Can you... Count?

So here is the supposed crowning glory of my Halloween journey, but alas, I don't think it quite comes through.

The food for both bentos are essentially the same - Nutella sandwich under the ham slice, ham-and-cheese rolls, golden pear slices and treats.

Takoyaki's Sesame Street Count bento

Roast Meat's Sesame Street Count bento

Mr RM couldn't recognise it so I had to tell him, imagine if the Count was standing in front of a wall that is exactly the same colour as his skin. Then he would blend into the background yes? I think he understood after that.

Frankenstein

My heart was itching to make a Frankie, so despite earlier protests, Frankie it is. Mr Roast Meat was actually ok with it, after he saw the finished product.

Frankie is slightly abstract on a cheese spread sandwich, the top slice of which is spread with kaya (coconut jam) to achieve the slightly green effect. The bat's on cheese with sesame seed eyes, and in the top tier is a very failed scallion and leek tamagoyaki (the pan is starting to stick very badly!) which I just chopped up and dumped in the silicone cup.

The hair, nose, mouth and scar of Frankenstein are all cut by hand, while the eyes are just little round pieces of cheese with a black sesame seed each. The nori bat is also cut freehand based on my memory of some of my friends' bats, placed on a sliced of cheese, left to soften a little, then I carved around the seaweed with my knife. The eyes are white sesame seeds, and I also gave Frankie a drop of sweat by sticking on one white sesame seed in his hair.

OOOoooOOOooo. . . Ghosts!

After discussing with the children over the long weekend, we decided on ghosts for today.

Takoyaki's is depicted by striped cheese (carved out using my Hapimogu knife) on a sheet of nori, over a kaya sandwich. I also cooked some tamagoyaki in my new pan (and it's not burnt this time, yay!) and stuffed in some grapes.

Mr Roast Meat will be bringing a rice ghost (he thought it was the wind at first, humph) with ketchup prawns, grapes and M&Ms (the last of which is by request).

Bats

If it's not obvious already, I'm trying to do Halloween themes all the way till it's over. I must be batty, haha!

I put in some extra effort into this bento for Takoyaki, because I was supposed to give her one yesterday, but was so exhausted the night before that I fell asleep with the tot and didn't get up! So here's her bat-on-ham-on-cheese-moon, over a Nutella sandwich, together with some bloody fingers and fruits. I had a swift thought of putting eyes on the grapes but it vanished in the wink of an eye (haha! again).

I hope her friends don't get too shocked d:)

Since I had all these tools out anyway, I made the same cutouts for Mr Roast Meat at the same time, except that I marked out the eye slits with cheese (eeeeeevilllll). Over rice with homemade salmon flakes, and matched with a Halloween pumpkin (it's actually half a clementine, thank you to inspiration from my dear friends on the Facebook EZ Bentos group, and I think the Ah Ma of the idea is Ming of BentoMonsters). To fill up the box and add some fibre, I threw in some cuke sticks and capsicum slices. 

 

Tomorrow is a public holiday in Singapore (Hari Raya Haji), so no school and no bentos. Need to brainstorm for next week's Halloween themes!

Have a grrrrrreat weekend, everyone!

Eek! A Spider! Or a Crab?

I had meant this to look like a spider! Why does the end result look more like a crab??

Luncheon meat-and-leek multigrain rice stirfry (what a mouthful), which Mr Roast Meat also had for brunch this morning (time-saving tip). Together with cocktail sausages and grapes.

Oh Mighty Mummy!

Today's design is almost a failure. It barely looks like a mummy. I didn't have any bread or rice for Mr Roast Meat so I quickly fried an omelette to make a base for the cheese strips.

The eyes are black sesame seeds on cheese circles. The rest of the food is red capsicum, peanut butter cookie sandwiches and golden pear.

Jack Skellington Bento

I want to say first of all that I really love the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. My husband and I have collected some paraphernalia over the years.

It's exam week for both kids, so there won't be any lunch bentos for school. Takoyaki brought rice, leftover beef stew and some grapes today for recess. That's a mobile phone pouch I found some years back. And nope she didn't bring it to school d:)

Jack Skellington Bento round

Mr Roast Meat brought an onigiri with salmon flakes filling, grapes and some pork cocktail sausages.

Jack Skellington Bento triangular

Jack's features are all cut out of nori by hand.