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Cullen-ary Arts, An Edible Book

April 2, 2010 Pork

See how I made my First Annual UH Manoa Edible Book Contest entry: a giant Twilight Spam Musubi Book! Find out how I did and see for yourself how they compare.

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Easter Bunny Bento Videos

March 18, 2010 Beef

Watch my first bento tutorial videos as I show you how to make a cute Easter Bunny charaben and then show how I make the lunch. Feedback wanted!

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Football Bento Part II

January 26, 2010 Beef

Another day closer to Superbowl and I’ve done another football bento, this time with a soboro bento. Find out what’s underneath the “astroturf” and how I colored it.

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Is it really Friday already? Is it already November? I really don’t know where the year went, but the coming of November reminds me that I have to start Christmas shopping. I hate being that one rushing home thinking, “DID A BOX COME FOR ME???” because I didn’t order early enough. I remember one year [...]

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Pink Ribbon Bento (399)

October 15, 2009 Fish

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so I make a pink ribbon resting on top of a nori-wrapped musubi. Comment to contribute to the Cure!

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Two Steak Bento

August 28, 2009 Beef

I woke up this morning feeling ambitious, so I started to cook one of the last two gigantor top sirloin steaks that Mr. Pikko bought for me at Costco last weekend. The pack cost $15 and the steaks were so huge that I could make two meals out of each one, which meant that I [...]

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Yoshida Sauce Chicken Bento (382)

August 19, 2009 Chicken

Today something small, but pivotal happened. Mr. Pikko has an eye infection and had to stay home, so I had to take the kids to school myself, which doesn’t sound like any big deal except that we’ve been walking Baby Girl in to her kindergarten class all this time, slowly waiting for the day when [...]

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Survivor Bento and Lost Party Pictures

May 14, 2009 bento

I’ve got pictures of the event yesterday as well as spoiler comments about the finale itself, but all this will be after the cut with another warning so that people still on prior seasons know where to stop reading. We’re having our monthly potluck today, so I have no bento to eat today. I do [...]

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Fried Fish Bento (327)

March 12, 2009 Fish

Now that the agony of a Wednesday-without-Lost is over, I can go back to living life. Thanks to my loud and enthusiastic singing of “Gives You Hell” by All American Rejects, this is now Buddy’s favorite song. Me being a mommy that grew up in the wild jungles of the Big Island with two parents [...]

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Hello Kitty Bento (326)

March 11, 2009 Pork

I’ve been told by my cousin’s husband’s aunty who reads my blog that she can’t find bento boxes in Hilo. Well! I must respectfully beg to differ. We went to eat saimin at Nori’s before Baby Girl and I hopped back onto the plane and next door to the restaurant was a store called Nori’s [...]