給食だより

ごはん　牛乳　厚焼卵

小松菜のおひたし　筑前煮

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The first full week back to school after the winter vacation and today’s lunch is komatsuna salad with tamagoyaki and chikuzenni, a dish of boiled veggies and konyaku.  Very Japanese, but very yummy.  The salad is a crunchy and mushy mixture with very strong bonito flavor.  The smokiness of the bonito and nice touch from the sesame seeds is a refreshing start to the meal.  The egg is sweet almost sweet enough to be considered a dessert, and is a nice contrast to the salty and savory flavors from the salad and the stew.  The chikuzenni is a hearty collection of root vegetables stewed in a nice sauce, which has some sweetness to it, but takes up those earthy flavors, which help to chew through the vegetables.  The bamboo shoots and daikon radish are my favorite.  This is a dish that I always forget that I like because without flashes of color from the carrots or green beans it’s mostly brown and beige.  But despite that, each time I take my first bite I remember how delicious it is.  It is a lovely meal and a solid start to what will be a great week of kyushoku.

はちみつパン　牛乳　チキンのチーズ焼き

グリーンサラダ　ミネストローネスープ

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Minestrone, flower veggie salad, and baked chicken!  Excellent end to the week today.  The salad was juicy, delicious, and had such wonderful flavors.  An absolute treat and one of the best kyushoku salads.  The soup was great today as well.  Nice tomato flavor, but also plenty of seasoning as well giving it a bit more kick than usual.  I think I even tasted a little garlic which is fantastic.  The baked chicken was amazing and cooked perfectly.  I made a sandwich with the sweet honey bread and it was a nice enough match.  Hearty and filling alongside the soup.  Wonderful meal!

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

いそ香り和え　肉じゃが

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Natto and Nikujaga!  A day of great highs and great lows for me.  The natto wasn’t too bad today, but I think that the salad on natto day is different than usual.  I recall that eating the salad cleaned out my mouth quickly, but today’s salad was more spinach based and didn’t have a strong dressing.  It did have a bit of bonito flavor though which was nice.  Today’s nikujaga was delicious as always.  I feel like I got a lot of potatoes today.  The stew broth that it comes in is sweet and delicious and the flavor of the onions really makes it so good.  Nice meal today!

きなこあげパン　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

白菜のクリーム煮

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Stew, Salad, and Agepan!  The daikon and ham salad was crunchy and delicious.  The stew was amazing!  Great creamy flavor and lots of nice vegetables as well.  The potatoes were great.  The Kinako agepan was delicious and tasted a little bit like peanut butter.  It was a nice dessert after the meal and great with milk.  If I didn’t have milk I might have been in trouble!  Delicious and hearty stew today!  Thank you!

【始業式】

ハヤシライス　牛乳　海そうサラダ

みかんゼリー

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Happy New Year! It’s the year of the tiger and today is the first day at school with school lunch and the start of the 3rd semester. Hayashi rice and seaweed salad with a mikan jelly dessert. Can’t ask for a more solid start than that! The salad was slippery and crunchy, with a nice tangy and slightly sweet flavor from the dressing and natural seaweed flavor. The hayashi rice was very tasty! The tomato flavor was nice and the vegetables were hot and delicious. In particular the mushrooms and green peas were delicious and added nice texture. The mikan jelly was a nice little treat afterwards and refreshed my mouth quite nicely. Lovely meal and now I am full and ready for the rest of the day, no, the rest of the semester! Thank you and let’s have a great 2022!

【終業式・クリスマス献立】

バターロール　牛乳　もみの木ハンバーグ

イタリアンサラダ　オニオンスープ

クリスマスデザート

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Christmas eve and the day of the closing ceremony for the second semester.  A SUPER Christmas themed lunch today.  Hamburg shaped like Christmas Trees, star cheese in the salad and star noodles in the soup as well as cute snowman Naruto too. The salad is one of the most delicious ones and the little cheese stars add such a great level of depth to it.  The colorful greens whites and reds also give it a real nice holiday vibe.  The soup is delicious and so cute.  I used the bread roll and made it into buns so I could eat a hamburg tree sandwich..  It was delicious.  There was also a super tasty dessert.  It was a delicious and creamy and sweet strawberry jelly and pudding with some whipped cream on top.  A super duper festive and delicious lunch to kick off the winter vacation for the students!

