Bento's and Baking
Ok so lately I've been looking at the idea of making Bento's.
For those of you who don't know what that is; it is a Japanese box lunch.
I always see them in anime. Always in the anime the cute girl is making a Bento lunch for the guy she likes, and of course the girl with he tastiest bento always gets the guy lol.
Often they are made very cute (with shaped eggs or rice rolls, vegi's cut into stars or hearts etc.) by mothers for their children to take to school as a school lunch.
Well as I decided to look around online I found there are a lot of people who keep bento blogs and show the ones they make for themselves and for their children each day. The more I saw; the more I wanted a bento box so I could try it out myself. So after two days of eating up everything I could find online about the art of making a bento box as well as things like making onigiri and Japanese egg omelets, I've decided to bite the bullet and today after work am heading to a close by Asian market to pick up two bento boxes.
Two because one is of course for myself, and the other will be made into a bento box lunch gift for a friend of mines birthday next weekend. He's an avid anime fan as well and I think he will get a kick out of it. (heck its home cooked food and he's a guy its sure to be a hit)
So wish me luck.
As an addendum to this I realized I haven't baked in a very very long time, and my good friend kitten is sending me her cream puff recipe. This also will be a new culinary achievement if I can pull it off since I have never made homemade cream puffs before.
Angel over and Out.
For those of you who don't know what that is; it is a Japanese box lunch.
I always see them in anime. Always in the anime the cute girl is making a Bento lunch for the guy she likes, and of course the girl with he tastiest bento always gets the guy lol.
Often they are made very cute (with shaped eggs or rice rolls, vegi's cut into stars or hearts etc.) by mothers for their children to take to school as a school lunch.
Well as I decided to look around online I found there are a lot of people who keep bento blogs and show the ones they make for themselves and for their children each day. The more I saw; the more I wanted a bento box so I could try it out myself. So after two days of eating up everything I could find online about the art of making a bento box as well as things like making onigiri and Japanese egg omelets, I've decided to bite the bullet and today after work am heading to a close by Asian market to pick up two bento boxes.
Two because one is of course for myself, and the other will be made into a bento box lunch gift for a friend of mines birthday next weekend. He's an avid anime fan as well and I think he will get a kick out of it. (heck its home cooked food and he's a guy its sure to be a hit)
So wish me luck.
As an addendum to this I realized I haven't baked in a very very long time, and my good friend kitten is sending me her cream puff recipe. This also will be a new culinary achievement if I can pull it off since I have never made homemade cream puffs before.
Angel over and Out.