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.