ごはん　牛乳　にらまんじゅう

白菜おひたし　キムチ入りとん汁

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Nice menu today!  It is an interesting and delicious blend on Asian recipies.  The salad was tasty and the katsuo boshi was excellent.  The kimchi soup was absolutely delicious with a yummy spice level and lots of hearty vegetables.  The nira manju as well was super good and the strong nira flavor was delicious.  It was meatier than I expected and a true treat.  Wonderful lunch today!

【冬至献立】

米粉パン　牛乳　スペイン風オムレツ

ツナサラダ　かぼちゃシチュー

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Yes!  Today is a delicious pumpkin stew.  The tuna salad was delicious and surprisingly hearty.  I like this salad a lot.  The omelet was tasty as well.  I liked the potatoes and onions.  Today’s main event is the wonderful pumpkin stew and it was magnificent.  The pumpkin flavor was so strong and the color along could tell you how much pumpkin was used in it.  It I delicious and I missed having yummy stew with lunch.  Wonderful meal today!

ビビンバ　牛乳　春雨スープ

アセロラゼリー

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Delicious bibinba today!  The veggies are so tasty and the meat so flavorful.  It is the perfect mixture!  It is so great with rice as well.  The harusame soup is tasty and hot and nice with the bibinba too.  Last there was a sweet and cold acerora jelly which was a perfect finish to the meal.

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのごまみそ煮

もみづけ　ざくざく煮（福島県の郷土料理）

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Today is an all Japanese lunch.  The momiduke was nice and crunchy with a light sesame flavor.  The zakuzakuni was quite delicious and everything was cut into small chunks or cubes.  I like when my food comes in cubes.  This soup reminded me of oden.  The fish, iwashi, was amazing.  This is one of my favorite fish that comes in school lunch and I love the sesame and miso sauce that comes with it.  So wonderful.

ホットドッグ　牛乳　チャンポンメン

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Champon and hotdog day.  The champon is hot and delicious and filled with tons of ingredients.  I like the shrimp and Naruto, as well as how juicy and soft the noodles are.  Its really good.  The hotdog is pretty good and nice and smokey.  The cabbage and ketchup help balance the dryness of the bread and make a nice little meal.  Nice lunch today!

【地産地消献立：白菜】

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

小松菜のごま和え　すき焼き風煮

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Sukiyaki and Natto day.  I eat my natto quickly and then proceed to the salad!  The salad was fresh, crunchy, and tasted sweet as well from the sesame.  It was a great palate cleanser after the natto and my mouth wasn’t sticky at all.  The sukiyaki today was amazing.  So many noodles and that sweet and savory broth is so delicious.  The tofu is slightly cooked and has a nice texture and the carrots and cabbage were great as well.  The meat was filling and tasty.  Truly a rollercoaster of emotion with today’s lunch, but it is ultimately a delicious one despite the natto.

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　さばの味勝焼き

五目ひじき　どさんこ汁

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Dosanko soup, fish, and hijiki today.  A Japanese meal.  The hijiki was good and a little sweet.  I enjoyed it.  The saba with miso was alright.  I don’t really like this fish and sauce combination very much.  Today’s main dish for me was the dosanko soup and it was amazing.  The buttery flavor of the broth and the delicious vegetables and pork make it super hearty and enjoyable.  I like it very much.  Nice lunch today!  Thank you!

ポークカレーライス　牛乳　こんにゃくサラダ　みかん

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Curry and rice day!  The seaweed salad that comes on most curry days is the same as usual.  I don’t really like the texture very much, but it tastes quite good.  The curry was excellent.  Good spice level today and I was surprised by how big the potatoes were.  Maybe they cut them larger or added them to the stew later because they were really big and still had fairly sharp edges!  It was great.  And a wonderful juicy sweet mikan to conclude the meal.  Perfect lunch as the weather starts to get really cold.

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ

キャベツの塩こぶ和え　さつま汁

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Karaage and sweet potato soup day!  A real nice lunch.  The salad was a simple cabbage affair with a nice sharp dressing with salty kobu which is really tasty.  The soup is hot and warm, tasting great, and the sweet potatoes add such a nice flavor and smooth texture to it.  Today’s chicken doesn’t have a special flavor like it has recently, but is just classic Japanese karaage.  It tastes great!  I enjoy having it with my rice and it was a great meal overall.  I am full and feel great.  Thank you!

