Rudolf Cheese Puffs

Another Christmas-themed bento. My youngest son had a class party and we were assigned to bring a savoury dish to school.

I found a very yummy recipe from Taste which is Prosciutto and Cheese Puffs and I thought it would be perfect for the party. Since I did not have prosciutto, I replaced it with bacon.

Here I share you the recipe :

Prosciutto and Cheese Puffs
adapted from Taste

Ingredients :
 1 cup water
 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
 115g unsalted butter, cut into pieces
 1 cup plain flour
 4 large eggs
 1/2 cup (60g) finely chopped prosciutto (I replaced it with bacon)
 2/3 cup grated cheddar cheese

Method :
1. Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C fan). Line two large baking trays with baking paper.
2. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine the water, salt and butter, and bring to the boil. Add the flour and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until completely blended, about 1 minute. Continue to cook, stir constantly, until the mixture starts to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 2 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl.
3. Using an electric mixer, beat the dough for 1 minute, or until it cools slightly. Add the eggs one at a time, mix well before each addition. Stir in the bacon/prosciutto and cheese, and season with salt and pepper. The dough will be very tacky.
4. While the dough is warm, place it in a pastry bag fitted with a plain 1.5 cm tip, or place into a resealable freezer bag and snip one corner of the bag to form a 1.5 cm opening. Pipe mounds of dough, each about 3cm high x 3cm wide, onto prepared trays, leaving about 2.5 cm between each. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until puffed and deep golden brown all over.
5. Transfer puffs to a platter and serve warm.

For my eldest son, I prepared :

1. Rudolf bacon and cheese puffs (with carrot, white crabstick, black sesame seeds, and pretzel)

2. Minced prawn and carrot toast (with snowflake cheese on top) with mayonaise

3. Corn on the cob

4. Watermelon for recess

Bento tools I used for this post :

"Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones" 

* Have a blessed Christmas and safe holiday *

Christmas Stockings

Since today is the last day of school, before a long school holiday, this is the last Christmas-themed bento in 2014. This time I created Christmas stockings for the boys. They are strawberry jam sandwiches with apple cuts, carrots and cheese for decorations.

Details as below :

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Christmas stocking sandwich
2. Red seedless grapes
3. Broccoli with "snowflakes and star" cheese
4. Corn on the cob
5. Ham "flower"
6. Honeydew cuts for recess

And for my youngest son, I prepared :
1. Christmas stocking sandwich
2. Red seedless grapes
3. Broccoli with "snowflake" cheese
4. Corn on the cob
5. Homemade beef meatballs
6. Fruit salad yogurt for recess

In this occassion, I'd like tosay : Merry Christmas to all of you! Count your blessings and be a blessing to others. Have a safe holiday with your loved ones....

Santa Reindeers Bento

Christmas is fast approaching! How's your Christmas preparation up to now ?

Today, I'm joining my fellow bento bloggers and friends for the Eat, Drink & Be Merry Holiday Hop.
Each reindeer is made of croissant, the tip of sausage, white crab stick, nori, and pretzels.

Details as below :

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Reindeer croissant
2. Carrot sticks
3. Homemade fish ball with cheese "snowflake"
4. Apricot balls (recipe here)
5. Corn on the cob
6. Tamagoyaki
7. Ham roll
8. Pretzels
9. Banana for recess

And for my youngest son, I prepared :
1. Reindeer croissant
2. Carrot sticks
3. Homemade fish ball with cheese "snowflake"
4. Corn on the cob
5. Tamagoyaki with salt and pepper
7. Ham "flower"
8. Pretzels
9. Kiwi fruit for recess

Please continue the blog hop by clicking on the button below and I hope you'll enjoy this hop as much as I do :) Happy holiday!

Santa Suit Bento

I've seen the idea of using coke ring as Santa's belt in facebook one day, and I think it's pretty cute. So when we went to Christmas carol in the park last night, I saved the ring from my coke can for a little surprise :)

Since my youngest son will have christmas party at school, he doesn't need to bring lunch. I made this Santa suit bento for my eldest son. He is 8 years old. When I showed him this bento, and told him not to eat the belt, he answered, "Of course, mum...I know that was a coke ring". I worried too much, I guessed :)

Inside the box :
1. Santa suit sandwich (Ham and cheese sandwich, apple, coke ring, and nori)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Broccoli with cheese on top
4. Carrot presents (with corn husk and cheese on top)
5. Red seedless grapes
6. Ham flower

notes : he had honeydew cuts for recess

Tiger Santa and Croissant

My eldest son loves rice. So I packed for him these cute tiger santa onigiri using my favourite tool, below :

My little one prefers ham & cheese croissant instead. So I packed for him a simple bento that only needs a little time to prepare.

