Mostly Cute Food?
Natasha is obsessed with cute foods. She started trying to imitate the Japanese style bento box that makes food look like animals, pop culture icons, etc. These are her sucesses and failures.
These blogs will mostly be detailing how Natasha makes her bento box lunches; what she puts in them and how she decided on each of the components. Also how she decorated them including any special techniques she has come across. Typically they will be themed on pop culture and/or video games.
There will also be some blogs about foods Natasha and Sammy come across in their travels or what she makes them for large meals.
Full album: https://imgur.com/a/2hR7dAU
I love jambalaya so I decided to figure out if I could make it easier or faster in the instant pot. It came out really, really good. I can’t wait to make this again.
I had a lot of left over lamb leg and since we didn’t really like it, I knew I needed to turn it into something more flavorful. Also, I love making my own pasta. So I put both things together and came out with a really delicious meal.
I used my instant pot to try making a new type of meat, Lamb! It went OK, but it’s definitely a recipe I need to keep working on. The potatoes were good.
This week’s bento is a Hello Kitty theme again. I have Hello Kitty spicy salmon sushi, spicy salmon poke, cucumber spears, octopus sausages, steamed corn and edamame, and seaweed salad! Enjoy!
I used my instant pot to try to create a Lebanese lentil soup. This one could use some work, but it’s still delicious and my husband already wants more!
I used my instant pot to try to recreate my grandma’s recipe for chicken and dumplings. I came close, but not quite there. Still delicious though.
This week’s inspiration was Let’s Go: Eevee which I’ve been playing A LOT. So I have Eevee rice, diglett sausage, and pokeball stakes. Enjoy!
I finally had time to make a bento again this week and I chose to make a cat in a bath bento. The main components are rice and chicken tikka marsala that I made in my new instant pot. I’m really happy with how they came out! Enjoy :)
I got an instant pot for Christmas. And I was so excited to try out a bunch of recipes. Some were great, others will take some work. I’m happy to work on them and tweak them to perfection :)
Here is another one of my what to do with leftovers blogs. This one is all about how to turn left over roast chicken into easy and delicious chicken rice in an instant pot.
I had a lot of leftover oranges and lemons from holiday cooking, so this is what I made with the extra.
Still finding ways of using my leftover holiday foods, here is what I did with leftover cranberry sauce, lemon curd, and mint chocolate ganache.
I had a lot of leftover roast and veggies from the holidays so I decided to make a few dishes out of it (some with the help of my new instant pot). I made roast fried rice (which also saved undercooked rice), bleu and white cheddar mac and cheese with roast, and tomato sauce with roast over pasta.
This is a really long post about all of our holiday activities this year from decorating to traditional Christmas eve shenanigans to friendsmas. It was a great way to end the year! Check out my decorating skills, Sami’s 2D tree, and all of the food we made and consumed :)
This week I’m being a bit more healthy so in addition to my normal rice balls and salmon, I’ve also made a lime-soy tofu salad. Hope you enjoy.
This week’s bento has rice balls, crab salad, egg omelet, and veggies with herbed cream cheese.
We went to Andy and Kellie’s July 4th party and brought Illidan. He did so well with all of the people and loved playing with their puppy, Marshmallow. I made pizza bites, macarons (for the first time), and peppermint chocolate cookies.
This week I had a theme of animals for my bentos. I made monkeys, raccoons, and even a bear out of inari, a giraffe out of tamagoyaki, and octopuses and crabs out of sausage. Enjoy!
So I’m really proud of this bento! It’s the first one I designed myself rather than imitating something I found on the internet. It’s Overwatch themed, paying homage to my 3 mostly played heroes: D.Va, Moira, and Mercy. I made ‘Ultimate’ rice balls, ‘Caduceus Staff’ baked chicken fries, ‘Pachimari’ sausages, ‘D.Va’s Doritos’ carrots, and ‘Moira’s Orbs’ green and purple grapes for dessert. Enjoy!
We had a couple things to celebrate this weekend, so of course I baked! One of Sammy’s friends got a job at Naughty Dog so I made him a lemon strawberry roll cake. Also, Sammy set me up with a unique URL for my food blogs (www.RobotsRations.com), new logo, watermark, and banner. I was pretty stoked with it all so I made him some Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Whipped Cream Frosting.
I made a Star Wars themed bento this week. I made Yoda, Chewbacca, BB8, and Yoda rice balls. They are adorable and totally worth the work in making them!
I made another Hello Kitty themed bento, but this time in a rush. It has a Hello Kitty PB&J, chicken mac & cheese casserole, tamagoyaki, and a lemon lime meringue pie.
I made a Pokemon themed bento and kind of like this attempt more than my last attempt. This one has rice ball Pikachus, Eevees, and Snorlaxs, a Rowlet meatball, and a potato salad and crab stick pokeball.
This bento is all about the dessert. I made a layered dessert with strawberry cake, lemon curd, and custard all covered in tempered chocolate.
I did a Hello Kitty themed bento this week. It included Hello Kitty rice balls and BBQ turkey meatballs!
I made another My Neighbor Totoro themed lunch. But this time, I turned Totoro into a spicy salmon roll!
I made a bento with inari bears, bird shaped sausages, and mini Victoria sponge cakes (my favorite). It was filling, delicious, and adorable!
I made ‘McDonald’s’ chicken ‘fries’ and sweet ‘potato’ nuggets. It was me trying to be a bit cheeky although most people didn’t appreciate it. The food was still delicious.
I made a nice, light, delicious, lemon chicken soup for dinner in my instant pot.