Tsum Tsum Deco Sushi

Hello! I'm back to update my blog today with more recent creations. I got a copy of Tsum Tsum deco sushi book in Japan, and tried my hands on making some using the recipes in the book. The book is in Japanese, but there are pictures, and it's not difficult to guess how to make the sushi from there. I will probably be exploring more creations in the book again.


The first set I made was Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and Piglet. You might have noticed that the sides aren't neat, it was due to the fact that the knife I'm using is not sharp enough. I actually don't have any sharp knifes at home, I've a phobia of them, I'm so accident prone, I think I'll easily slice off my fingers with a sharp knife.


The colors were done using mashed egg yolks, deco furi and sushi mix. It's not that difficult making these as the recipes in the book was very precise, I just need to work harder on the neatness part.


The second set I made was Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Pluto. I accidentally mixed in a little too much grounded black sesame with the rice, the rice turned out too dry and not sticky, so the grey portions were tough to roll, lol. Never mind, I'll learn from my mistake, so hopefully next time will be better.


Ingredients used to get the different colours were ketchup, deco furi, mashed egg yolk and grounded black sesame. The pink portion of Kamaboko was used for Daisy's bow and Donald and Daisy's cheeks.


And here's a shot of the different characters from the two sets I made together. Which one do you like?


I don't think I'll be making so many different designs at one go the next time, probably at most just two or three different ones next round.

Vampire Mickey Bento

I'm sharing my last Halloween bento for this year. If you need more ideas, you can click HERE to check out all my past Halloween creations. I'm joining a Halloween bento hop today with my fellow Bento Bloggers & Friends, so do remember to click on the graphic at the end of my post for more Halloween bento inspirations.

Mickey,Minnie,Donald & Daisy Tsum Tsum

I am in love with the Disney TSUM TSUM series, they are simply so adorable. Finally managed to make some more of these cuties. My first set was Pooh and friends, did a step-by-step to make Pooh then, click HERE if you want to see that post.


This time, I decided to make Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Daisy. I took some step-by-step photos on how to make Mickey and Donald, hope you find them useful. :)


Served a pot of chicken milk stew as the side dish, ingredients were chicken, broccoli, mushrooms and carrots. :)


I wish I have the time to make many TSUM TSUM at one go, it will be really cute to see so many of them stack onto one another.


I only make step-by-step on how to make Mickey.



And also Donald, details are below.


I'll start off with Mickey. First, colour rice with some ketchup.


Shape Mickey's body and ears using cling wrap.


Fold seaweed in half and cut out the shape as shown in the picture above.


Place seaweed on rice ball.


Wrap rice ball in cling wrap to secure the nori well.


Punch out ovals for Mickey's eyes. I used the ovals on this paw puncher.


Remove red portion of crabstick using a toothpick and wrap around Mickey's body.


Wrap the ears with nori, make some cuts at the 4 corners of the nori before wrapping. Wrap with cling wrap and secure it well.


Secure Mickey's ears using pasta. The pasta is uncooked, it will absorb the moisture from the rice and soften after sometime. However, if you are going to eat this immediately, please use fried pasta instead. Dab on some blusher on Mickey's cheeks using decor gel.


To make Donald Duck, I used this Deco Furi from Daiso to colour the rice blue. It's more convenient when you only want a small portion of your rice blue. Other ways to colour your rice blue includes using the water from butterfly pea flower, purple cabbage (with a bit of baking soda added) or food coloring to cook your rice.


Using cling wrap, mould Donald's body using blue and white rice, also mould a small rice ball for his cap.


Join the white and blue rice together to form Donald's body.


Wrap with cling wrap and mould them together.


Cut out nori for Donald's cap.


I used this puncher for the Donald's eyes. Cut out oval for Donald's bill using capsicum, attach onto rice ball using pasta.


Dab on blusher using some pink decor gel. I used a pick for Donald's bow tie.


Ta-dah, the completed pair. :) Have a good weekend, will be back again to update next week. :)

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Mickey Loves Minnie Valentines Bento

I came across some really cute Mickey and Minnie Valentines card while surfing for Valentines ideas. I love two of the designs, I made one of the design today. I will make the other one another time, maybe next Valentine's day, lol. :P


This is quite an up to date post, made this for dinner today. I was planning to make a toast version today too, but LT had a dental appointment today, and the wait was too long, had no time to make one.


Mickey and Minnie are exchanging Valentines gifts, Minnie bought a box of chocolates and Mickey has a bouquet of flowers for her.


Ingredients used for Mickey and Minnie were rice, nori, capsicum (yellow and red), cheese and strawberry. I'm sharing the seaweed pork rolls recipe below (the ones in the heart food cups), they still taste good when cold, so they're perfect for packing into bentos.

SEAWEED PORK ROLL RECIPE

Ingredients:
15 slices shabu shabu pork
15 slices Japanese seaweed
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp soya sauce
1 tbsp mirin
Flour/egg/panko(japanese breadcrumbs) for coating

Method:

1. Season pork slices with salt, soya sauce and mirin.

2. Place a slice of seaweed on top of a slice of pork.

3. Roll up the pork/seaweed.

4. Coat pork roll in flour, followed by egg and finally with panko. 
5. Deep fry or shallow fry till golden brown.

Note:

• You can also add in additional cheese or cod roe fillings. Simply place some cheese or cod roe on top of the end of seaweed that you start rolling from . 
• Panko can be replaced with breadcrumbs. 

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Mickey & Minnie Easter Egg Bento

I was looking around for Easter inspiration the other day and came across some pictures of Easter decorations at Tokyo Disneyland. They had lots of Disney characters in the form of Easter eggs, and I was attracted by how cute they looked! And the inspiration for the bentos I'm sharing today are from those Disney Easter eggs I saw.


I made this for my boys' lunch on Tuesday, this is a 1L box, so they shared the food. Mickey and Minnie Mouse Easter eggs, made from rice, nori, crabstick and cheese. Bento is packed with broccoli, coriander wings, grapes and strawberries.


I changed my mind and decided to add in ears for Mickey and Minnie. :P


And this was my boys' lunch for Wednesday. They had sakura somen, quail eggs, broccoli, gyoza and strawberries.


Mickey and Minnie are quails eggs, details are added on with nori, cheese and crabstick. :)

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