What I prepared for my eldest son :
1. Tiger santa onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, sausage and white crab stick)
2. Homemade fish ball
3. Tofu, snow peas, and pork minced stir fried
4. Ham and carrot
5. Milk jelly with nata de coco
6. Banana for recess

And for my youngest son,
1. Ham and cheese croissant
2. Carrot stick
3. Homemade fish ball
4. Sausages
5. Milk jelly with nata de coco
6. Banana for recess

Christmas Chicken Wraps

Today the kids are having chicken wraps for their lunches. I put  grilled chicken, lettuce, roma tomato, ham, cheese, BBQ sauce, and sour cream for the filling.

This time, I would like to share the apricot balls recipe. It's a healthier version of treats and tastes so good.

APRICOT BALLS
Ingredients :
200 gr dried apricots
1/2 cup oats
1 teaspoon honey
Desiccated coconut as needed

Method :
Blitz all together in food processor
Roll into balls, then roll into the desiccated coconut until well covered.
Keep them refrigerated .

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Chicken wrap
2. Apricot balls
3. Milk jelly with nata de coco
4. Kiwi fruit for recess

For my youngest son, I prepared :
1. Chicken wrap
2. Red seedless grapes
3. Milk jelly with nata de coco
4. Kiwi fruit for recess

To add a Christmas touch, I added red napkins and Christmas-themed ring decorations for the bento. You may find them here :

Indonesian Fried Pastry (Pastel Goreng)

If Spanish people has Empanadas, Indonesian has their own version, called pastel goreng. Pastel goreng (Indonesian Fried Pastry) is fried pastry filled with vegetables, egg and chopped meat. Best to serve them with sweet chili sauce. Recipe is below :

PASTEL GORENG (Indonesian Fried Pastry)

Ingredients:

Pastry :
250 gr flour
60gr butter
60ml cold water
1/2tsp salt
1 tbsp oil
1 egg

Filling:
Oil to fry
Boiled potatoes, finely chopped
2 Carrots, finely chopped
100 gr minced chicken
3 garlic, finely chopped
1 pack of dried vermicelli (dip it in hot boiled water)
2 hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped
Salt, pepper, and sugar to taste

Instructions :
1. Prepare the filling first. Heat oil and fry the garlic until fragrant.
2. Add minced chicken & carrots. Fry until the minced chicken and carrots done.
3. Then season with salt, pepper and sugar.
4. Add vermicelli and potatoes, then for last one, add hard-boiled eggs. Mix well and leave aside to cool.

For the pastry :
1. Mix the flour with butter, egg, and salt.
2. Knead well and then add water little by little. Let it rest for 1/2 hour. Then put a tablespoon of oil and knead again until smooth.
3. Roll the dough into paper thin. Cut the dough into circles 8 cm in diameter.
4. Take a tbsp of filling and place in center.
5. Fold pastry over to make half circle and crimp at edges.
6. Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown.

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Pastel goreng
2. Carrot sticks
3. Apricot balls
4. Milk jelly with nata de coco
5. Banana for recess

For my youngest son, I prepared :
1.  Pastel goreng
2. Carrot sticks
3. Seedless red grapes
4. Milk jelly with nata de coco
5. Apple cuts for recess

For the Christmas themed ring decoration, I used :

Snowflakes Sandwich Bento

My first post for Christmas themed in 2014. Christmas is one of my favourite bento themes ever. It's just bringing warm and happiness in my heart. Sometimes I found myself singing those Christmas songs while preparing the lunches. So enjoyable :)

I've been wanting these snowflakes cutters for so long and finally I got them from Ebay. Bliss :)
Both of my kids are super excited too. They said their lunches looks so gorgeous...yay!

Inside the box there are :
1. Ham and snowflake cheese sandwich
2. Halves hard boiled egg with mini cheese snowflakes
3. Corn on the cob
4. Milk jelly with nata de coco
5. Seedless red grapes

And the kids had apple "rabbits" for their recess.

You may get the music notes food picks here :

TOP 13 of 2013

We come to the end of year and this is my last post in year 2013. Above are some of my creations  in Bebento-kids that I love. The first eight pictures (clockwise) are : The Minion Onigiri, the Pirate Sandwich Bento, the cute Doggy Rolls, my kids favourite Power Ranger, the yummy Smoked Salmon Pinwheel bento, the adorable Peppa Pig, the famous Harry Potter, and the colourful Christmas Stocking.

And the other five pictures (clockwise) are : Tooth Fairy and Tooth Superstar, First Day of School, Om Nom from Cut the Rope game, yummy Roast Pork Wrap, and last but not least, my cutey Pussy Cat. 

