Today, I made tortellini with green beans, toast cut into flowers, carrots, dressing (in the kitty), and vanilla pudding with a banana flower on top (I dipped the banana in lemon juice to keep it from browning). She packed chopsticks and a spoon (in case she gives up on chopsticks, and also because you can't eat pudding with chopsticks, unless you have a very, very long lunch. I packed the usual chocolate in the top of the bento compartment.
I was really excited yesterday! My youngest daughter came home and told me that a teacher in her lunchroom thought her lunch was cute. She had other adults come over and look at her lunch! This made her proud, and it makes me happy that she loves cute lunches.
To me, making bento is therapeutic. I wake up at 5:30 am every morning and lavish over what to make. It is calming and relaxing, like art, only edible.
I was really excited yesterday! My youngest daughter came home and told me that a teacher in her lunchroom thought her lunch was cute. She had other adults come over and look at her lunch! This made her proud, and it makes me happy that she loves cute lunches.
To me, making bento is therapeutic. I wake up at 5:30 am every morning and lavish over what to make. It is calming and relaxing, like art, only edible.
2 comments:
I keep seeing people use bananas to make flowers and such - don't they go brown before you eat them?
I dip the bananas in lemon juice and they don't brown! The kids didn't notice the lemon juice flavor, either. Apple slices dipped in lemon juice also won't brown.
It was a very good discovery.
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