Bento Box: Pikachu!

Did anyone else play the Pokemon cards game when they were cool? Anyone remember the special edition Mew card that came out with the Pokemon movie? Or battling your Pokemon on your gameboy colour and doing that cheat where you swim along the shore and get all those special Pokemon?

Or was that just me?

I have to admit, I sold my Pokemon card collection (including the very first beginners pack) in a car boot sale 5 years ago. For £1. £1!!!!! If a finance background has taught me anything, it's that it totally was an undervalued sale.

In other words, a stupid mistake.

...the first of many, many more to come.



Anyway, this is the Bento box I got this month from CasaBento. They've got the cutest collection of travel mugs. (Great for looking 'trendy' in the office, apparently. But to be honest I think if you bring a Poke Ball lunch to the office you will be the talk of the town. It will be a new trend, just you wait)

I also apologise to my readers (if I still have any readers :S) for the lack of updates recently! As you can see, my cooking facilities this year are quite small:

Not exactly ideal, as I don't have an oven, a hob, and we are only allowed to have two plugs in the kitchen. Seeing as the fridge has to be plugged in the whole time, I can only use either the toaster OR the microwave OR the kettle when I want to. This results in a frantic plugging and unplugging in that socket to make sure my coffee and toast and baked beans are all hot at the same time. It may also make sure that I'll probably get an electric shock by the time I've finished this year. Oh dear....


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Oh, oh oh oh I just came across some of the best cringiest Pokemon jokes. I HAD to share them :D

Why shouldn't you take a shower around a Pokemon?
They might Pikachu!
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Knock knock!
Who's there?
Ivysaur
Ivysaur who?
I've a sore knuckle from knocking and knocking.
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How did the first person to discover electric Pokemon feel?
Shocked!

Okay okay, I'll stop. I know, I'm just TOO funny (ahem, good at copying and pasting)

Above, when Pikachu came to a rather unfortunate end (i.e. I microwaved it because the rice was getting funny smelly). I wonder if this is what happens to Pokemon if they never get released from the Pokeballs? 

Hm, it's one of the great mysteries of life.

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This bento box was really the bane of my existence this week. I made the rice on Monday and didn't have time to make the face and things until Thursday, which my then the rice had dried up and it was impossible to stick in spaghetti to hold the ears together. In fact, the ear kept falling off. In the end it just crumbled :(



Hence if you look closely at the first photo in this post, you'll notice the cheeky little piece of cheese being used as an ear instead :)

I used asafoetida powder (a yellow curry powder) to colour the rice, which worked wonderfully. However you are supposed to fry the powder first before cooking, but I didn't. Therefore, it tasted foul :/

But it looked good!

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my wonderful roommate who has put up with my messiness in the kitchen (so called 'gyp rooms' in Cambridge. Why? Apparently because gypsies used to work in there. Don't ask me!), and for hopefully putting up with it this year too....? :) :)

Also, dear roommate: one day I WILL be able to microwave something without it exploding all over the microwave. I promise!

p.s. I almost forgot! One of my best friends - Mary from Citying Pretty - did an ode to Pikachu for one of the fancy dress thingies at Uni. I'm going to post it here with kind permission from her, and also hopefully this will be a little nudge for her to UPDATE HER BLOG :D