給食だより

黒とうパン　牛乳　ハムチーズピカタ

ごぼうサラダ　カレーうどん

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

It’s curry udon day! Today I started with the gobo salad and it was delicious and sweet. I love the texture of gobo and the sweetness from the dressing and corn was quite fine. The ham and cheese picata was superb. The ‘stuffed’ egg dishes that come in kyushoku always feel like a roulette with what is inside and the flavor changes often so it’s a nice surprise. Today’s was very good. The curry udon was nice today and had a gentle spice to it which was good. The bread today was brown sugar bread and it had a light sweetness to it, which was nice. I think today’s theme was the color brown because the curry and bread were brown obviously, gobo is kind of brown, and the picata had some brown marks where it was cooked as well. I can’t say anything about the milk though! It was all white. A delicious meal.

ビビンバ　牛乳　えび団子スープ

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today’s menu has many Korean elements to it! Bibinba and shrimp ball soup. The greens for the bibinba were very nice and had a sesame flavor. The meat and root(?) mixture was excellently seasoned as always. I like the soy saucey flavors. The soup was very delicious with light flavors and an interesting texture from the noodles and vegetables. The shrimp balls were excellent and packed with flavor. A great lunch today!

ごはん　牛乳　さばのみそ煮

五目ひじき　さつま汁

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a Japanese style lunch with fish, hijiki, soup, and rice. The hijiki salad was good as always. Today there were some noodles in it, which was interesting. Also, I was lucky and got a big piece of meat in it which was nice. The satsuma soup was quite an interesting experience. It is just the regular miso style soup we often get, but with some sweet potato chunk in it. If you eat it without the sweet potato it is just normal soup, but after taking a bite of sweet potato the soup comes to life and tastes even better. I liked that. Today’s fish, saba, was cooked in a sweet miso sauce which paired very well with the natural flavor of the fish. It was quite delicious!

ごはん　牛乳　春巻

ハムとニラの和え物　八宝菜

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is happousai, fried spring rolls, and salad. A Chinese-style menu. The salad was really good and I liked the tangy flavor of the dressing and the nice flavor from the sesame and ham. The happousai, or ‘Eight Treasure Vegetables’, was good. I like happousai but think it has a LOT of flavors and ingredients. All the flavors mix up so I don’t know how to describe it! I taste mostly the shrimp and squid though. Its great with rice. Today’s secret superstar is the fried spring roll though. The wrapper is salty and so good and crunchy I love it. The filling is nice and juicy and has great balance with the wrapper which is nice. I could eat like 20 of these I think haha. Great lunch!

ごはん　牛乳　厚焼卵

小松菜のごま和え　肉じゃが

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today something special has happened. Nikujaga has broken free from natto for the first time in the history of kyushoku! I walked past the menu and saw today’s menu was nikujaga, and knew that meant natto, but to see there was no natto was such a big surprise! The salad was excellent and the sweet sesame dressing was great. It was creamy, juicy, a little crunchy, and very hearty. The Tamagoyaki was very good too. It too, was sweet and juicy and very delicious. Japanese tamagoyaki always reminds me of French toast since it is so sweet and eggy. The nikujaga is like a masterpiece. The slippery and juicy noodles contrasted the potatoes and carrots which were filled with the delicious broth. Flavorful meat, onions, and green beans which have absorbed all the goodness from the soup were treasures as well. Today’s lunch was phenomenal and I am very happy. Top 10 if not a top 5. Certainly the best if not one of the best Japanese menus to date. Gochisousamadeshita!

食パン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

焼きそば　海そうサラダ　ヨーグルト

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is yaki soba day! Always a crowd pleaser. The seaweed salad was a little slimy as always but the crunch from the cucumbers, cabbage, and corn are nice and the flavors are a nice mix of sweetness and salty from the dressing. Today’s yaki soba was good as always. I got lucky today and had a fair amount of little pork chunks in it which was nice. For dessert we got a slice of white bread with some strawberry jam as well as yogurt. Bread and yogurt often come in a pair I notice which is quite interesting. I wonder if the nutritional content of bread and yogurt compliment each other. Either way I am a big fan and love kyushoku yogurt. It’s so sweet and creamy. Great lunch today!

いか天丼　牛乳　もみづけ　キムチ入りとん汁

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is an Asian fusion style meal between Korean and Japanese food I think. Ika tendon and Kimchi tonjiru as well as a salad. The momitzuke salad is lightly flavored, but the sesame seeds are very good and add a lot of depth to it. It’s a personal favorite. The kimchi tonjiru is today’s secret champion since its warm and hearty and the flavors of the kimchi make the tonjiru really shine. It’s an excellent dish. I’ve said it before and I will say it again, the sauce for the ika tendon is seriously the best. I love that stuff. A wonderful lunch today. Thank you!

