Heart Dog

Nothing says I love you more than a heart dog!

All beef hot dogs cut on the diagonal, and toothpicked together as hearts, over a bed of mung bean noodles with a little spinach on the side.

Pink

I often use canned beets and it's juice for coloring food, I love it's vibrant pinkness!

I decided to see what would happen if I used the beets too, and cut up some of the beets with the heart cookie cutters, and used some juice to color the Ka-Me Bean Threads, and there it is! The kids weren't really thrilled with the beets and most of the beets ended up coming back home, but the noodles and the rest of the food was gone!

 

Put another bird on it.

Leftover turkey meatballs turned into a little bird in a nest. Mung bean noodles nest, mayo and nori eyes, carrot beak, and celery branch.

Sinterklaas

Sinterklaas.

Rice head, mung bean thread beard, apple for his hat with blended carrot for the cross (supposed to be gold).

Braaaaiins....

Last night I cooked up some Ka-Me Bean Thread, 3.75-Ounce Units (Pack of 12) and mixed them with the arugula/spinach mix to make them green. I really wanted to make brains out of them but didn't have a Brain Gelatin Mold. I made a couple of brain molds out of aluminum foil, poured the noodles in and formed them a bit more. I was half expecting them to be completely flat by the time I got up but they held their shape and turned out looking like brains!

Monsters in Mire

Halloween season is upon us... time for creepy food! I sautéed some garlic in oil and then blended the heck out of some  leftover spinach, arugula and broccoli before it went to waste,  then mixed it with cooked up mung bean noodles for the mire. These are the big all beef hot dogs from Costco (thanks to my mom!), I made little diagonal slices in the hot dog and cooked them, which led to this monstery look. Fun, super easy and the kids love it.