Monday, April 12, 2010

Bug on Fruit Bento


Bug on Fruit Bento, originally uploaded by sherimiya ♥.
Today's bento was easy: leftover chicken with steamed broccoli, carrots, steamed purple Okinawan sweet potato circles made to look like a caterpillar with nori and cheese details, plus rice stick antennae. There are some red grapes and a sliced orange in the fruit section. I added rice balls made to look like fruit, with their leaf picks and nori faces. You might be wondering whether my boy has finally taken a liking to rice (or you might not).
Well, I mixed this rice with purple potato vinegar, which I found at Marukai. It also contains honey and quince juice, and is rather sweet. According to the label, you can even use it to make a beverage of some sort using sparkling water and milk. Isn't that cool? It tastes great! And on top of that, it's a lovely pink color! I was hoping it would tint the rice, and it kind of did, but a bit too faintly to be obvious in the picture. Well, I hope it means that I will be able to use rice in bento more often... we'll see!

In other news, the winners of the Spring 2010 Bento Contest have been announced on Just Bento, and my Spring Momiji Bento placed 7th. I'm very happy about that, and would like to say a big "thank you!" to all of you who voted for me :) Congrats to megan of Bento Zen and Lia of My Bentolicious, who took 1st and 2nd place, respectively! It was an honor to be included in such talented bentomaking company, and hopefully some of you can enter next year's contest. ^_^

11 comments:

  1. So cute!!! Love the little purple caterpillar and the rice ball fruits. :D The vinegar sounds yummy! Congrats on placing in the contest, you made such a beautiful bento!

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  2. Nice find on the vinegar! The color (according to my monitor) looks sort of a raspberry-ish hue which is very pretty.

    This is indeed a "Happy Little Bento"!

    Congrats again on your Spring Bento Contest placement as a top 10 winners!

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  3. Thanks a lot Susan :D

    Yeah, it is a berry-like hue; so cool! Thanks so much Debra, you're always so encouraging. I really appreciate it :)

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  4. Purple caterpillar is so adorable! Really contrast in color because you put it near the cute rice balls. Congrats (again) for the TOP 10 in Spring Bento Contest! You are very talented bento maker and your works are so inspiring (^.^)

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  5. This is so great!! Adorable purple caterpillar is joyous, as is this whole ensemble, and I love the differing reactions of the fruit-folks to the happy bug.
    Congrats on making the spring bento top ten with your beautiful bento!!

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  6. the rice 'fruit' balls are so cute, and that syrup sounds super-yummy! and the caterpillar is another fantastic simple-but-oh-so-kawaii sheri idea!

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  7. Thanks a lot Lia! So sweet with a wonderful comment as you always have for me :)

    Thank you bentobird! Very kind of you :)

    Thanks megan! Simple is my forte, hehe!

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  8. I just stumbled upon your blog and I love it! What a cute concept. I love the purple caterpillar and the rice balls!

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  9. Thanks for stopping by!

    Love your updates on LA eats too :)

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  10. Cute and delicious bug! Wanna "devastate" you! LOL :D

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  11. Haha! Thanks so much tatabonita, always so pleased by your visit and funny comments :)

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