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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Minestrone Rudolph Bento
The recent cold weather has put me in the mood for hot soups and stews. The heavy fog that we woke up to this morning stuck around all day long, which doesn't usually happen. It felt like 6pm all day. So everyone was very glad to have some hearty warming minestrone soup to take the chill off. Just as I always do, I threw in a lot of colorful vegetables to make this soup chock full of vitamins and nutrition. There's also some smoked andouille sausage in there for a little bite. TinySprite loved it so much, she asked for more again tomorrow. In her side dish I gave her the cutest little baby crabapple, steamed broccoli, carrots, grapes, a strawberry, and my first attempt at a Christmas character - Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. He's made from a shoyu-dyed hard-boiled quail egg, with nori eyes and mouth and a baby grape tomato nose. Are you in the Christmas mood yet? We've just put up our tree and are in the process of decorating it now. The kids love this part ^_^
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I love this bento and those containers! I'll also have to do a thermal bento chock full of goodies.
ReplyDeleteAw I forgot to put up our tree! Thanks for reminding me!
Rudolph is adorable - you are very creative - I would never have thought of a grape tomato nose!
ReplyDeleteHello Rudolph! He is placed on the right spot. So tiny and adorable, I love <3 Is getting cold there? This year we won't be at home for Christmas, so haven't decide yet whether we should put up our Christmas tree or not (^.^)
ReplyDeleteI saw a little reindeer made like that on Pinterest just yesterday! I am planning on making one this month. :) SUPER CUTE!
ReplyDeleteThe soup looks delicious too.
Rudolph is super cute!! You are so creative I never would have thought to use the bone picks for the antlers :)
ReplyDeleteMmmmm can I have a taste of that minestrone? ;) We'll be having bean & bell pepper stew for dinner tomorrow, hope there'll be some leftovers for bento as well!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much babykins, Marfio, Lia, Keeley, Amanda and Gnoe!! So sweet.^_^
ReplyDeleteI love it, of course!! I so hope you write a book Sheri!! I'll buy it immediately on line; pay three times it's cost to ship to Finland...and do a major happy dance at the mailbox when it arrived!Lol, Anyways, this lunch is a perfect Holiday welcome!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh -- you're SO sweet berrygirl!! Your enthusiasm and supportive comment just made my day!! Mwah~ xoxo ^_^
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