Eclectic Lamb

I made this beautiful butterfly meal for myself.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side:  Butterfly – Polenta cut with a cookie cutter, Details – Black bean sauce, pesto, Cheddar cheese, pesto

Top Right: Butterflies – Kiwi cut with a cookie cutter, blueberries

Bottom Right: Butterflies – Carrot cut with a cookie cutter, pistachio nuts, lettuce

These are supposed to be fireworks rockets. I’m not quite sure what they look like. But as usual it was fun to make and eat.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Rockets – Pizza dough cut with a cookie cutter, spread tomato sauce on top, bake, after baking cool a little, then add mozzarella stars cut with a cookie cutter

Top Right: Almonds

Bottom Right: July 4 – Radish cut with cookie cutters, hummus, celery

In my challenge to make an American flag from ingredients different than I made in the past, here is a blue mashed potato flag.

Container: Prep Natural Glass Meal Containers

Left Side: American Flag – Blue mashed potato, cheddar stars, cream cheese, salsa

Right Side: Raspberries with white chocolate chips

Continuing in my tortellini series, today I have some simple cheese flowers.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

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

Top Right: Almonds

Bottom Right: Raspberries

Continuing in my quest to hasselback a lot of vegetables and fruit, here is eggplant. My parents and I enjoyed this meal at their lake house.

Mediterranean Salad Kit – Trader Joes

Hasselback Eggplant Parmesan

I made this fun but easy meal for myself. (I also ate the scraps).

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Hot Air Balloon – Cheese quesadilla cut with a cookie cutter, food coloring marker details, broccoli

Top Right: Almonds

Bottom Right: Fresh mozzarella balls

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

A long time ago, this roasted vegetables with goat cheese was part of my normal rotation. I found it recently when going through some paper recipes and decided to make it again. I still think it is “Great” but I roasted the vegetables a little too long this time. I don’t make roll-up/swirl food often but the zucchini is so cute this way!

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Roasted Vegetables with Goat Cheese (recipe is below), I used spinach instead of arugula, basil leaf garnish

Top Right: Zucchini Roll-ups – Zucchini strips sliced with a vegetable peeler, spread reduced fat cream cheese mixed with Vermont Country Seasonings, roll-up

Bottom Right: Sliced Strawberries

I had some fun with frogs and made this meal for myself.

Container: Prep Natural Glass Meal Containers

Left Side: Frogs – Cucumber cut with a cookie cutter, peanut noodles

Right Side: Frogs – Green apple cut with a cookie cutter, strawberries

I made this meal to use leftover blue potatoes and to celebrate flowers and warmer weather.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Watering Can – Blue mashed potatoes, Flowers – yellow bell pepper cut with cookie cutter, dried blueberry center attached with spaghetti, green peas

Top Right: Marcona truffle almonds

Bottom Right: Flowers – Kiwi cut with a cookie cutter, blackberries

I made this simple fun meal for myself.

Container: Prep Natural Glass Meal Containers

Left Side: Fish – Rainbow carrots cut with a cookie cutter, blue mashed potato

Right Side: Mermaid – Apple cut with a cookie cutter with cinnamon tail, blueberries

Happy May! This year for May Day, I have a basket with handle and vegetable flowers.

Basket: Flower tortilla, cheddar cheese, skillet cook until brown and melted, fold

Handle: Flour tortilla

Flowers: Bell pepper and radish cut with different sized cookie cutters, attach flower and dried blueberry with piece of thin spaghetti.

My other May Day food is here.

I made this for Renae on a day in February when we went to the Dutch Connections flower show at the George Eastman museum.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Tulips – Carrot cut with a cookie cutter, snow peas, peanut noodles

Top Right: Pistachio Nuts

Bottom Right: Tulip – apple cut with a cookie cutter, blueberries

I made this fun meal for myself. (I also ate the scraps). Go here to see more of my space collection.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: UFO – Cheese quesadilla cut with a cookie cutter (Renae printed it for me a few years ago.), blueberries

Top Right: Alien – Apple cut with a cookie cutter with cinnamon details, walnuts

Bottom Right: Stars – Carrot cut with a cookie cutter, lettuce

In honor of Earth Day, I made this meal.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Earth – Polenta cut with a cookie cutter, cream cheese with butterfly pea powder, pesto, black beans pureed with salsa and balsamic vinegar

Top Right: Tree – Zucchini cut with a cookie cutter and brushed with matcha powder and black bean puree, pistachio nuts

Bottom Right: Heart – Cut-out on apple

I made this imprint Easter egg meal for myself. I was inspired by my Conversation Hearts lunch.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Easter Eggs – Blue mashed potatoes with butterfly pea flower powder, Yellow mashed potatoes with turmeric, cut and imprint with Easter Egg imprint cookie cutter set, wilted spinach with ricotta cheese

Top Right: Smoked almonds

Bottom Right: Blueberries and raspberries

I made this Bunny Peep themed meal for myself. I experimented for the first time with natural pink dye – crushed raspberry with water.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Pink Peep – Nishiki rice shaped in a cookie cutter with plastic wrap, brushed with raspberry juice (crushed raspberry with a little water), Face details – Cut blueberry, roasted asparagus

Top Right: Roasted Marcona Almonds

Bottom Right: Kiwi and raspberries

I made this simple but cheerful chick themed bento lunch.

Container: Cloud box from Japan (set of 3)

Top Box: Chicks – Cantaloupe cut with an imprint cookie cutter, blueberries

Bottom Box: Chicks – Turmeric mashed potatoes cut with a cookie cutter, Eye – Dried blueberry, Beak – Orange cheddar, green peas

I made this colorful unicorn lunch for myself.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Unicorn – Daikon radish cut with a cookie cutter, food coloring marker details, carrot and zucchini noodles

Top Right: Pistachio nuts

Bottom Right: Blueberries

Mini Dippers: Ricotta and salsa

I made this cheese Leprechaun meal to add to my St. Patrick’s Day collection. This is only my third Leprechaun meal!

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Leprechaun – Cheddar cheese cut with a cookie cutter, food coloring marker details, cheese tortellini with Vodka Sauce

Top Right: Pistachios

Bottom Right: Shamrocks – Zucchini cut with a cookie cutter, spinach

I made this meal for myself. I had a lot of shamrocks in my St. Patrick’s collection but didn’t have one made from polenta with pesto.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Shamrock – Polenta cut with a cookie cutter, pesto, mashed cauliflower

Top Right: Shamrocks – Honeydew melon cut with a cookie cutter

Bottom Right: Shamrocks – Cucumber cut with a cookie cutter

I made this meal for myself.

Container: EasyLunchBoxes

Left Side: Fish – Nishiki rice shaped in a cookie cutter with plastic wrap, cheddar broiled on top, spinach details (eye cut with a paper straw) roasted broccoli

Top Right: Pepitas

Bottom Right: Fish – Radish cut with a cookie cutter, brushed with matcha powder, blackberries

I often celebrate the beginning of March with lamb or lion food. This year I garnished a salad with cheese cut-outs.

Lamb – White Cheddar cut with a cookie cutter, food marker details

Lion – Orange Cheddar cut with a cookie cutter, food marker details

Wegmans Spiced Apple Chopped Salad kit