Gung Hay Fat Choy.

Happy Chinese New Year! It's the Year of the Snake!

To start us off for the day, a kiwi snake:

Midday olive snake snack: 

Snake pancakes for dinner: 

I Heart You

Hearts made with rice and beet juice, faces with nori and the face punches.

You are beautiful

Hot Dog Hearts 

Love Birds

These were so much fun! Hard boiled egg love birds on a bed of mixed rice with broccoli... Nori eyes with the face punch, carrot beaks and wings. Heart carrots, cut apples, cashews, green peppers as sides. 

Hearts

When I was a kid, my mom always had me make the green salads for dinner. I could never make them plain and boring, just chopping up the carrots like a normal person. I made them into shapes, my favorite was always hearts.

February, a new beginning

It's been awhile since I've done any playful food.  There are times in my life I think the next stop will be the psych ward. I cease creative activities and cite my ever growing stress and frustration as the reason to stop doing what I love. Then, I realize... I'm stressed,  I *have* to go back to doing what I love~ pouring creativity into our world. Happy February. 

Rice with turkey bacon heart, with sides of cherry tomatoes, sugar snap peas, raisins, hearts and apples. 

Sesame Street

Sesame Street premiered on PBS November 10, 1969.

Here's to Elmo and all of our friends, that we grew up with, new and old. 

Tomato sauce and rice, corn tortilla and nori eyes, mustard nose and a nori mouth.