給食だより

ごはん　牛乳　さばのみそ煮

もみづけ　とり肉とたけのこの煮物

【Lunch Report by ALT】

First lunch of May!  The momizuke salad was nice and crunchy with a great ginger flavor.  Super fresh and refreshing as well.  Today’s soup is a chicken and bamboo boil which was packed with flavor and a ton of interesting ingredients as well.  I liked the daikon and the bamboo in particular since the contrast of the juicy and crunchy bites was enjoyable.  The soup itself was quite sweet and earthy and the chicken added a lot of depth to it.  The Saba in miso sauce was also super good and great with rice.  I actually like the bones in the fish, which have a cool ‘soft crunch’-like texture and don’t take away from the experience.  The sauce today was pretty good too.  A lovely lunch as a welcome back from GW!

ミルクパン　マーシャルビンズ　牛乳

スペイン風オムレツ　ブロッコリーサラダ

ミネストローネスープ

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Today’s menu looks super healthy.  So many vegetables and so much green in everything.  It is a beautiful visually appealing kyuushoku today.  The green salad with creamy white dressing and pops of yellow from the corn is sweet and delicious. The Spanish-style omelet looks like a quiche without a crust to me, but I guess that is what an omelet is isn’t it?  It is lovely and yellow with nice brown colors from being baked, and also has greens and whites from the ingredients inside.  The potatoes gave it a nice texture and I think there may have even been cheese in it too.  It is quite delicious with a very light savory flavor.  Today’s soup is also kind of a main dish as well with the minestrone soup.  Sometimes the flavor of the minestrone soup can be a little too light, but today was quite strong.  The taste of the nice tomatoes and some spices along with all the delicious ingredients inside it as well.  Today I liked the smokey ham chunks and the yummy pasta shells.  The real star of the show today is of course, Marshall Beans.  The soy chocolate cream is so delicious.  The key with this is using some of the bread with the soup or to clean the salad dressing so the beans to bread ratio is nicer and you can get a really good chocolately bite.  Superb lunch today!  Both delicious with a nice variety of flavors and textures and visually beautiful too!  Perfect sendoff into golden week.

バターロール　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

スパゲッティミートソース　ツナサラダ

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Today many parents came to see the lessons of the students.  Today’s salad has a lot of tuna fish and many crunchy vegetables.  It tastes very healthy and the tuna makes it surprisingly meaty!  The pasta today was as good as always.  It has a sweeter sauce with some meat in it as well.  Hidden among the noodles and sauce are carrots and the occasional green pea.  Quite yummy as always.  Of course I use some of my bread roll to clean up the pasta sauce when I am done eating, but I save some for the strawberry jam too.  It was yummy sweet and delicious and the buttery flavor from the bread makes a nice addition.

ごはん　牛乳　包焼　ハムとニラの和え物

春雨スープ　いよかんゼリー

【Lunch Report by ALT】

A very interesting lunch today!  The ham and nira salad was a great starter for the meal and has a slightly tangy flavor with some sesame.  A little crunchy and the strips of ham add some good flavor as well.  The harusame soup was also nice.  The flavor was light, but the texture was very good.  I like the thin noodles very much.  The baoshu dumplings were super good and had a ton of flavor.  They were quite good with rice and soup as well.  The jelly dessert was very good too.  It was sweet and a little bitter as well.  I don’t know what iyokan is, but I am guessing it is in the yuzu family since this reminds me of yuzu.  A tasty Chinese-style lunch today.

