Alien bento
Alien bento
Today’s bento is part of the Aliens / UFOs / paranormal / Sc-Fi theme. It contains a “Grey” alien made from pressed rice (not grey as in the colour, rather “Grey” as in the type of alien) a rice kawaii mushroom, a carrot and egg kawaii mushroom on a circle of pressed rice and nori, a Surimi fishstick on a food pick, a rice “baran” border with nori stars, an egg and nori “planet” and a spiral cut mini orange with some morello cherries and banana in the fruit section. I also used some pieces of red pepper for added colour and decoration. Underneath the carrot mushroom on the Onigiri circle is egg mayo with carrot mixed in, which is a new discovery – I made this the other day with some other left over bento food, and it was totally delicious. The carrot gives a wonderful crunch to the creamy egg.
This took ages to make (about 1 hour 45) but that includes a kitchen clean up too.
I can’t wait to share this with my toddler at lunch time tomorrow!
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You molded the rice for alien so perfect! I like how you arranged the crab stick slices on the pick and the red mushroom is cute
Thanks Lia!
I love this!!
thanks Edith and welcome !
I saw your food art today – the praying mantis is cool too, but the Syringe is my favourite so far, I think. Are you planning on doing any more?
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LOL – my daughters thought your alien looked creepy…that’s a good thing I’m sure! Great job.
The Alien is soooooo kawaii! Must agreed with Lia… the shape is so perfect!
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Egg mayo with carrot does sound good, do you have a recipe? I love the carrot mushroom, any kid would swoon over this lunch!
The crunchy egg mayo just 2 hard boiled eggs, with a dollop of mayonnaise (I would say maybe a large tablespoon, but mine is a squirty bottle, so I just squirted some in!) and then a carrot chopped into little cubes. I made another version yesterday, which had lettuce and cucumber chopped finely and mixed in with it too. I had to go back and make extra! I was proud of myself for eating so much salad – then I realised it was probably quite high in calories due to the mayonnaise… It would not taste the same without it though!
thanks – I used cling film (Saran wrap)
Yay! thx
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Wicked alien bentou!