I am a self confessed geek. I love all of the crazy fun sci fi craziness and I have found a couple of bento friends that do too. They created a little group and were nice enough to add me to the Edible Geekery Group. We are paying homage to Firefly, the television series and the movie Serenity in honor of the 10th Anniversary of the show and the marathon on the Science Channel on Sunday, November 11th. This lunch is for my husband who is equally, if not more of a geek.
Our main entree/vegetable is brown rice with Golden Tiger Chicken and vegetable mix on top. We went with an Asian flair because of the Chinese language that they speak on the show and the chopsticks that they always use. On top of the mix is pieces of mozzarella cheese. We did the Firefly logo, Capt. Mal's brown coat, Kaylee's parasol and Jayne's hat all with our food safe markers.
Our fruit side strawberries. Strawberries were very scarce and coveted. Shepherd Book got off of the Persephone using strawberries and they just happened to be a huge hit with Kaylee. We put "two by two, hands of blue" in cheese on top of these. This is an ongoing theme through the series with River.
Finally, our dessert is an "energy bar" in the form of two small candy bars (from Halloween) that have been wrapped in aluminum foil. The crew would use the energy bars as a form of nutrition and theirs didn't seem nearly as yummy as ours.
Hop on to see what Karen has made in her
Lunch Bag.
I love how you got so many elements into it! LOVE the shiny!!!
ReplyDeleteThere were so many things that I really wanted to do so I had to shrink a couple of them down and create shiny cheese. LOL! Thanks, Karen!
DeleteLove all the references - especially that you did Kaylee's parasol! I confess, I went to every place in town that I thought might carry drink umbrellas, looking for white ones that I could colour, but all I could find was coloured ones, heheh.
ReplyDeleteHaha! I thought about that too but I've never seen a plain white one. Cheese it is! Shiny!
DeleteSo many clever references. Fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lise! It was such a blast to make!
DeleteAh, but are they fruity oaty bars? *ducks*
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though, I love how much you managed to incorporate into this!
Touche! Fruity oat bars don't taste as good as candy. LOL! ;)
DeleteThat's awesome! I'm glad someone managed to squeeze in what I was trying to do! I was going to do the 2x2 hands of blue :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Keith! It was the first thing that I thought of and I knew that it must be incorporated. :)
DeleteSooooo much shiny in one place!!! Love it all! <3 <3 <3 <3
ReplyDeleteLove all the references! You managed to get so much in, well done! Looks Shiny!
ReplyDeleteCould you pretty pretty please fix my link to http://ourlunchbags.com/post/52356172289/edible-geekery-firefly-hop/ ??? This was before the move to tumblr and that changed the links .... so now it's a broken hop unless people start with me. <3
ReplyDeleteI take it back... DON'T CHANGE IT!!! I fixed it on my end :)
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