how to make sweet n’ sour pickled radish
May 31, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in how-to (all), how-to - fundamentals Tags: daikon, pickled radish
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My boyfriend and I were supposed to go to Boston for his niece’s 2nd birthday party this weekend, but we had to cancel it because his sister had another baby girl! We are so excited for his sister and her family. 
Since we weren’t going to Boston, we were able to attend the birthday party of one of my old friends from my art school. The party was at McCarren park in Brooklyn. The weather was nice, and it was very nice to see my old friends. Understandably, there were a lot of people besides us at the park, but we didn’t expect to see zombies. Yes, there were dozens of zombies at the park. Apparently there was a zombie crawl (not a walk, but crawl) in Williamsburg. I guess zombies are hip this summer.
We came home late from the park, and didn’t have the time to do a full how-to today. So I decided to show how I store leftover veggies. Sometimes, I use radish for my kyaraben. The candle on the cake for Portal bento, a cigarette for Mechazawa in Cromartie High bento, mushrooms for the Totoro parade bento, etc… Radish is a good ingredient for solid white things in kyaraben, like the snowflake I’ve made before. I usually just eat leftover radish raw, but if there’s a lot leftover I make sweet pickled radish.
[Basic measurement for this recipe for sweet n' sour radish pickle]
Rice vinegar – 4 TBS
Sugar – 1 and 1/2 TBS
Salt – a pinch
Lemon juice (if you have any) – 1/2 TS
You can just double, triple, quadruple the measurements according to how much radish you have.
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non-bento #15: quail egg Prinnies
May 30, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: prinny, quail egg
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When I made the Prinny bento, I had prepared some food to put in the bento, but I couldn’t used it because I ran out of time. I didn’t want to waste it, so I just put it in our regular bento.
Non-bento #15: Quail egg Prinnies
Created and eaten on: 5/29/2009
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bento #50: Prinny
May 28, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - video game Tags: disgaea, penguin, prinny, psp
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My boyfriend is still playing Patapon 2 on his PSP the most of times, but just the other day, he was trying out a new game.
Bento #50: Prinny
Created and eaten on: 5/27/2009
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bento sketch book #6
May 26, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog - sketch Tags: sketches
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We still had tons of leftovers from Cracker Barrel, so no need to make bento. =/
Instead, here are some sketches!
Bento #41: Ryuk from Death Note
I mostly focused on Ryuk’s face, so not much is going on around him. As I mentioned, I did draw Shido and Rem in the background first, but erased them later. I usually don’t erase anything from my sketchbook even if I didn’t have the time to make it. But this time, it was too distracting, and I couldn’t draw Ryuk’s wings with them in the background.
Just like any other Totoro bento, this drawing was done in less than 5 minutes. I love drawing Totoro. It just makes me smile. But I did look up for the logo for Studio Ghibli which appears in the beginning of every Studio Ghibli film as a reference. (The line drawing of Totoro in profile, with chibi-Totoro on his head)
This simple sketches of bunch of square heads in line took FOREVER to draw. I just couldn’t come up with a good composition for this, so I ended up making just the heads. I should’ve realized that the hole punch was much smaller than the eyes I drew for Castle Crashers. Then I wouldn’t have made the head so big, and the eyes would’ve been the perfect size. =/ And as you can see in the drawing, I was going to put bunch of animal orbs in this bento, but I was obviously delusional to plan such a thing. So instead of spending 3 more hours to make the animal orbs for this bento, I decided to make a bento just with animal orbs.
Whoops, seems like I didn’t paste the animal orb cutouts on this page… I’ll update the picture of my drawing later.
Bento #45: Pink Castle Crasher with Tom Fulp
I drew this Pink Castle Crasher after watching the video of someone playing the game, “Castle Crashing, the Beard.” Because I suck at the game and I kept dying before I got to Pink Castle Crasher. It turns out the most common Pink Castle Crasher doesn’t have a ” <3 ” on his/her head. He/She’s just like a regular Castle Crasher, in pink, with <3 on his/her chest. But I like my Pink Castle Crasher with a ” <3 .”
For bigger pictures of my sketches, just click on the image of sketch or visit Bento Sketches! on my flickr page.
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
Back from Boston!
May 24, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in Everything else Tags: anime boston, boston, conventions, cosplay
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We’re back from Anime Boston!
The people I went with were my boyfriend and four other co-workers. We’re all friends, so even though it was a business trip, we had a great time. My feet and neck were killing me by the end of each day, but one of the great things about a business trip is that we can try different food in the area. My boyfriend and I love cooking, and we cook almost everyday, but it’s still kinda nice to eat food someone else cooked for you once in a while. (especially if you don’t have to pay for it 
) As I mentioned in my previous blog post, we ate at The Daily Grill on Thursday.
On the second day (the first day of Anime Boston), I had an omelet at the hotel for breakfast.
My omelet seemed concerned about the long day (9 hours) ahead of us.
