給食だより

ごはん　牛乳　白身魚フライ

五目ひじき　とん汁

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Today’s lunch is Japanese style.  Fried fish and hijiki salad.  The salad was good and I always enjoy the meaty bits with the hijiki.  It is quite sweet as well.  The tonjiru was nice and hot today and filled with lots of vegetables.  It was just regular tonjiru and it was nice to eat it after getting many special varieties recently.  Today’s fried whitefish was excellent.  The perfect amount of crunch and still juicy and warm on the inside as well.  The sauce adds a little extra flavor giving it some zing and its delicious on rice.  A lovely Japanese lunch today!

【地産地消献立：にら】

ホットドッグ　牛乳　チャンポンメン

とちおとめゼリー

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Today is a nice little hotdog with a side of noodles and jelly for dessert.  The chanponmen was very delicious and hot.  I liked the variety of veggies and proteins in it as well.  The hot dog is great as well and I always enjoy it.  It has a nice smokey flavor which is a flavor we don’t see often in kyushoku.  And the cabbage also helps to make up for the buns to dog ratio as well which is nice.  The strawberry jelly was amazing and filed with flavor.  I usually eat it in slices, but today I mixed it up and it was very good too.  A wonderful sweet ending to a delicious meal.

ハヤシライス　牛乳　じゃこサラダ

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Today is a very simple menu, but it is filled with great flavors!  The Jyako salad is crunchy and has a yummy dressing.  I can’t really taste the jyako very much since they are so small.  I really like the aburaage in this salad.  The other main item in today’s lunch is hayashi rice.  An excellent tomato based meaty stew with lots of vegetables.  It is excellent.  One of the most reliable items on the kyuyshoku menu.  Delicious as ever!

米粉パン　牛乳　ササミチーズフライ

ブロッコリーサラダ　ワンタンスープ

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An interesting menu today.  A super creamy and delicious broccoli salad with sweet corn and crunchy cucumbers was first on my list.  It was great.  The wonton soup was quite good as well with a nice flavor.  Savory and filled with umami, it was warm and hot too.  I particularly liked the crunchy and juicy takenoko.  Usually I like to make a sandwich using the bread when we have a big meaty main dish, but komekopan isn’t really good for making sandwiches so I mostly dipped it into the soup.  I love komekopan very much.  It’s chewy and had a really interesting texture to someone like me who has eaten white bread for most of their life!  The baked (or fried?) chicken with cheese was tremendous.  Such delicious flavor from the meat and the cheese protected by the bread topping.  We rarely get a chicken dish like this and it is super good.  Takes this menu into the top 10 or maybe even top 5 kyushoku menu range for this semester.  Gochisousamadeshita!  What a treat.

ごはん　牛乳　青ヒラスのみりんじょうゆ焼き

五目きんぴら　すいとん汁

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Today’s menu is very Japanese.  This menu is one that everything in it goes well with rice.  The kinpira was delicious and sweet. I liked the gobo in particular, because it has such a nice flavor and texture.  I learned that ‘suiton’ means flour dumpling.  I was wondering what those noodles were!  They are quite nice and add to the texture of the soup.  Today’s potatoes were especially well cooked.  Finally the Hirasu.  I researched a little bit and found out that it is actually called the Hiramasu and today we ate Shirohiramasu, although the kanji says blue!  It is a confusing fish name!  Today was a fine lunch.

ビビンバ（焼き肉・ナムル）　牛乳

白菜スープ　ぽんかん

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Korean menu day!  Bibinba with a tangerine!  The vegetable mix was delicious and had nice nutty flavor.  The Korean style beef was amazing and filled with flavor.  I took a small taste of each and then mixed them into one big bowl and enjoyed it like it is eaten traditionally.  Today’s hakusai soup was great as well and I especially love the clear noodles.  And a nice cold tangerine after the meal is perfect for cleansing the pallet.  Delicious Monday lunch!

【バレンタイン献立】

はちみつパン　牛乳　ハートのハンバーグ（ケチャップ）

ハムと大根のサラダ　クリームシチュー　チョコプリン

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Yesterday was a holiday and Sunday is Valentines day so today’s lunch is a Valentine’s day themed meal.  The daikon and ham salad was crunchy and nice.  The dressing is a little sour, but tastes amazing.  Today’s cream stew was amazing.  It is always good, but today it tastes like there is some extra love in the stew.  I think it is the umami from the meat.  I also made a mini hamburg sandwich with ketchup using the honey bread.  Today’s hamburg is shaped like a heart!  It is very cute. My hamburg sandwich was great and the ketchup was just the right amount.  Today’s very special treat is the chocolate pudding dessert.  It was quite chocolatey and even a little frozen which I like.  It was a true treat and a rare appearance of chocolate on the school lunch menu.  Today’s menu is easily a top 15!  Gochisousama Deshita!

