給食だより

バターロール　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

キャベツのマリネ　インド煮

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Another rainy day today, but we have warm and spicy indoni to enjoy for lunch.  The cabbage salad was great.  The nice and tangy dressing with the umami from the ham and nice crunch from the cabbage makes it a yummy one.  The indoni was excellent.  It isn’t quite the same flavor as curry and the eggs in it give it a nice and unique flavor and texture as well which is a welcome change and a delicious one too.  Indoni is always interesting.  I feel like it has a curry and tomato base and they add extra liquid to make it more like a soup than a rue.  One of the kyushoku mysteries that I just enjoy eating.  It goes quite well with the butter roll as well.  As always the tochiotome jam and butter roll are a delicious final snack to enjoy with my milk.

ビビンバ　牛乳　春雨スープ　アセロラゼリー

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First day of July.  Bibinba!  The namul salad mix is quite nice and has a subtle sesame flavor and a nice juicy bite.  The meat is delicious and very flavorful and the vegetable/root that is served with it has a kind of hard texture, but is also very good.  The harusame soup is hot and delicious with a light salty flavor.  It is also packed with vegetables and yummy noodles as well.  The clear noodles are my favorite.  And the acerora jelly was a nice sweet finish to the meal as well.  A delicious to July!

ミルクパン　マーシャルビンズ　牛乳

トマトオムレツ　ブロッコリーサラダ

カレーうどん

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MARSHALL BEANS!  Today’s lunch is an all star menu in my book.  The broccoli salad is crunchy and juicy and the dressing with it is creamy and sweet.  The tomato omelet is fluffy and nice with a nice and savory tomato sauce inside of it.  I like to use some of my bread to make a little egg sandwich with it, but of course I save most of it for the Marshall Beans.  Today’s curry udon was amazing.  The spices were nice and it had a bit of kick to it which is great.  Wonderful lunch!

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ

もみづけ　沢煮椀

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Unfortunately yesterday I couldn’t enjoy the spicy taco rice which breaks my heart.  Today is karaage, though and I am sure it will be great!  The salad was simple and good and the sesame seeds gave the salad a nice little smokey flavor along with the slightly bitter and sour flavor of the dressing.  Today’s soup, sawaniwan, is delicious.  It is a more rare soup to get with lunch and tastes great.  It gets a lot of flavor from the green onions, mushrooms, and meat.  The karaage was amazing.  Crunchy and salty and just oily enough, while the inside was juicy and flavorful bursting with umami.  Usually the karaage has a special flavor which is always enjoyable, but sometimes the classic and simple flavors are the best!  A delicious lunch on this grey and dreary overcast day.

タコライス　牛乳　ボイルキャベツ

もずくスープ　シークワーサーゼリー

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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What a menu today.  Fried fish burger and the tremendously good macaroni cream stew.  The first thing I do on ‘burger’ days like this is to make my sandwich.  The bread and fish are not really compatible size-wise so I find the best technique is to cut the fish with my spoon diagonally and then you can spread it nicely along the bun.  After covering it with sauce I am ready.  The sandwich is delicious and although it is a little too much bread for the amount of fish, it is delicious.  The fish’s crust is crunchy and the inside is juicy with a light flavor.  The macaroni cream stew is amazing.  Today the flavor was quite nice and the bits of meat in it were delicious as well.

ハヤシライス　牛乳　こんにゃくサラダ　オレンジ

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Today is hayashi rice!  The seaweed salad was ok today.  Mostly slimy and slippery, but the corn and cucumber make it more appealing to me.  Today’s dressing had a very light flavor.  The hayashi rice on the other hand had a lot of great flavor and delicious ingredients that make it a very hearty and enjoyable.  The onions were sweet and delicious and the little pops from the green peas add a nice surprise contrasting the sauce.  The nice citrusy orange slice at the end work great to clean my mouth up and refresh me for the rest of the afternoon.  Quite a nice lunch today.

黒とうパン　牛乳　チキンのチーズ焼き

ハムと大根のサラダ　ミネストローネスープ

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Chicken Cheese Sandwiches and Minestrone soup!  The Daikon, cucumber, and ham salad is wonderfully balanced with great flavors and textures.  It is creamy and crunchy with a nice sweet vinegarette that is perfect with the hams flavor.  The minestrone today was actually very flavorful.  Sometimes it can be watery, but today it was delicious and the beans and shells in particular were my favorite.  Today’s main event however is the chicken and cheese sandwich on the kokutopan.  It was stupendous.  The sweetness of the bread and the savory flavor of the cheesy chicken make an interesting combo and it is very easy to eat and super yummy.  The chicken was good and fairly juicy too.  One of the best lunches of all time.

