<br />
It's usually pink, white and green and it is said that each color represents sakura (cherry blossom), sweet sake and leaves.<br />
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I made rice balls looked like 3 colored dango to celebrate the beginning of March!<br />
I colored rice with naturally colored sesame seeds. (Pink: tart plum flavor. Grenn: green tea flavor.)<br />
As I mix the sesame seeds with warm rice, the seeds release the beautiful color and dyed the rice.<br />
I like the colors and the fact that it's all natural!<br />
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<br />Mayumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613330898184638088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740690483827742495.post-81587858969752815722017-03-08T12:00:00.000-08:002017-03-08T12:00:19.607-08:00Hungry Dog Rice Ball Bento<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Lt-6qnp8uOkvFgJA93G9601luyj2eaEXIMM1A64FbeR045VlG9MZQGdX5lN3-WHj5ByDiPzr1JxloBlFwRY6nQqJOLloTRIAU0GKakXHr5uLtiseFaAolBzPEBV01UfLtMke7mPSlXwz/s1600/Hungry+Dog+Bento+funbentobox.com.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Lt-6qnp8uOkvFgJA93G9601luyj2eaEXIMM1A64FbeR045VlG9MZQGdX5lN3-WHj5ByDiPzr1JxloBlFwRY6nQqJOLloTRIAU0GKakXHr5uLtiseFaAolBzPEBV01UfLtMke7mPSlXwz/s1600/Hungry+Dog+Bento+funbentobox.com.jpg" /></a><br />
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Made a dog-shaped rice ball with a tofu bone for Japan Up! magazine March issue.<br />
You could put other food in his mouth too! (karaage, vegetables)<br />
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Sushi donuts have been very popular on SNS and I see someone posting their sushi donuts pictures on Instagram almost every day!<br />
Here is my take on sushi donuts using Japanese furikake, "Umami Toppers"(sold as "Tiki Toppers" in Hawaii) and tiny rice crackers, "Tobikko Arare" from Azuma Foods.<br />
Spread a thin layer of rice on a donuts mold and arrange avocado and spicy crab meat.<br />
Put another layer of rice to cover the ingredients,<br />
Take out from the mold and dip the donuts in a mixture of flour and water.<br />
Coat with furikake and/or tobikko arare and deep fry!<br />
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*Flavor*<br />
on the left: Wasabi Toppers and Tobikko Arare.<br />
on the right: Granola Toppers. (mixture of oats, dried vegetable and fruit)<br />
on the bottom: Jut fried after dipping on the flour/water. Sprinkle Tart Plum Toppers after fried.<br />
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All flavor of Umami Toppers are free of artificial colors and preservatives.<br />
Tobikko Arare is gluten free and roasted unlike the regular fried rice crackers on the market.<br />
I liked the crunchiness of sushi donuts and the nutty flavor of fried Tobikko Arare!!<br />
Great portable food and I'm ready to take these cuties to a picnic!!!<br />
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Created heart shaped inari and made it look like a fox:)<br />
Please pick up Japan Up! February issue for more detail !! (available in LA and OC area)<br />
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My page on JapanUp! magazine got bigger and one full page from a half page!<br />
January 2017 features "Year of the Rooster Bento".<br />
Please pick up the magazine at Japanese grocery stores or restaurants if you live in LA or OC!!Mayumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613330898184638088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740690483827742495.post-18888869975038766722017-01-01T22:20:00.003-08:002017-01-01T22:20:57.208-08:002016 Best Nine ~Fun Bento Box~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you so much for visiting my blog in 2016!<br />
My word for 2017 is "Farm to Bento Box".<br />
Looking forward to making healthier and more fun meal for my husband and me:)<br />
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Have you seen these tiny red babies called "Sweety Drops"?<br />
Whole Foods Market sells this cutie at their olive bar.<br />
I don't know what this really is, but they look like micro cherry tomatoes.<br />
I've seen some bento with micro tomatoes before and wanted to try them ever since.<br />
I was so happy when I found this sweety drops at Whole Foods!<br />
Especially Christmas season, these are very useful;<br />
Use 2 pieces and make a ribbon-> See my <a href="http://taste-of-japan.blogspot.com/2016/12/gingerbread-tofu-man-christmas-bento.html#.WE3ulbIrLIU" target="_blank">GINGERBREAD TOFU MEN BENTO</a><br />
Use as ornaments -> <a href="http://taste-of-japan.blogspot.com/2016/12/snowman-rice-balls-bento.html#.WE3u5rIrLIU" target="_blank">SNOWMAN RICE BALLS BENTO</a><br />
And like today's post, it can be used as a red nose!!<br />
You could use a cherry tomato too, but I think their sweet and sour taste goes better with rice.<br />
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Here is simple steps to make this Santa Claus rice ball.<br />
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1. Just place a rice ball in a bento box. (Short grain brown rice)<br />
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2. Make white suhi rice into beard, fur trim and a pompom shape in plastic wrap.<br />
Just place on the brown rice ball in the bento box.<br />
Hat: Red pepper<br />
Nose: Sweety dropMayumihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613330898184638088noreply@blogger.com0