My tortellini post inspired me to make more meals featuring tortellini. Thoughts of butterfly encouraged me to create the Karner Blue butterfly. I’m surprised that this is my first time to feature the blue butterfly. In the 8th grade I did my science fair project on the Karner Blue butterfly and it’s unique habitat in the Albany Pine Bush. My parents assisted with filming the butterflies in their natural habitat. It was long before cell phones and everyone had the capability to film in their pocket. Maybe it was my extensive and organized research with a multi-media component in a time that it was rare but I won the Science Fair that year. My little cheese butterflies don’t look like the Karner Blue and lets not talk about how messy my chocolate dipped pretzels look but this was a fun meal to make, eat, and reminisce.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Karner Blue Butterflies – Cheddar cheese cut with a cookie cutter, blue food coloring and water painted on with a brush, tortellini with pesto

Top Right: Hazelnuts

Bottom Right: Pretzels dipped in white chocolate with blue food coloring