かきあげ天丼　牛乳　

大阪づけ　鮭団子汁

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Today is a new menu I think!  Kakiagetendon.  I love kakiage very much and even make it myself so I am interest how good today’s is.  The daikon and cucumber salad was simple and quite nice with some light ginger flavor.  Recently, this fish soup has become quite popular and I am super happy about it because it is so delicious!  Today is no differet and the yummy soup is very flavorful and the fish balls are also great with a salmon flavor that is super good. I think it is a mix of salmon and tuna, but I don’t know. The tendon is already doing great because it comes with that super delicious tendon sauce.  The kakiage was still a little crunchy and filled with many interesting ingredients!  I found potatos(?), beans, carrots, onion, and I think that is it.  I was impressed with it and it was quite good.  The real question to me is, is it better than ikatendon since I think this menu replaced that for today. For me the answer is yes.  I don’t like squid very much, but it is meatier than the kakiage, but we also got fish ball soup today so that was plenty meaty. Interesting new choice and a wonderful school lunch.  Looking forward to seeing more new menu items!

黒とうパン　牛乳　焼きそば

大根とツナのサラダ　ヨーグルト

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Yakisoba and bread day!  Double the carbs! Double the deliciousness!  The daikon and tuna salad was wonderful and the crunchy daikon and cucumber have a nice sweet and tart dressing which contrasts nicely with the salty tuna.  I love this salad and could eat a lot!  The yakisoba was yummy as ever.  It is quite filling and I like to use some of the bread for cleaning the plate when I finish it.  Lastly I eat my yogurt and bread at the same time.  They are such a perfect combo!  Great lunch today.

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

じゃこサラダ　筑前煮

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Oh no!  Natto day and the sticky item menu.  This is a big challenge for me, but it is kyushoku and kyushoku is always good!  The salad was very crunchy and had a really bright citrus flavor.  I like the abruaage slices since they are almost like croutons.  It was delicious and almost sweet after eating the natto.  Although the karashi made my natto quite good today.  Maybe I am starting to like it? Today’s soup, the chikuzennni was quite good and I love the taste of the broth and my favorite ingredients are the daikon and the takenoko.  A lovely Japanese lunch filled with many interesting and unique ingredients!

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　さばのみそ煮

切り干し大根の煮つけ　とん汁

【Lunch Report by ALT】

A very Japanese lunch today.  The kiriboshi daikon was delicious and had a nice salty flavor with an earthy sweetness.   It went perfectly with the rice!  The tonjiru was quite tasty today and filled with big chunks of tofu and lots of delicious crunchy cabbage.  The broth had a nice deep flavor which had some smoky flavor like katsuoboshi or something.  It tasted very good today!  A wonderful match with rice.  Today’s saba with miso sauce was excellent and very meaty.  The sweet and slightly savory miso sauce and the light fishy flavor were a great combination and of course were great with rice!  Of course, today is a special ‘Rice Menu’ day! Complete success and a yummy meal.

ポークカレーライス　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Today is curry day!  The ham and daikon salad was excellent and the ham chunks were very big and there was even asparagus in the salad which was nice.  One of the best kyushoku salads thanks to being simple and super flavorful with nice ingredients.  The pork curry was very delicious and had a nice amount of spice too.  Lots of veggies, but I got mostly potatoes today. I like carrots in curry the most.  A simple meal of curry and salad with rice on the side, but one of the most hearty and satisfying meals you can get at school!  Delicious!

ごはん　牛乳　えびシューマイ

ナムル　マーボー豆腐

【Lunch Report byALT】

Today’s lunch is Mabodofu with a dumpling and salad, a classic kyushoku menu.  Today’s salad, namul, was a bit saltier than I was expecting since normally it has a more sweet sesame flavor.  The saltiness was nice and went well with the rice and it had a nice juicy crunch as well.  Today’s shrimp dumplings, the ebishumai, were good and had a lot of shrimp flavor.  The mabo was pretty good today, nice and hot.  I like that it is so meaty and the tofu is quite nice as well.  I am always surprised that there is no spoon on mabo dofu day.  My image of eating mabo dofu is that it is always eaten with a spoon.

