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April 2010

Non-bento #25: fun with Rabbid #3 – mashed potato

April 28, 2010 bento
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After making the bavarois and cake using the Rabbid mold I got from Ubisoft, I thought I’d make a dinner with it. What’s a good food to be molded? Mashed potato! I’m going to post three pictures of this one so you can see the progression from plain Rabbid mashed potato into something more Rabbid like theme. Non-bento #25: fun with Rabbid #3 – mashed potato [...]

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monster triplets and doing it wrong!

April 22, 2010 stuffed stuff
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I wrote that I was working on more plushes of the monster from Lookouts before, and here they are! Healthy monster triplets are born! Stuffed stuff: Monster from Lookouts ver.2 (triplet babies) Created and stuffed: April 2010 They’re a little smaller than the first one. (77% of the first one to be exact.) Since they’re babies, I made the eyes on them bigger proportionally to [...]

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Non-bento #24: fun with Rabbid #2 – cake

April 17, 2010 Baking
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Okay, so after making bavarois with the mold, I decided to bake a cake with it! Non-bento #24: fun with rabbid #2 – cake! Created and eaten on: 3/17/2010 I was looking for a recipe for simple sponge cake and I found this modified Castella sponge cake recipe. Regular Castella only uses egg, flour, sugar and honey, but this one uses a little bit of [...]

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Non-bento #23: fun with Rabbid #1 – bavarois

April 14, 2010 Baking
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This was part of my “wonderful things” post, but I got sidetracked by other wonderful things and events and plush making, so I couldn’t do this until now. So here I go! A little while ago, I received an email from someone who works at Ubisoft, the company that created the Rayman Raving Rabbids series. She liked my bento, and asked me if I could [...]

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stuffed stuff: monster from Lookouts

April 9, 2010 stuffed stuff
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Monday morning the day after we came back from PAX East, I was checking out the Penny Arcade book signing tour schedule, and realized that they were coming to New York City on Tuesday, which was the very next day. A thought “Maybe I can make something to give to them…” crossed my mind. The Penny Arcade robot (whose name I won’t spell out here [...]

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