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Fried pork shiso rolls – Bento meat sushi rolls*

asian, bento, dinner, kids, lunch, other sites, picky eaters, pork, recipes, vegetables | April 26, 2011 | By Jessi

Aibento pork shiso rolls

^ Those are not mine. Those are gorgeous, perfectly rolled and sliced pork shiso rolls from Adventures in Bento. I love how the middles ended up looking like miniature whole carrots in some of them.

We determined mine looked more like little mis-colored strawberries. Pork shiso rolls with flattened pork loin chop stuffed with carrots and green beans or asparagus wrapped in ham

I obviously left the toothpicks in for this picture because I felt they needed horns. Or something like that. ><

Aibento has some delicious step-by-step pictures of placing the fresh, colorful veggies and delicately rolling them to perfection. I just have pictures of the most important part….the frying:

Frying pan of pork shiso rolls with flattened pork loin chop stuffed with carrots and green beans or asparagus wrapped in ham

Whole pork shiso rolls with flattened pork loin chop stuffed with carrots and green beans or asparagus wrapped in ham - meat sushi pork or chicken

See that dark brown, almost black crispness? Oh yeah, that’s where it’s at.

I actually made two batches of these and had plenty leftover for the girls’ bento lunches the next day, too. They couldn’t wait.

Bento box contents: Leftover salad with light spritzes of Italian dressing so it didn’t spread all over the box, sliced mango, stuffed pork rolls, boiled egg, homemade fruit roll up leather, leftover rice with peas, corn, and soy sauce

This was definitely a day of green and orange, huh? Oh well…they loved it anyway.

* This title is all sorts of wrong, by the way. First of all, I don’t have shiso in my rolls at all. It’s the leafy green edge you can see in aibento’s. And secondly, sushi refers to the rice in rolls we tend to call just sushi….these obviously aren’t actually sushi at all, but but sometimes you’ve gotta call ‘em what the kids think they look like.

** In the boxes, from top of the picture: Leftover salad with light spritzes of Italian dressing so it didn’t spread all over the box, sliced mango, stuffed pork rolls, boiled egg, homemade fruit roll up leather, leftover rice with peas, corn, and soy sauce. Thank goodness these guys love leftovers.

Kamaboko Spring bunnies (And maybe some Hello Kitty?)

art, asian, bento, lookalikes, other sites | March 28, 2011 | By Jessi

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Anna the Red’s bunnies

She made these for New Year (you know, year of the rabbit?), but with Spring here, I was reminded of these adorable bunnies. If you aren’t familiar with kamaboko, it’s a Japanese fishcake like this:

In a log like that, it’s perfect for Anna’s bunnies. And if you know how big Hello Kitty is in the Asian community, it won’t surprise you any that while I was looking for a picture of kamaboko, I also stumbled across several pictures of logs like this, too.

Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice! – Purple cabbage and tofu soup

asian, cabbage, dinner, entrees, other sites, recipes, soup, supper, tofu, vegetables, veggies | February 16, 2011 | By Jessi

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Make no mistake, this is not my soup. This belongs to the lovely Kath/KERF (and you can find the recipe there, too).

Some of the ingredients, I don’t even like, much less together in a soup. I’m curiously drawn in by the pictures, though, and the name makes my head spin with ideas that would make this even more kid-friendly.

The idea of beetle juice might gross some little ones out, but if you have any boys obsessed with worms and dirt and all things gory….or anyone who loves the movie, oh boy, have fun with this one! And well, if not, don’t call the dish beetlejuice, but definitely introduce them to this gorgeous purple soup. Call it “pretty princess soup” or something more dainty.