給食だより

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!