California roll bento

Nov 30, 2009 4 Comments

Just coming back from Kudus on Thursday night, still exhausted from the long journey and although Friday was a national holiday (means that we’ve got a long weekend) but still I have lots of thing to do, like doing some craft for Jojo’s bible school assignment, family gathering celebrating my mother-in-law’s birthday, and my wife’s [...]

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Nigiri sushi bento

Nov 25, 2009 10 Comments

Since right now I’m addicted with sushi making, I tried to make some sushi for my bento. I didn’t aim high on my first attempt, just a simple assortment of nigiri sushi. Since I don’t have experience with raw fish and decided to avoid it for now, besides I really don’t know if those raw [...]

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Unagi roll sushi

Nov 23, 2009 6 Comments

After my first attempt making sushi two weeks ago, I had another attempt but failed miserably last week. It turned out that the rice was too dry and after I cut the sushi roll the rice fell apart immediately and crumble. The sushi roll was still yummy though but I didn’t took any pictures of [...]

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Fish steak with pineapple salad bento

Nov 21, 2009 10 Comments

While trying to cook new recipes for my bento since I started two months ago, I’ve never done a bento using the menu from our usual cook book. It’s true that most of our usual dishes are not bento materials, but of course some of them can be made into nice looking bento. And that’s [...]

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Monkey burger bento

Nov 18, 2009 11 Comments

I wanted to make this monkey burger about 2 weeks ago, but I need to find black olives first for the eye part. We can buy olive oil in almost every supermarkets but it’s really hard to find the real olives (the green one) let alone the black olives. Now I know the place that [...]

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