Japanese Bento Box 3

More bento box idea,
you can always mix with all the small dishes
and be creative in decorating your food with seaweed, cup cake lining,shaped carrots and small colourful toothpick

Please find recipes from:
http://caroldolly.blogspot.com/2010/04/japanese-bento-box-1.html
http://caroldolly.blogspot.com/2010/04/japanese-bento-box-2.html
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Japanese Bento Box 2

Becky and I spent all day making 7 boxes of Bento!
This one is supposed to serve hot,
because we care! we have add a little instruction on the box,
telling our friends how long it should be reheat in the mircrove!
In this bento, we have egg fried rice as a base, meat ball skwers as main,
spicy dry tofu, potato cubes and soy quail eggs for sides

How to?
1- Egg fried rice
simply just 1 cup steam rice, 1 egg, chopped green onion, salt
first, heat up your pan with 1 tsp of oil,
on a med heat, beat the egg and drop it in the pan, allow the egg cover the pan evenly
then add the rice, stir
continue adding the rest of the ingredients and season the rice with salt

2- Soy quail eggs
you can also just make this dish with regular eggs,
we decided to use quail eggs because they are smaller in size
and easier to pack in a lunch box.
first of all, you need to boil the eggs in cold water, slowly bring the heat into a boil, cook for about 12-15min,
after, peel them in cold water
prepare a small sauce pan, add 1 Tsp of soy sauce, 1 tsp of sugar, 1 tsp of sugar, a pinch of all spice and 1/2 cup of water,
bring it to a boil, add all the eggs,
on a low heat with lid on, cook for 30min-45min
turn off the heat and let the eggs sit in the sauce for another 15min
when the color gets on the egg it means they are ready

3- Slow cook meat balls skwer and potatos (in a fast way)
this dish is a little more complicated
lb of ground pork, add 1 egg, 1 Tsp of corn starch, 1/2 tsp salt, pinch of white pepper, pinch of all spice, 1 tsp of chopped fresh ginger,
mix all the ingridents and roll them into 1" small balls, deep fry them
let the meat ball cool on a paper towel
next you need to peel your potato and cut them into small cubes,
lightly fry them in oil
in a small sauce pan, add 1 cup cold water, 2 coves of garlic, 1 tsp sugar, 1 Tsp of oyster sauce, 1 tsp of soysauce and 1/2 tsp of corn starch,
bring the sauce into a boil add all the meat balls and potato, cook on low heat 3 min,
stir them every minute, turn off the heat and cover up with the lid for another 2min

4- Spicy dry tofu
find tough dry five spice tofu in your super market,
cut about 2 squares of them and 1 stalk of celery into strips
in a pan, add 1 tsp of oil, 1 cove of minced garlic,
when the pan is super hot, add the tofu and celery, stir until they r all coat with oil,
add 1 tsp of say sauce, 1 tsp of hot chili paste and a pinch of chicken powder,
stir and cook for 2 min

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Japanese Bento Box 1

Sushi Onigiri, Octopus Sausage, Black Sesame Spinach and Glass Noodles..
Make me so happy even I just stare at them!

1- Sushi Onigiri
http://caroldolly.blogspot.com/2009/06/sushi-onigiri.html

2- Octopus Sausage
this is super easy to make, just cut a hot dog into 2
make 2 crosses at the flat end of the sausage,
pan fry it for 1 min,
decorate with sushi seaweed

3- Black Sesame Spinach
boil 1 bundle of spinach in water for 2min,
drop them in ice water, drain
season the spinach with 1 tsp of sesame oil and a pinch of salt
grind black sesame in magic bullet
mix the coarse sesame with 1 tsp of Japanese seaweed paste,
serve on top of the spinach

4- Korean Glass Noodle
soak the glass noodle in water until soft,
prepare carrot and celery, cut into thin strips
cook the glass noodle in boiling water for 5 min,
let it sit in cold water to stop the cooking process, drain
season the noodles and vegetable with sausage, sesame oil, white sesame seed and Japanese fish broth seasoning
serve cold

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Pinky Promise

The weather is getting warm in Toronto last week,
so I invited all my friends over for BBQ,
my friend Jeffrey insisted to make a pinky promise with his new best friend lobster claw!
So we took this picture =)
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Mickey Mouse Cheese Scone

They are not from Disneyland!
They are from Carolicious Bakery ^^
I got the Mickey cookie cutter from Tokyo's Disneyland..
I have always love the bakery in the park,
so this time, I decided to make a million of them from my kitchen!
They have tons of cheese in it,
even my brother and his friends love them
(normally, they don't eat my bake goods!)
I am very happy of the result, baking more and more next week =)
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Jello Mousse Cake

Jello + Whipped Cream = Mousse
That's a very simple formula and taste good!

I simply use 1 pack of Jello powder,
melting it in 1/2 cup hot water,
after, adding 1/2 cup cold water
Whip about 1 cup of whipping cream,
stir everything together,
using a mode layer the mousse mixture and a slice of sponge cake,
repeating 2-3 times,
let it set in the fridge until set,
then you will have a nice simple mousse cake!
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Mocha Mousse Cake

I made this Poker Birthday Cake for my friend Marka,
we play poker together all the time and this is where the idea came from,
I basically just print the card symbol from Internet,
and using a wax paper to trace them!
The party got very exciting after he blew on the candle!
Because we had a big surprise for him...

Marka likes almost everything,
but we know what he loves is only one thing!
That's right, his girlfriend in Japan,
we had 24 hrs to contact her,
so we stole her email address while Marka was in the restroom,
then contact her and asked her to record a video!
Awww, it was very sweet, she is very shy
but she sent it right at the time when we brought the cake out
I hope Marka had a happy wonderful Birthday Party!
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V-day Chocolate

Whats the best thing to do before V-day?
Ofcourse is to get together with your girlfriends
and make some handmade truffle for your love one.
They are simple to make and taste wonderful

What you need for the Truffle is a few basic things.
Dark Chocolate
35% Whipping Cream
Any type of nuts or dried fruit(I used hazeal nuts, peanut and almond)
Cocoa powder
1-First, boil the cream
2-Then pour the cream into your chopped chocolate, let it sit for about 1min, stir until melt
3-Refregerate for 2 hours
4-Scope a small round ball from the chocolate, instert whole nuts or dried fruit, roll it into round shape
5-Roll on cocoa powder or chopped nuts, done!

Please leave a message here if you need exact measurement of my recipe for the cream and chocolate
Because some people like softer ones and some like sweeter ones,
it is hard to say how much till you find out what one works the best for your love.

Chocolate Lolipops
They are even easier to make.
Just melt your quality chocolate in a bowl on top of a pot of boiling water
Pour them into the mode, shake out the bubbles,
and finally put a stick in the chocolate,
let it set in the refregerator, done!
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Season Cookies

It is like a must to make cookies during the holiday
Or I would feel something is not complete.
So after the busy days in Christmas,
I finally have the time to make some New year cookies,
I made 3 kinds... they are


Cheese Hearts
Its savory! Yes this is very popular in the cookie pack.
Made with Parmesan cheese and parsley

Zesty Lime Shortbread
Lime zest inside the buttery cookies
You can really taste the aroma in each piece

Golden Raisin-Cranberry Nutty
People who love pecan and brown sugar will surely want to try it
Many of my mom's friends actually like this one a lot =)

feel free to ask for recipes :)

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Afternoon Tea Party

So after I finished my cake decorate class,
I decided to throw a afternoon tea party with my dear friends


I don't know where I should start with,
I really made a lot of things that day and the night before =)
Recipes are coming soon!

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