給食だより

ごはん　牛乳　さばのみそ煮

五目きんぴら　すいとん汁

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Happy valentine’s day!  Soup, gobo salad, and fish today.  The gobo salad was crunchy, sweet, and a little chewy from the aburaage.  It’s a nice starter for the meal.  Today’s soup is suiton soup.  It has little dough balls in it which are pretty nice and the broth is savory and buttery with lots of nice vegetables.  It is like a chicken soup almost.  The fish today was also quite good and cooked up in a nice miso sauce.  It was meaty and didn’t have a strong fishy taste and was overall very enjoyable with the rice.  Great lunch today!

【初午献立】

赤飯（ごま塩）　牛乳　ハムカツ

しもつかれ　すまし汁　とちおとめゼリー

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Today is a kind of interesting menu.  Shimotsu curry, ham katsu, and sekihan!  Lots of good stuff today.  Kyushoku shimotsu curry is actually pretty tame and is quite good.  I love sekihan and it was super good.  The sesame seed salt is so delicious and it is very filling.  The ham katsu was also super crunchy and perfectly fried.  It tasted wonderful and was great.  We also got a nice seaweed soup with tofu and Naruto in it.  It was good.  Lastly was today’s dessert, the tochioteme jelly.  It was absolutely fantastic and had cream on the bottom too.  Great lunch today!

ミルクパン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

ハンバーグきのこソース　ほうれん草ソテー　野菜スープ

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Today is a great lunch!  Hamburg steak and spinach sautee with veggies soup on the side.  The spinache was excellent and had a touch of butter which really made it extra yummy.  I used some of my bread to make a sandwich with the hamburg and it was amazing.  The gravy with mushrooms was really good.  Todays soup had a light flavor from all the vegetables and was good.  I liked all the cabbage,  Last I used some of my bread to eat a little jam sandwich and it was a quite lovely finish to the meal.  I was quite full and happy today and I needed it!  Thank you!

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　青ヒラスの照り焼き

五目ひじき　キムチ入りとん汁

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Today’s lunch is a mix of fish, hijiki, and kimchi soup.  I don’t really like today’s fish very much so I usually try to eat it quickly.  It has a kind of fatty oily taste to me.  Today’s real VIP is the kimchi soup.  Hot and delicious and filled with plenty of vegetables and kimchi flavor.  Nice lunch today!

ごはん　牛乳　ポークシューマイ

ハムとニラの和え物　八宝菜

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Back for another week of yummy lunches. This week kicks off with the delicious happosai. Today’s salad was great and had a nice dressing which went well with the ham. It was juicy too. The happosai has a very strong mix of flavors and the squid always stands out to me, but it is filled with many yummy veggies and meats. It’s great with rice too. The shumai were yummy as well and had a nice meaty and oniony flavor. A lovely lunch today and one that filled me up quite nicely.

【ＪＡさんからいちごの無償提供】

ミルクパン　牛乳　メンチカツ

ツナサラダ　ポトフ　いちご

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Friday! Yay!  Today we have a manchi katsu, potof, tuna salad, and a pair of strawberries!  The tuna salad was excellent as always with a nice crunchy bite and a delicious bright dressing mixed with the yummy tuna.  I made a menchi katsu sandwich and it was amazing.  The katsu today was super duper crunchy and the insides were hot, meaty, and had a nice onion flavor.  The potof was tasty and had a nice light flavor which complimented the bread and katsu.  Today’s strawberries were super sweet and delicious.  Some of the best I have had in a while!  And in school lunch too!  Yummy!

【節分献立】

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのしょうが煮

白菜のおひたし　里いもと大根のそぼろ煮　福豆

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Today is Setsubun, or ‘Throwing Beans Day’. A traditional change in the season from the winter months headed into spring where we throw beans and banish demons from our homes and lives!  Today’s salad was packed with flavor from the bonito and it was smokey and juicy.  A kind of odd combination, but delicious.  The daikon stew was pretty good!  The earthy and slightly bitter daikon flavor was calmed down by the flavors and other veggies and was quite delicious.  Today’s real MVP was the fish though.  It was perfectly cooked and super flavorful.  The ginger flavor was excellent and went perfectly with rice.  This is one of the best fish we get in school lunch and it was great today.  Last, as a final snack, the lucky bean assortment.  It is a little snack pack with kakipeas, lucky beans, and crunchy little fish and such with a little bit of a sweet coating.  It was alright.  A nice conclusion to the meal.  Out with the demons and in with the luck!