コッペパン　牛乳　スラッピージョー

チーズポテト　ワンタンスープ

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a wonderful lunch and I am extremely happy since I missed the last time that sloppy joes came out. Besides them, cheesy potatoes and wonton soup. What a mix of foods today, it is almost like a birthday present. I started with the wonton soup. It has noodles and chicken in it so we would probably call it chicken noodle soup back in America which would fit better than wonton soup which is a Chinese dish. Either way it was delicious and had a lot of umami and the chicken chunks were pretty big. The cheesy potatoes were great as well. We rarely get potatoes as a side on their own and they are my favorite vegetable for sure. I like the cheesy addition, but they could have used a little salt and pepper. I love pepper on potatoes. And finally the sloppy joe. This sloppy joe mix is pretty good and the onion flavor is excellent. Sloppy joes taste very similar if not exactly like this in American schools so it’s very nostalgic for me to eat this. What a treat. Today is a top 3 lunch for me and maybe the best kyushoku of the year. Maybe! Gochisousamadeshita!

ごはん　牛乳　さんまのみぞれ煮

白菜のおひたし　すいとん汁

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a Japanese style lunch with Miso Sanma, ‘Suiton’ soup, and some salad. I am excited to try the fish and soup. The flavor from the katsuoboshi in the salad was great and the crunch of the hakusai was nice and also quite juicy. A nice salad today. The suiton soup was great and had a nice flavor. It was almost like the broth of ramen since it was flavored with soy sauce. Suiton is apparently a small noodle-ball made of mochi. It was really good and nice with the soup. I liked this soup a lot and was really happy to try it. The Sanma was excellent and I love it and the flavor of the miso sauce it was cooked in. I ate all my rice very quickly thanks to that. Today was an interesting Japanese style lunch with some new textures and flavors which was great. Thank you!

そぼろ丼　牛乳　けんちん汁　みかん

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is the last day of November and we have another nice lunch. Today is Saboro-don and soup with a mikan. The soup was good and warm and had a light flavor. I liked the cabbage and onions the best. The saborodon is very good. I love the ginger flavor of the ground chicken and the mix with eggs and some lima beans is perfect. One of my favorite kyushoku dishes. And the mikan was sweet, a little tart, and delicious. Also my second mikan today since I ate one with breakfast too! Vitamin C!

メンチカツバーガー　牛乳　マカロニのクリーム煮

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Wow! Cream stew with macaroni is back! I love this dish. Also, delicious menchi katsu burger as well. The menchi katsu burger is bread, katsu, cabbage, and sauce. The katsu tasted great and had a perfect crunch. The cabbage added some nice texture and moisture as well. The sauce went perfect with the katsu of course, since it is katsu sauce! I liked the bread as well which added some sweetness to the whole sandwich. I like to save some of the bread for the stew since they are a nice pair as well. The stew was nice and hot and on another very cold day it was quite welcome. The flavor was mostly of milk, but a little bit of the vegetable flavor came through along with some of the meat flavor as well. It is such a nice and delicious stew and I love it. Great lunch today, top ten! Gochisousama Deshita!

ごはん　牛乳　ねぎまんじゅう

じゃこサラダ　マーボー豆腐

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is Mabo Dofu day. It is a wonderful day indeed! The ‘Jako Salad’ was a nice and easy start to the meal and I saw that there were little fish inside of it. I think they are the ‘Jako’ part. I liked the fried tofu bits and they reminded me of croutons. The steamed onion dumplings were superb. I could eat 20 of them easily haha. Today’s mabo dofu was hot and fresh and tasted great. I think the dumplings had the best flavor of the day, but mabo dofu is always one of the best kyushoku meals of all time. An excellent lunch and of course a top 10. Gochisousamadeshita!

いちごパン　牛乳　スパゲッティナポリタン

ビーンズサラダ　プリン（豆乳）

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a western style lunch with pasta, salad, strawberry bread, and pudding. The bean salad was yummy and hearty as well. The creamy dressing was nice and brought all the ingredients together. I like how the ingredients were the same size or cut to be similar to the size of the beans. The spaghetti was delicious and the slices of wiener add some savory goodness to the sweet tomato sauce. I was surprised to see how pink the inside of the bread was. It smelled so fresh of strawberries and was a treat. The sauce on the bottom of the pudding was excellent and had a nice caramel flavor. A great lunch on this cold and rainy day.

