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Sausage bread roll bento

mymealbox — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:06:16 +0000

A very simple breakfast bento. I didn’t use any of my bento equipments, just a knife and a pot to boil sausage, broccoli, and corn.

I cut the sausage into four pieces, boiled them and wrapped them with white bread. I put some mayonnaise at the tip of the bread to hold their shape.

I arranged them into a small bento box, adding lettuce, corn, broccoli, and strawberries. The corn was a nice addition, I really like its glowing yellow color that blended with the whole piece.

Mini pizza bento

mymealbox — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:13:01 +0000

After 3 days rest from bento making I felt ready again for another bento adventure. I saw this mini pizza bento in one of my bento mooks collection and wanted to try them. I used white bread for the pizza bread just like the picture I saw, cut them into four parts. Then the bread was covered with spaghetti sauce first before I added sausage slices, corn, and mushroom toppings. Finally the pizza was covered with grated Kraft quick melt cheese before I put them in the oven.

I cut a few slices of cucumber and make use of the sausage remain and cut them into flower shape. I fried the sausage in a flat pan with very little cooking oil to avoid the sausages became too oily or greasy and I liked how it turned out.

After 10 minutes I checked out my pizza and some parts of the bread almost burnt. The cheese surprisingly melted well. I arranged the pizza into a small bento box along with the cucumber slices and the flower sausages. We still have a kiwi in a fridge so I did my usual routine with my v-shaped kiwi cutter.

Someday I like to make my own pizza dough and sauce but I will wait until we have a housemaid to assist me working on that.

Quick teddy bento

mymealbox — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:15:22 +0000

Another quick and light breakfast bento. I bought a handful of dinner roll for breakfast (irony ) with bacon, egg, and sausages. It’s still very early morning and I had time to spare for a quick bento.

I got a rough idea on how the finished teddy bread look, so I prepared the sausage first. After I cut two thin slice for the face, I cut the rest to make several flower sausage. The flower sausage was not that hard, just use a straw to cut and mark the middle area and then with knife; cut from the straw line to the outer part and your done. Just be very careful with the knife since it’s very close with the fingers when doing this stuff.

I fried the sausage but strangely they didn’t expand as expected. I really had to blame the sausage, I used other brand the other day for practice and the result was good. I must keep a note to never buy this brand again for making bento.

The teddy face was made with cheese cut with knife, eyes and mouth from peas skin cut with emoticon vegetables cutter. I had to settle with the reddish cheek while I wanted them pink, kind of hard finding a pink sausage around here.

As for fruit part, I really had to eat up all kiwi in the fridge, so no other choice then, cut with the trusted v-shaped kiwi cutter ^_^