non-bento #22: Laputa robot fossil toast
February 9, 2010
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: Laputa robot, studio ghibli
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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!
I realized it later that one of his breast plates had fallen off... But I think it made it look more like a real fossil. 
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.
non-bento #21: kagami-”onigiri” Totoro
January 7, 2010
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - ghibli (totoro, etc...), bento blog - non bento Tags: rice ball, studio ghibli, totoro
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For those who have missed my previous post… Kagami-mochi is a decoration for the New Year in Japan. It’s made with 2~3 round rice cakes stacked on top of each other. Traditionally, you break it and eat it on the second Saturday or Sunday of January. I wanted to make some easy non-bento food on January 1st. It was really nothing special but I thought I’d just post some more pictures of this anyway.
Non-bento #21: Kagami-”onigiri” Totoro
Created and eaten on: 1/1/2010
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non-bento #20 & How to make Slime Marshmallows
December 20, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog - non bento, how-to (all), how-to - characters (Ghibli, video game, Wall-E) Tags: Dragon Quest, marshmallow, Slime
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My company does a potluck for its Christmas party. It’s fun that you get to taste the dishes cooked by people you know. This year, one of my friends/graphic designer at the company decided to make a recipe book of everyone’s potluck food. I thought of making Totoro cream puffs, Domo-kun chocolate covered marshmallows, but I wanted to make new kyara-sweets. (Kyara-sweets mean “Character themed sweets.”)
Even though I don’t eat sweet stuff that much, I always wanted to make marshmallows. I was going to make some elaborate marshmallows, but since I had to make at least dozens of them I had to pick a simpler character. As I was looking through recipes, the one that looks like Hershey’s kisses reminded me of Slimes from Dragon Quest. (“Dragon Warrior” in English) So I decided to make Slimes! NOTE: Sorry for the quality of the pictures for the How-to. I shot them myself since I made this when my boyfriend wasn’t home. >_<
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non-bento #19: Where the Wild Things Are
October 13, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are
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When I made Where the Wild Things Are bento #2, I used Inari-zushi (fried bean curd stuffed with rice) as a container for rice. It looked like it’d be very good for a small party or a picnic, and it was fairy easy. (except for small details on the face) So I wanted to do a how-to on it, but I knew that not everyone could get Inari-zushi skin… So I came up with this idea.
Non-bento # 19: Where the Wild Things Are
Created and eaten on: 10/11/2009
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non-bento #18: Rabbid sandwich
August 1, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: raving rabbids, sandwich
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My boyfriend eats a snack before he leaves for his kung fu class on Saturday, so I decided to make this.
Non-bento #18: Rabbid sandwich
Created and eaten on: 8/1/2009
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non-bento #17: Moogle and Boo Ghost onigiri
July 21, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: mario boo ghost, moogle
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We just got back from Otakon! Which means that we have no food in the fridge yet… So I decided to make onigiri (rice balls) for breakfast again.
When I was looking into the fridge, I saw the pickled daikon (Asian radish) that I had made. (see “how to make sweet and sour pickled radish”) The daikon was pinkish because it had been soaked in radish, and I started thinking what I could make with pink (pickled daikon), white (rice) and black (seaweed). I looked my flickr “bento sets”, and found the perfect characters.
Non-bento #17: Moogle and Boo Ghost onigiri
Created and eaten on : 7/21/2009
If you follow my blog, this might seem familiar to you. I’ve made the same characters with pork buns before.
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non-bento #16: Kaonashi and kodama onigiri
July 16, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: kaonashi, kodama, onigiri, princess mononoke, rice ball, spirited away
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My boyfriend and I are on the road again! We’ve been trying to empty the fridge, so I’ve been making regular bento. But I still wanted to make a kyaraben-ish thing, so I decided to make breakfast.
Non-bento #16: Kaonashi and Kodama onigiri (rice ball)
Created and eaten on: 7/15/2009
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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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non-bento #14: domo-kun
April 16, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: domo-kun, marshmallow
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Seems like I’m getting a lot of traffic on “How to make Totoro cream puffs” from “boing boing.” I just want to say Domo Arigato to everyone! I feel extremely flattered by people’s positive comments, and it makes me so happy to see some people are saying how they can’t wait to make them. (And some of them have already made them! I’m asking their permission to post the images on my blog now…)
To show how much I appreciate everyone’s love for food, I give you Domo Arigato, Domo-kun marshmallow!
Do~mo~
Non-bento #14: Domo-kun
Created and eaten on: 4/16/2009
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non-bento #13: makkurokurosuke cream puffs
April 9, 2009
Posted by AnnaTheRed in bento blog (all), bento blog - non bento Tags: cream puffs, makkurokurosuke, totoro
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The other night, I realized that I had forgotten to make this very obvious Ghibli character with cream puffs, and I had to make it.
hmm... Not exactly what I had in my mind...
Non-bento #13: Makkurokurosuke cream puffs…?
Created and eaten on: 4/9/2009
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