黒とうパン　牛乳　焼きそば

ハムと大根のサラダ

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Yaki soba and ham daikon salad.  Great menu today.  The ham and daikon salad is great as always and has such a delicious mix of crunchy, sweet, sour, and umami flavors.  It’s so good and wakes my mouth up for the yaki soba party that is coming.  The yaki soba today was quite good and had a good amount of flavor from the sauce.  I got a lot of meat in mine today so I feel lucky.  The kokuto bread was sweet and delicious too.  I mostly enjoyed it at the end of the meal with my milk.  A lovely meal that filled me up!

三色丼（そぼろ・ごま和え）　牛乳

鮭団子汁

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Yeah! Sanshokudon!  And some yummy soup with salmon balls too.  The sanshokudon is absolutely delicious.  The egg/chicken mix is tasty and the greens are tasty and flavorful with a nice juicy sesame flavor.  I just mix it up with the rice and go crazy, I love this.  The soup was simple and delicious with vegetables and those amazing salmon balls.  The salmon gives the soup a different level of depth and the meat is great as well.  After the exciting world school lunch week, it is nice to go back to the classics to remember how good they are.

ごはん　牛乳　あじフライ

五目ひじき　けんちん汁

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January is already at an end.  Only about 2 months left of the school year!  Only two more months of school lunch.  Today we have a wonderful ajifry as well as hijiki.  A tasty classic and it does not disappoint.  The hijiki is good and the aburaage is juicy and filled with flavor.  That and the nice chunks of meat added in alongside the beans makes it a pretty good salad.  We also got a soup as well, kenchin soup.  It has a very light flavor and is filled with lots of veggies and tofu.  It is the cool down menu item after having bites of the powerful ajifry.  The ajifry was super crunchy, fried perfectly, and had a nice fairly gentle fishy flavor and on the inside a soft texture.

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（ドイツ）】

ホットドッグ（コッペパン・ソーセージ・ケチャップ＆マスタード・

ザワークラウト）　牛乳　ポテトシチュー

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The last day of world lunch week.  Today is Germany.  We get a hot dog with sauerkraut-style cabbage and a potato stew.  I tried the sauerkraut first since I had a talk about it with the nutritionist.  It was very good and reminded me of the momizuke.  The hotdog itself was delicious and great with a little ketchup and mustard along with the kraut.  The real superstar of the menu today though is this potato soup.  Seriously all kyushoku stew is delicious and I will stand by that claim, but today was a masterpiece.  The depth of flavor is wonderful and the vegetables and ingredients were prefect. An amazing lunch and a perfect meal to conclude the week!  Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：日本で給食が始まった頃の献立】

【地産地消献立：野口菜】

ごはん　牛乳　焼き鮭　白菜のもみづけ

野口菜のみそ汁　味のり

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I just realized today that this week is ‘World Menu Week’ for school lunches. That makes sense. Today’s lunch is an homage to what school lunch was like when Japan first began the school lunch program. A simple meal of momizuke, grilled fish, and miso soup with flavored seaweed on the side. The momizuke was delicious, crunchy, and fresh! The soup was quite flavorful and tasty. The aburaage was juicy and salty. The nori was a nice addition to the rice as well adding some sweetness. I also really enjoyed the salmon as well. It went great with the rice and was quite tasty. Wonderful meal today. Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（インド）】

ナン　牛乳　ダールカレー（豆のカレー）

カリフラワーサラダ

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Another new menu today!  Daal (beans) curry and naan bread with a cauliflower salad.  The salad was excellent.  Reminding me of the flowering veggie salad, but this has cheese and some tunafish in it as well.  Very good.  The curry was great as well.  When Indian style curry comes up in kyushoku it has a different base flavor and is a nice change of pace.  The spiciness was decent and it had plenty of beans as well which were quite enjoyable.  I thought the naan was ok.  An excellent lunch and both the salad and curry were awesome!  A meal I would love to eat again!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（台湾）】

