Thursday, August 27, 2009

MTM - Muffin Tin Meal

Following in the footsteps of my fellow bloggers, Peony & HK Choo, I decided to make a muffin tin meal for princess one evening. Her dad and I were having curry chicken for dinner so I had to find alternative food for her. Apparently it's the latest trend to serve kids their meals in one of these tins. It has the same philosophy as a bento, and makes meals fun for little kiddos, enticing them to eat up. I am hoping to get my hands on a silicon one. A friend likened it to meals served in the Army. And it fact it does remind me so, of those mess tins used for their meals. I think it's kind of cute, but not something I will do very often, or so I hope. ;)

In this tin, there is Yakult with jelly by the side, fishball miso soup, tamago and cherry tomatoes, organic golden kiwi, plain rice with Cinnamoroll seaweed and chicken bak kwa. She finished everything except some tamago and tomatoes.

It's the first time that I made checkered apple. I found it a little bit tedious although it's beautiful. I tried the rest of the apple to make a rabbit but it didn't turn out well so here I have something which looks like a mouse. She also had prata, flower ham, cherry tomatoes and a steamed cake which I learned from Little Corner of Mine. My version didn't turn out so well but the little girl said it was nice. I felt it tasted too eggy, because during the mixing process, I had no energy to beat the egg into fluffy thickness. I think that was what went wrong. Will try it again another day.

7 comments:

Miz Young said...

hehehhe hope u get to do the spagetti necklace soon!!! I guess u can also use ham slices too?

HK Choo said...

Food in mess tin without any mess, hahah...

Your steamed cake blossomed well to me..why use arm-power when you can utilise the machine??

Little Corner of Mine said...

Yes, the steamed cake bloom well to me too. Next time use the machine.

SIG said...

Miz Young - Ya, hope I get to do it next Wed as there is no school on Monday and Tuesday. :) Not sure about ham cos it might take too long for spag to cook then the ham will become tasteless. I'm thinking of alternatives to sausage so there can be variety. Tks for the idea, babe.

HK Choo - Hehe, u guessed it! But still lots to wash wor. Because me thought me very strong sekali halfway gave up. Too lazy to wash up machines utensils.

lcom - Yes it did bloom well but I don't know the taste very eggy because the egg didn't fluff up or become thick. So ya, will try again when I have time and also pick up 7up. I love the little silicon cups that I bake them in. So clean and easy to wash off, and the cake just pops out. Thanks C!

ganache-ganache said...

The checkered apple is so pretty, how did you do it ? Any special gadget ?

Sweet Jasmine said...

Hi SIG, long time since I drop by here. Looks like cooking for kids are getting more creative these days. Your MTM will make any child finish the food.

SIG said...

ganache-ganache - No special gadget involved, just a small sharp knife and careful hands. Score them in squares then slowly remove alternate skins. I found it too tedious but very pretty.

Sweet Jasmine - Hi there! How are you? Long time no see! Haha, yes, if you want them to eat up, good to make it fancy. Hehe.