In the meantime, fortunately, Sakura trees are STILL blooming in my area. But we can't yet go on a ohanami picnic since we have lots of things we've got to do on weekend. At least, I wanted to make a sakura bento this morning. Maybe this was the first time I dyed food with food coloring. I used red food coloring obtained from safflower for usuyaki tamago (egg sheet). Look! Do these blossoms look like fish sausage, don't these?? Gosh! This time, I discovered that natural food colorings weren't strong unlike synthetic ones. Though this bento didn't come out as I thought, I'm going to keep it up. I need to attempt a lot more. Long and winding road~~ ♪ HAHA
I found fresh fillets of atka mackerel sold at low price yesterday. So I made some fish patties last night. Salmon chirashi zushi under the blossoms and cut edamame. And hodgepodge salad (I call it) and fried pumpkin slices seasoned with mentsuyu.
I like your sakura bento - the blossoms are such a pretty color!
ReplyDeleteHeehee, I thought the flowers were ham at first! Cute :D Happy birthday to Mr. Babykins :D
ReplyDeleteSo nice! I thought you used fish sausage for those flowers. Great idea to use natural food coloring. Have a nice weekend, wish a happiest birthday to your hubby! And all the best for the marathon :)
ReplyDelete@Kuusou
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy you said so :)
My egg sheet cutouts can't compare to yours ^^;
@tofugirl
ReplyDeleteHaha, you're not wrong. I certainly thought these were fish sausage flowers! Hubby really wondered what these were made from LOL!
@Lia
ReplyDeleteI would like you to make some eggsheets for me, hehe.
Thank you for rooting for Hubby!
Selamat ulang tahun! (Happy B'day!) for Mr. Babykins hehe :D.Wow... I love Sakura. And when I have a chance to go to Japan, Sakura is the first thing I wanna see hehehe. Beautiful Sakura bento Izumi :D
ReplyDeleteThank you tatachan!
ReplyDeleteHubby's also glad. (In fact, he's dissatisfied to age though, haha!)
I love sakura but we couldn't enjoy it so much because of the recent crazy weather.
I envy since I believe you can enjoy pretty flowers all year round in your country. ^^