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・水産物献立】

ごはん　牛乳　ヤシオマスのフライ（ソース）

五目ひじき　沢煮椀

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a Japanese style lunch with fried fish, hijiki salad, and some soup. The hijiki salad is quite delicious and the meaty aburaage adds some nice texture and flavor. Today’s lunch theme is that many if not all of the ingredients are from Tochigi and from bodies of water like rivers and lakes. The soup ‘Sawani Wan’ translates roughly to ‘River Bowl’ and the ingredients are all cut into strips so that they flow easier I think. Interesting idea and very delicious. When all the ingredients in the soup are in small strips it adds an interesting texture like with gobo salad. Finally today’s fish, the fried Yashio trout was very big! Also, it is rare to get red fish in school lunch so it’s a real treat. And I heard that the Yashio trout is native to Tochigi which is interesting. Like the beef in the curry last week, this week’s trout is very high quality and really good. Nice and crunchy on the outside and juicy on the inside. Normally Japanese menu days are conservative with size, but today was special! A top 15 menu for sure. Gochisousama Deshita!

【地産地消週間】

県産小麦のコッペパン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

ハンバーグのトマト煮　ポパイソテー

オニオンスープ　県産ヨーグルト

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a very big lunch! The ‘popeye sautee’ was quite good. I like spinach and the corn and ham were nice additions to the hot salad. The hamburg with tomato sauce was also very well seasoned and tasted great. I made a sandwich using my bread and it was yummy. We don’t often get onion soup and it was pretty good. I like onions a lot. I ate the strawberry jam with some of my bread and yogurt. It was a delicious mix of sweetness and creaminess. My kyushoku strawberry danish! Excellent meal today. This week was a very great week of good school lunch!

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・牛肉献立】

県産牛のビーフカレーライス　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today many people are talking about the beef in today’s curry because it was raised in Tochigi and very high quality. I am very excited to try it! The ham and daikon salad with cucumbers was great. I love the crunchiness of the daikon, and the flavor of the dressing too. I can taste citrus in the dressing and it has a nice bright flavor that is satisfying. And next is the famous beef curry. The curry flavor was the familiar as always, but had a slightly more complex flavor thanks to being stewed in the meat giving it more umami. The beef was more tender and had a softer texture than usual which was nice. Also the flavor of course was a bit more ‘meaty’. I mean that I could taste the meat more than the curry seasoning when I was eating it and really enjoyed the savory and creamy flavors from the beef. It was an excellent curry as always, being able to enjoy such high quality beef from Tochigi is a treat, and I am thankful for the opportunity. A top 5 kyushoku of course! Gochisousama Deshita!

【地産地消週間・ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　さんまのみぞれ煮

県産ごぼうのきんぴら　にこにこ汁

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is ‘Rice Menu’ day! So there are many dishes that go great with rice. The gobo salad is great and has that earthy sweet flavor which I love. Of course it goes well with rice and is complimented by carrots, konyaku, and satsuma age. The king of food that goes great with rice today is the Sanma. Sanma with a delicious savory miso sauce is a perfect match and absolutely delicious and makes rice disappear quickly. The ‘niko niko’ soup was also quite good. I liked the daikon in particular for the juicy crunch it adds to the dish. Today’s champion was the sanma for sure and I would eat it again and again. Excellent meal today!

【地産地消週間】

ごはん　牛乳　県産ぶた肉ぎょうざ

かんぴょうサラダ　ワンタンスープ

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today’s lunch has a Chinese theme to it and looks delicious. Sadly I missed lunch yesterday, but it was natto so maybe I was lucky? I would have loved to try the ginger flavored nikujaga though. The salad was really good and I enjoyed the dressing a lot. After speaking with the Nutritionist, they mentioned that almost all the kanpyo in school lunch was made in Tochigi! The wonton soup was excellent and had a great light salty flavor with the wonton noodles adding a nice texture and soaking up the broth making for a nice juicy bite. Today’s gyoza used all Tochigi pork and were wonderful. A nice char and crunch on the skin while having a yummy ginger and pork flavor for the filling. An excellent school lunch today. Top 15 for sure. Gochisousama Deshita.

【地産地消週間】

ごはん　牛乳　県産納豆

小松菜のいそ香り和え　しょうが風味の肉じゃが

はちみつパン　牛乳　スペイン風オムレツ

白菜とツナのサラダ　カレーうどん　お米のババロア

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today’s lunch has a lot of items! It feels like a lot to eat and I am hungry! The hakusai and tuna salad is amazing and it has been a while since I’ve eaten it. Great as always and filled with vegetables and yummy flavor. The ‘Spanish style’ omelet is always a mystery to me. It tastes fine, like a small slice of quiche without any crust and has potato in it. I don’t know what is Spanish about it though, but it is still delicious. Last time I recall it had onions and this time potatoes. The curry udon has the classic kyushoku curry flavor and the spongy and yummy udon instead of rice. I actually dip some of the honey bread into the curry for a salty and sweet mix of flavors and it is pretty good. I like to save the bread for the dessert though since they are a nice pair and it’s almost like a Danish. The ‘bababloa’ was actually a surprise to me and tasted like a creamsicle. A creamsicle is a type of ice cream with fruity orange ice on the outside and creamy milky ice on the inside. It reminded me of the states. Today’s lunch was excellent and I loved it. Top 10! Gochisousamadeshita!