NST.my Kitchen

It has been a while that I didn’t update my blog with recipes.  I am extremely sorry for all the fans that who are so eager to see any update.  I will try my best to update at least 1 recipe once a month, hope you all still stay with us.

Today, I would like to share some pictures that I saw from Japanese website, it looks fun playing around it, therefore I copy it here.  Hope you enjoy it.

The bread they are using it home bake bread with red bean that make the smiley face on the bread.  But since making bread is quite time consuming for most mother, I will suggest just apply fruit jams on the bread to replace the red bean bread.

Any food can also use to decorate your meal and with your creativity you might comes out something nicer than the picture show below.  Different shaped of the plate is only a good decoration.

Without saying more words, refering to the picture, I believe you can understand how to make this cute bread plate meal.  There is no correct or incorrect and there is no standard on decoration your meal.  Not necessary to use sausage as hair . You can use sphagetti or egg as hair, carrot as eyes.  You can even have your child to help you on decoration.  Looking at the picture below, isn’t it is fun and easy?  Why don’t you also start making your own one today.  Hope to see your creation soon, feel free to share it on our facebook fans http://facebook.com/nst.my Have fun and enjoy !

Sorry for didn’t update the blog for quite a long time.  As my apologize, I will include some translated bento from some of Japanese website. Hope you all enjoy. If you have any part not understand, feel free to let me know.

Mr. Cow/Horse Bento

Making a cow or horse face bento is very easy, what we need is a pooh head bento box and main ingredients are sausage, quail egg and broccoli.

1.       First we need to put some broccoli at the ear and fringe area, so that it will be easily recognize it as a cow or horse face. Then put in any dishes you like in other part like what you see in the picture.

2.       Use scissors to cut the seaweed into round shape to make eyes and nose.  If you have a seaweed puncher, then it will be more easier. Fold the seaweed into half and cut out the round shape, so that it will be same size.

3.       Hard boiled the quail egg and slice it into small pieces to make the egg of cow or horse like what you see the picture. Then cut the sausage into oval shape to make it ear of cow or horse. If you want to make it cow bento, then you need to cut the sausage into ring shape to put it at the cow nose.

4.       You can always cut out different shape of seaweed to have different expression.

5.       You The first picture is cow,2nd is horse. You can also add in ribbon to make is a female cow or horse, or add egg glasses to represent a father cow/ horse.

Enjoy!

Making a bento not necessary to be very fancy as those Japanese housewife did, as we do not have the time to make it so fancy, therefore tools are very useful to decorate your bento box.  Here I have use the tomica moss ring to cut our the bread and toast it in a oven, then apply any jam you like.  Here I have use 2 types of food picks, one is the music notes picks and another one is the cute bento picks.   I also have used rub a dub dub food divider to make the bento box looks more colorful and cute.

Hope you all like this simple bento.

Preparing bento sometime no need to be very complicated, with some creative ideas and tools you can always comes out with new and nice bento box for your kids.  For this bento box, it is a very simple one,
I have use the Hello Kitty Big Size Cookie Cutters or Sandwich Cutter to cut and stamp the bread. Actually there will no line on the kitty face, but I have press too hard, therefore the line is show. Then I have used animal world food cup to put the coco crunch. Besides, there are some cherry tomatoes, jelly and lettuce.  I have used the monkey sauce container to store the salad dressing and used the ocean world picks on the tomatoes for decoration and easy to eat. The monkey sauce container 1 set got 2, if you look clearly you will found 1 is male monkey and the other is female and it comes with the spoon with the shaped of banana.  It is very cute. 

The Hello Kitty Big Size Cookie Cutters or Sandwich Cutter can also be use to make a 3D Hello Kitty cookies, below is the translated recipe behind of the package. It is also the same for the Pooh Big size cookies cutters

Ingredients:

200g cake flour

65g unsalted butter

50g fine sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

some vanilla essence

Method:

1.       At room temperature soften the butter, divider the sugar into 2-3 portion and add in 2-3times,beat until hard.

2.       Add in egg and mix well.

3.       Add in vanilla essence

4.       Sieve the cake flour and baking powder and add in 2-3 times.

5.       Shaped the dough round, put into plastic bag and put in refrigerator for 30 mins.

6.       Take out and flatten with rolling pan until the thickness of 4mm, use the mould to cut out and stamp the hello kitty shaped.

7.       Pre-heat oven to 180 degree and bake for approx.13-15mins

8.       Take out and let it cool before serve or keep in bottle.

The 3D hello kitty can wrap in pretty plastic bag and give it as present.  It can also look great to decorate on a cake.  To make the cookies more attractive, you can put the melted chocolate into sauce pen and draw out the expression of the Hello Kitty.

