First Day of School Bento
Make the day an even more special one.
By Yuko and Noriko
Image courtesy of Race Point Publishing
Prep Time
10 minutes (plus one hour or overnight cooling)
Number of Servings
2
Recipe Source
Bento by Yuki & Noriko ($15.99, Race Point Publishing, 2020)
Ingredients
- Homemade Fruit Snacks
- Cut-out sandwiches (nut-butter and jelly sandwiches, cut with cookie cutters)
- Hard-boiled egg, shaped in a mold
- Cheese of choice, cubed
- Vegetable of choice, cut into sticks
Directions
- Make a large batch of fruit snacks ahead of time and keep them in the refrigerator.
- Hard-boil the egg, cut the vegetable sticks, and cube the cheese the night before.
- In the morning, make the cut-out sandwiches.
Contributor
Yuko and Noriko
Yuko and Noriko launched Japanese Cooking 101 in 2012 to show the world how to make fresh, simple, and tasty Japanese meals that can be prepared at home by everyone.
Yuko and Noriko grew up in Japan watching their mothers and grandmothers prepare food at home. Norika is also a professionally trained pastry chef.
They create recipes based on those memories, as well as their own years of experience cooking at home for their families. They both live in San Diego, California.
