Fried Udon Bento

On Thursday, 21st April, Messy is craving for one of her favourite fried Udon. It's been 1-2 months since I last cooked this. Hmm... I find Messy's likings in food somehow are slightly different from most of the kiddos. For my info, all the kids and most adults I've known don't like Udon as it is tasteless and you really have to add lots of seasonings and strong flavoured ingredients to make it delicious but still they won't like it. Haha...
I just add any ingredients Messy likes, light soy sauce and mirin when frying Udon. She like it so much and will have it for her breakfast, recess break-time in school and after school when she reach home. 

Messy's Fried Udon Bento.

Enlarged view of the quail egg flowers. 

These quail eggs are molded using flower shaped cookies cutters. I learned it from one of the Bento Mamas in Facebook. Here are the steps :

1. Boil the quail eggs and peel them while still hot.
2. Use a small cookies cutter (those metal types with deeper hollows) with the cutting part facing downwards. 
3. Put in one quail egg, press on it gently with your thumb or the back of a blunt plastic utensil for about 2-3mins or as long as you like. 
4. Now you have an egg flower w/o a mold！
5. Pop it in the fridge until it is completely cooled and done！

Easy uhh... Have fun trying this out and you can use other shapes！

This is cooked on 18th Feb 2011. 

Cheeky's Fried Ee-Mee Bento on 18th Feb 2011.

Messy's 10th Birthday！

Today is Messy's Birthday and we're bringing them to East Coast Park beach for picnic, build sand castles, blowing bubbles and playing with some fireworks together with my parents, my closest cousin, her family and 2 of our friends with their family. After that we'll go to MacDonald's for dinner. All the kids are so excited！
Usually we'll just had a simple celebration dinning out and a small cake for her at home on different days but this year Messy wanted something different, wanted more people to share the joy and fun together with her. 


On Friday (15th April) morning, I made her a surprised Birthday Cake bento and she was very happy！

Messy's Birthday Cake Bento.

The night before, I prepared another surprised food for her and it was Molded Chocolates！I bought a packet of dark and white cooking chocolates each few days ago, intending to try melting and molding into shapes I wanted after reading Tips on Bentolious Blog. It seems to be very easy but once I started doing it, it wasn't at all！
The first method I used was using microwave on a little bit of white chocolate I intended to add some red coloring to make it pink. That was successful but once I added the color, it turned slightly hard so fast！So I tried using another method, double boiling. This took SO LONG and when it started to melt, I noticed some dark yellow oil forming so I stirred it, but no matter how much and how long I stirred, it just won't mixed well, not smooth！
ARRGGH！I gave up and hurried pour into the molds as it was getting very late, around 4plus in the morning, I had to wake up early the next day to prepare other things for the celebration. No choice, I'll just had to leave it as it is... 

Although this is not successful but I'm already contented because Messy was very happy with all the surprises I gave her on this special day.

I'm still wondering why is my chocolate melting unsuccessful, where have I done wrong and did I missed out any important steps?

Fried Egg Noodle Bento

This is the first time I fry egg noodle with Indo sweet sauce. This sauce is similar to the kinda dark sweet sauce that you find in those instant maggie noodles (to be cooked dry). 

Fried Egg Noodle with white cabbage and mashed pork luncheon meat. In the other tier 3 Happy Quail Eggs and 3 Fried Smiley Potatoes.

Messy love the sweet noodle and requested to have it again but Cheeky don't like the taste, maybe she prefers the original salty taste type of noodles. Anyway I had already planned to cook other food for her. 

*This is my previous bento that I made on 15th Feb 2011, before I started this blog.