Bear Flying On Broomstick 巫师小飞熊饭团

Halloween Theme Rice Based Food Art - Bear Flying On Broomstick 巫师小飞熊饭团. 

It's Halloween! 

Thinking of halloween theme, the most iconic scene is probably a witch flying on her broomstick. Transforming the scene into food art, that may be too creepy for young children or at least I know my 8yo won't eat it. So I made a cute friendly bear flying on its sweet little broomstick instead. 

How I made it:

1. Stir fry minced meat. A delicious homey dish that goes really well with rice
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Po Po's Recipe Minced Meat (Grandma's Recipe) 家乡风味 香炒肉碎

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2. Portion out the rice, mix in some dark soy sauce and shape it into bear. Add facial details, cape and witch hat using seaweed. 

3. Assemble and serve with more vegetables and steamed egg (not in the pictures). 

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Crazy Spider Halloween Bento 黐线蜘蛛便当

Rice Based Halloween Theme Food Art - Crazy Spider Bento 黐线蜘蛛便当. A hearty lunch box packed with nutritious and delicious home cooked food. Spider is made of rice wrapped with seaweed/ Nori, side dishes are stir fry broccoli & baby corn with squid, seaweed egg roll and pan fry miso salmon.

When my son came back from school, he asked me if I know any tongue twister that I could teach him. Yes, I know one in Cantonese....

"黐(chi)线(xian)蜘(zhi)蛛(zhu)条(tiao)蜘(zhi)蛛(zhu)丝(si)黐(chi)住(zhu)枝(zhi)树(shu)枝(zhi)" 

...his eyes rolled and asked me to explain the meaning. How to explain? "crazy spider's web sticking on a twig?" ....and the next question is "how", then "why?", "where"....

So to make it simpler to explain, I have made him this halloween theme lunch box. The answer is in there ;)

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How I made it:

1. Cook the side dishes. Tap the link for full recipe:

 <<Stir Fry Broccoli & Baby Corn With Squid>>

<<Seaweed Egg Roll >> 

<<Pan Fried Miso Salmon>>

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2. To assemble: Portion out some rice and wrap with seaweed. Fill up half of the lunchbox with the remaining rice, layer some lettuce at the bottom so you don't need to use so much rice. Place the rice ball on the plain rice, add facial details using cheese and seaweed. Cut out 8 thin seaweed to make the spider's legs and a long one as spider's web. Place the rest of the side dishes to fill up the empty space. Serve right away. 

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Spooky Polar & Pooh Bear 小熊小鬼呼呼万圣节饭团

Rice Based Halloween Theme Food Art - Spooky Polar & Pooh Bear 小熊小鬼呼呼万圣节饭团. Made these friendly bear ghosts for the little one to pair with Japanese curry and vegetables. Simple lunch but the kid loves it! 

How I made it:

1. Prepare homemade Japanese curry. I have an easy recipe to cook Japanese curry from scratch. This is the recipe I have been using for years, my kid-favourite curry. Get full recipe:  <<Click here for Homemade Japanese Curry Recipe >>

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2. Prepare side dishes: Saute baby french beans, broccoli and mushrooms with white onions, season with salt and pepper. 

3. Portion out some rice and mix with mashed pumpkin. Shape the rice into spooky bears as shown in the picture above. Add facial details using seaweed. Assemble and serve.

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Totoro Scrambled Egg & Sausage Tortilla Wrap 龙猫墨西哥饼卷

Character Food Art - Totoro Tortilla Wrap stuffed with lettuce, scrambled eggs and sausage. Instead of serving a sausage with the ordinary scrambled eggs, I thought of wrapping it up and shaped into a cute Totoro, serve with fresh fruits for a complete breakfast. It's a great way to encourage my child to eat raw vegetables. 

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How I made it:

1. Prepare cooked sausages, scrambled eggs, lettuce, mayonnaise and tortilla wraps.

2. Place a piece of lettuce on the tortilla wrap, layer with some mayonnaise, top with scrambled eggs and sausages.

3. Fold up from the bottom, as shown in the picture below.

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4. Fold up from 2 sides, as shown in the picture below.

