I eschew artsy-fartsy
cooking. I
sneer at cutesiness in lunches. That with this bento I broke both of those
longstanding self-imposed principles will, I'm sure,
shock and dismay you.
It was actually kind of accidental. The two flower-shaped
onigiri are stuffed with
tuna & mayonnaise filling, and the easiest way I
could make those was using a mold. Of the three molds
I have, the flower one was the roundest and thus most
suitable for stuffing. As for the boiled
egg flowers, I was actually trying to make an egg
chick, but the yolk split when I pulled it apart. So, I added carrot centers
and made flowers to match the onigiri, and then put
carrot on the onigiri to match the egg flowers. The
edamame at the bottom seemed
like a natural representation for grass, and a pink
sanshoku dango went along with the floral theme. (It was either
pink or green, and the green would have clashed with
the edamame. Can't have that!)
So, this lunch is only accidentally cute. I didn't
do it on purpose. Honest.
Wanna talk
about it?
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