As usual, me mentioning that I’m going to do something dooms said task to failure. I said on Friday that I was going to be working on a bentomaking video. I was actually going to make a video of me making today’s bento. Unfortunately, you need a video camera to do this and my Panasonic Lumix was nowhere to be found. Our handheld video camera had no battery charged and the charger was AWOL. If you’re a Survivor fan, picture Sandra talking at Tribal about my Lumix and my camera charger: “IT GREW LEGS AND RAN OFF!”
This would have been a really fun bento to video tape too, so I’m extra bummed. I used another one of the Piece Talk cutouts from the Scrapbooks, Etc. magazine section I talked about when I did the Spring Chick bento, this time doing their cute sheep. The box is a new one that I bought specifically so that I could launch a contest around it, too, so keep reading for details on that!
I started off by cutting out the pieces of the sheep from paper.
The pieces with arrows were meant to be cut twice, so I folded nori over for the hoof and inner ear before cutting those. I also cut out the nose from nori. The fish sausage I was going to use for the sheep’s head wasn’t wide enough to accommodate the ears, so I cut them off to cut separately.
I laid the white pieces onto a piece of cheese and began to cut. Since slices like these are so crumbly, I had to change toothpicks a couple of times and spin the toothpick to ensure a smooth cut. Even then, I had to cut the hair out twice and smooth over the edges with my finger after.
Here’s a closer look at the sheep. I cut the pink parts out of the fish sausage the exact same way as the cheese. Since it’s very soft, it was actually easier to do than the cheese. I put it all together and then added the nori. I punched out the eyes and mouth. To make the flowers, I used a small flower cutter and a straw to cut the centers, swapping out cheese for fish sausage. The rice is dyed yellow with some deco furi, but you could use curry powder instead. On the other side of the baran is some leftover pork tofu topped with a tiny sprig of parsley.
In the other tier, I have some strawberry halves, half a clementine, and some mochi eggs. I’d bought this cute green, pink, and white striped mochi for Girl’s Day last week and never ate it. Today I cut a slice off the top and then cut out some oval shapes with a food cutter to make some cute little mochi eggs. They came out awesome!!
For my Spring Bento Contest, I’m offering up the same bento box (don’t worry, the prize contains an unopened one) along with a bunch of other accessories to go with it.
In total this prize packet includes:
- 1 two tier tomotomo bento box
- 1 tomotomo fork
- 1 set of food picks
- 1 set of spring baran
- 1 charaben cutter set
- 1 set of food cups
- 1 onigiri mold
- 1 packet of hanaosushi no moto (not pictured)
To enter for this prize, all you need to do is comment on this blog post with what you think would make the perfect Spring themed bento to go into this box. I’ll accept comments until Sunday, March 14 and then randomly draw a winner from the entries. You may only enter once and you must provide a valid email that you check often. Who knows, maybe I’ll even make your suggestion!
Good luck!
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A garden with a rabbit eating a carrot. Maybe a white picket fence somewhere.
Let’s do some finger food bento today for a picnic under the sun:)
Top tier: mini round cheese and tomato pizza with few sticks of breadsticks!
bottom tier: honey glazes baby carrots+ cherry tomatoes+ buttered corn! tuck in a few pieces of ‘hello panda’ choc!
an easter theme, complete with dyed eggs. or you can even shape the rice as an egg and decorate it like an easter egg.
I would love to make the well known spring themed animals:
Sheep out of rice and nori
Baby Chicks out of quail eggs
bunny out of rice and ham
And
Strawberries ,cool cucumber & mini marshmallow
I love Spring and these Bento box is just the right one for it!
A bunny rabbit surrounded by flowers ( flowers made from veggies and/or dyed boiled eggs), baby ducks in water( blue colored rice), or just a garden full of different flowers with hidden easter eggs in them. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.
I love checking your bentos at the end of the day!
I would use the bento set slightly different and do a Spring time on the farm each day of the (school) week. Each animal type would be 2D.
Day1 baby chicks with mama hen (yellow rice for their grain to peck at)
Day 2 baby kittens playing and sleeping between the flowers
Day 3 baby lambs eating in the flower bed
Day 4 a baby horse learning to skip and buck
Dat 5 maybe a pow-wow at the barn (red of course) with representatives from the animals or continue with the baby animal with an occasional mommy snuggle.watch theme.
