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I was able to find the Just Bento Cookbook at the local library so I'm going to pick it up from reserve on the weekend to have a read through ^_^ Surprisingly the library has quite an abundance of bento related books so I'll be running them through my reading list very soon. Thanks to this...

Candy gore is the best kind of gore. Stabby cupcakes are up there with deliciously disturbing anatomical heart cakes/cupcakes (I have a thing about hearts clearly...).

AWWW! I love it ^_^ Now I know this time my mind isn't playing funny tricks on me!

:rofl: I did it again with beet rice! Though certainly not as bad. The color is beautiful, and now I really want some heart-shaped ravioli. And tortilla soup... Okay I'm just hungry in general and plenty looks good to me. The heart shapes help though :lol:

...I would have paid just to see a projectile pressure cooker chicken :rofl::lol:

Marinated a nice bundle of spare ribs overnight in tomato paste, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and char siu sauce. Served them with rice and steamed bok choy and snowpeas. The ginger came through beautifully!

*raises hand* Has a special separate set of kitchen scales for postage reasons :lol: They're useful, okay! And cheaper than buying a proper postage scales set. I guess when it comes to kitchen scales, some people will now see it as having your cooks, and then your 'cooks'...

My morbid side clearly got the better of me - I kept reading "Beet Heart 'Cookies'" as 'Beef Heart 'Cookies'" :rofl: Cookies and real body organs should never be mixed together... Love the martini cookies, a very cute play on words (and just a little bit 50s domestic cliche amusing).

...I kind of wish I could see that occur under a microscope now. That sounds rather neat.

Could be why a lot of cornstarch puddings seem to 'break' after they have cooled rather than keeping a consistent form :lol: that makes sense.

Maybe it's just me, I don't see a huge difference between drinking and eating it :lol: doesn't seem that terrible. If I can find the darn plant (we have so many succulents it's hard to point out which is the aloe and which is a plant that simply looks like it... not something you want to...

:lol: At least they'll be very cute condiment holders!

I agree with JMediger and Zhizara - cornstarch is a pretty good standard thickening agent. I have always used it in meals for my father (he's a diabetic on insulin). 14g (about a tablespoon) of cornstarch is typically the most you'd need to thicken sauces/gravies, and that has a total of...

:lol: Such distance! But if you're visiting anyway, it's at least a nice bonus to grab things on the way/way back. Depending on how you look at it, can be nicer than knowing in theory you're close... but the reality with traffic, gas, etc, it's just a total bust (just can't justify driving over...

Cooked hamburgers and fried eggs for the father creature since he hasn't had them in a long while. Made them fairly plain as he doesn't like anything fancy with them (meat, onions, breadcrumbs, eggs, oregano, Worcestershire sauce). Had a boiled eggwhite and vegetable wrap for myself. I swear it...