ルーロー飯（ごはん・肉そぼろ・ゆで野菜）　牛乳

大根スープ　給食週間デザート（ミルクプリン）

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Another rare and interesting menu item today! Ruurohann. An interesting dish of ground meat and stewed vegetables. Today’s daikon soup was quite good and had a fair amount of flavor and delicious texture from the abura age as well. The ruuroohan was amazing and the meat and bamboo shoots were delicious and had a sweetness, but also another flavor I couldn’t catch, but reminded me of fish like squid. Super delicious and extremely easy to eat and great with rice as well. I wanted to keep eating and before I knew it I had finished it all! I really hope that we can get a chance to eat it again soon. Lastly, today’s dessert was milk pudding, which was sweet and tasty. Really a nice and creamy dessert to finish the meal. I am very full and very happy! Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（ハワイ）】

ロコモコ丼（ごはん・ハンバーグ・目玉焼き）

牛乳　野菜スープ

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Interesting and new menu item today!  The Locomoko!  This is a famous dish in Hawaii.  It is a fried egg on a hamburg steak on some rice.  Seeing it in school lunch is quite exciting!  I tried the soup first and it is a simple cabbage and carrot soup with a few little bits of pork sprinkled in to add a bit of flavor to the broth.  Not bad.  The lokomoko sauce was actually pretty good too.  I tasted a mix of ketchup and katsu sauce.  The lokomoko itself was actually really good.  I wanted a bit more sauce, and of course it would be way better if it was hot, but it was good!  The hamburg was pretty meaty and big and the egg was cooked in a perfect circle.  How do they do that?  Today’s lunch was new, and interesting, and unique.  I am happy to try a different menu and was really surprised today which was exciting and fun.  I look forward to more new menu items!  Thank you!  I would say the lokomoko was a success today.

ミルクパン　チョコパテ　牛乳

スパゲッティナポリタン　コールスローサラダ

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Its snowing today!  Its lovely outside, but very cold too.  Today’s lunch is spaghetti and cole slaw with bread and chocolate pate on the side.  The cole slaw was crunchy and sweet from the mayo.  The spaghetti was hot and delicious, and had a sweet flavor as well, but I tasted a little smokiness too maybe.  Tough to say, but it is still very good.  The pate was tremendous and super chocolately and delicious.  Perfect with milk and the bread, I made a little chocolate bread kind of snack and enjoyed it at the end of my meal.  Very tasty and a lovely end of the week. Thank you!

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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Today’s menu is a delicious pork and veggie stir fry with shrimp ball soup on the side.  The stir fry was excellent, flavorful from the ginger, and filling.  Great with rice.  The soup itself had a very light flavor, but a nice texture from the spring noodles.  The shrimp balls were amazing and each bite was an explosion of shrimpy goodness.  Nice lunch today.

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのおかか煮

五目きんぴら　とん汁

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Today’s menu is the ‘Goes great with rice’ menu day.  Fish, kinpira, and tonjiru.  A classic Japanese menu.  The kinpira is crunchy and sweet.  It also has a little bit of an interesting smokey and earthy flavor as well from the sauce and gobo I think which was nice.  The tonjiru is hot and delicious and filled with plenty of veggies and tofu alongside the pork.  Last was today’s main dish, the iwashi okakani, or Japanese Pilchard stewed in Bonito Sauce.  It is amazing and has a great flavor that is perfect with rice.  I felt like I could eat so much rice today thanks to the delicious dishes.

ごはん　牛乳　あげぎょうざ

ハムとニラの和え物　マーボー豆腐

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Mabo dofu day. Today is mabo day with delicious gyoza and a yummy salad.  The salad was a crunchy and delicious ham and sesame flavored mix of sprouts and greens which was a tasty and refreshing start to the meal.  Today’s fried gyoza were awesome and nice and crunchy.  The reminded me almost like crunchy fried eggrolls.  The flavor was delicious.  Today’s mabo was nice and hot and filled with lots of vegetables chopping very finely to mix well with the mincemeat and allow the texture of the tofu to stand out.  Overall a nice lunch and the agegyoza were outstanding!

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.