Bear Bento

28 Thursday Feb 2013

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Bento, Bento Boxes, Cook, Flickr, Fruits and Vegetables, Nori, Omurice

Bear Bento Boxes

We’ve been seeing lots of Bento Boxes floating around and were inspired by Meijo’s Joy Easy Bear Bento. We decided to build our own version.

How did we do it you ask? Here’s a slight breakdown…

Bear Bento Breakdown

Salad contained:

Carrot hearts – inspired by this pin via CraftBits & CraftGossip
Star shape apple piece – inspired by this pin via Elandria At Sea. We used a star shaped cookie cutter
Zucchini Tots – inspired by this pin by raylynntexas, via Flickr

Bear consists of:

Tomato rice (Omurice) – inspired by this pin via christinesrecipes.com – this is for the main face of the bear
Spam – sliced and fried then cut in half to make the main part of the ear. We stuck it into the rice with uncooked spaghetti
Scrambled egg – for the inside of the ears and face
Hand-cut Nori – for the eyes, nose and mouth

Tomorrow we’ll give you the recipes for the Zucchini Tots and the Tomato Rice (Omurice). It took about 1.5 hours all together to get it all together and was so much fun to create.

The most important piece to this post is that Amour’s niece and nephew loved their bento box – huge success!

The kids and their Bento Boxes

Have you ever made a bento box? This was probably one of our proudest moments with cooking as it was so satisfying and quite easy to do 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Gyudon Bento 牛丼弁当 (justonecookbook.com)
What’s in YOUR Bento? The Why and How of the Egg Mold… (mysmallpotatoes.com)
What’s In YOUR Bento? Week 3… (mysmallpotatoes.com)
Learn to Make Tasty, Balanced Lunches with the Bento 101 Course (lifehacker.com)

Chrysanthemum Mug Cake

18 Monday Feb 2013

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Chrysanthemum, Cook, Flower, mug cake, recipe, Tea

chrysanthemum mug cake

My sister and I were looking for mug cakes to try – we came across Kirbie’s Cravings and their Microwave Matcha Mochi Cups.

We decided to make our own version but instead of matcha (green tea) we decided to use chrysanthemum tea.

Chrysanthemum tea is a flower-based tea made from chrysanthemum flowers. It has a floral aroma and the version our family commonly drinks also has a sweet honey taste to it. I have pictured the tin we use below. We get it at our local Asian groceries.

chrysanthemum tea

You can look up the many claimed medicinal qualities of this tea – we drink it because we like the taste 🙂

Here’s what you need (for our version):

4 tbsp wholemeal plain flour
4 tbsp Low GI sugar
1 tsp chrysanthemum powdered tea
1/4 tsp baking powder
5 tbsp skim milk
1 egg

Here’s what you do:

Mix it all together in the mug
Cook in microwave for 2 minutes (depends on microwave)
Stick a skewer into it to make sure it comes out clean
Drizzle a little honey on top
Enjoy

It’s quick – its easy – it’s delicious!

Do you have a favourite mug cake that you make? I’d love to hear about it – my next one will be a green tea version – then maybe a red velvet – or peanut butter…hmmm now I’m hungry 🙂

6 Edible Flower Recipe Ideas (theflyingfugu.com)
Recipe: Chocolate-Peanut Butter Mug Cake! (planetmarsz.wordpress.com)
Chocolate Cake In A Coffee Cup (geekalabama.com)

Apricot Toastie

30 Wednesday Jan 2013

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apricot, apricot toastie, brie, Cook, Sandwiches, white chocolate

Happy Hump Day! Hope you are all having a good one.

Apricot Toastie Goodness…

The other week we were telling you all about our toasted sandwich obsession being a Blackberry Toastie. Well we’ve tried another version being the Apricot Toastie!

All you need…

Here’s what we used:

Some bread
Brie Cheese
White Chocolate
Fresh Apricot sliced

Bang it all together into a sandwich maker – keep it in there until it’s toasted to your liking. Again enjoy with a hot beverage of your choice

It’s another delicious version! So please try it!

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Amour and Renee xx

Blackberry Toastie (lovenotesrestylestudio.com)
Make The Best Toastie (howdoesitfeeltobe.com)
How Many Ways Do You Grill Your Cheese? (circleoffood.com)
Apricot Jam (thermodelights.com.au)

Blackberry Toastie

21 Monday Jan 2013

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blackberry, brie, Cheese, Cheese sandwich, Cook, Grilling, Home, Hot, milk chocolate, Sandwiches, Toast

Blackberry Toastie Goodness

Happy Monday! How good does our toasted sandwich look? We’re hungry again just looking at it! Nom nom nom…

We’ve been slightly obsessed with toasted cheese sandwiches recently and we wanted to try a sweeter version of it.

What you need…

Here’s what we used:

Some bread
Brie Cheese
Milk Chocolate
Fresh Blackberries

Bang it all together into a sandwich maker – keep it in there until it’s toasted to your liking. Then enjoy with hot beverage of your choice 🙂

It’s delicious! So we urge you to try it!

Have you got any versions of the mighty toasted cheese sandwich that you would like to recommend to us? We love food so please don’t hold back – we’ll give most things a try 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Amour & Renee xx