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January 2009

How to make an egg chicken

January 4, 2009 characters
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Today’s how-to is something very basic you can make with a boiled egg. It’s so easy that I don’t even know if I need to do a how-to on this, but this definitely is the simplest & easiest way to turn an ordinary egg into a cute chicken in under 3 minutes! I made this for my very first kyaraben-ish bento, and Farm bento. But I [...]

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How to make an edamame stick

January 4, 2009 decorations
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This one is may not really be “kyaraben” food by itself, but it’s a great way to add green to your bento box. This technique lets you put edamame together in one place without using a little cup. All you need is uncooked pasta! You can put it in the corner of bento box like in the Piggy & Gir bento, or use it as [...]

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bento #23: Cooking Mama

January 3, 2009 bento
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While I was making the Professor Layton, Portal and Bioshock bentos, I came up with more video game themed bento. One of them in particular seemed just so perfect for kyaraben. It was a game about cooking! Bento#23: Cooking Mama Created and eaten on: 11/14/2008

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2009 bento

Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! (“Happy New Year” in Japanese ) I’m still celebrating the new year, so no bento blog today… but instead, I’d like to wish all you bento/food lovers a happy new year with a picture of my latest bento! I don’t have the pictures of this bento on my flickr yet, but you can see more pictures of this bento at my boyfriend’s [...]

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