This week I decided to really try and get back into cooking now that I have my own kitchen. It's not perfectly set up yet (pictures soon!) but it's still usable. So my first undertaking was to make bento. Bento is a style of japanese lunchbox packed with yummy and often cute foods.
I bought myself a Nyanpire box with two levels and a small divider, made rice and then chopped up veggies and faux chicken. I used special cutters for the veggies to make them cute shapes and used rice molds to turn regular short grain brown rice into stars, hearts and even little bears! If you look closely you can even see my little bunny hot sauce container.
Now that I realized how fun it is to make cute lunches like this, all I want to do is get more bento stuff so I can make even more things! There's food picks, special food cutters, and dividers you can use to make your lunches special. I think taking the time to make a cute lunch is actually fun and in the end it's actually more satisfying then an ugly thrown together dish of leftovers.
These small silicone molds would be nice for making myself veggie sushi to bring to school.
I love these bunny food picks, they're cute and would be perfect for little fruit and veg skewers.
I love this three piece Pikachu bento box. I would put rice in the bottom layer, a veggie stir fry or curry on the middle and fill the top with fruit slices and nuts.
Are any of you into making bento?