はちみつパン　牛乳　スパゲッティミートソース

ビーンズサラダ　みかんゼリー

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Spaghetti and bean salad today with a nice mikan jelly and honey bread.  A nice menu that looks great.  The bean salad is amazing and so colorful and delicious.  It is crunchy and has lots of nice textures as well and with the dressing it has a nice unified flavor in addition to all the varied tastes from reach bean and the broccoli.  Today’s meat pasta is amazing and today’s is some of the best I have had from school lunch in a while.  The flavors are there and there is a bit more complexity besides a simple tomato and meat sauce.  The peas add a nice little extra bit of texture and I think there must be some kind of cheese or other flavor in there which takes it above and beyond.  Absolutely wonderful today.

三色丼　牛乳　沢煮椀

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Sanshokudon! One of the tightest and most delicious meals around. If all kyushoku menus would battle against eachother in a tournament, I believe that sanshokudon deserves to be in the top 10 for sure, if not the top 5. Today’s soup, sawaniwan has a unique and delicious flavor. Gobo and daikon give it a nice earthy base flavor and the carrots and daikon being cut so thinly and in strips give it an interesting texture as well. The sanshokudon is delicious as ever with wonderful spinach with sesame, and the delicious chicken and egg mixture. Delicious!

バターロール　牛乳　肉団子

花野菜サラダ　ポトフ

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Today is a nice menu with meatballs, salad, and soup with bread on the side.  The flowing veggie salad was excellent and it is one of the best for both its perfect ability to soak up the dressing and still be crunchy, and the fact that the dressing is so good too.  I really like this salad.  I love to use the bread to make a meatball sandwich with the Swedish style meatballs.  The potof is quite good and filled with tons of veggies and the little sausage slices are wonderful as well. A simple but enjoyable light flavor is nice and calms down the pallet after the bright dressing from the salad or the stronger flavors from the meatballs.  The meatball sandwich itself was delicious and the meatballs are done very well.  Such a good flavor. Amazing meal today!

ごはん　牛乳　あじフライ（ソース）

切り干し大根の煮つけ　なめこ汁

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Ajify today with nameko soup.  I started out with the stewed kiriboshi daikon which was pretty good.  I don’t like the texture that much, but it is delicious and has an interesting flavor which is sweet and has a kind of earthy saltiness as well.  The soup as well has good flavor, but a texture I don’t care for that much.  It was nice after eating some ajifry to kind of calm down the strong sharp flavor of the sauce.  The ajifry was excellent and crunchy.  Very enjoyable!  A nice lunch today.

スタミナ丼　牛乳　えび団子スープ

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Cold day today!  Perfect timing for some nice hot STAMINA DON!  Kyushoku staminadon is super delicious and packed with tons of pork, onions, carrots, and other veggies.  It has such a delicious flavor and is juicy and hot.  One of the most solid lunch choices you can ask for.  Also, we got a lovely shrimp ball soup as well.  I really enjoy the light flavor compared to the powerful flavors of the stamina don.  The noodles in the soup are extremely enjoyable and the shrimp balls taste delicious and nice.  Perfect meal for a cold dreary day!             

ココアあげパン　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

ポークビーンズ

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An interesting lunch today!  Today we get the ham and daikon salad which is one of the best.  The hame, daikon, cucumber, and dressing go so well together.  A crunchy masterpiece really and it is such a simple dish too.  Besides the salad we have pork and beans today as well.  It’s a hearty soup packed with lots of vegetables and has a nice tomato base.  It’s really good.  Also today is another fantastic treat – agepan with a cocoa sugar topping.  It is basically a donut which nobody will ever complain about.  The cocoa flavor was very clear to me and quite enjoyable.  I save almost all my milk to eat with the agepan making for a yummy dessert to this nice meal.

ごはん　牛乳　えびシューマイ

ハムとニラの和え物　マーボー豆腐

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Mabo dofu day!  The namul with nira was excellent and had a strong sharp flavor.  It has a great crunch and is refreshing.  Today’s mabo was pretty good.  It was nice and hot and the tofu was juicy and enjoyable.  I could taste a little more spice than usual today I think.  Last, the shrimp shumai were good as well with a strong shrimp flavor.  Overall a filling and enjoyable lunch!  Thank you!

