Animals Themed Breakfast Set

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and in today's post, I will be collaborating with Magnolia, to share with you a kawaii animals themed breakfast set.


This the breakfast set I came up with, the Panda and Piggy are bread balls which I filled with kaya and red bean. The chicken is made from a hard boiled egg, the bear is made from sausage and the frog is made from kiwi.


I've paired this breakfast set with Magnolia's fresh milk in a 200ml pack. I love this size, I always buy this for my boys, as it's conveniently packed and just nice for one serving.


I'm going to share the step-by-step photos, so you can create your own animals themed breakfast set too. Let's begin!


Slice off bread crust.


Flatten bread with a rolling pin.


Cut a slit on four sides of bread.


Add in fillings in the middle. (I'm using red bean and kaya.)


Bring four corners together and wrap up in cling wrap.


Tighten cling wrap and mould the bread ball into a round shape.


To make Panda, cut out Panda's nose from nori using a hole punch; followed by cutting Panda's eyes and ears from nori using a pair of scissors.


Stick nori onto bread balls with a little mayonnaise.


To make Piggy, cut out ears and snout from ham with a pair of scissors.

For snout, make holes from nori using a paw craft punch. Then, cut out Piggy's eyes from nori using a pair of scissors.


Stick ham and nor pieces onto bread ball with a little mayonnaise.


To make chicken, firstly use pasta sticks to attach corn (as chicken's beak) onto the hard boiled egg.

For chicken's eyes, cut out nori using a hole punch. For chicken's comb, use a heart shaped food pick. (Alternatively, you can also cut from red bell peppers and attach them on using pasta sticks. )


To make bear, firstly slice a little off the sausage's bottom, and use a round cutter or straw to cut out as bear's ears. Attach the ears using pasta sticks. Using nori, cut out a round shape for the muzzle, and create eyes using a paw craft punch.


Place chicken and bear into a container, arrange accordingly with some lettuce as backdrop.


To make frog, use a round cutter to cut out two circles from guava, place it onto a slice of kiwi. Cut out eyes and mouth from nori, using a pair of scissors.


Place frog into a container, arrange accordingly with fruits like strawberries and blueberries.


Assemble and serve.

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Panda & Penguin Sushi

I love making sushi lately, simply cause they are relatively fast to make and I can present them without the side dishes. I've made quite a few so far, and still have ideas in my notes for many more, so you'll be seeing more of them, lol. What I've actually done after taking photos was to cling wrap the sushi, and kept them in a air-tight container in the fridge, so I can pack them for my boys' bentos for school the following day.
   
My favourite has to be these pandas, have ideas for more pandas sushi, will work on them soon. Maybe sushi is not the correct name for them, they are more like onigiri, but their size are small like sushi, whatever, lol.


They are very easy to make, just using two ingredients - rice and nori.


I added lightly salted flaked salmon for the fillings. The recipe for the salmon is similar to the salmon soboro recipe here, but I added slightly less salt, as my boys will be dipping the pandas in soy sauce.


The next sushi I did were these penguins sushi, similar ingredients to the panda, with the addition of carrots.


My favourite is the one in the middle front row, who looks like he's sliding. >.<


That's all for today's post, I'm hoping to get two more Halloween creations done next week, and also blog about them before Halloween is here.

Panda Cheese Cream Stew

Curry and stew makes a great canvas for food art. I use curry more often in the past, but recently, I like using cream stew too. I've been getting requests for a cream stew recipe, so today I'm sharing a version with cheese, my boys love this over the usual cream stew.

CutezCute Piggy and Panda

It's back to school again yesterday, the last term of the year, can't believe time flies so fast. My boys are growing up too fast!


This ham piggy adds instant cuteness to your food. I used the piggy cutter from CuteZCute Animal Friends cutter and the body cutter from Cuddle Palz.


I then added on eyes and mouth punched out from nori, cut out a little tail from ham, and dabbed on some ketchup.


And viola, the food art is done, ultra fast to make. I used it on top of pasta here, but you can use it to decorate your rice, sandwich, salad, etc.


The pasta underneath was Tom Yum seafood pasta, a current favourite with IT, he loves eating this.


Here's another idea, a nutella panda sandwich. This time, I used the panda cutter from Animal Friends with the body cutter from Cuddle Palz.


I used the body cutter to cut out another arm and tail and spread them with nutella for the contrast. Not very smooth as my nutella is drying up. -_-

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Panda Somen

Rather unmotivated to blog since it's the school holidays, lol. Had wanted to blog about LT's birthday, but I've yet to sort through the photos, so here's a fast post about an earlier somen lunch I made instead.


An easy panda somen for for my boys' lunch. I actually could not decide on which panda design to make, finally settled on this, but I think I will be making more versions of panda somen next time.


I usually have a stash of gyozas in my freezer, pan-fried some to go with the somen.


Panda details were done using nori, cheese and ham. The bamboo the panda is holding onto is a stalk of blanched asparagus.

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Sakura Panda Bento

A little late to be sharing sakura bento, since the season is already over. I actually still have more sakura desserts to share too, I've made quite a few desserts using them, don't want to waste those pretty sakura flowers I have, will blog about those next time.

 
Sakura onigiri in this bento is rice mixed with pink sushi mix and flaked salted salmon. I added on shiso leaves and pickled sakura on the onigiri.


Panda is made using quail eggs, nori and cheese.


Can you spot the other panda beind with its head buried?


I also made a cheeky panda playing on a sakura tree. The base is a french toast. The sakura tree is made using ham and bread crust.


I made this for myself, had the lunch with sakura jam and sakura tea. :)


Turned the box round, so you can have a better look at the panda. :)


The sakura tea was not nice, though very pretty. The sakura jam was good though, sweet with a hint of saltiness. :)

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