えび天丼　牛乳　もみづけ

キムチ入りとん汁

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Today is parents day! There are many family members in the school today watching lessons.  Today’s lunch is also very special!  Instead of squid tempura, we got shrimp tempura!  What a big upgrade!  The momitzuke was excellent, fresh, crunchy, and had a great sesame flavor.  Whatever they pickled it with was very fresh and reminded me of ginger! The pork soup with kimchi was excellent.  This soup comes out for lunch sometimes and it’s always delicious.  Today, along with the ebiten and salad it is a perfect match.  The shrimp tempura today was amazing.  It was super crunchy and perfectly fried and not oily at all.  Also, the shrimp inside was very juicy and delicious as well.  What an amazing treat that with the tendon sauce makes it a true gift.  Top 15 menu today!  I love the ebiten and kimchi soup.  Gochisousamadeshita!

ごはん　牛乳　包焼（パオシュー）

大根とツナのサラダ　マーボー豆腐

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Mabo Dofu day!  Tuna salad was excellent and packed with crunchy vegetables and loads of meaty tunafish.  I ate it quickly and then put my dumplings into my mabodofu to warm them up.  The mabo had a nice mild flavor and was packed with tons of meat too.  Always a delicious lunch menu.  The dumplings today were interesting and I don’t know how to describe their flavor!  They were meaty and salty, but unique somehow that is difficult for me to taste.  They were very good though.  A delicious lunch today.

ごはん　牛乳　銀だらの西京焼き

切干大根の煮物　どさんこ汁

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Today is a Japanese style lunch.  The kiriboshi daikon nimono was pretty good and great with rice.  Today’s fish was gindara and it is called Japanese bluefish in English.  It was a little oily, and reminded me of the sea.  The dosanko soup, or Hokkaido soup, was excellent.  My favorite part of the meal today.  Filled with plenty of veggies that Hokkaido is famous for producing and even a little bit of butter in the soup as well I think.  Tomorrow is Mabo dofu day!

【JAよりいちご無償提供】

バターロール　マーシャルビーンズ　牛乳

スパゲッティミートソース　ツナサラダ　いちご

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Sadly, I was unable to eat yesterday’s lunch!  I am sure it was very good!  Today is spaghetti with salad and bread as well as a pair of strawberries and MARSHALL BEANS!  The tuna salad has a nice bright dressing which paired very well with the tuna.  I always appreciate and love the mixture of the sweetness from the vegetables, namely the cabbage and corn, and the salty umami from the fish.  The pasta had a nice salty tomato flavor and some hidden carrots, peas, and mushrooms among the meat sauce.  When I saw today’s desserts and sides I came up with a plan.  I wanted to make a chocolate strawberry sandwich for dessert using the strawberries and marshall beans spread.  I took a bite of one of the strawberries alone and it was very sweet and juicy.  My sandwich idea was quite delicious, and the chocolate and strawberry were a great match and the juiciness of the berry actually soaked into the bread making it much easier to eat as well.  Today was a very interesting menu despite using elements that we have seen many times! 

【初午献立】

赤飯（ごま塩）　牛乳　とりの照り焼き

しもつかれ　にら玉汁

ナン　牛乳　キーマカレー

野菜ポテトサラダ　とちおとめヨーグルト

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Today is Keema curry and nan bread with potato salad and strawberry yogurt.  The potato salad was creamy and the big chunks of potato were delicious and there were nice flavors and textures from the ham bits and vegetables in it as well.  I like the nan since it is such a rarity in kyuushoku and a nice change of pace from always eating rice with curry.  Also, the keema curry has a nice indian style spice to it which is delicious.  I try my best to always eat the curry only using and nan and not the spoon, but it is difficult!  I love the flavors and paired with the nan is it perfect.  I really think that this is one of the regular kyushoku menus that really tastes like being at a restaurant! Finally the amazing tochiotome yogurt with pretty big bits of actual strawberry inside was great.  Very sweet and more creamy than usual.  We have been getting a lot of ‘Tochiotome’ style foods and desserts recently!  What a treat!

【節分献立】

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのごまみそ煮

白菜のおひたし　ぶた肉と大根の煮物　福豆

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Happy throwing beans day!  Today we have a nice salad, some pork and radish soup, fish and lucky beans.  The salad is a classic and I love the soft crunch with the smokey flavor of the katsuoboshi.  The pork and daikon soup was very flavorful and had a light sweetness and umami from the pork, carrots, and daikon.  It reminded me a little of sukiyaki or nikujaga. I might sound crazy, but I feel like I tasted a warm spice in the soup as well like cinnamon or something.  Today’s fish iwashi, which is known as pilchard or sardine in English, was pretty good.  It was cooked in a nice sweet miso sauce which made it go well with rice.  The fish itself had a small layer of fat on the outside of it which gave a little variety to its texture. Not bad at all.  The lucky beans packet was also a nice little snack after finishing the meal.  Very crunchy and a nice mix of sweetness and saltiness since there were beans, some small candied fish, and other goodies in there.  A nice lunch to celebrate the special occasion of setsubun today.

スタミナ丼　牛乳　えび団子スープ

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Happy February!  The first lunch of the month is stamina rice bowl and shrimp ball soup.  The ebidango soup is super good and I love the thin harusame noodles.  They are so light and add an interesting texture from the noodle while still being very juicy.  The flavor is light and salty but each shrimp ball explodes with flavor.  Such a great soup.  The stamina don was also excellent.  Very flavorful and packed with tons of meat as well.  A great meal to kick off the new month!  Thank you very much!

