Bento 250

I'm back at planning my bentos so the mornings are organized and quite a breeze. No rush, no stress and best of all no need to wake up 30 minutes earlier!

There is a mixed veggie and tomato salad in one side of the box and a mini Laugen on the other side.


In the top box, there is steamed sole fillet with salt, pepper and ginger strips (removed) and some ham rolls with bread in it's middle.

Easy peasy bento today!

Bento 247

Friday classes for #2 is only an hour. Technically there's no need for a bento and that gives me a break. I welcome that, thank you!

But...being passionate as I am about packing bento, I can't stay away. I'm happy packing bento and it gives me a great sense of satisfaction, so I packed one for myself today. *grins widely*

We're normally on a seafood diet on Fridays, so today's bento is basically fried (pepper and salted) sole fish fillet coated in corn flour, beaten egg and pounded cream crackers.

There was a mixed salad in EVOO and lemon juice, salt and pepper, some freezer stock of Ratatouille and baby tomatoes as fillers.

It was quite a hearty meal and I enjoyed my treat! *grins again*

2nd Cooking lesson for #3

Today, up to Thursday this week, #3 is on holiday due to the UPSR examinations for Standard 6 students. To keep her occupied and satiated in her personal culinary quest, this morning we had our 2nd cooking lesson.

Meanwhile, #2 has ongoing SPM trials until the first weekend of September.

#3 fried her first pancakes (under adult supervision) this morning. It was a gleeful hour of dressing up with an apron for the role and then gathering the ingredients to whisk the load of wet and dry ingredients together to form the batter of this very flexible breakfast favorite.

We had these lovely pancakes with butter and maple syrup. *smacks lips*



This was #2's lunch when she got back from school. #3 fried the pancakes while I, pan fried the Sole fillet. I tossed some rolo rosa, julienne carrots, tomatoes, corn and sesame seed dressing together for the salad.


Notice the irregular color on the pancakes? The pan wasn't hot enough. The pan fried Sole fillet was topped with a gravy so that the dish would not be 'dry'.


When #1 came back from University after 2.00p.m., this was served to her. This time the pan was HOT and see how lovely the pancakes turned out!


Pancakes - delicious for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Who said pancakes were for breakfast only? They are a flexible lot to be creative with! #3 had to make a second batch to serve this meal because there wasn't enough!


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Fish and Chips

I was at the wet market this morning. I bought a Sole fish and got the fishmonger to fillet it. I love Sole fillets! It's such a flexible item to use in cooking.

Today, I made fish and chips for lunch. The Sole fillet was marinated with salt and freshly ground pepper. Before frying, coat the fish slices in corn flour, egg and pounded Jacobs Cream Crackers. Fry till brown and crispy.


This one has some added salad for the elder sister. I used the balance of the Honey dressing from Tuesday.


The kids loved it and was raving about it's flavor! Yummy!!