non-bento #22: Laputa robot fossil toast

Just like any other kyaraben/bento makers, I have some Japanese kyaraben sites bookmarked. I don’t check those sites too often, but I saw a great idea on this one site the other day and I had to try it for myself.

Non-bento #22: Laputa robot fossil toast
Created and eaten on: 1/24/2010

The site owner, Chibubu-san, makes cute yet delicious kyaraben with very simple ingredients. The site is in Japanese (she has a translating tool on the right top corner), but there are many pictures on the site so I don’t think you need detailed instructions.

Chibubu-san’s E-Obento site ->http://www.e-obento.com

This one was called “fossil toast.” You put a slice of cheese on top of a piece of toast, and cut sausage to make bone structures of something. When you toast it, the cheese around the sausage will melt and it makes it look like a fossil! When I saw the page, it reminded me of Laputa robot in the very first scene when Sheeta sees Laputa robot in Muska’s fortress.

Not much to explain for this one. I just cut up sausage for the robot, placed it on the cheese, and put it in the toaster. This one isn’t complicated but is more about how patient and anal you are.

I made a mistake by not bringing the sliced cheese to the room temperature before toasting. It didn’t melt the way I wanted on the first try… So I lowered the heat, put it back in the toaster and waited for a bit. And the cheese finally started to bubble!

Of course, the thinly sliced wheat bread got burned around the edge… but my boyfriend said that it was just crispier than the other part.

Aside from the little burning, I was pretty happy that it really did look like Laputa robot fossil!

After we took pictures of regular fossil Laputa robot toast, I sprinkled powdered seaweed so that it’d look like he was covered with moss.

If you’re using a single slice of cheese like I did, you might find it hard to cut a sausage into small pieces, but you can definitely use a bigger bread and more cheese. I think ham is easier to handle than sausage, but I think sausage will give it more “fossil” look.
This may not be the healthiest snack, but you get to enjoy fossil hunting AND eat it too!

Laputa robot:
- sausage

Other food:
- toast, cheese

For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.

Tagged as: Laputa robot, sausage, studio ghibli, toast