Happy Weekends Chicken Kara-age Bento

I'm reposting this again because I found the link to the tutorial of making cherry tomato rose！I'm gonna share with all of you here！Enjoy！
Last night before bedtime, I asked the girls what they want for tomorrow's bento and both of them wanted bread again. I guessed they wanted the imitation crabstick (kani) mayo buns (I have yet to post) that I made for them yesterday again. 
Hmm... gotta crack my brain for new designs using the same ingredients again haha...
While getting all the things ready, I saw my new Alphabet cutters and my inspiration strikes me！TGIF！TGIF！No school tomorrow！So I cut out 'HAPPY WEEKENDS' using the pandan flavor bread and stacked with 2 different colored cheeses to make it looks more 'fun' and nicer. I used a mini straw to cut holes in certain letters to make it more visible.  

Messy's Chicken Karrage Crepe Wrap with Mayo. In 2nd tier : A food cup of Kani mayo, Rabbit molded hard-boiled egg & Cherry Tomato Rose resting on a piece of crepe.

Closed up of the Rabbit molded hard-boiled egg & cherry tomato rose decor. I learned to make the rose from one of the Bento Mama's blog but I forgot which blog (browsed too many blogs on that day) and can't find thru all my bookmarks, will keep on searching for it and update here once I found it.  YES！ YIPPIE！I FOUND THE BLOG！IT'S HERE  

I made a total of 4 different designs molded eggs and let Messy choose. She's lucky to choose the Rabbit because its the nicest among all... 

A bear W/O ears！Nice visible features though...

A Hello Kitty W/O ears too！Even the details are not so clear... 

Today there is no bento for Cheeky because she has got slight fever so I decided not to let her attend school but she ate the Star molded hard-boiled egg that turned out to be a Flower. 

Girl Sammies and Rabbits Sammies Bentos

Yesterday when Messy came back from school, she told me that one of her classmate, Brinda, tried the Flower Sammies I prepared for her in the morning and said it's very nice but she was too shy to have another. Brinda thought I made the salmon tuna fillings and Messy told her it is those canned tuna spread.  Upon hearing this, I told Messy I could prepare one set for Brinda the next day since I'll be doing for her anyway and she said okay. 
Actually Messy told me to make the same mini sammies because it's fast and easy to eat, just pop it into her mouth but I want to make something different. Haha... 
I just finished with two big round sammies (w/o any feature details yet) with salmon tuna spread + addition corn kernels for more sweetness and crunchness when Messy woke up at 6AM. She told me that she just want to have ONE sammies today. 
"The other is for Brinda, Darling." I told her... (has she forgotten??? ) "No need... her Mommy will be preparing food for her every Wednesdays." Messy said. "But I thought you said okay last night when I told you I can make a set for her too?" She smiled apologetically and replied "Hee... I wasn't really listening to you because I was watching the show. Never mind, give this to 妹妹 then." Haiz... what can I say besides "okay..."
Frankly, I'm a little disappointed...  but that's okay, at least I know that her friends like the bentos I made and there are always chances to make for them！   

Messy's Girl Sammies Bento with 2 Bear-shaped Fishcakes and 2 skewers of Edamame.  

Cheeky's Rabbits Sammies Bento with 2 Bear-shaped Fishcakes and Salad. The salad consists of Edamame, corn kernels and imitation crabsticks mixed with mayo.

Like what I'd mentioned in my post yesterday, Cheeky don't really like salmon tuna spread, she asked for the same butter + kaya spread again.

Sunflower Egg Raisin Bun Bento

This was made on 24th Mar, Thursday when Messy had Math Remedial in school. Her Math is very weak since the first year she attended former school. I had tried teaching her on my own but in vain because no matter how much I tried explaining to her, she don't seems to understand and nowadays' Math is so complicated！Both of us were so much under stress during that period of time. In the end, I gave up and decided to get her a tutor which is the only best way out for both of us and YES！She really did showed so much improvements in her Final Year End Exams and all her results improved by 50%！Great！What a relief for the 2 of us.
But as her level goes higher, the difficulties go higher too. She doesn't has a very good foundation in Math (she hate this subject the most), LAZY to solve the sums, so ended up with Math Remedial every year.

I decided to make this Sunflower Egg Raisin Bun Bento because I just bought the raisin buns and Messy wanted bread for that day as she already had rice the other day, so I went online to search under my few favourite blogs for some ideas and saw this interesting, fun looking sunflower from Cute Food For Kids? I did a few pots of mushroom from chiwaku, 2 small chicken sausages of flowers and covered those empty spaces with frozen mixed veg.

Actually this was my 2nd Sunflower Egg cooked on that morning. The 1st one failed as some of the "petals" couldn't stick and fell off. Maybe I didn't put in the cheese sausages earlier before the egg white starts to cook.

Sunflower Egg Raisin Bun Bento

My 1st Bentos

I made my very 1st bento on 27th Jan 2011. I woke up very early at 530am to prepare and cook what I had learned from YouTube - Tamagoyaki and Octodogs. Also the 'girl' design sandwich from Susan Yuen, the most famous Bento Cookbook author in Hawaii.

As I couldn't find the rectangle pan for cooking tamago, I just went ahead using the normal round non-stick pan. As for the seasoning in Tamagoyaki, I just used what I can find in mom's kitchen (we're staying with my parents currently and waiting for our new flat) and also using the most simple recipe found online because I still can't get what's mirin and dashi for at that time! Anyway it still turned out nice！ 

Messy was so happy to see her sandwich bento so 'nicely & beautifully' decorated for the first time but at the same time she was getting anxious because she's going to be late for school! We rushed through doing the last decoration for the other 'tanned' girl made by Messy and I hurried sent her to school. I took the pic in the car while we were waiting for the car to warm up... Luckily she was just in time for school. *pheeew*

This is also the FIRST TIME Messy didn't nagged/complained about not leaving the house before 7am because I can tell from her facial expression : "mommy send me to school today！" & "mommy make me a special lunchbox today！

 

Messy's 1st sandwich bento with mixed veg salad & a heart-shaped Tamagoyaki.

 After sending Messy to school, I went back home to continue with Cheeky's bento. Although she's in ChildCare Ctr, there are food for her provided but she also wanted a special lunchbox.

Cheeky's 1st sandwich bento with 2 Octodogs & a heart-shaped Tamagoyaki.

 As I had more time to prepare for Cheeky, hers was more nicely done than Messy's. I'm slow in doing things when it comes to decorations, so I told myself : "I must get up much more earlier to prepare！" which I know that I sure cannot make it！ So from then on I'll stay up throughout the night if I were to prepare bentos for them... Lucky I only have to prepare for them when Messy needs to stay back in school for extra activities which is 2-3 days per week or when I feel like doing if not I'll become panda bear very soon！