Halloween Soba & Burger

I'm back with more Halloween creations. I can sleep later today because my boys only have school on friday this week.  However, we have to do exam revisions as their exams will start next week. IT is a lot more independent and quite confident this round (though I've to remind him not to be too complacent), so I'm finally focusing more on guiding LT with his revisions.


Here's the first set of Halloween food art I'm sharing today. Frankenstein and ghost cold soba. Ghost is actually made out of somen, it's thinner than soba.


I served them cold with a dipping sauce. It has been a long time since I last cook cold soba for my boys. LT was asking for them the other day, so I decided to serve them some, but not before I decorated them, lol.


Ingredients used for the ghost were nori, ham, orange bell pepper and cucumber.


Ingredients used for Frankie were nori, cheese and cucumber.


Another Halloween food art I made was this Halloween burger set. Had a hiccup with this one, this cucumber Frankenstein was actually a last minute change. I had wanted to make Frankenstein out of spinach soup instead, but I tried a new recipe that day and the soup was not thick  enough, and I had problem placing the ingredients on it.

Jack o'lantern is made using a slice of cheese over a meat patty, you can take a look at this tutorial here, I used the same method to mould the cheese onto the patty. I used a knife to add on some indention on the cheese so it looks more like a pumpkin. And finally, the little ghost is made using quail egg.

Totoro Soba & Puff Pastry Soup

This is the second time I'm making Totoro Soba. My first one was made in 2013, inspired by the Totoro soba that went viral online. After that, I went on to use noodles to make many different food art. This time, I'm remaking Totoro again using my homemade black sesame noodles.


My black sesame noodles recipe probably need a little tweaking, added a little too much black sesame and the noodles broke quite easily. Susuwatari, the black soot on Totoro's head was made from charcoal noodles, a little goes a long way when using charcoal, very little is needed to colour the noodles black.


Other ingredients used to make this were grated daikon and nori. Noodles were served cold with a soy sauce based dipping sauce, very refreshing for the hot weather.


The cookies at the side are made from black sesame and charcoal as well, I'll leave the update and recipe for them for another post next time.


This is a puff pastry Totoro soup bowl filled with mushroom soup. I used ready made puff pastry sheets for this so it was quite easy.


Other ingredients used were cheese, olives and fried pasta.


This is another version of the puff pastry soup, did not quite liked how it turned out though. The soup was in the ramekin for this and I covered up the ramekin with a puff pastry on top.

Monster Inc Mike Wazowski

Happy Hump Day! I can't believe school holiday is ending soon. I've not been making much food art this holiday, I do however have a whole lot of creations I've yet to blog, but I don't have the motivation to update the blog that often these days.

Instagram Soba & Steam Cake

I have been rather inactive on social medias in recent years, namely Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram. I hardly check Facebook unless someone tags or messages me. I only share links to my new blog post on Twitter and Google+, I don't check them at all. I am slightly more active on Instagram, as I love looking at photos, but I don't check it very often as well.


An Instagram food art has been on my to-do list for a long time. I've always wanted to do a bread and rice version, but I've seen plenty of those around, so I decided to do the Instagram logo using soba instead.


As usual, soba is served cold, with a dipping sauce. I air-fried some wings for the sides, just rubbed on some sea-salt and cajun seasoning before dumping them in the fryer.


I used a mix of soba and somen here, the other details were done using nori, cheese, capsicum and purple cabbage.


I've been experimenting with one of my steam cake recipe that does not use pancake mix. This was one of the cakes I made using that recipe. I've updated the recipe and post, please click HERE to see.


I won't be sharing the recipe for this, as it's not nicely done, I added on too much cocoa powder for the brown batter and too much charcoal powder for the black batter.

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Oscar Soba & Salad

I grew up watching Sesame Street, it's also the first cartoon my boys watched. They used to love it when they were little, but they have since moved on to other cartoons. I made Elmo and Cookie Monster before, click HERE to check out my previous bentos. This time, I decided to make Oscar instead. :)


Oscar made from soba, details done with cheese, crabstick, nori and abura-age. Can you spot Oscar's pet worm Smiley? It's cut out from egg sheet.


I served the soba with grilled salmon.

I made an Oscar salad for myself, my boys came over to take a look as I was photographing it and they say it looks like a green Lorax. -_-


I used chicken cutlet for Oscar's eyebrows, his eyes are made from banana and blueberries. :)

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Rilakkuma Soba & Korilakkuma Somen

My boys love to eat cold soba. I always pack cold soba for them to bring to school once a week. IT says it's especially refreshing to slurp cold noodles when the weather is hot.


Around two weeks back, I cooked them cold soba for lunch, and arranged the noodles to create Rilakkuma. The details were done using cheese and nori. I added Kiiroitori, the little chick on his head, that was made from an egg dyed in turmeric water.


I also cooked some ebi fry for them to go with the soba. :)


I also made Korilakkuma using somen, I packed it in a bento box this time. I received some questions previously on how to pack cold soba for school. What you can do is to pack the dipping sauce either in a thermal jar or freeze it in a small container separately.


Kiiroitori is made from a quail egg here instead. I packed in lettuce, miso wings, grapes and strawberries for my boys to eat with their somen. :)

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Totoro Soba

I saw this photo of Totoro made using soba on Pinterest last week, love it so much that I immediately recreate it the following day. I'm sure some of you might have seen that same photo before too.


Here's what I did, pretty similar to the original, except I added in whiskers and used bread for the tummy.


Soba is one of my boys' favourite food. For lunch last Friday, they had their soba with breaded shishamo. :)


We had pizza for dinner last Friday. There's chicken, shaved ham, broccoli, pineapples and egg on this pizza. I cheated by using wraps for the base. If you want to do the same, remember to bake the wraps for a few minutes on both sides before spreading the sauce and adding toppings. That way, the pizza won't turn soggy and will remain crisp after being baked.


I also made this fusion version using kimchi and pork, give this a try if you love kimchi. :)

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Clown Bento

Clowns for today are copied from Berry Girl, she has a tutorial on her blog on how to make them. Hop over to her blog, Mommy Kiki Can to take a look, she has lots of awesome bento creations. :)


I'm using fishballs, instead of quail eggs for the clowns. Lol, no particular reason why, just felt like trying out fishballs. :) Their hair are cut out from carrot. The gel on the clown's cheeks melted, but I quite like the effect, so I left it. :P


For lunch, the boys had their favourite soba, with chicken, grapes and strawberries. :)


Soba for School packed in the thermal jars.


They also brought chicken and grapes.


Salad for my dinner last night. :)


Made a typical taiwanese style bento for my lunch, braised minced pork which I kept from last night's dinner and fried chicken. :)

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