Star Wars Bento #4

Star Wars Bento #4, a photo by sherimiya ♥ on Flickr.

It's Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You! In celebration, I had to make a Star Wars bento for my youngling. I made some fried rice with black rice / black quinoa, ham and spinach, scooped it into a lettuce leaf, and halved 2 quail eggs to decorate with nori. I hand cut most of the details except for the circles, for which I used my hole punch. It was tedious, but actually kind of fun. It helps that the quail eggs are so tiny that it doesn't take much to finish them. I did want to make Princess Leia with her side buns, and it would have been cool to make a Yoda, but I'll have to save those for next time. Can you identify the characters I chose? (I hope so!) Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Storm Trooper and R2D2. I asked MisterMan, and he named them all immediately. Yay, success! The rest of the bento contains the first steamed white corn of the season, broccoli, cara cara oranges, strawberry and grapes. Happy Star Wars Day! ^_^

Star Wars Bento #2

Star Wars Bento #2, originally uploaded by sherimiya ♥.

This is especially for you, young Padawan (Jedi Apprentice) MisterMan!
Everyone's favorite droids, C3PO (yellow pepper and radish) and R2D2 (quail egg, radish and lettuce detail)!
Butteryaki salmon, cucumbers, purple carrot skewer, roasted asparagus, peapods, black & white rice underneath. Also, black plum, lychee, strawberry, grapes and cantaloupe.
MisterMan recognized them right away (whew!) so I guess I did alright :) He's such an immense fan, he can tell me the color of everyone's lightsaber, and who uses Sith Lightning, and which episodes featured which battles. I'll hone my talents so I can do more characters for him :o)