Leftover Ravioli with Pesto Cream Bento

24 May 2013 6 Comments

by eclecticlamb in Bento / Cute Food, Food

Ravioli with Pesto Cream Lunch

This was a quick bento made from leftovers. The ravioli is cold in this photo because I made this bento lunch from leftovers in the refrigerator. It can be heated or eaten cold.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Ravioli & Vegetables: Ravioli with vegetables and Pesto Cream sauce (see recipe below)

Salad: Lettuce, cherry tomatoes, green pepper, yellow pepper, carrot and cucumber

Fruit: Raspberries

Ravioli with Vegetables and Pesto Cream

Add amounts to your desire and the number of people you want to serve, this is just a general idea recipe. Try at your own risk.

Ingredients:

Cheese Ravioli (or any type)

1 onion

1 red pepper (or vegetable of your choice)

Green beans (or vegetable of your choice)

Olive Oil

Sour Cream

Pesto

Method:

Saute onion in olive oil in skillet until soft, add vegetables and cook until tender (add additional olive oil or some water if needed).

Add sour cream and pesto to make sauce.

Cook ravioli according to package directions.

Blend drained ravioli and sauce.

Serve

Linking to:

Leftovers on Fridays

Little Boy Blue Sheep Bento

23 May 2013 17 Comments

by eclecticlamb in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: , , ,

Little Boy Blue Sheep Lunch

Here is the fourth and final lunch in my four part series this week of nursery rhymes/songs with sheep/lambs.

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn, the sheep’s in the meadow. I did not have room for the cows in the corn.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Little Boy Blue: Boy (cheddar cheese painted with blue food coloring and water), mixed nuts

Horn: Apple with cinnamon, apple pieces

Sheep: Black olives and mashed potatoes (cooked cut potatoes, mashed with cheddar, salt, pepper and a little bit of butter), molded into sheep

Meadow: Cooked broccoli

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Baa Baa Black Sheep Bento

22 May 2013 15 Comments

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Baa Baa Black Sheep Lunch

Here is the third lunch in my four part series this week of nursery rhymes/songs with sheep/lambs.

Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Wool: Cheese popcorn

Fruit: Peach

Background: Lettuce

Black Sheep: Peanut butter sandwich on pumpernickel bread

3 Bags: Corn and feta cheese fillo dough bundles tied with chives

Linking to:

Grown-Ups Gotta Eat Bento Lunch

Mary had a Little Lamb Bento

21 May 2013 12 Comments

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Mary had a Little Lamb Lunch

This is second in my four part series this week of nursery rhymes/songs with sheep/lambs.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow

And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Background: Lettuce

Mary: Cheddar cheese quesadilla with hair and dress painted with food coloring and water

Lamb: English muffin served with cream cheese and pineapple (in Mini Dippers)

Wool: Cauliflower

Fruit: Raspberries

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Old McDonald Sheep Bento

20 May 2013 14 Comments

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Old McDonald Sheep

This week I am featuring nursery rhymes/songs with sheep/lambs.

Old McDonald has a farm, Ee-i-ee-i-o, And on his farm he had a sheep, Ee-i-ee-i-o

With a baa-baa here, And a baa-baa there, Here a baa, there a baa , Everywhere a baa-baa

Old MacDonald  had a farm, Ee-i-ee-i-o.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Background: Flour tortilla painted with a little blue food coloring and water

Baa-Baa: Carrot

Sheep: Peanut butter sandwich on wheat bread, eyes (chocolate sprinkles), nose (food safe marker)

Barn: Watermelon, door (Wegmans fruit flat details), apple slices

Wildflowers: Yellow bell pepper, centers (dried blueberries attached with spaghetti – it softens by lunch)

Linking to:

BentoForKidlet

Reader Influenced Bento

17 May 2013 28 Comments

by eclecticlamb in Bento / Cute Food, Food Tags: ,

Vegetarian Bento

Last week I invited you to vote on the type of bento I would make. The winner was “Interesting colorful food layout (not character)”. I bought a lot of colorful produce for this bento but it ended up being red, green, and white.

