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A cute bento salad




Did you ever see the blog Cooking Gallery? It is on my blogroll and among my favourite blogs to visit because it is full of fantastic bento ideas! And my kids like it too, but they cannot really take proper decorated bentos to school, it is not practical in NZ, so they usually have a sandwich, some fruit and when possible some raw veggies too, all stuff that can be eaten with fingers or with a bento pick. So bento tend to be fun meal to eat at home! 

And just for children? No! Yesterday I was at home alone for lunch and I thought that I should eat more salad. Kazuyo gave me some of her quails' eggs and inspired by Cooking Gallery pretty 'faces' and figurines I made a fun bento just for myself.


To be honest with you if I had made this for the kids I would have taken out all my flower cutters to cut the veggies like flowers and so on, but here I limited myself in making a little sleeping doll. Of course I would like to have a set of nori pounchers like these (I tried to cut the nori with scissors but it is hard), but I haven't seen them in New Zealand (let me know if you do!!) so I used some caraway seeds for the eyes and mouth. In the bento there are young spinach leaves, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, cannelloni beans, olives, quail eggs, baby carrot and avocado. Dressed with lemon, olive oil and salt. If you don't have quail eggs, you can use bocconcini, or for a vegan version a small new potato.


Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini ©
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  1. francescaJuly 30, 2012 at 8:22 AM

    Il mio bimbo piccolo potrbbe mangirsi anche la scatola di un apreparazione cosi`
    farncesca

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  2. Gerry @Foodness GraciousJuly 30, 2012 at 4:47 PM

    Beautiful, just awesome. My daughter would love this box..

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  3. Dolci a gogoJuly 31, 2012 at 4:39 PM

    Ciao Alessandra volevo dirti che a me farebbe piu che piacere che tu partecipassi al mio contest quindi aspetto un tuo delizioso dolce al cucchiaio. Bacioni e questo bento è delizioso!!!!
    Imma

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