Happy Earth day for everyone! [click her to recipe]

My son loves to eat soboro (minced chicken with lot of vegetable). My son does not like to eat some vegetable like carrot, but when I add into soboro, he eat all vegetable with rice! I cooked this teddy bear soboro (minced chicken with lot of vegetable) in last weekend.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Weather was so beautiful on Saturday and my son and his friend were enjoying egg hunt in the park!
I prepare 2 snack for boys. Goldfish Easter Carrot (I used Piping Bag, green tissue paper, green ribbon) and Fruit cup (filled with fruit and sponge cake in plastic cup. Easy to bring!)

For dinner I cooked gluten free meatloaf with Easter decoration last week.

Meatloaf with Easter decoration

Have a great week!

I wake up early Monday morning and I can spend more time to prepare my lunch.
This is my bento (lunch box) yesterday to have a good start of week!

Here is the bento ingredients that I used
Bottom Box: Brown Rice with curry flavor, Norisometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sometimes called laversometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, carrot, soy cheese, lettuce
Top box: orange slice, cherry tomato, steamed edamame, sweetened white beands, vegetable and fruit pickled salad, seasoned spinach with soy cheese slice and norisometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sometimes called laversometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, Japanese name for edible seaweed
wrap.

I started gluten free diet this week to relieve my symptom of Hashimoto’s disease (autoimmune disease)
I woke up early this morning and made this lunch box for myself today. This is perfect for spring!

How do I decorate shamrock and ladybug rice ball?

I mixed brown rice with Yukari furikakea dry Japanese condiment meant to be sprinkled on top of rice (dry Japanese condiment) and little bit beet puree. Beet make pretty pink color of rice without using any food color.
Made rice ball with this pretty pink rice first. I made three. On the rice ball, I placed 4 heart shaped snow pea. For ladybug, I used cherry tomato, black olive, Norisometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sometimes called laversometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sheet, and soy slice cheese. I add round slice cheese on shamrock to cover cherry tomato.

Right side box: spinach Hamburg, bean salad, steamed sweet potatoes, edamame (soy beans), cherry tomato, slice of apple.

St. Patrick’s Day is around the corner.

I saw This cucumber Hats from here and I made lunch with St. Patrick decoration on Saturday!

Here are the ingredients I used for decoration.

Hat: I used cucumber, slice cheese, norisometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sometimes called laversometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sheet, carrot.

Face: Face made from brown rice and soboro (minced chicken and vegetable) and I used carrot, norisometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sometimes called laversometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, red bell pepper for decoration.

Rainbow: Cherry tomato, carrot, yellow bell pepper, cucumber, slice cheese

This is another sushi cake I made recently.
I mix rice with sushi taro again and use round cake pan.
Place plastic wrap inside of cake pan and spread rice. I added cucumber in between. You can refer Sushi cake recipe here.
Once I make round sushi cake, I added Kinshi Tamago (Shredded Egg Crepe Garnish), thin sliced cucumber, cooked shrimp for decoration.

Sushi cake is easy to make but looks gorgeous. This is great for spring party.

This Thomas craft is that I used in my Son’s 2nd birthday party in last year. We had Thomas themed party with our neighbor friend.

I found paper craft idea from this website and make some other character as well.

Here is the site you can download paper craft if you like.

Thomas: Click here
Percy: Click here
James: Click here
Henry: Click here
Gordon: Click here

Hinamatsuri (Doll’s Festival) sushi rice ball

Hinamatsuri (Doll’s Festival) is a special day (for girls) in Japan. Hinamatsuri is celebrated each year on March 3.
Even I do not have daughter, I wanted to cerebrate girl’s day. so I made some sushi cake  and sushi rice ball with Hinamatsuri decoration in 10 minutes.

I mixed brown rice with  Sushi Taro  and wrapped with Soy Wrapper. I decorated with carrot, cucumber, blackbean and norisometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sometimes called laversometimes called laver, Japanese name for edible seaweed
, Japanese name for edible seaweed
sheet.

I also made the Sushi ball with hinamatsuri decoration. Click here more detail.

Hinamatsuri (Doll’s Festival) Sushi decoration

This is also sushi cake using 3 colors hinamatsuri celebration.

Hinamatsuri (Doll’s Festival) sushi cake

This is today’s lunch for my son.Lorax sushi parfait (with soboro (minced chicken) , scramble egg, and Chinese green vegetable) lunch plate for Dr. Seuss Celebration.

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!