Bento #9 2.13.2010

Today's bento is more RED for the BOMB Challenge at Hapa Bento. :)  I've got 2 mini pita that I sprayed with food coloring spray (be careful if you use this, the overspray goes farther than you think) filled with fried egg and apple-shaped cheese cutouts. I've also cut out apple hearts (harder to do than I thought it would be). Cremini mushrooms filled with roasted eggplant dip and layered with thin slices of radish, pineapple, and golden Oreo cakesters from a 100 calorie pack.

My mom made me the table topper a couple of years ago for Valentine's day. It's reversible with St. Patrick's fabric on the back, so you'll see that in a few weeks.

Valentine's Day Cookies

My friend Melissa and I have been decorating cookies together since the first year we met (2002). When we started it was just us girls, and since has grown to include her 3 kids in the event. The boys are big enough now to decorate their cookies without much help. Next year her daughter will be ready to jump in and frost too!

We don't do every holiday, but usually at least 1 holiday a year. This year it's Valentine's cookies! YUM! Thanks to my MIL for sharing the awesome cut out cookie recipe handed down from my husbands great great grandmother.