黒とうパン　牛乳　焼きそば

ごぼうサラダ

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A new month and a classic school lunch.  Today is Yakisoba.  The gobo salad was sweet and delicious and I love the flavor and crunch of the gobo.  It is wonderful and I like to use some of the sweet bread to clean the bowl of the dressing.  The dressing and the sweet bread actually go together quite well.  The yakisoba was good today as well.  It is filling and had a light flavor today.  Thankful as always for the delicious meal!

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ韓国風

ナムル　春雨スープ

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Excellent korean-style flavors in today’s lunch.  The namul was pretty good, a simple spinach salad with come carrots and bean sprouts with sesame seeds.  A nice and easy start.  The harusame soup was also quite good.  I liked it mostly for its hotness and the yummy noodles, since the flavor was quite light today, but I could taste white pepper which was nice.  Today’s main event of course is the Korean-style karaage.  It was fried perfectly and still crispy despite being cooled down which was amazing.  It actually had a little bit of spice and some nice savory sweet flavors as well.  The sauce was amazing.  A wonderful meal today that filled me up and made me happy to enjoy. Thank you!

ごはん　牛乳　ほっけの塩焼き

白菜のおひたし　とん汁　りんごゼリー

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Back at it again and the first lunch of the week is fish, salad, and soup. The salad is spinach-based with some other veggies tossed in and flavored mostly with delicious smokey bonito. It’s a kyushoku classic and a nice start to the meal. Today’s fish, hokke, is not my favorite. It has a kind of creamy oily texture and the flavor is slightly bitter to me although the nutritionist often tells me that students think it tastes sweet. I ate it quickly with my rice and moved on to the soup which is today’s MVP. It was buttery and filled with delicious vegetables and meat as well. It was flavored quite well and was very enjoyable. Today’s apple jelly was amazing and filled with apple chunks. It had more of a natural texture than jelly making it similar to apple sauce which I love. A fine meal today. Thank you!

はちみつパン　牛乳　スパゲッティナポリタン

ハムと大根のサラダ　ヨーグルト

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Wonderful pasta today.  I have smelled the cooking onions all morning leading up to lunchtime while walking in the halls between classes and it was great.  The daikon, ham, and cucumber salad was excellent.  Great dressing and perfect balance of ingredients as well.  The pasta was not a let down at all and tasted wonderful. The sauce had a light sweetness, but was still salty and savory enough for me.  The little hot dogs were lovely as always.  I use some of the bread for the pasta sauce, but like to save most of it to enjoy with the yogurt and the milk. As a nice little final dessert.

ごはん　牛乳　にらまんじゅう

春雨サラダ　八宝菜

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Chinese menu today with happosai, spring noodle salad, and manju.  The spring noodle salad is quite delicious and tangy with sesame seeds as well.  Strips of ham give some nice flavor as well as the cucumbers, cabbage, and carrots which offer a nice crunch.  Today’s main dish is the happosai, or 8 Treasures Vegetables.  It’s a very interesting naming for a dish, but it has a ton of interesting ingredients which I think are the treasures.  Today’s was tasty and a treasure to enjoy for sure.  Today’s super treasure was the nira manju though.  The strong flavor from the nira and the meat inside the dumpling make for a very delicious treat that was enjoyable.

フィッシュバーガー　牛乳　マカロニのクリーム煮

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A wonderful day for school lunch again.  Creamy macaroni stew and fried fish sandwiches.  Perhaps another reward for the teachers participating in today’s observation lesson?  The fried fish was delicious, crunchy, and had a nice flavor.  The sauce added some tangy flavors to the fishy and meaty goodness.  With the moisture from the boiled cabbage, it’s a nice collection of textures that makes for a yummy dish.  The cream stew was delicious as always.  So hearty and the pasta is quite yummy filled with sauce.  In particular the mushrooms were a nice addition to this adding an interesting texture that was enjoyable.  I feel like the flavor of the cabbage kind of won out over the others and I was hoping for a stronger onion flavor.  It was still an absolute delight and I am very thankful for such a powerful meal before an important lesson this afternoon!  Thank you!

三色丼　牛乳　けんちん汁

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Today the parents came to watch lessons!  With many many people, we also have a meal with many many ingredients.  Sanshokudon!  The kenchin soup was quite good.  I liked how hot and hearty it was, filled with lots of veggies and tofu.  The sanshokudon proper was delicious as always.  The savory egg and chicken with the tasty sweet and sesame spinach as well is a delicious meal great with rice.  Thank you!

