Inspired by my new Japanese bento book I made not one but two bentos tonight (Benno insisted he get one too).
Capybara and Shaun the sheep from Wallace and Gromit with some carrot flowers.
Capybara, the world's largest living rodent, made from inari, rice and nori. We saw real capybara at the Osaka aquarium (they weren't in the water with the whale sharks though).
Shaun the sheep from wallace and gromit made from hand-shaped rice, nori and potato.
Benno's bento featuring another capybara and gromit made from rice, nori, carrot and potato. The chef's hat is totally the wrong shape but...
Interestingly enough, the capybara, which looks furry and round like a cute little rodent, is called a fish by the Catholic church, making the eating of it’s meat permitable in a Lenten diet. They are quite popular in Japan as a cute animal, and you can find stuffed toys of Capybara in all sorts of places (Apita, for one). We haven’t seen capybara meat for sale here though, not that we’ve looked.
A Space-Themed bento. Rocket shaped rice with tofu pouch (inari) rocket and nori (seaweed) star. Pineapple “suns” on lettuce with star shaped choc gingerbread cookies. Cupcake with chocolate icing and star biscuit. Rice with a spring theme – carrot leaves- pulsar-neutron-star shaped cucumbers and veg-dry-curry.
