Friday, May 21, 2010

Obento May 21, 2010

♪ Sakura sakura~~ ♪ What day is it today??  Friday, yaaay!!  And today is my hubby's birthday.  He is going to participate in the Toya marathon tomorrow.
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

Obento May 21, 2010

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.

8 comments:

  1. I like your sakura bento - the blossoms are such a pretty color!

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  2. Heehee, I thought the flowers were ham at first! Cute :D Happy birthday to Mr. Babykins :D

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  3. So 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 :)

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  4. @Kuusou
    I'm so happy you said so :)
    My egg sheet cutouts can't compare to yours ^^;

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  5. @tofugirl
    Haha, you're not wrong. I certainly thought these were fish sausage flowers! Hubby really wondered what these were made from LOL!

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  6. @Lia
    I would like you to make some eggsheets for me, hehe.

    Thank you for rooting for Hubby!

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  7. 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

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  8. Thank you tatachan!
    Hubby'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. ^^

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