ごはん　牛乳　にらまんじゅう

中華くらげ和え　八宝菜

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Today’s menu is kind of Chinese style.  The salad was very crunchy and had a nice sour dressing which was unique and enjoyable.  There was sesame and a little bit of sweetness too.  The happosai is such an interesting dish with so many varied ingredients.  I often find that the squid or shrimp or some other seafood overpowers the other flavors though.  I do love the quail eggs though and it is a very good soup.  Today’s secret VIP in my heart, though, is the niramanju.  So flavorful and tasty, the manju is very satisfying and delicious.  I like to bury it inside my happosai to warm it up and thanks to the wrapper it still retains its strong flavor without mixing with the soup.  A nice lunch today!

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのごまみそ煮

五目ひじき　どさんこ汁

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Today is a Japanese style menu with some fish, dosanko soup, and hijiki.  Today’s hijiki was juicy and warm and quite good.  I liked the little meaty bits and the noodles in it as well.  It has a nice sweet and earthy flavor.  I always move my fish on to my rice and there is usually sauce left behind.  I ate the remaining hijiki juice and miso sauce with some rice before enjoying my soup.  The miso sauce is sweet and delicious. The dosanko soup is phenomenal and the flavors are always great.  It is a buttery and savory soup with all the good vegetables that I love.  Hokkaido knows what they are doing!  Today’s fish, iwashi, is a little bitter but the miso and sesame sauce is perfect and pairs with it making the bitter taste less intense.  I love the miso sauce and today’s fish is soft and well cooked too.  Great meal today!  Love that dosanko so much!

県産小麦の食パン　ブルーベリージャム　牛乳

焼きそば　大根とツナのサラダ　県産生乳ヨーグルト

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Today is yaki soba and salad day with bread and jam.  The salad was delicious and bright and had great flavors.  Today it tasted like there was a special ingredient like ginger or something in it.  Today’s yaki soba felt extra juicy and there was a lot of yummy sauce.  I like to use some of the crust from the bread to soak up the salad dressing and yaki soba sauce on the plate.  The bread and jam was great to finish the meal with the yogurt as well.  A nice classic school lunch today!  Thank you!

ごはん　牛乳　県産大豆納豆

じゃこサラダ　ピリから肉じゃが

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Dreaded Natto day.  I quickly dispatched it and followed it up with plenty of rice and some jako salad.  The Jako salad is quite unique and delicious.  Its dressing is very acidic and its strong flavor is refreshing and cuts through the sticky and slimy natto coating in my mouth which rice cannot wash away.  But then finally the nikujaga.  Today’s nikujaga is labeled as ‘pirikara’ meaning it is slightly spicy.  I am thankful for the sweetness and delicious flavors which boiled into the meat and potatoes and noodles.  The sweet and juicy onions and soft carrots are a dream to enjoy all filled with flavor.  And all the while time to time I get a nice little crunchy surprise from the gobo chunks and beans.  A true thrill for my mouth and really the saving grace of today’s menu.  Thank you nikujaga.

米粉パン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳　県産ぶた肉コロッケ

かんぴょうサラダ　にら入り春雨スープ

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Today is korokke!  The kanpyo salad is delicious and the flavor of the ham and the creamy dressing is quite nice.  The corn especially goes well with the dressing.  The spring noodle soup is amazing and tastes very nice.  The flavor is fairly well developed and has some nice umami to it.  Today’s korokke is quite crunchy and warm.  I found the flavor quite light and it was fried very nicely.  The rice bread is delicious and the texture fantastic.  Komekopan is so unique and delicious.  There is no denying how delicious and tasty the jam is and with the rice bread it is only better. It honestly feels like kenmin day part two because of the tochiotome jam and locally sourced pork korokke as well.  Quite a delicious meal today.