ホットドッグ（ミルクパン・ソーセージ・キャベツ・ケチャップ）

牛乳　えび団子スープ　りんごゼリー

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Today’s menu is a hot dog, soup, and jelly!  The hot dog is the classic kyushoku style with a very big bun, cabbage, and some ketchup.  It is tasty and smoky from the sausage and the cabbage and ketchup add some moisture giving balance to the bread. The soup today is quite yummy and I love the juicy clear noodles.  The shrimp balls are also juicy and packed with flavor adding some heartiness to the dish.  Of all the jelly types we get in school lunch, today’s apple jelly is one of my favorites because of the many apple chunks.  It reminds me of eating an apple pie, although this jelly is usually cold and frozen, which is still very delicious.  A wonderful meal.

【入学・進級お祝い献立】

赤飯（ごま塩）　牛乳　とりのからあげレモンソース

五目きんぴら　すまし汁　お祝いデザート（さくらのジュレ）

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Today is a special menu celebrating school entrance and all the students going up a grade.  How exciting!  And it is a super yummy menu with lemon karaage and delicious sides including sekihan!  The gomoku kinpira was super juicy and delicious with lots of interesting flavors.  I like the gobo’s earthy flavors and the sweetness of the sauce it was cooked in as well as the juicy abura age too.  Today’s soup was filled with lots of tofu and seaweed.  It tasted great and was pretty filled although it was soup!  Today’s sekihan was so delicious.  I love ‘red rice’ very much and the gomashio is my favorite as well.  It’s such a treat.  I know many students (and adults!) who don’t like it, but I think it is super delicious.  The karagae with lemon sauce was stupendous.  The flavors of the sauce were lemon, but also a little bit more like it was mixed with soy sauce or something to really make it special.  Today when we were preparing lunch, Kyoto sensei carefully poured the remaining sauce on top of the chicken which was very nice and allowed us to enjoy the flavor much more I think.  The sweet and sour flavors of the chicken going back and forth with the more salty and smoky flavors from the roasted sesame seeds in the sekihan were a great combo.  The jelly dessert had a very interesting and unique flavor as well. ‘Sakura Jure’, which was a light flavor that tasted like cherries and was fragrant like peach as well.  I truly wonderful meal worthy of the celebration of the new school year for everyone.  And the best menu to date of course!  Gochisousama deshita!

はちみつパン　牛乳　フレンズサラダ

花野菜サラダ　白菜スープ

Today’s lunch has a slightly western vibe to it with the gratin tart, and bread. I started with the flower vegetable salad which was loaded with broccoli and cauliflower. The dressing is light and nice adding a little tart flavor to the mix, which the veggies soak up like a sponge, and the little squares of ham add a nice flavor that balances it well. It is a really good salad. The soup was excellent and the noodles and hakusai add nice texture and the meatballs were a pleasant surprise. They were tasty and make the soup quite hearty. The gratin in the tart shell was good too. I love anything that comes in these little tart shells, sweet or savory, and today was great. The gratin was creamy and had a very light flavor, but the crunchiness from the shell made it quite nice. Today’s bread is hachimitsupan and it was super fluffy and soft. I think it pairs best with the milk to bring out its sweetness, but I dipped a few hunks into my soup as well of course and it was still delicious. Nice to see the interesting and more adventurous menu items coming out! I love when kyushoku adds surprises.

【１年生初めての給食】

ごはん　牛乳　おろしハンバーグ

もみづけ　みそ汁

Today is the first lunch that the new first graders will ever eat in elementary school! How exciting. I have eaten kyushoku in hoikuen and yochien before and compared to elementary school they are very different. Elementary school lunch matches much better to the pallet of older kids and adults in many ways so it should be exciting. Also, today’s menu is hamburg, with momizuke, and miso soup. A classic menu! The momizuke salad was quite god and had a great crunchy texture and the light flavor from the sesame seeds was nice. The miso soup had a nice light flavor as well and the tofu and aburaage were great. I love how juicy the aburaage becomes filled with soup broth. Today’s main dish, the hamburg steak, was awesome. The oroshi sauce had a really nice onion flavor that paired perfectly with the meat and went well with rice. I always put my hamburg on top of my rice and enjoy it like donburi. A classic menu, but a superb meal! I hope the new students enjoyed their first kyushoku as elementary schoolers!

