Bento # 8

As soon as school starts for my youngest, I'll have to prepare kid's bentos - how cute.
Needless to say, my son is eager to try them and begged to have some already.


That's kid bento #1:

This is a really simple one - Nutella sandwiches (dino shape), red pepper slices and 2 mini chocolate muffins. Well - start small - grow as you go, hm

Bento # 7

It's a busy time just now - so much to prepare for my son's school start - as well as summer school holiday in our part of Germany. Only 1 week until we're actually off for our summer holiday as well - I can't wait!


Not many bento's during the last week - but I had the chance to prepare a few - so let's see number 7:

Bottom tier: cheese tortellini with home-grown spinach pesto
Top tier: heart-shaped egg, sausage slices, apricots and a chocolate treat.

Bento # 6

Good morning,


only one Bento box I prepared Friday evening, as my husband had to work on Saturday: 


This is Bento # 6:

Bottom tier: steamed rice topped with Furikake and carrot flowers.

Top tier: crispy tofu 'schnitzel', star-shaped egg, fried yellow pepper and some extra furikake (panda). 

This box is my favorite for 'big' lunches!

Bento # 5

Hi there,


today I found 3 different furikake-mixes (furikake = dry spice mix for rice) in an Asian grocery store here in Darmstadt. I love it! I guess I'll have to make some onigiris tonight for our bentos tomorrow (that is - after watching football and going to a school event after work.....).


Time for another bento photo (yesterdays - in fact I'm one day behind always):

Very healthy (lean grilled chicken, steamed broccoli, cucumber, home-made tortilla with potatoes and onions and two tiny ham-and-cheese-rolls). My husband starts to like the bento-box idea - his colleagues even asked if I could order some boxes for them (have done that yesterday). 


I'm off now - have to rush to kindergarden and school event afterwards!


Have a nice evening.

Bento accessories

Hi folks,


as I promised a couple of days ago I took a photo of all the bento accessories I gathered and use now:

So there are some sandwich shapers, rice forms, stencils, egg moulds, lots of cute picks some silicone cups and of course some bento boxes (not in the picture :-) for every family member.

I was surprised how excited my son was when he spotted all the stuff! He immediately started planning what HE could do with all the tools. He demanded action right away and asked me if we could do something from 'Super Mario' (? never played this).... :-)

After listening to a comprehensive introduction to Mario's World we agreed to create some (I have fogotten their name - sorry) mushrooms. That's the result:

Yeah. Don't ask me to explain the difference between the green and red ones.

For the red ones we used egg, tomatoes and mozarella for the dots. The green one consists of mozarella and (home grown) cucumber (- yes yes yes - we harvested the first ones and they taste delicous!). Next to the green one there is a box also featured in the game - made of yellow pepper with some mini-sesame 'nails' and a spaghetti questionmark on it. Phhh - how creative for a friday afternoon I'd say.

Bento # 3 & # 4

Lunchbreak :-D

Time for my bento # 4. 

You miss # 3?

Nothing special yesterday - just a nice and spicy soup. Good for the temperatures here in Germany.... it's freezing cold. Summer? I DO remember some nice and warm days when I was young *sigh*.

Here we are:

I used the egg-shape moulds for the first time. Funny - isn't it? I guess I have to buy larger eggs for that purpose, though. 

I think I can write about another renovation project soon - we just received our window delivery.

Changing the windows will be a real challenge (and not a desaster - hopefully ;-)

It will be a huge improvement for our bedroom! The windows there are total crap. We had a very cold winter in there - despite the heating. So *yippee*! 

Bento # 2

Good morning,


I received my second delivery of Bento stuff yesterday *woohoo* - great and cute ('kawai') stuff for making and decorating delicous Bentos.
This batch came from http://casabento.com/shop/en/. They are located in France but deliver internationally. Delivery time was a week - that's absolutely acceptable. I'll post a photo of the whole stuff tomorrow and I can't wait to use it. It's been late yesterday evening (had to watch football of course!) so I just unpacked everything and admired it. As I don't have to pack foodboxes for my kids (full service at the kindergarden - and for my daughter - she is not sure yet if it is cool enough ;-), my dear husband will have to enjoy my decoration tries *eg*.


Nevertheless, this was yesterdays bento for me (forgot to shoot a photo of his box)...:

Getting used to the technique

Wow - my second Post. I'm gradually getting used to blogging though I'm far from being a technical expert. Some layout rules are weird - I'm not sure how to post on the right pages. I want to keep general news an updates on this (?) main page - and more detailed or topic-related ones on the specific pages (like 'Project House', Project: What's cooking'). Please have a look around - maybe I'll have to adjust the layout gradually until it works fine for me - so bear with me :-)

So news?
In Germany everybody is very excited due to the Football EM. Of course we are also watching most of the matches - preferring the not-so boring ones *g*.
My youngest is staying with his daddy this week so it's a little more quiet than usual.

How very exciting: I received my first order from http://www.bentoshop.de/ yesterday.
So I'm ready to start 'bento-ing' - ha. I like the idea of having nicely prepared and home-made lunch everyday. Making it look nice is really fun. So check out my first result of  preparing a 'bento-box'.

See you soon.