5. Use a pair of scissors, trim two pointy ears. Fold down the middle part and tuck in at the bottom. 

6. Place it on the serving plate.

7. Add facial details using cheese, seaweed and fried spaghetti.

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Happy Bears Egg Mayo & Cheese Sandwich 小熊快乐早餐

Bread Based Food Art - Happy Bears Breakfast Sandwich 小熊快乐早餐. A quick egg mayo & cheese sandwich shaped into bears and little chick, served with some blueberries and homemade mixed nuts biscotti. Love these combination! 

Basic Egg Mayo Sandwich Recipe

Ingredients:

1 Egg

1 heap tbsp Japanese Mayonnaise 

Pinch of Salt & Pepper, add to taste


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Method:

1. Cook the egg in hot boiling water for 8 minutes. Rinse under cold running water. Peel and mash with a fork. Add in mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Mix well, set aside. You may make this ahead of time and keep in the refrigerator for later.

To assemble: Cut the bread into bear, flower and little chick shapes and filled it with egg mayo, layer with a slice of cheese on top. I used 2 types of cheese for the bears and layer some egg mayo to make the yellow chick. Add facial details using seaweed. Some shaved ham to make the bear dress. 

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Teddy Bear Bread 可爱小熊软面包

Bread Based Food Art - Cute Teddy Bear Bread 可爱小熊软面包. Eating bread daily can be bored but if you shape the bread into these adorable teddy bears, I bet kids and even adults don't mind having these for breakfast everyday.

每天都吃同款的面包会不会厌？我会！哈哈。。。自己做面包可以做些可爱造型，有趣又疗愈。。

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I love teddy bears and that is why I always shape my homemade bread into cute little bears. These are some of my previous designs:

Winnie The Pooh Buns 

Bear Hug Hot Dog Buns

Little Bear, Puppy & Kitten Buns

Here are some in-the-making photos. Basically just portion out the dough, add fillings and make into bear shapes. 

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Black Cat Bento/ Lunchbox 小黑猫饭盒

~ When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween ~


Rice Based Food Art - Halloween Theme Bento/ Lunchbox: Black Cat Bento 小黑猫饭盒. MEOW.....

October is here and it's time for Halloween theme food. Made this not-so-frightful halloween bento/ lunchbox for the kid. 

Some quick notes of how I made this cute little black cat bento/ lunchbox:

1.  The black cat and jack-o'-lantern are made from rice that has been mixed with mashed pumpkin. 

2. Added some Furikake in the pumpkin rice, mould into cat and jack-o'-lantern, then wrap with seaweed.

3. Facial details are made of seaweed and egg sheet. 

4. Side dishes are pan fried snapper fillet, tofu with Shimeji mushrooms topped with crispy dried shrimps, served with some blanched broccoli. 

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Cute Lion King Bread

Animal Theme/ Bread Based Food Art - Cute Lion King Meat Floss Bun. Baking fun shapes bread makes bread-baking more interesting. From turtles to bears to kittens to seals and many more that I have tried, this is one of the easy animal shape bread. 

Cute Lion King Bread

I never attend any bread making classes, all I did was just trial and error. If you think you can't make it or it's too difficult for you, think again...

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In August 2014, I have made my very first lion shape meat floss bun and I wrote:

"I laughed every time I saw these pictures of the animal bun. Just came across some cute animal buns made by others and I thought my boy would love it, so I made for my boy. I made this at night after my boy went to bed because I'm not good in handling bread dough, I need full concentration when doing this. To shape the dough wasn't as easy as decorate cakes with fondant. Bread dough change it's shapes a little after final proofing and I shaped it before the final proofing, that's the challenge!

I made 2 animals... my boy's favourite hippopotamus and lion. Hippopotamus with my dad's homemade kaya filling and lion bun with pork floss. Guess which one my boy likes the most? By animal, he likes hippopotamus, but he likes to eat the lion bun more because he likes bread with pork floss. I made this with Soft Breakfast Bun recipe, the buttery soft buns. 
8 buns never too much for both of us."

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Updated: September 2017.

Revisited this blog post and I have made it again. This time, the lion definitely looks better than my first attempt 3 years ago. :) 

How I made it: 

1. Prepare the dough. Tap to get full recipe here << Soft Breakfast Bun >> 

Soft Breakfast Bun

2. After step 4, shape the bread as follow:

3. After baked, use melted chocolate to draw the facial details.

4. Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise around the head and tip of the tail.

5. Add chicken/ pork meat floss on the mayonnaise. 

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