Can you tell where I grew up! :-)
Thanks for the chance to participate. Keep up the great work and hope Buddy feels better soon!
I’m new to this so I’d have to make something basic. Onigiri bunny and some quail eggs. :D
I think a really cute bento might not be so sunny since spring is known for rain too. April Showers (even though its still March). Maybe with a cute girl in a rain coat or ducks in rain puddles.
I think a cute rabbit and flowers bento would be very springy and fit well in the box. Maybe an easter egg basket too.
Spring makes me think about cute little flowers and baby animals. So I would have gone blue dyed rice to make a pond, little cheese duckies on the pond, bushes of brocolies and tons of flowers made of carrots and pink radish.
top layer: thinking of a bumble bee pattern here…because spring reminds me of the flowers =) use corn kernels for the yellow body of the bumble bee, cut ham slices into rectangular strips for the stripes of the body…on a background of green-coloured pasta cooked with salmon and herbs/spice
bottom layer: banana cake slice, strawberries and kiwi in heart shape
I think a little girl laying down on the grass pointing up to the sky at the clouds would be very cute. When I think spring I often thing relaxing and enjoying the warm weather and that would be very cute.
Spring bento:
Eggs of different sizes, all dyed all different colors
Sping onions with black sesame or pink salt
Spring rolls, fried and fresh
All kinds of cute flowers too
The perfect spring inspired bento for me would contain only food from the local farmers market (starting in april!) grown or made from foods within a 100 miles of my home. I would make eggs benedict from fresh Kale, free range chicken eggs, local bread, and maybe tomatoes from a local greenhouse here in town. There might even be some apples stored from last year! Spring here we come!
I would loove to do a bento revolving around duckies, with Peeps.
My suggestion would be making a bento with breaded scampi and thai sweet chilli in a mini container, with a few roasted potatoes as side dish
as for the bottom layer: pineapple slices with satsumas :) add in another piece of tiffin..sweet:)
Top layer:: decorate the boiled rice using sticks of asparagus (into a shape of tree) plus stir fried beef in oyster sauce.
bottom layer:: mixed fruit platter of berries! (blueberries, strawberries, blackberries) plus slices of banana!
Dye the rice GREEN to make it as the based, and mould a bear shaped cheese with smiley face e xpression, add on pieces of sweet potatoes to decorate the ‘field’
then fill the other layer with candies such as Smarties(multicolour) and a yellow plum !
panda shaped sandwiches with salmon and rocket salad:)
Hello Panda choc biscuits and slices of peach and dried appricot:):)
Hey! I’ve discovered your site with “bentoandco”, and even if I do no let comments I read you every time I can so thanks for the organisation of this contest!
I am fan of frogs (I’ve seen your beautiful frogbento!) so I would do frogs for spring, because they wake up too!
I think I would do a nice pond maybe with blue teinted rice, some frogs swimming around and vegetables for the vegetation. And fruits to make colors like orange, green, red… (maybe for the sun, or some flowers in the other tier…)
The perfect spring bento.
That’s not an easy job, let me think about it.
In the white tier should be rice, mixed with a lot of vegetables, like red bell pepper, spring onions, cucumber and shrimps. They will be topped with some eatable flowers in orange and yellow.
In the yellow tier should be a big fruit variation with strawberries, plum, orange slices and kiwi.
As baran should be fresh salad the best to choose. Also in this tier some fried chicken and potato flowers.
Yup that would be my perfect spring bento^^
The perfect springtime bento would be an assortment of quail egg chickies sleeping peacefully on some soba noodle nests with sliced avacado for grass. I would recommend navel oranges as they will be heading out of season and citrus is so very good for you! Navel oranges are adorable too. Give them a cute little face or decorate them like a sun for spring~
Thank you for the opportunity to win such a neat prize and for the fantastic blog
Lots of carrot flowers with a cute cheese bunny, complete with some greenery for grass.
Hi Pikko, while I don’t always comment I do love reading your site! As for the perfect spring bento, I personally hate rain so would have to make a cute bento full of flowers and sunshine. Maybe something like some smiling pink and yellow tulips in some grass basking happily under the warm spring sun. I also think that the sun should be smiling too since you can never have too many faces in a character bento. And besides, it’s spring! Most everyone has something to be happy about :)
Anything yummy and green. ^.^ Perhaps transform sugar snap peas into little grasshoppers arranged at the side with beautiful romanesco broccoli. Maybe even a nice pretty sun for the background constructed from a thin omelette OR a hard boiled egg cut in half. OR better if the center can be scooped out and then used as a sun xD The whites could be used as clouds! xD Perhaps my immagination went a little wild x__x
Spring is my favorite time of the year to go to the zoo. So I would definitely do a little petting zoo theme. Baby animals like piglet, (my favorite. They’re so cute!!!), chicks, lambs and guinea pigs.