県産小麦のコッペパン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

おろしハンバーグ　かんぴょうサラダ　オニオンスープ

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What a bounty on display today!  Hamburg steaks, delicious onion soup, kanpyou salad, and jam with bread.  The salad was excellent and had a wonderful and delicious creamy sesame dressing.  The onion soup was packed with flavor and had a great texture from the cabbage and the sliced onions.  I use some of the bread as buns for the hamburg and enjoy it like a little sandwich.  Its super good and the oroshi sauce is prefect with the bread.  Such a tasty meal and super filling.  Last the tochiotome jam is sweet and enjoying it on the bread with my milk makes for a nice little dessert to end the meal.  What a wealth of delicious foods today and almost all of them using ingredients from Tochigi!

【地産地消献立：大根】

大根入りカレーライス　牛乳

ほうれん草サラダ　にっこり（なし）

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Today’s menu theme is local daikon radish which is featured in the curry.  I started with the tune and spinach salad which was pretty good!  The tuna was good and the crunch from the corn and cucumber were a nice additional texture.  The curry today was very good as well!  The daikon is a pretty good match and its juiciness allowed me to appreciate the spiciness of the curry a bit more I think.  A lovely meal today.  Thank you.

米粉パン　牛乳　県産ぶた肉コロッケ

海そうサラダ　冬野菜シチュー

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Today is a super excellent menu. The seaweed salad was alright. A little slippery for my liking, but it tasted quite nice and the corn gave it some texture. The pork croquette very delicious and perfectly fried. It had a nice balance of meat to potato in the filling as well which was very enjoyable. The stew today is a winter vegetable cream stew and it was pretty good. It was creamy and hot and had a light flavor, with broccoli having the most prominent flavor among the rest of the vegetables. Great lunch today. Bring on more stew!

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのおかか煮

五目きんぴら　さつま汁

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Japanese style food has been popping up a lot recently!  Today is fish in bonito sauce and kinpira with sweet potato soup as well.  Quite the meal today.  The kinpira is sweet and earthy with good flavors from the sauce as well as the gobo.  It also has a nice sweetness which is enjoyable.  Kinpira is really good in school lunch.  The sweet potato soup was similar to the miso soup or tonjiru we get often, but has sweet potatoes in it.  The sweetness and bright color of the satsumaimo give it a nice extra layer of flavor and color.  Today’s fish is pretty good and the sauce is really nice.  I love bonito and the smoky goodness of the sauce adds a lot to the fish.  Delicious meal today!

【地産地消週間】

ごはん　牛乳　県産納豆

じゃこサラダ　しょうが入り肉じゃが

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Back from the weekend and its Nikujaga and Natto!  I vanquished my natto quickly, but I think today’s mustard or soy sauce or both was a little different.  It was a slightly different color after mixing it up.   Then I jumped into the salad to cleanse my chopsticks and mouth.  The jako salad is alright with a slightly fishy taste in addition to the dressing.  The nikujaga is the main event today for sure though.  I adore that great taste and super hearty vegetable content.  The little pops from the ginger which was added in was a nice change of pace as well.  Happy for the full meal and absolutely adore the nikujaga!  Thank you!

ミルクパン　チョコパテ　牛乳　ほうれん草グラタン

アスパラガスソテー　ポークビーンズ

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Today there are a few new menu items which is nice!  We have a new interesting asparagus sautee as well as a spinach gratin.  Also pork and beans soup with bread and a new style of chocolate pate/cream as well instead of marshall beans.  The sautee is quite delicious and the asparagus and corn are a nice juicy and crunchy pair with nice flavor.  The meat is a nice touch as well.  The gratin is an interesting little dish.  It looks like a patty, but it was baked into an oval, but is still quite soft on the inside.  The creamy spinach has some cheese as well and it is very good.  It has a ton of great flavor and is very satisfying.  This is something I would expect to see at a bakery or a café.  The pork and beans was wonderful and super hot.  It was hearty and delicious and perfect with the bread as well.  The new chocolate sauce was pretty much straight up chocolate sauce with 1.5mg of iron in it.  It was super sweet and great on the bread and with milk as well.  Quite a change from marshall beans and reminds me that marshall beans isn’t actually chocolate haha.  Super nice treat.  A really interesting and delicious menu today!

