Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Quail Egg Santa Bento

Quail Egg Santa Bento by sherimiya ♥
Quail Egg Santa Bento, a photo by sherimiya ♥ on Flickr.
Tomorrow is the first of December! Are you ready? I guess we'd better start with the Christmas themed bentos now. Only 2 and a half weeks of school to go! Did I already mention that yesterday? Yes, we're pretty excited here. For this bento: along with some shoyu chicken, I decided to put a layer of black rice (over more chicken) in one section of the round three-section bento so that I could have a canvas to put my santa. It's a hard-boiled quail egg with a radish hat, nose and beard. I cut the beard with a standard flower cutter and used several "petals" for an extra fluffy beard. I don't have any cute Christmas mini cutters, so most of my decorations have to be hand-cut. I'm not one to spend a lot of time doing them, so you know that whatever I make has to be quick and pretty easy. In the last section I've added another cute crabapple, some grapes and a few carrots. My girl loved her crabapple so much she saved the seeds, brought them home carefully wrapped in a napkin, and told me she wants to plant them in the yard and grow an "apple bush." Well all right then! ^_^

14 comments:

  1. Oh that little Santa is so cute!!!! What a fun first day of December lunch :D

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  2. Hi Sheri, it is a very clever idea to use flowered radish for fluffy beard...:)

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  3. Love mini Rudolph yesterday and love this mini Santa too! Super cute mini characters for Christmas theme bento. Hope to see more Sheri. We are pretty excited too for Christmas break, woohoo!! (^.^)

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  4. OMG, that is the cutest Christmas bento I've ever seen!! you're AMAZING!!!

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  5. You're so sweet Lina! Thank you dear! ^_^

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  6. Ho Ho Ho.. I am so loving this... cant wait for Christmas to come!

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  7. Christmas break, yeah! Waiting it more than Santa :P.
    I love his beard!! So creative use of cutters :)
    And TS is so adorable!! I hope she gets her mini apple bush ;)

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  8. I love the mini quail-egg santa!! It's super cute and love the contrast of the black rice too. Great Xmas-themed bento, Sheri. Looking forward to seeing more :D)!

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  9. Ohhh, karaimame -- I didn't see your comment in the "waiting" column so I just published it now...
    SO sweet of you! Thank you so so much for the kind words, hehe! ^_^

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  10. I'm excited to see your Christmas theme bento! This santa is cute one to start with!

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