I would create a flower-themed bento. Sushi looking like flowers, really (!) eatable flowers, etc..
Fresh and powerful colors. But just white rice. I think the natural way is the better one. ;)
OMG!!!!!!CONTEST!!!!!!
Your prices look SO CUTE AND AWESOME!!!!(and I WANT THEM SO BADLY.I would buy them myself…but due to the facts that I’m a freshmen in high school w/ no secure income…and having a mother who isn’t a huge fan of Japanese food…i CAN’T)
I’ve always had bad luck but I hope this time it changes!:D
SPRING!!!!Spring is my favorite season~So WARM and flowery!!(Sorry for all the excess words)
Flower would be an awesome theme.
I mean,I know it sounds very plain and all…but it’s NOT.
flowers are such fascinating organisms,as a plant itself.
But besides that,it makes me so happy:)
Maybe,onigiris that are flower shaped with happy faces on them.
Some GREEN vegetables to resemble all the green and colorfulness in spring~(Like brocollis,lettuce around the whole bento:D)
Flower shaped spam meat or fish sausage,like the one from your recent bento!:D
Also,a SUN made from a mango!
Cut out the oval shaped mango,and cut out more slices shaped like triangles and place it around the oval to represent the sun’s RAYS.
And cut out a happy face from maybe…kiwis?Any fruit will do:)
And it’s not spring w/o sweet sweet strawberries!!!:D
Maybe they can be chocolate dipped too!
OHH!!!And cut out cloud shaped white cheese!!!!
So then you will create a whole scenery!!!
With A BIG MANGO SUN~FULL OF SMILES!!!
Cute white clouds that taste like cheese~FLOWERY ONIGIRIS!!!!(It would be awesome if it’s with TUNA FILING!I LOVE TUNA:D)
And a lot of greeneries around it~like brocolli and lettuce.
Sorry…i talked a lot.
But yeah,that would be my DREAM BENTO~Especially for spring.
:)
Thank you for listening.Your blog is so awesome^^
I would make an Easter theme, with a Rabbit and a basket of his colorful eggs.
Or something with baby farm animals, like chicks, bunnies, ducklings etc. Lots of colorful fruit as well :3 with loads of flowers so that i can take to work and happily enjoy eating it, though i usually take a min or 2 to stare at it first before i chomp down on it XD
Tulips would be lovely! And not so hard to make, I think! :)
Love shaped pink onigiri, with long beans as sides with mixed bean chilli!
Add in spring fruits, like nectarines or satsumas pieces..woohoo
nut roast with stir fried vegetables!
Mixed bean as sides
Honey glazed carrot and parsnips
mini strawberry tarts and a slice of rock melon :))
how about cute little ducklings playing in a pond
Love your Survivor analogy, LOL. I can totally imagine Sandra delivering that line, haha.
What an adorable bento. I’m almost ready to start making girlie bentos for my little girl (after 3 boys)! I think I’d do a simple row of steamed broccoli on the bottom, and a base of rice. Then a garden of pretty flowers and carrots made out of bell pepper with green beans stems/leaves, and dill for the carrot tops. And a bunny pulling up one of the carrots…I’d probably make the bunny out of white soy cheese personally, but there are lots of options.
In the other tier I’d put tiny local strawberries, and some yakitori tofu skewers. Mmmmm…
Spring tulips would be nice!
This my first time entering a contest >3<
Spring makes me think of the spring festival and flowers. In the top part, I would make a mochi with red bean filling and wrap it in plastic with a sticker to keep it separated from the other foods. Next to it, in a bento cup, some flower shaped spam musubi. Then the rest would be rice with a cute chick cut out of cheese and nori with ham cheeks and a carrot beak. I think I would put some ham flower cut outs around it as well. To fill in spaces, I would put half cut sugar snap peas.
On the bottom part, I would have panko fried shrimp and some tamagoyaki with a bottle of ketchup. I'd also like to throw in a wrapped candy.
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