I hope that you think of this as interesting and colorful. I tried a few new techniques in this lunch.

Container: ECO Lunchboxes

In Round Cup: Tri-Color Pearl Couscous cooked with vegetable bouillon, added chickpeas and decorated with chickpeas, green peas, and snow peas

In Oval Container: lettuce, cream cheese with some homemade pesto in cherry tomato cups, green pimento stuffed olives on star picks, checkered apple (this was my first time trying this, I used this awesome tutorial by Jenn of Bento for Kidlet), stamped watermelon (used cutter similar to this), and snow peas.

Not pictured: Blue Diamond Natural Oven Roasted Almonds with Sea Salt

Under the Sea Bento

16 May 2013 19 Comments

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Under the Sea Bento

My 14 year old niece made this lunch. I only offered a little help/suggestions.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Ocean: Mukimame, sprouts

Starfish & Seahorse: Homemade grape jam sandwiches on wheat bread

Whale: Apple on blueberry yogurt

Fish: Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers

Tennis Bento

15 May 2013 18 Comments

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Tennis Bento

When I found Racchette pasta at Wegmans, I knew I had to make a tennis themed bento lunch. I made this lunch for my 14 year old niece. She ate it at school and heated the pasta with a microwave available for students. I placed the sides in silicone cups so she could remove them before heating the pasta.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Fruit: Mineola Tangelo

Nuts: Toasted pecans

Tennis Pasta: DeCecco Racchette pasta with green peas, dressed with a garlic and olive oil sauce, carrot lettering

Linking to:

Bento Lunch

Lily of the Valley Bento

14 May 2013 27 Comments

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Lily of the Valley Bento

Lily of the Valley is my favorite flower. I love the shape and smell. I am also reminded of my Grandmother’s garden in the house she had when I was a kid. That house and garden holds magical memories for me. I have a memory of fresh cut Lily of the Valley in a small juice glass on a counter in the kitchen. The memories are probably more special because that house and garden no longer exist. When I was about 11 my Grandparents sold that house. A contractor bought it, destroyed the house and garden and built apartments.

Container: ECO Lunchboxes

Soil: Wild rice cooked with a vegetable bouillon

Lily of the Valley: Apple with chives (from my herb garden)

Vegetables: Lettuce, mukimame, cucumber, carrot, roasted green and orange bell pepper, roasted asparagus (difficult to see in photo)

Linking to:

Grown-Ups Gotta Eat

Bagel Bear Bento

13 May 2013 24 Comments

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Bagel Bear Bento

I am not convinced that this looks like a bear. I think that the eyes are the problem. But my husband enjoyed this for breakfast on a day he went to work early. I love that he does not mind eating cute food because I love making cute food.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Bear: Homemade bagels with cinnamon sugar topping, eyes (Craisins), nose (carrot made with CuteZcute cutter), filled with cream cheese and homemade apricot jam

Vegetable Bears & Fruit: Cucumber bears and strawberries

Mini Bears: Mini Teddy Grahams – Honey

Linking to:

BentoForKidlet

Vote for Bento I will Make

10 May 2013 15 Comments

by eclecticlamb in Bento / Cute Food, Blog, Food

I appreciate you my readers, your visits and all of your “likes” and comments. I love it when you offer suggestions for what I will make next.

So I thought it would be fun for you to vote on the type of bento I will make. Please vote below. In the comments, offer specific suggestions if you want.

Voting is open until Sunday May 12.  Voting is now closed. See results below. On Friday May 17, I will post the bento influenced by you.

Poll-Results

 

Family Tree Bento

09 May 2013 15 Comments

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Family Tree Lunch

I wanted to try out a family tree idea. This was a quick and easy lunch to prepare.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Fruit: Apple and strawberries

Dip: Ranch

Hearts:  Horseradish cheese

Tree: Peanut butter and homemade strawberry jam on wheat bread, broccoli, sugar snap peas, carrot lettering

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