Hello Kitty香草饼干

材料:
低筋面粉200g+无盐奶油65g+细砂糖50g+全蛋1个+baking power1/2茶匙
+香草精少许
 作法:
1.将预先于室温软化的奶油打散,分2-3次加入细砂糖,继续打发打发成羽毛状
2.分次加入打散的全蛋液混合均匀
3.加入香草精
4.低筋面粉&baking power过筛后分2-3次加入混合均匀
5.整成圆形用塑胶袋或保鲜膜包好,放入冰箱30分
6.取出杆平成4mm的薄片,用饼干模压出形状放到烤盘上
7.饼干放入已预热180度的烤箱烤13-15分钟
8.取出放凉后,轻轻组装即可

除了可以做成手工點心禮物,也可以放在蛋糕上做裝飾很討喜

如果想要更可愛,可以用醬料筆,放入溶化的巧克力來讓表情更生動哦

Japanese curry is not only delicious, it is also very easy to prepare, therefore it is very suitable for a lazy people like me.  To make the dish more adorable, I have use kitty mould to make the rice into kitty shaped and use green peas and corn as eyes and nose.  To have the rice stick together, make sure your rice is still hot, otherwise you won’t get a nice kitty shaped.  Haha, looks like my hello kitty does not looks like hello kitty at all, well I am too hungry so just quickly make and shot.  I believe you can make it better than me.  You can also try out other mould to have other shape of rice too.

Here is the recipe, you can also get this recipe from when you buy the Japanese curry cube, it is just behind the box. The Japanese curry is not like Indian or malay curry, it is not spicy at all even you have choose the hot one.  If you are afraid it is spicy, you can choose mild hot, I am afraid my 2 and half year daughter will feel spicy so I bought mild hot, surprisingly, she not feel spicy at all and she love it very much. The recipe I have adjusted it to 4 servings.

Ingredients

half box house java curry sauce mix

meat (beef/pork/chicken)250g,2 medium onions(400g), 2 medium potatoes(300g),1 medium carrot (200g)

Method

1.       cut meat or chicken onions, potatoes and carrot into bite size. Saute in saucepan until lightly browned. Add 3 cups of water(1300ml) and bring to boil.  Cook over low to medium heat about 20 mins or until tender.

2.       Remove from heat.  Break curry sauce mix into pieces and add to saucepan.

3.       cook over low heat about 20 mins, or until curry thickens.  Serve over cooked rice or pastas.

中文食谱迟些补上

Long time I have no update this blog.  Here comes another bento. Have used couple of tools to make this bento, like cinnamoroll egg mould for the cinnamoroll shaped of egg, food cup for grapes. Some baking cup to hold or separate foods. To easily have the cinnamoroll face shaped of rice, I have used Cinnamoroll Rice/Toast/Mooncake/Cookies Mould. There are also doraemon picks and monkey face sauce container.  The bento box I am using is Pooh Double decker bento box, the bento box comes with a bento bag, strap and some dividers.

Hope you all enjoy!!  Have a great weekend!

Hi! This another simple bento, using the pooh bento box as container, to have the car shaped, I used the non-stick car shaped mould to put in the rice and use the cherry tomato as wheel.  Then put in some vegetable as grass and some fish on the top of the car as background.  It does not looks very nice, but this is my first try to have some scenery bento.  I think if add some vegetable or seaweed to make the frame of car windows might be better, what do you think? 

Hope you like my bento!

This is a very simple bento, on the left you can see the Hello kitty bread which can be make using the Hello Kitty Vegetable Mould.

At the center of the bento box there are cherry tomato and cherry, and the last is the Japanese Curry.

Curry is a very special spices that can make you have appetite to eat more, but most of the children are afraid of spicy food, Japanese curry is the best for kid to start trying spicy food because it is not spicy at all. Japanese curry is very easy to cook, you just have to buy the japanese curry cube and follow the instruction at the back of the packing.

Have a great day!!

Sorry for my laziness, I am too lazy to update my blog, but I promise I will update my blog at least twice a month.  Here I have my first Bento.  I am still very new to bento, therefore I hope my bento is not too ugly.  I believe there are still a lot of improvement need to be made, feel free to give me comments. Thanks.

The bento box I am using for this bento is the Pooh double decker bento box. The bento box consists of fish & car boiled egg, gyoza, bear sauce container. Another layer of bento box consists of 3 rice balls with 2 different colours. The 2nd picture also included 2 different colours rice, but instead of make it like a ball, I used Japan Import Animal Rice Mould/Burger Mould to make it into different shapes.  I will include the recipe for the gyoza and colour rice ball, hopefully I am not too lazy to put it on by today.  Have a good day!