【入学式】

ごはん　牛乳　かつおのゆずみぞれ煮

五目ひじき　むらくも汁

Today is a Japanese style lunch with fish, hijiki, and soup.  The hijiki was nice and I like the beans in it.  Today’s soup is called ‘murakumo’ soup.  So in English it would be called cloudy soup!  It is hot and delicious and the eggs are great.  Today’s main dish is the Katsuo with a yuzu miso sauce.  It is absolutely delicious and the flavor is so strong.  The miso base is good, but the yuzu has such a powerful and fresh flavor it is amazing.  And the fish itself was very meaty and hearty.  An excellent lunch today and one of the best so far!

フィッシュバーガー　牛乳　コーンシチュー

Today is an interesting menu. Corn stew and 'fish burgers'. The fishburger is a hot dog bun, some cabbage, and tar tar sauce which is topped with a nicely fried very crispy fish katsu. It was very delicious and the tar tar sauce matches well with the fish. The cabbage also adds a nice texture and moistness to the sandwich. The fish and the buns aren’t the same size, so I saved a little of the bread to enjoy with my stew. The corn stew was superb. Great flavor and creamy and hot. Pops of sweetness from the corn and nice textures from the rest of the vegetables as well. A truly delicious meal! The first week of school lunch starts out strong!

【始業式】

三色丼　牛乳　けんちん汁

The first kyushoku of the new school year! Sanshokudon! To represent the variety of challenges and experiences we will all share this year maybe? The kenchin soup was delicious and hot. A nice way to warm up before I dug into my three colored rice. The greens in the sanshokudon were delicious, sweet, and had a nice sesame flavor. The soboru and egg mix was also quite yummy and had a nice salty flavor which balanced very well with the greens. A great lunch to start off the new school year! Best school lunch of the year so far!

【６年生を送る会】

紅茶パン　牛乳　キャベツのマリネ

ビーフシチュー　アイス

～Lunch Report By ALT～

Final kyushoku of the month!  Recently the final kyushoku of the month is always exciting and has something special.  Today there is ice cream and interestingly, kouchapan, or black tea bread.  The cabbage marine is a simple salad of cabbage, cucumber, and ham, but has a very delicious dressing and is quite complex with flavors and textures.  A real surprise of a salad that I always enjoy eating.  Today’s beef stew was delicious and loaded with beef.  It reminds me of the hayashi rice, but I think there is a bit more beefy flavor in this stew.  It is very good.  The bread is also very delicious and has a light coating of sugar on it as well which makes it almost a dessert.  I saved some to eat with the ice cream.  And today we got haagen-dazs vanilla ice cream which is quite the treat!  Today is a special lunch for the 6th year students since this is their last year eating lunch in elementary school.  I wish them well. Today’s lunch was amazing!

三色丼（そぼろ・ごま和え）　牛乳　鮭団子汁

～Lunch Report By ALT～

Today we have sanshokudon and fishball soup.  A great menu!  The soup was amazing and the fishy salmon balls add a lot of great flavor to the soup and mix perfectly with it.  This is one of my favorite soups in kyushoku.  The sanshokudon is like a Japanese bibinba.  It is very good and the greens have a delicious sesame flavor and the egg chicken mix is sweet and savory at the same time.  It is so delicious.  This is one of my favorite meals and a top 15 for sure.  Gochisousamadeshita!

黒とうパン　牛乳　焼きそば　

こんにゃくサラダ　ヨーグルト

～Lunch Report By ALT～

Today is yakisoba day.  The konyaku salad is slimy and juicy and has a nice flavor.  Sadly I have very severe hay fever so I can’t really enjoy the flavor of the foods as much as I want to!  The yakisoba has a strong flavor so I can taste it and it was delicious.  Also, there is a lot of meat in it today which was quite nice.  Lastly I ate some of my bread with the salad and milk, but I saved it to eat alongside the yogurt.  I think that the flavor of the yogurt and bread are a really nice match so they go well together.  A nice lunch today.