The lemon chicken was tasted better from the last one but I still like chicken karaage better and easier to make. The sausage king was very easy to make since I wanted a simple shape for my first trial. I only needed to cut the sausage in half  for the body and cut the other half again for the crown. The quail egg was harder to cut since the yolk could get in the way. I used toothpick to combine all the parts and put sesame seed for their eyes.

The heart shape onigiri was made using the rice mold I bought from Daisho, larger than the other rice mold I’ve been using but I couldn’t control the thickness unlike the other mold. The heart shaped cheese was made with the heart shape cookie cutter and the cherry tomato was cut with a knife, very simple.

I didn’t have any idea for the other bento box pair so since I still had lots of apples, apple rabbit again and I was really getting better making them :p. Since I didn’t have any idea at all and haven’t put vegetables, I just cut cucumber, broccoli, and add star shaped carrot in the middle to fill up the spaces, and made today lunch bento.

After I took the picture and looking at them, I realized that I didn’t like this dark blue bento box, I should have picked other colors, at least not as dark as this one. With dark bento box, the overall bento looked gloomy, not as cheerful with bright colored bento box. I should took note that from this moment on I should always buy bright colored bento box.

The lemon chicken itself was a failure since while the frying process was good, I put too much lemon juice on the fried chicken before wrapped them with nori so the taste was sour (but it still look quite delicious on the picture :p).

Again I first trial my new bento equipment, this time I used the 4 shapes rice mold, but I only using three, the heart, triangle, and star. I put the X carrot (cut from alphabet ham & vegetables cutter), tiny star cheese (from the same set of alphabet cutter), and added pink furikake. They didn’t have any meaning, I just put them to add some colors.

I saw the twin little piggy on one of my bento mook I had. Quite easy to make, just need to find the right size of carrot and then cut one fourth circle shape of cucumber for the ear parts. I used toothpick to attach the carrot to the body (quail egg) and add the usual sesame seed for their eyes.

Since I had lots of cucumber and carrot  I add them to my bento, cut them in bites size and put them on the silicon tray (of course they also new, they all new ) along with some kiwi and pear bites.