More Challenge for a side

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Make more Flowers for a side to BENTO.

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More Flower for a side

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Make more Flowers for a side to BENTO.

Posted by Kaoru Yasui on Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Lovely Dandelion for side

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Make Dandelion for OBENTO's side item with Egg and Wiener.

Posted by Kaoru Yasui on Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Kawaii (Lovely) Flower Egg - Side Item

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You will love this Flower Egg.

SANSHOKU BENTO - Three Colored Lunch Box

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We kicked start our JAPAN week with the AMAZING ZOOM COOKING early at lunch time 🍱 🇯🇵. We could not thank Eiko Kasai and...
Posted by Cookpad UK on Monday, July 27, 2020

Please try and challenge this Japanese BENTO (Lunch Box)?

This lovely BENTO is made at a special occasion such as home party and family picnic.

There will be a recipe  and cooking guide posted in below.  you may need some help from your family, but you will really enjoy this KAWAII (lovely) cooking.

   　  Go to Cookpad for a Recipe detail.

This is a video recording of Live Kitchen.  It may be a little bit long, but will give you details of how BENTO is made.

January evvent - New Year's Dishes

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<< THE ORIGIN OF "NEW YEAR'S DISHES" WISHING FOR HAPPINESS >>

It will be "Bikaku No Kai (Sawashi Kanotsu no Otsuru)" of 72 seasons from December 27. "Bikaku" means a deer. Male deer begin to have horns in spring, and it fall off at this time of winter.

Now, you should know the history of OSECHI dishes as a tip for the New Year in Japan.

OSECHI-RYORI (OSECHI dishes) is a dish of lucky charm offered to TOSHIGAMI-SAMA (A God of the year) at New Year, so each dish has an auspicious origin. When we were a small child, our grandmother and mother told us about the origin of various OSECHI dishes while we were eating OSECHI dishes, and we still remember those stories.

For example, KAZUNOKO has a wish to be blessed with children "fertility", and since sardines were used as fertilizer in the fields "rich harvest" thus it is called TAZUKURI, and KUROMAME (black beans) have a wish to be "As if working hard and healthy".

This "KAZUNOKO (herring roe), TAZUKURI (rice field), KUROMAME (black soybeans)" is said to be the "Mitsuzakana (Three-Appetizer)" which is essential for the New Year in the Kanto region (Eastern part of Japan).

For MITSUZAKANA in Kansai (Western part of Japan), it is not black beans, but minced burdock is added. The tataki (minced) burdock symbolized to be like burdock "so as to be deeply rooted and continue from generation to generation" and knock it open in cooking will be meant to open good luck again.

(Reference in Japanese)

http://www.i-nekko.jp/hibinotayori/2019-122600.html?fbclid=IwAR21R8dR7hN9p51GiGYtSelaN4249qMYLcVL1D2K9NlVPXscj4-jD0CshMk

Kawaii Onigiri-lovely rice ball

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Go to the Cookpad for a detail.

Note:

• If you cannot find Nori(dried laver), it can be substituted with Ham.
• Cub scouts in Japan will take a simple Onigiri (Rice-ball) for lunch that is prepared by themselves at a Pack's activity, like you may have sandwich lunch made.

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