totoro obento

in the left tier: totoro and soot sprites made from rice, carrots, radishes, bean sprouts.

in the right tier: lotus root and cucumber salad with ginger wasabi mayo and prosciutto, boiled carrot/edamame/corn on picks, japanese cucumber salad, baked tofu, cherry tomato with mozzarella, ham and provolone roll, raspberries and blueberries.

to make totoro grey, i ground up some black sesame seeds and mixed them in with the rice. the soot sprites are tiny rice balls covered in nori. for the eyes i used white cheese and black sesame seeds.

( bento times! )

Now that I have graduated, I finally have time to devote to my hobbies.

( Today I made a regular bento and a snack bento. )

I am trying to keep my collection to a manageable size. If you are looking for some cheap bento supplies, here they are. Almost everything is only $2. I'm working on adding pictures of some of the stuff and will update probably tomorrow.

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A cute meal made for lime since he had to take a long MCP exam today (FYI it was the upgrade exam from MCDBA to MCTS in SQL Server 2005 -_-;). Some people have asked me whether he gets embarrassed when I make him cute things. He swears he doesn't and that he thinks it's funny. For the record I have offered to stop making them cute. His coworkers saw this one and snerked at him a little while simultaneously proclaiming my awesomeness. :P

Hello Kitty and friends waffles, heart-shaped watermelon piece, tamagoyaki, and turkey sausage bites. There is maple syrup in the yellow Hello Kitty container.

Today's lunch is my version of makunouchi bento.

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So. Tired.

( It's not that exciting today. )

I made obento for myself today too but it's so ugly I'm not taking a picture of it, heh. Also this picture looks too green...there are berries in the top tier but you can't see them very well. I got a different kind of lettuce than I'm used to and I had a hard time making it behave. Oh well, I'll know better tomorrow. :)

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I didn't make obento for myself today either. There's a lot of random food around here since it's just about time to go shopping, but there's not really enough to make two people a whole lunch without taking up way too much of my time. I'll probably just have some miso and leftovers. :)

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