Showing posts with label Roald Dahl Day Hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roald Dahl Day Hop. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2014

Roald Dahl Day Blog Hop

Happy Birthday Roald Dahl! A beloved author of some of our favorite books. To celebrate Bento Bloggers & Friends are hopping through the book stacks and bringing his creations to edible fruition. So read, nibble and get lost in a wonderful world of imagination. Click the hop button at the bottom of this post to check them all out, when your library card is full, fill your head and your belly with magic.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory : Violet you're turning violet! 

In this lunch : In an Easy Lunch Box
  • Willy Wonka : Violet Beauregarde - Apple english muffin with jelly, babybel cheese head
  • Carrots with books pick
  • James and the Giant Peach : Miss Spider - Peach slices and spider 

Now come along, and discover the magic within his pages brought to lunch rooms around the world starting with  Summer Mum.



Sunday, September 15, 2013

Crescent Rolls 4 Ways

As part of the Immaculate Baking Program I receive some goodies and coupons to try out their products, everything else in this post is unbiased. So one late night around 11pm, I had an urge to bake, I know weird right? I had been planning to make pizza bites for my son's lunch, but once I popped the can open I had a few other ideas and decided to try them all. 1 can, 4 ideas, all winners according to me and my monkeys.


Pizza Pockets 

Directions:
  1. Unroll crescent dough
  2. Press 2 triangles together  (1/4 sheet) at the seam, then cut in half
  3. Add 1 spoonful of pizza sauce, I wen t the easy route with our local brand
  4. Sprinkle on cheese
  5. Top with other half and press together with the tines of a fork. I was using this one for Roald Dahl Day and wrote Willy Wonka in pizza sauce before baking
  6. Bake according to package directions for crescents

I sent this as part of our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lunches, cold, and my Green Monkey loved it! "Best lunch ever, can I have more?" If it's that good cold I'm telling you, you will never buy a hot pocket again. He LOVES his new Easy Lunch Box we even took them camping this weekend but that will be a story for another time. :)

Pizza Bites

Directions:
  1. Repeat the above directions
  2. Crease however many squares you want. I took the easy route and used my FunBites CubeIt!

Another fun Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lunch for Roald Dahl Day in our Easy Lunch Boxes. Again I didn't bother warming it up as the rest of the lunch I wanted to stay cold. Little Blue Monkey thought it was awesome and again requested more. So that solves our fears of serving the kids cold pizza, apparently all those nights avoiding dinner has created kids who love cold pizza. WIN!

Sunbutter and Jelly Rolls

Ok so this is where late night baking got me in trouble. Ideally I was going to send beautiful sunbutter and jelly pinwheel rolls to lunch....but it got eaten, before I got a picture, before it got sliced, but it was a delicious afternoon snack so we'll make it again soon.

Directions:
  1. Spread however you like on those conjoined triangles. I was going for a spiral so I did sunbutter on one triangle and jelly on the other and rolled it lengthwise .
  2. Tuck the ends to keep it from oozing out too much during baking
  3. Bake according to package same timing as crescent rolls
Cinnamon Rolls 

 
Again these got eaten up before a pretty presentation picture could be taken, but that just goes to show when it's good it's gone!

Directions:
  1. Spread butter, margarine, or whatever you like on the dough
  2. Sprinkle with a pinch of sugar and a dash of ground cinnamon (would be just as good with apple pie spice or pumpkin spice etc)
  3. Roll into crescents - deliciousness on the inside
  4. Bake according to package directions
 So there you have it, any way you roll it these are delicious!

Friday, September 13, 2013

Roald Dahl Day Blog Hop

"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination." - Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder)
 The Bento Bloggers and Friends are at it again, its time to make a date with Mischief and Mayhem in honor of one of our favorite authors Roald Dahl. Enjoy edible depictions of his best selling children's books. Roll through all of the Dahlicious lunches until you get back here. There's no way of knowing which direction you are going..

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory 
In keeping with the spirit, it was all done in excess and I ended up with 4 Wonka lunches this week. 

My favorite little Oompa Loompas

 In this lunch : In our brand new Easy Lunch Boxes!!!
  • Ham tree (Edible forest)
  • Golden ticket - Pizza Pocket using Immaculate Baking Croissants, pizza sauce and shredded Italian blend cheese. recipe to follow in later post.
  • Oompa Loompa - Cotton candy grapes, orange, marshmallow eyebrows, carrot nose, candy eyes
  • Carrots
  • World's Finest Chocolate - My son's school fundraiser chocolate in an ELB Mini Dipper

In this lunch: In an Easy Lunch Box with mini dipper
  • Willy Wonka's Hat - Ham stacked cubes with hat on top
  • Pizza on a stick - Immaculate Baking Company's crescent rolls pizza pocket, cut with a FunBites CubeIt and Starbucks skewers for the chocolate river. Recipe to follow in a later post.
  • Oompa Loompa - Orange, grapes, marshmallow eyebrows, candy eyes, carrot nose
  • Carrots
  • Willy Wonka - ELB mini dipper with World's Finest Chocolate
  

 In this lunch : (Before I got my ELBs sorry)
  • Oompa Loompa - Ham and cheddar with lettuce hair, marshmallow eyebrow, candy eye and food coloring
  • Trix swirls cereal
  • Grapes and cucumbers
  • Yogurt covered raisins and Babybel cheese questions?




 Wonka Boat Ride



 In this lunch : In my Easy Lunch Box with mini dipper
  • Wonka Boat - Ham and provolone
  • American blend salad with cucumber flowers
  •  World's finest Chocolate in Wonka Bar mini dipper
  • Oompa Loompa - grapes, orange, marshmallow, candy eyes, carrot nose
  • Pistachios 

Willy Wonka: But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
Charlie Bucket: What happened?
Willy Wonka: He lived happily ever after. 

Now off you go to see what Grace over at Eats Amazing has dreamed up in her imagination!