【全国学校給食週間】

はちみつパン　牛乳　メンチカツ

ブロッコリーサラダ　インド煮

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The final day of Kyushoku week brings indoni, menchi katsu, and broccoli salad with honey bread on the side.  I like this menu a lot.  The salad is delicious and the juicy broccoli is filled with creamy dressing and joined by yummy and sweet bursts of flavor from the corn.  The indoni is quite good and has lots of delicious flavors from Indian style foods and even has a little more spice than usual.  I am surprised by the satsumaage and quail eggs, but they are delicious as well.  I liked how there were many potatoes in it.  Today’s menchi kantsu is also excellent and super crunchy on the outside while still being juicy and meaty on the inside.  Although the katsu is salty and fried, and the honey bread is sweet, I still made a sandwich with them and it was very good.  Great lunch today!

【全国学校給食週間】

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・牛肉献立】

ごはん　牛乳　ハッシュドビーフ

じゃこサラダ　ぽんかん

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Day 4 of school lunch week brings fancy hashed beef on the menu!  The shako salad was pretty good and I enjoyed the aburaage strips and dressing especially.  The hashed beef was a delicious stew with great flavors from the meat.  The stew itself got tons of flavor from the tomato base and many vegetables inside of it as well.  It was hot and delicious and perfect with rice.  Very hearty and filling and supports my theory that all school stews are delicious.  Finally we also got a ‘ponkan’ which in English is a ‘ponkan orange’ or tangerine.  Basically a slightly different mikan.  They were served very cold and were delicious and sweet after the stew.  Great lunch and certainly a top 10 for sure!  School lunch week is unbeatable! Gochisousamadeshita!

【全国学校給食週間】

米粉パン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

いも入り焼きそば　大根とツナのサラダ

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Day three of school lunch week!  Today is yakisoba with potatoes, salad with tuna, and bread with jam.  Lots of ‘with’s’ today!  The salad was excellent as always with its unique mix of tangy dressing and tuna flavor.  Of course I used some of the bread to soak up the dressing.  The yakisoba was good and the potatoes inside it gave it a new texture compared to the noodles and normal ingredients.  It was good.  A member in the teacher’s room mentioned that potatoes in yakisoba is ‘soul food’ in Tochigi.  I think that is very interesting, and delicious too. The VP mentioned that potatoes in yakisoba is more a tradition in southern Tochigi.  I will have to visit those places and try it out!  Today we got a special tochiotome jam, but the teachers in the teachers room got tangerine jam instead!  It was will very delicious and perfect with the rice bread.  A wonderful lunch today!

【全国学校給食週間】

【地産地消：野口菜】

ごはん　牛乳　手作りとんカツ（ごまソース）

ボイルキャベツ　にこにこ汁

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Today is a another special menu day!  Handmade tonkatsu with soup and boiled cabbage.  The boiled cabbage was essentially a garnish for the katsu so I ate it quickly.  It was fairly sweet and crunchy.  The nikoniko soup was good, but the nameko gives it a slightly slimy texture.  The main event, tonkatsu.  Today’s katsu came with a nice big packet of special sesame sauce.  The katsu was very big and almost as large as you would get at a restaurant.  This is a real treat and it was still very crunchy and tender at the same time.  The sauce was basically the same as high quality tonkatsu sauce.  I didn’t taste the sesame flavor strongly, but there was certainly ground goma in the sauce.  It was fantastic.  What a treat today.  Another top 10 kyushoku with the huge delicious katsu. Gochisousamadeshita.

【全国学校給食週間】

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・水産物献立】

ごはん　牛乳　ヤシオマスのたまりじょうゆ焼き

いそ香り和え　キムチ入りとん汁　とちおとめアイス

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This is the first day of National School Lunch week here in Japan  I don’t know what that is but I imagine that all schools in Japan are eating the same basic school lunches? Like everyone gets the same basic menu but each prefecture adds a little special flare to it?  Today is also The Tochigi Genki up menu AND the aquatic menu as well.  It has three separate special names today!  I hope that its really good!  The Isokaoriae salad was delicious.  It means beach scent salad basically and I did get some sea side smells from the seaweed and sesame flavors when I was eating it.  It was great.  Next up was pork soup with kimchi.  It has a ton of flavor thanks to the kimchi and really fills you up.  I think this is where most of the genki up part of the menu comes from.  The soup went so well with the rice that I almost ate all of it, but I saved some for the sea trout.  The trout was meaty and delicious with a very light flavor which let the great flavor of the fish take center stage.  It was very delicious.  Finally the Tochiotome Strawberry icecream was tremendous.  It was mostly strawberry sherbert with a few perfectly balanced layers of ice cream which took it from a delicious dessert to something of legend.  No doubt the most delicious ice cream I have ever eaten with Kyushoku.  Today’s menu is the best we have eaten so far and I could imagine it remaining in the top 3 for a long time.  Great lunch today! Gochisousamadeshita!