Themed Food- Halloween Ghost

I love making themed bentos and dishes. It's fun to make and keeps me smiling when I eat it.

This year, I made steamed ghost dumplings with a noodle salad. They are mixed with steamed dumplings and gyoza (baked dumplings). You can click the links to see the full instructions.

Halloween Jack O'Lantern
Halloween Spiders

Ready in: 20 minutes

Ingredients for two:
2 bunches of noodles
Salad
4 sheets of dumpling wraps
[Dumpling filling: Prepare in a bowl]
10g of minced pork
1 dried mushroom
1 teaspoon of soy sauce
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
1 teaspoon of Sake
1 teaspoon of sugar

[Dressing: Prepare in a cup]
3 tablespoons of soy sauce
3 tablespoons of sesame oil
2 tablespoons of white vinegar
1 tablespoons of sugar

Required Equipment:
Steamer
Mixing bowl
Strainer
Rolling pin

Step 1: Hand-mix the filing and make 2 small balls

Step 2: Using a rolling pin, roll and thin out 2 wraps. They go on the top of the ghosts

Step 3: Place a meat ball on a regular wrap, and cover the ball with the thin wrap. Place it on a steamer for 15 minutes

Step 4: Cook noodles and rinse them 

Step 5: Put salad and noodles on a plate, and place a ghost on top.

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Food can be fun!

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Do you like surprises? I do!

I made this bento box, and was still surprised when I opened it.

It made me smile again! 

My mom asked me, "Was your lunch the cutest in class?", when I was in a day care.

I thought that was a very annoying question, so often didn't say anything.

Of course it was the coolest! 

I was tinny and had no appetite when I was small.

Mom became very creative, and my lunch box was always full of fun!

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Did you smile at the dinner today?

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How can we make eating fun?


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Bento- Face

Another great night with the sun here in Ottawa!

Food is a big part of my life. I love to think of ideas, and cooking itself is fun. 

What the most fun part is when someone I'm serving to put a smile on the face :D

I get to experiment, and see the result right a way.

Fun stuff!!

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Bento - Monster

Are you enjoying the longest day of the year? Pack your dinner, go to a park!

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Bento- Halloween Spiders

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Bento- Halloween Jack O' Lantern

Happy Halloween !

My mom put so much effort in my daily lunch box to encourage me to enjoy food when I was in kindergarten. When I came home, she always asked me "Was yours the best lunch today? Did your friends bring a better one?"

I grew up in a family which loves eating! 

Ready in: 30 minutes

Ingredients for two:

[Pumpkin]

2 cups of cooked sticky rice

Some carrots, minced

1/2 onions, minced

1 clove of garlic 

Salt and pepper

Some green beans

Nori sheet

[Ghosts]- No instruction here

2 boiled eggs, cut to make a mouth (use for mummy's eyes)

Some fake crab sticks

2 Korean sliced rice cake, boiled 

8 black sesames 

[Mummy]- No instruction here

Some fake crab sticks

Udon noodles

Nori sheet

Some eda mame

[Broom]- No instruction here

Shaved carrots

Enoki mushrooms

Nori sheet

Step 1: Fry vegetables till onions get golden







 

Step 2: Add rice, and mix all well. Add some salt and pepper

Step 3: On a plastic wrap, put some rice, and make a baseball-sized ball

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Step 4: Make 3-4 lines on top of the ball

Step 5: Cut nori sheet to make the pumpkin face

Step 6: Place them all in a lunch box