【栃木県民の日】

ごはん　牛乳　あゆのかんろ煮

県産ごぼうのきんぴら　五目みそ汁　県民の日デザート

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Today is Tochigi Citizens day.  The kinpira made from ingredients from Tochigi was delicious and sweet.  I love the gobo.  The fish today is Ayukonroni.  It was very sweet and delicious and quite good!  It even still had its head and face intact which I am learning to enjoy more and more.  I like the crunchy goodness even though it is a bit bitter.  The miso soup was as good as always.  The citizens day dessert was amazing.  Delicious strawberries and fresh sweet whipped cream.  Super duper delicious and I would eat like 5 of these if I had the chance!  Fantastic lunch today!

【地産地消週間】

三色丼　牛乳　けんちん汁

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Sanshokudon!  Love this!  The chicken and egg has delicious ginger flavor and is very delicious.  The sesame spinach is also very flavorful and a little sweet too!  Such a great sanshokudon!  The kenchin soup was pretty good and had an earthy flavor.  The satoimo has a unique texture.  Short review today, but a very nice lunch!  Thank you!

ホットドッグ　牛乳　チャンポンメン

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Today is chanponmen and a hot dog.  The chanponmen is absolutely delicious and the thick noodles have a great juicy texture as well.  The meats, squid, and shrimp in it are also very enjoyable.  Kyushoku chanponmen is a real treat, but I don’t like the sound it makes when people eat it at all.  The hot dog was also pretty good today!  I always find the pair of a bowl of noodles and a hot dog to be an interesting one, but it is yummy so I don’t ask questions haha.  Thanks as always for a nice lunch!

ごはん　牛乳　五目あつ焼き卵

大阪づけ　すき焼き煮

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Sukiyaki!  Today’s salad was daikonzuke and it was a very simple salad.  It tasted a little bitter to me today, but was ok.  Contrasting that, today’s tamagoyaki was extra thick and filled with flavor and lots of sneaky little ingredients as well.  At a glance I think I can see carrots, onions, and maybe even mushrooms as well.  It was super delicious.  Also I used some of the nori to wrap the rice and it was quite good.  Today’s nori was flavored and a nice little addition to the meal and especially yummy with the tamagoyaki.  The sukiyaki today was hearty and delicious and had a little touch of sweetness as well.  I enjoyed it very much!

【ごはん献立の日：適正塩分、カルシウム強化】

チキンカレーライス　牛乳　カリコリサラダ

セノビーゼリー

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Chicken curry and crunchy cube salad!  The salad is amazing and has a wonderful dressing and the cube shaped veggies and meats and cheese are fun to eat.  Great crunch and the cheese cubes are so good in the salad too.  Today’s curry is quite good with a nice spice level and the chunks of chicken are nice!  Can’t beat a good curry and today is one of those days.  Lastly, the zenobi jelly.  It was sweet and pretty good.  It tasted like sports drink or Calpis water.  Classic and delicious lunch today.

ごはん　牛乳　あげぎょうざ

きゅうりの香り和え　マーボー豆腐

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Mabo day.  I started off with the cucumber and squid salad and it was pretty good!  Nice and crunchy and the dressing goes well balancing out with the squid flavor.  Today’s mabo is delicious.  Super hot and a nice light flavor that I think all the students in the school can enjoy.  Today’s gyoza were also nice and delicious with a little bit of char and some some Chinese flavors including garlic I think!  Super nice. A good lunch today.

ごはん　牛乳　さんまの梅煮

切り干し大根の煮つけ　みそ汁　ぶどうグミ

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Today is a Japanese menu with sanma, miso soup, and dried daikon salad.  I don’t know how I really feel about the dried daikon.  It is sweet and pretty good, but the texture I think is too much for me sometimes.  It is tough to describe since it is a little bit crunchy but also soft and juicy at the same time.  It is a unique dish.  Today’s miso soup was good as always and I enjoyed the potatoes and onions in particular today.  Today’s main dish is the real superstar of the menu with sanma in plum sauce.  The plum sauce is tart and a little sweet and really makes the fish taste completely new and fresh.  It is great.  I was expecting the regular miso sauce that usually comes with it, but was pleasantly surprised at the sour and sweet flavor of the plums mixing so well with the fish.  The meat itself was cooked perfectly and the perfect texture between being soft and meaty.  What a treat hidden in plain sight.  The final treat in today’s lunch is the sweet little fruit gummies that we got as well.  Three little grape dots which were tougher than normal gummies but had a nice grape flavor.  A little sweet treat at the end of a nice meal.