ごはん　牛乳　ぶた肉と野菜のしょうがいため

えび団子スープ

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Ginger Stirfry and shrimp ball soup. The stirfry tastes great and has a nice ginger flavor. The meat and onions in particular were cooked really well and go great together. The shrimp ball soup was excellent as well and super hot too. I love the juicy shrimp balls which give it a really big burst of flavor. Simple lunch, but very good and quite satisfying.

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　さんまの開き

小松菜のごま和え　すきやき風煮

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Today is sanma day! The komatsu sesame salad was super good. I love that sweet and sesame flavor. The sukiyaki style soup was absolute delicious. Sweet and noodly, with lots of great flavors. The sanma was also quite good today and nice and salty. The salty sanma and the sweet flavors of the salad and soup were a great match up and wonderful with rice. Super nice lunch today. Nothing but good menu items today and the sukiyaki-style soup is a great new addition to the school lunch lineup.

ごはん　牛乳　厚焼卵

五目ひじき　キムチ入りとん汁

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Kimchi Tonjiru, hijiki, and tamagoyaki.  A very Japanese menu on a very rainy day.  The hijiki was nice and filling with plenty of meat and tofu along with the seaweed and other beans and veggies.  The tamagoyaki was sweet and I enjoyed it with rice.  Lastly, the kimchi tonjiru was excellent.  I love that flavor and it is warm and tasty on this cold day.  Wonderful lunch.

【いい歯の日】

いか天丼　牛乳　切り干し大根のナムル

たぬき汁　ぶどうグミ

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It is a kind of rainy and gloomy Monday today, but we have lovely fried squid to boost our spirits!  The dried daikon namul was pretty good and the dressing was very nice.  The little slices of ham add a lot to it as well.  The tanooki soup was ok.  It was nice and warm and had an earthy flavor.  Today’s fried squid was excellent and the sauce was delicious as well.  A nice lunch that charged me back up for the afternoon. The grape gummies were also a nice treat as well. Thank you!

ミルクパン　牛乳　スラッピージョー

コールスローサラダ　大根のポトフ

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Today is sloppy joes, cole slaw, and soup.  The cole slaw is simple and pretty delicious.  I like the sweetness and the crunchy texture.  The daikon potofu was interesting and having daikon radish instead of potatoes was an interesting choice, but it still worked really well.  Quite nice and most of the flavor comes from the little sausage slices in it.  The sloppy joes were excellent and the bread to meat ratio was nice today.  It is a great little sandwich and reminds me of America.  Wonderful lunch today!  Looking forward to the weekend!

ごはん　牛乳　春巻　チンジャオロースー

豆腐とわかめのスープ

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After another nice holiday we come back and there is another great lunch waiting!  Chinese style food with spring rolls and chinjaross!  The chinjaross was excellent and filled with nice ginger and savory flavors.  The tofu and seaweed soup was light and nice.  I liked the juicy and soft tofu.  Today’s VIP by far is the spring roll, crunchy, savory, and absolutely delicious.   Great lunch today!  Great crunch today!

ハヤシライス　牛乳　大根とツナのサラダ

ラフランスゼリー

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First day back after sports day and we get a yummy hayashi rice and tuna salad! The salad was nice and pretty hearty with lots of tuna and daikon radish. I like the sweetness the corn adds to the mostly tart dressing and fishy tuna flavor. The hayashi rice was nice and had a good flavor. It has a good balance of tomato and the vegetables are great too. I like how smooth it is. Last, was the La France Jelly. I think that it is pear flavored. It is delicious with a light sweet flavor. A nice change after the hayashi rice. Thank you!

【ハロウィン献立】

ミルクパン　牛乳　とりのからあげレモンソース

花野菜サラダ　春雨スープ　パンプキンババロア

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Halloween is this Sunday so today is the Halloween menu.  We get karaage with lemon sauce, some soup with cute pumpkin Naruto, and delicious flower vegetable salad.  Lastly of course a yummy pumpkin babaloa dessert.  The salad was awesome and is one of my favorites.  This and the cube salad are maybe the best.  I love how juicy the flower veg salad is and enjoy how much dressing the broccoli and cauliflower soak up.  I like to make a chicken sandwich and use some of the remaining bread to soak up the yummy lemon sauce / dressing combo on the plate.  The harsame soup was great.  The little pumpkin shapes were really cute and the color of the soup in general really gave it a nice autumn vibe.  The lemon chicken was quite good and I adore the sweet and slightly sour sauce that comes with it.  I like it as a sandwich with school lunch, but want to try it right out of the fryer/oven some day in the future.  Last, the pumpkin babaloa was a very tasty little creamy dessert with some whipped cream on top as well.  Excellent lunch before sports day tomorrow! 

