Getting Started : Phase 1

Getting Started For Bento : Phase 1

Yesterday I start looking for nori -- seaweed sheet -- and a puncher for nori with mouth and eye shape. A bit hard to find nori in a big hyper market like Giant, hope will get a better luck in Carefour. If I could not find a puncher, will cut it my self. 

I got a bit clearer about my bento looks like. The base will be fried noodle with bunny shaped rice on top and the dishes around it. Some dishes to accompany the noodle and rice will be some red eggs, steamed veggie and nugget. Perhaps i could use fish nugget rather than chicken nugget. My bento should looks interesting for kids and healthy too :)

Yesterday i found out that Darrel -- my hubby nephew -- like sushi. Perhaps i could make some in my bento for additional dishes. And when i went to Giant, I found a book fair. I got a pudding recipes book with good price. Even the pudding didn't look interesting but I could get some idea from there and search in the web. Like this recipe is simple and good to try, even the colour doesn't look interesting. The other recipes looks more healthy because using mango puree. It's perfect because it's mango season in here.

Talking about pudding, i think it will be great if i could make a good looking fruity pudding for my daughter 1st B'day. Healthy and yummy.

That's it for today. Will write again soon after my experiment with fried chicken.

Wish me luck (^_^)

Searching The Rabbit

Searching The Rabbit

Today i start looking for rabbit shaped for the rice on my bento box. The searching start from google and gettyimages for some idea. These are the pictures. Btw, I choose rabbit as my theme because my daughter was born in rabbit year. So, the the bento will be a mixture of chinese, indonesian and a bit japanese (^_^)

I could use the female rabbit for my bento. Cute.

This shape will be easy to follow for my bento.

Bunnies eggs. Not really an option.

The bunny in the basket with eggs will be a good idea too.

The atmosphere and the colour are good for the bento.
This could be an option for my bento.

This bunny shape is nice and easy to follow, i think.

I love how the egg looks like. So cute.

I could use an egg into a bunny.

This pose is so cute.
I wish i could use this as the main theme on my bento.

The bunny doesn't looks good but easy to follow.

The red bunnies looks cute but too small.
Perhaps i could make it in a bigger version.

The baby bunnies looks so cute.
I would like to add one in my bento box.

I got this from gettyimages and i love the 'bunny with friend' illustration

This is a book cover of Bento making.
The bunny on the top right looks so cute.

Too many pictures to choose but i will pick the easiest one. Any comments are welcome.

Preparation For A Big Day

Preparation For A Big Day

About 2 weeks from now, Kaylie will have her first birthday. I can't afford to hold a fancy celebration, but will try to make it nice. So, I got an idea of making a bento box for kids and another box for adult, which is only a regular paper box with yellow rice and some dishes in it. About the bento for kids -- i'm so excited about this--, I will make 4 boxes, 2 for Elin's children and another 2 for Yanti's children. I choose the bento box from one time used round plastic that use to put a cake -- I don't know what it calls in English but it's known as mika plastic--, good shape for the start. Even it's too big for a kid. The bento will be contain yellow rice with rabbit shaped -- i prefer white rice since it will be in rabbit shaped -- with red egg, birthday noodle, nugget or any funny shaped perkedel, steamed vegetables some ham and cheese for garnish. Pudding for desert, maybe adding some fruit will be fun too.

Today, i was buying some stuff to start like seaweed powder, plastic and metal cutter for perkedel or any soft stuff, colouring liquid, balloon, some sweetened cheery for decoration on pudding, plastic moulder for pudding but i haven't got the most important stuff, rabbit shaped for  moulding the rice. But it's enough for today, i can searching another day.

Start from this week, i'm looking at the web for my bento looks like. I haven't found a good ones to copy but i got some idea for decoration. 

Btw, my mobile phone is broken today. I don't know why but Jefry will try to fix it. And in the evening, when Kaylie play with the boys next door. As usual she sat on a table as in chinese medicine stores, she crawl and slip from the table and fall. Fortunate i was there and able to grab her jumper before she touched the floor. She shocked so do i and then she cried. But thanks God she is okay. The table is more than 1 metre high, i can't imagine if she fall to the floor. God bless her, always please. That's all for today. I got many laundry and cook yellow rice for today menu. Thanks for reading.

Coming Back Again

Coming Back Again

So, this is my second posting after postponed for more than a year. Not much time but many words to write. My baby will awaken when she knew i'm not with her for few hours.

I'm in Bekasi now, with my hubby and 11 m.o. daughter. We rent a shop with a small room for sleep, bath and cook, the rest is the shop. We sell wallets, bags, belts and soft drinks. Fresh milk and banana chips are not going at the moment. Not really in my dream but i think this will be the start for our little kingdom.

For our little shop, we plan to sell them online. Since people use internet more nowdays. And for the start will use the blog to sell them too, while i still build the website.

I didn't realize that I like business, beside design. I wanted to start from zero but can't be faster with the baby. In Indonesia, we can hire maid to help the housework like cleaning, laundry, and cooking. I choose not to use any of them to make ourself not depending with the help. Since they are not really help at all and most of them not compatible in the job. Cost more money and effort to take. Probably when i will use them in the future, or maybe not, who knows.

Kaylie is a georgous girl. Today, she saw me busy do the laundry and sleep by herself. Usually, i need to breastfeed her until she falls to sleep, but not today. She makes me proud everyday. Good girl, we love u, Kay.

That's for today. I will write again soon and posting a picture of Kay when she slept by herself.

Cheers...

Saturday Nite

Saturday Nite

Today is Saturday, a tiring day because we had a long trip with motor bike to attend my friend wedding ceremony but we're late. Lucky i could met my friend and congratulate him. Poor Kay, she's tired. On the way back we passed my sister's place and we took a rest for a while and chat. Then we're going home and take a rest for awhile. My hubby open the store and i clean the baby.

Lately my baby loves to bite me.