Flower and Butterflies Sandwich Bento #104

We have a huge bush of yellow flowers growing wild in our yard which the the inspiration for today’s bento.  The flowers attract a lot of butterflies but they also attract a bunch of black bees which the kids hate.  Anyway, I wanted to take a picture of the kids with flowers to put in my post and it took sooooo long just to get a few shots.  I had to shoo away the two stubborn bees hanging out by the flowers before I could even get the kids to sit by the bush.  Then getting Sean to smile was and always has been an insurmountable challenge. If you have my latest cookbook you can see for yourself.  Our family picture at the end of the book showcases Sean’s classic “smile”.

Out of 20 pictures today, this was Sean’s best “smile”.

I also wanted to send out a big thank Diane Ako of the Star Advertiser for her wonderful write up of my book yesterday!  Happy belated Birthday to Diane’s super cute little girl, Olivia!

Thank you! #24

Many thanks to all of you who have donated so far to the fundraiser for Haiti!  Pikko and I want to thank  Diane Ako for mentioning the fundraiser on her Honolulu Advertiser Blog- Small Talk, as well as send out a big thank you to Clayton and Jill at KITV for having us on the morning news  today.  We are very grateful to everyone who has donated or helped us promote the fundraiser.

KITV asked us to bring a few bentos each to display and these are the two that I brought this morning.  The top is a mouse made of fish cake, with rice, and sesame chicken.  The second bento contains pumpkin sandwiches made with cheddar cheese and bologna cutouts that I placed on top of the sandwiches.