This year has been so fruitful in my bento blogging journey. I managed to add more variations and recipes, put up affiliate link (if you want to know where I buy my cute stuff, you may click the link on the left side of my blog or some that I included in my posts), created my Bebento E-book, joined my fellow Bento Bloggers and Friends, put my button up (at the bottom right side of my blog - you're welcome to grab it), and improved my picture quality.

I'm pretty sure that you have your own favorites. Thanks for being with me in this journey. I have so much fun in creating bento and make sure my kids have fun in eating their lunches as well. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you, may you have a wonderful and prosperous year ahead. And I'll see you in the beginning of next school term!  All the best!

Please spare your time to visit my friends in Bento Bloggers and Friends, we're having linky party.

Enjoy then :)

Happy Holiday!

Finally the end of the school day! The kids are having homemade beef sausage rolls. You may find the recipe in the Fish in the Pond post. It's a similar recipe using pork mince, but this time I used beef mince and added 1 small red onion. The best thing about making your own sausage rolls is that you can mix in any vegetables you like, in this case grated carrots.  Details as below :

For my little one, I prepared :

1. Sausage rolls with ketchup

2. "Tulip" sausages

3. Kiwi fruit

4. Cheese banner with "X-MAS" letters made of carrots

5. Kale leaf as divider

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Sausage rolls with ketchup
2. "Flower" sausages
3. Cheese banner with "Happy Holiday" letters made of carrots
4. Kale leaf as decoration

Merry Christmas to you...Have a safe and blessed holiday!

Cute Santa Sandwich

Another Christmas-themed for Bento Blogger and friends, "Santa Clause is coming to lunch" blog hop. This cute Santa are made of cheese sandwich, nori, and red capsicum. For the side dishes, I prepared :
- "Santa" shaped jelly
- Tamagoyaki (egg rolls)
- Broccoli and cheese
- Baby carrots
- Banana for recess

I edited my picture to get more christmassy feeling, lol :)

Similar food-picks that I used for this post  is in this link :

Hope you enjoy this post :)

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Santa's Reindeers

These cute reindeers are pretty easy to make. With cookie cutter and pretzels for the antlers, it's finished in no time. Details as below :

This blue box consists of :
1. Brown reindeer (wholemeal crumpet, nutela, cheese, red eggsheet, ham, nori, and pretzel)
2. Sausage and ham
3. Pretzels
4. Broccoli, Kale leaf and baby carrot

This white box consists of :
1. White reindeer (sandwich, ham, cheese, red eggsheet, nori, and pretzel)
2. "Tulip" sausages
3. Pretzel
4. Kale leaf
5. Kiwi fruit

Christmas Bells

Another version of sweet flatbread/paratha that my kids love so much. I explained it in my previous post: Sweet Flatbread Bento . I wrapped each paratha with baking paper, and put Christmas bells (yellow and red eggsheet and zucchini ribbon) on the top.

Here are the details of each box :

For my little boy, I prepared :
1. Sweet flatbread (paratha, nutela, cheese, and banana filling)
2. Ham & cheese rolls
3. Pretzels
4. Kiwi fruit

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Sweet flatbread (paratha, nutela, cheese, and banana filling)
2. Broccoli and cheese
3. "Stocking" sausages
4. Pretzels

Cheesy Snowflakes

I love looking at snowflakes-themed bento in some bento blogs. Since I don't have the cutter, I made snowflakes from cheese, and cut it using flower & star-shaped cookie cutter and straw. I wish I had radish in my fridge, it will look better in white, I supposed :)

This blue box consists of :
1. Cheese and sausage rolled in sandwich
2. Carved apple
3. Pretzels
4. Ham "flower"
5. Broccoli and cheese

In this white box, I prepared :
1. Cheese and sausage rolled in sandwich
2. Carved apple
3. Pretzels and cheese
4. Baby carrot
5. Kiwi fruit

Snowmen Two Ways

Hi there! I'm so glad to be part of Bento Blogger and Friends and participating in this Christmas blog hop. With the theme of Winter Wonderland, here are my Snowmen, that I made in two ways, one with onigiri and the other with sandwich. Details as below :

For my kindy son, I prepared :
1. Snowman cheese sandwich (nori, black sesame seed, baby carrot, and crabstick)
2. "Santa" shaped jelly
3. Corn on the cob
4. Kiwi fruit
5. Spring onion for decoration

And for my year 2 son, I prepared :
1. Snowman onigiri (white steamed rice, crabstick, nori, black sesame seed, and baby carrot)
2. "Santa" shaped jelly
3. Corn on the cob
4. Crab meatball and heart shaped tofu
5. Broccoli and Kale leaf

Hope you enjoy this post, and thanks for visiting. Let's continue to hop to my friends Kathy with her blog named Eclectic Lamb. She's a vegetarian foodie and very passionate about making cute food. Please click this button below :