Hanamachi Lights: Bento & Food » Faith http://hanamachi-lights.org Faith's Faboulous Bento and Food Blog Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Photos: Strawberry Spongecake Thievery http://hanamachi-lights.org/2012/04/25/photos-strawberry-spongecake-thievery/ http://hanamachi-lights.org/2012/04/25/photos-strawberry-spongecake-thievery/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:15:29 +0000 Faith http://hanamachi-lights.org/?p=695 Oh, silly mother for showing up with stawberries and little, store-bought sponge cakes then forgetting them when she left. A little homemade buttercream, some warmed preserves and I have a feast! A feast of sugar! BWAHAHAHHAAAAH! *coughs* Ahh, ouch!

]]> http://hanamachi-lights.org/2012/04/25/photos-strawberry-spongecake-thievery/feed/ 0 Review: Save Recipes to My Bookmarks? Not This Foodie! http://hanamachi-lights.org/2012/02/27/review-save-recipes-to-my-bookmarks-not-this-foodie/ http://hanamachi-lights.org/2012/02/27/review-save-recipes-to-my-bookmarks-not-this-foodie/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:00:55 +0000 Faith http://hanamachi-lights.org/?p=685 I have been having the worst problem for the last few months during my search for recipes and inspirational photos in hopes of upgrading my bento making from crappy bento to mildly amusing bento. I keep running into the cutest, most artistic bento at various websites and communities online but, because I’m awful at bookmarking (I always manage to over-bookmark, never organize and therefore lose my destinations) I just don’t bother. So, because I’m a disorganized dummy, I have a tendency to have to search for the same tings over and over or blog walk and try to retrace my steps.

I have the same problem with all bookmark-ables. What good are bookmarks if they’re a hassle to use? I’m testing out a desktop bookmark application, a Chrome extension and I signed up at clipix to try and fix the problem and give my poor browser a break. So far it’s Clipix that’s working for me!

The very first thing I did was start a bento inspirational photo search, which was fruitful as it always is – you can see my first Clipix board with all the pretty bento!

Clipix Bento Board

Still don’t “get” it? Check out this video, it explains it all!

I think I’m going to start using Clipix boards as categories for types of recipes, an example would be to have a Cookies board and clip every good cookie recipe to it that I come across. So far I’m loving it, I seriously recommend you try it if you haven’t already. Sound off in the comments, what are you going to use your Clipix for?

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Originally posted at by CMKA over at my bento photo blog!

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Frijoles Refritos

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One of my favorite sets, a yellow Rilakkuma that has a matching 3rd Birthday for Rilakkuma bag + hashi that fits under the lid!

Originally posted at by CMKA over at my bento photo blog!

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Another set, my only from Putifresh with a pretty green and white color scheme.

Originally posted at by CMKA over at my bento photo blog!

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A few days ago I was alerted to a great video that Benihana put out, a commercial, that takes a look at both the current, modern incarnation as well as looking back at their beginnings in 1964 as a glamorous, sexy and exotic place. Take a look!

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