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのおかか煮

もみづけ　とん汁

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Today is fish, salad, and soup.  The momizuke was quite good and I like to mix it with the sauce from the fish when I eat it giving it a bit more flavor.  The tonjiru is nice and hot with a light flavor.  The meat and vegetables are nice and its very good.  The iwashi was excellent and the sauce on it was fantastic.  It has almost a smoky flavor which is savory and a little bit sweet.  It’s quite good and great with rice of course.  A nice Japanese style lunch today.

米粉パン　牛乳　オムレツ

ハムと大根のサラダ　マカロニのクリーム煮

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Yes, one of the holy days of school lunch has arrived!  The daikon ham salad is such a great starter and delicious in all ways.  Super crunchy and juicy at the same time with a nice dressing that is complimented by the natural flavors of the ham.  Love this salad.  The omelet was nice and had pretty good flavor.  I liked to eat some of the bread along with it.  Of course today’s main event is the delicious macaroni stew.  I love it.  It is filled with plenty of delicious vegetables and chicken and so creamy and good.  Absolutely amazing.  Great lunch today!

ごはん　牛乳　えびシューマイ

ハムとニラの和え物　マーボー豆腐

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Today is mabodofu and shumai with a kind of Japanese-style namul.  The vegetables have kind of a tart and tangy dressing as well as a nice sesame flavor.  The mabo was nice and hot.  I liked the tofu in it a lot and there was even a tiny bit of spice in there I feel which was nice.  The shrimp shumai were tasty and a nice contrast to the flavors of the salad and the mabo.  Nice lunch today!

ごはん　牛乳　厚焼卵　ブロッコリーのごま和え

ぶた肉と大根の煮物

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Nice simple lunch today but with many ingredients.  The broccoli and cucumber salad is juicy and crunchy with great sesame flavors.  The tamagoyaki was sweet and fluffy.  I liked it along with rice and some of the sesame sauce left in the plate.  The daikon no nimono was fantastic. Nice and hot.  Great with rice and filled with nice juicy flavors.  The nimono and the sweet egg contrast each other really well making a nice set for the menu today.  Excellent lunch! Thank you!

黒とうパン　牛乳　肉団子

じゃこサラダ　カレーうどん

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Curry Udon and meatball sandwiches to end the week!  Nice!  The jako salad is always interesting with a slight fishiness from the little jako spread in it and the nice flavors from the sesame and aburaage.  Today’s cury udon is absolutely wonderful and has a great spice level.  I always feel like the curry udon is always spicier than the regular curry and rice.  The meatballs and bread together make an excellent sandwich which is great. Lovely lunch today!

ごはん　牛乳　ホイコーロー

ポーミントン（中華風卵入りコーンスープ）　アセロラゼリー

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Today is hoikoro and pominton! A yummy Chinese-style lunch which looks really good and smells great. The hoikoro is stellar and it is packed with so much meat and vegetables its great. The spices were also really good today too and the pepper was excellent and really stood out giving this dish some kick. Pominton is like the normal eggy kind of chinese soup, but filled with lots of corn which gives is a new level of flavor and depth. A seriously amazing lunch today which is rounded out by the cold and sweet aserora jelly which is refreshing. One of the best lunches all year and the first appearance of hoikoro in a long time I think.

メンチカツバーガー　牛乳　さつまいものシチュー

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Menchi Katsu Sandwich and sweet potato stew! Today is another one of those super-autumn school lunches. The menchi burger was super good and the crunch of the katsu along with the soft bread was a really enjoyable texture. The strong onion and meat flavors from the katsu were mellowed out by the bread and cabbage and also complimented by the sauce making the burger a super satisfying and tasty main dish. The stew was truly amazing. It was creamy and flavorful, filled with a nice variety of vegetables including sweet potato and even meat as well. I liked to go for some stew after a few bites of the sandwich to help with the bread and it was amazing. Any stew lunch is going to be delicious and today was no exception! Fantastic meal that I am quite thankful for.