Two Pirate Lunches

It's Pirates theme at playschool this month, so I'm making pirate theme bentos a lot this month! These are the bentos from yesterday and today!

In Tuesday's Bento we had:

• A Captain's Pirate hat (Apple butter sammie with nori and cupcake sprinkles details)
• Bologna rolls 
• Cherry tomatoes
• Sliced cucumbers
• Bread sticks
• Sliced Kiwi and a big strawberry with a Pirate ship sticker pick

In Wednesday's Bento we had:

• A Pirate's treasure chest sammie (1/2  Wheat bread and bologna, 1/2 Apple butter sandwich with nori and cheddar cheese details)
• A cherry tomato with a treasure chest sticker pick
• sliced Kiwi
• One big strawberry with one green "Pirate" (She just went with that!)

Glad that St. Patrick's day is coming I need a Pirate break already! LoL
These lunches have been linked to What's For Lunch Wednesdays! Week 94

Hello Kitty Pirate

With this month being Pirate month at playschool everyone gets to be a swashbuckling rogue for at least a day, and today it's our favorite Kitty's turn!

It's A Pirate Kitty Muffin Tin Lunch! In this muffin tin we have:

• Pan seared tuna steak chunks
• Fried potato curls with sea salt
• Broccoli and a sliced up cherry tomato
• A blueberry mini muffin under a marzipan hello kitty pirate face
• Pirate punch  (OJ and mineral water)

For her playschool snack she also had a Hello Kitty Pirate snack bento

In this snack bento she had:

• A Pirate Kitty sandwich made with wheat bread and apple butter. The sammie had  marzipan details
• Half a banana
• Two cherry tomatoes
• Baby carrot sticks
• Cheddar cheese hearts 

This bento is so lovely! I really like the clear top so you can see what's inside!

Pirate Month at Playschool!

We have the wonderful theme of Pirates at playschool this month! I love Pirate lore and enjoy having a fun theme to play with! Here are some of what we've had so far.

Snack Bento

That day's muffin tin lunch

In these meals we had

• A Pirate cheese sandwich with salami, cheese and nori details
• A fruit treasure cup filled with clementine orange, mango and strawberry slices
• whole wheat alphabet cookies
• One chocolate gold coin
• Boxed OJ

In the muffin tin we had

• A serving of baked chicken spaghetti
• Baked butternut squash with maple syrup and cinnamon
• Tomato skewers with mozzarella and fresh basil
• A fresh baked Bisquick garlic muffin with cheese pirate face
• Slices Kiwis and a big strawberry
• Pirate Punch (OJ, and mineral water)

The following Day Missy Lulu took this snack bento to playschool

In this snack bento she had:

• A Pirate's parrot made from a quail egg  (even though he looks like a chicken..smh I tried)
• A roasted chicken drumette
• A Bisquick garlic muffin
•  Boiled edamame
• A big strawberry 
• Milk to drink
• Chocolate Pirate gold for dessert

Visit again for more pirate themes!

Kabob bento

Today Isi had a Kabob bento lunch. He loves the saucy mystery meat sliced roasts sold in sandwich form, from a dozen or more Turkish restaurants found all around here. I saw a frozen package of the same stuff in our local grocery store,  and decided to make his favorite take-away from home!

I pan fried the frozen meat with chili oil  to make it extra spicy! Instead of pita bread I used Finnish Lapland flat bread to hold his fillings. With this he had a small side salad of:

• Shredded carrots
• Red bell peppers
• sliced cucumbers
• Cherry tomatoes
• pickled Jalapeno peppers
• Lettuce and Tzatziki sauce with basil in the  small container

I had planned on serving a second container of thin sliced fried potatoes with sea salt along with his meal,but he and my oldest snarfed them down in the kitchen right as I took the ringlets from the hot pan to the paper towels for draining. Lol, I did the same as a kid when my mom made them! Overall he liked his lunch!

Fefe in Paris

Happy Monday friends! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I didn't do too much, but had a super time with my family none the less! Today I'm posting my entry for Bento of the week! The theme is dogs and my favorite dog is the poodle! I created a little french lady ready for a stroll all the streets of Paris; her name's Fefe, "Ooh, la la!"

Here's the full meal!

In this bento lunch we have:

• Fefe made of hand cut nori and rice balls flavored with a special rice coloring...(the names in Japanese but the flavor is salmon and it's lovely pink!) The Eiffel Tower is also hand cut nori all on a canvas of white sushi rice.
• Liver pate´ flowers with cheddar cheese detail
• Cherry tomatoes on washi tape toothpick flag
• Sliced cucumbers
• Cheddar cheese bread sticks
• Sliced Kiwi
• Castello cheese wedges
• A Strawberry and square of 81% dark chocolate for dessert!

I wish I were in Paris to eat this bento but it's a sunny today, so the living room sofa isn't to bad of a place to be either!! LoL

Puppy Sushi

This is another bento I made for the Bento Blog Network's Bento of the week. It's Sushi in doggy form...it was a practice run, but I think it came out pretty cute!

In this simple bento lunch we have:

• Two doggy Maki Sushi
• Cherry tomatoes
• Castello blue cheese wedges
• One soft boiled egg
• A Strawberry for dessert!

These were a challenge to make, but fun! I love practicing my skills with food art! If I do these a couple of more times, I think that these will be a signature bento item. I have a huge sushi instruction book and the things you can make from it are amazing!

Sumo Bento!

I had fun playing in the food today for Isi's lunch. I try not to make his lunches cute;  attractive is my goal usually, but when I saw some of these Sumo wrestler onigiri images, I new it would appeal to my sweetie's weird sense of humour! ^.^

 

 

In this bento we have:

• Two Sumo onigiri stuffed with a super hot tuna, srairacha, and spring onion salad.
• Salmon nuggets pan fried.
• Butternut squash sauteed.
• Salami Tamagoyaki.
• Sliced cucumbers and cherry tomatoes!            

He loved this lunch...he ate all the leftover tuna mix standing in the kitchen...(was going to be my lunch '-' ) Oh, well. And he showed off his bento to colleagues at work!  So cute!