Seal Sushi

I saw two cute deco sushi idea on Pinterest a while back. The first one is seal sushi, which I am sharing in this post. I've yet to make the other one, hope to get it done after the Chinese New Year holiday.


There was no tutorial available online, but it did not look too difficult, so I just went ahead and tried. Still much room for improvement, but I guess it ain't too bad either.


Served the meal with some pork cutlets and salad.


The greyish portion is rice mixed with grinded black sesame. Other ingredients used were nori and sakura denbu.

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Trudeau Fuel Salad on the Go Container Review

I'm reviewing Trudeau Fuel Salad on the Go container for today. It's a good size container, designed for keeping your salad fresh and crisp. And it serves this function that it is designed for very well.


It comes in 2 colours for the lid, red and green. It's ideal for any cold salads, like the usual green salad, pasta salad, etc. It's made with eco-friendly and BPA free materials and comes with a five year warranty.


It has an ice pack that will attached on the cover together with a dressing container. :) Love this clever design. The ice pack will keep cold for 4 hours. I tried packing a salad for myself and it was still cold when I had it 3 hours later. I was too hungry and did not get to test it out till 4 hours.


The container is of a good size and you can pack in quite a lot.


Love the built in salad dressing container as well. I'm into light salad dressing these days, so a little lemon juice, vinegar and sugar is good for me. :)


This was salmon salad which I packed the following day. Just roll up the salmon slices and you get salmon roses. :)


Ladybugs on my salad on another day. Nah, they are only tomatoes. :P


The boys do not eat their veggies raw, they still can't get use to the taste. However, I found a good use of this container for them. It's perfect for soba as well, the dressing container can contain the soba sauce and the ice pack will keep everything cold. :)

Odie, Angry Bird Sushi and Seal Bento

No, no, no, I did not make all those characters in my bento at the same time. I was to do another product review post for today, but I forgot to buy an important ingredient needed to finish off the last bento needed for the post. -_- So, I decided to consolidate the boys' snack bentos I've not been able to share for the past week. Be warn that they will look suspiciously familiar since I've already shared their lunch bentos during the week and their snack bentos are usually simplified versions of that. :P


This was for IT's Sports Day last wednesday. He had to report at 7.15 am that day. I did not bother packing him a charaben since my brain can't function that early in the morning. -_- LT skipped School for that day and we all went to support IT at Sports Day, I packed a similar box for him too.


Odie snack boxes for Tuesday. Jam sandwiches, chicken and grapes.


This was for Wednesday, Angry Bird sushi, grapes and salmon.


Lastly, seals on soba for today. Seals are made from quail eggs, I also packed grapes qand coriander wings. :)

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Items used in the bentos:

Mame Goma Bento

Mame Goma hiding in inari for today. :) Quite a rush making these today, coz I woke up late. -_-


For the boys' lunch, inari sushi, with black pepper wings, broccoli, ebikko and strawberries.


Pink seal coloured with beetroot and yellow seal coloured with tumeric. Argh, forgot the blusher for their cheeks.


Inari sushi for School as well.


Packed with black pepper wings and grapes.


I've been using these bento boxes for the boys' dinner most of the time, even though what I cook is not Japanese fare. The size is just right for their usual rice with 3 side dishes. This was dinner from last night, rice with black pepper wings, cheddar baked salmon and stir fried willow sprouts.


This was my portion for dinner last night, just black pepper wings with greens.


My lunch today, more like breakfast huh? Kaya beetroot bread, with ham and sunny side up. Tried to bake some beetroot bread yesterday but still turned out yellow. Anyone have a recipe that will yield a pink coloured bread, using natural colouring agents? Please share with me if you do. :)

Mame Goma Seal Bento

It's cold soba for the boys today, topped with seals. :) I did a short tutorial on how to make these seals today. :)


Using the new lunchboxes, this set is for IT. In the box are soba, quail eggs, grilled thai style chicken, bacon asparagus, golden kiwis, strawberries and grapes.


And this set for LT. The pink seal is coloured with beetroot water. And the blue portion of the white seal is coloured with red cabbage water.


And this one for IT to bring to School, cold soba in the thermos, and grapes, quail egg and chicken in the small strawberry box. :) LT wanted a box today but I did not make a box for him. I told him he'll make a mess eating the soba in School. So, the little fella showed me at home how he won't make a mess out of eating soba, lol. Looks like I will have to make some soba for him to bring to School next time.


This was my Thai dinner last night, pineapple fried rice, grilled chicken and tom yum soup.


And to make the seals. First, boil two quail eggs, dye one pink by soaking in colouring. I'm using beet root water to dye it.


Slice off a small portion from the pointed side of the egg.


Punch out 2 ovals with a cutter, these will be the flippers.


Punch out one oval from cheese, this will be the mouth.


Attach on the flippers and mouth with pasta.


Punch out nori using punchers.


Dab on some decorating gel or ketchup.


Ta-dah, completo! Pretty fast and easy to do. :)

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