給食だより

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（ハワイ）】

ロコモコ丼（ごはん・ハンバーグ・目玉焼き）

牛乳　野菜スープ

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Interesting and new menu item today!  The Locomoko!  This is a famous dish in Hawaii.  It is a fried egg on a hamburg steak on some rice.  Seeing it in school lunch is quite exciting!  I tried the soup first and it is a simple cabbage and carrot soup with a few little bits of pork sprinkled in to add a bit of flavor to the broth.  Not bad.  The lokomoko sauce was actually pretty good too.  I tasted a mix of ketchup and katsu sauce.  The lokomoko itself was actually really good.  I wanted a bit more sauce, and of course it would be way better if it was hot, but it was good!  The hamburg was pretty meaty and big and the egg was cooked in a perfect circle.  How do they do that?  Today’s lunch was new, and interesting, and unique.  I am happy to try a different menu and was really surprised today which was exciting and fun.  I look forward to more new menu items!  Thank you!  I would say the lokomoko was a success today.

ミルクパン　チョコパテ　牛乳

スパゲッティナポリタン　コールスローサラダ

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Its snowing today!  Its lovely outside, but very cold too.  Today’s lunch is spaghetti and cole slaw with bread and chocolate pate on the side.  The cole slaw was crunchy and sweet from the mayo.  The spaghetti was hot and delicious, and had a sweet flavor as well, but I tasted a little smokiness too maybe.  Tough to say, but it is still very good.  The pate was tremendous and super chocolately and delicious.  Perfect with milk and the bread, I made a little chocolate bread kind of snack and enjoyed it at the end of my meal.  Very tasty and a lovely end of the week. Thank you!

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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Today’s menu is a delicious pork and veggie stir fry with shrimp ball soup on the side.  The stir fry was excellent, flavorful from the ginger, and filling.  Great with rice.  The soup itself had a very light flavor, but a nice texture from the spring noodles.  The shrimp balls were amazing and each bite was an explosion of shrimpy goodness.  Nice lunch today.

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのおかか煮

五目きんぴら　とん汁

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Today’s menu is the ‘Goes great with rice’ menu day.  Fish, kinpira, and tonjiru.  A classic Japanese menu.  The kinpira is crunchy and sweet.  It also has a little bit of an interesting smokey and earthy flavor as well from the sauce and gobo I think which was nice.  The tonjiru is hot and delicious and filled with plenty of veggies and tofu alongside the pork.  Last was today’s main dish, the iwashi okakani, or Japanese Pilchard stewed in Bonito Sauce.  It is amazing and has a great flavor that is perfect with rice.  I felt like I could eat so much rice today thanks to the delicious dishes.

ごはん　牛乳　あげぎょうざ

ハムとニラの和え物　マーボー豆腐

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Mabo dofu day. Today is mabo day with delicious gyoza and a yummy salad.  The salad was a crunchy and delicious ham and sesame flavored mix of sprouts and greens which was a tasty and refreshing start to the meal.  Today’s fried gyoza were awesome and nice and crunchy.  The reminded me almost like crunchy fried eggrolls.  The flavor was delicious.  Today’s mabo was nice and hot and filled with lots of vegetables chopping very finely to mix well with the mincemeat and allow the texture of the tofu to stand out.  Overall a nice lunch and the agegyoza were outstanding!

ごはん　牛乳　厚焼卵

小松菜のおひたし　筑前煮

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The first full week back to school after the winter vacation and today’s lunch is komatsuna salad with tamagoyaki and chikuzenni, a dish of boiled veggies and konyaku.  Very Japanese, but very yummy.  The salad is a crunchy and mushy mixture with very strong bonito flavor.  The smokiness of the bonito and nice touch from the sesame seeds is a refreshing start to the meal.  The egg is sweet almost sweet enough to be considered a dessert, and is a nice contrast to the salty and savory flavors from the salad and the stew.  The chikuzenni is a hearty collection of root vegetables stewed in a nice sauce, which has some sweetness to it, but takes up those earthy flavors, which help to chew through the vegetables.  The bamboo shoots and daikon radish are my favorite.  This is a dish that I always forget that I like because without flashes of color from the carrots or green beans it’s mostly brown and beige.  But despite that, each time I take my first bite I remember how delicious it is.  It is a lovely meal and a solid start to what will be a great week of kyushoku.

はちみつパン　牛乳　チキンのチーズ焼き

グリーンサラダ　ミネストローネスープ

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Minestrone, flower veggie salad, and baked chicken!  Excellent end to the week today.  The salad was juicy, delicious, and had such wonderful flavors.  An absolute treat and one of the best kyushoku salads.  The soup was great today as well.  Nice tomato flavor, but also plenty of seasoning as well giving it a bit more kick than usual.  I think I even tasted a little garlic which is fantastic.  The baked chicken was amazing and cooked perfectly.  I made a sandwich with the sweet honey bread and it was a nice enough match.  Hearty and filling alongside the soup.  Wonderful meal!

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

いそ香り和え　肉じゃが

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Natto and Nikujaga!  A day of great highs and great lows for me.  The natto wasn’t too bad today, but I think that the salad on natto day is different than usual.  I recall that eating the salad cleaned out my mouth quickly, but today’s salad was more spinach based and didn’t have a strong dressing.  It did have a bit of bonito flavor though which was nice.  Today’s nikujaga was delicious as always.  I feel like I got a lot of potatoes today.  The stew broth that it comes in is sweet and delicious and the flavor of the onions really makes it so good.  Nice meal today!

きなこあげパン　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

白菜のクリーム煮

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Stew, Salad, and Agepan!  The daikon and ham salad was crunchy and delicious.  The stew was amazing!  Great creamy flavor and lots of nice vegetables as well.  The potatoes were great.  The Kinako agepan was delicious and tasted a little bit like peanut butter.  It was a nice dessert after the meal and great with milk.  If I didn’t have milk I might have been in trouble!  Delicious and hearty stew today!  Thank you!

【始業式】

ハヤシライス　牛乳　海そうサラダ

みかんゼリー

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Happy New Year! It’s the year of the tiger and today is the first day at school with school lunch and the start of the 3rd semester. Hayashi rice and seaweed salad with a mikan jelly dessert. Can’t ask for a more solid start than that! The salad was slippery and crunchy, with a nice tangy and slightly sweet flavor from the dressing and natural seaweed flavor. The hayashi rice was very tasty! The tomato flavor was nice and the vegetables were hot and delicious. In particular the mushrooms and green peas were delicious and added nice texture. The mikan jelly was a nice little treat afterwards and refreshed my mouth quite nicely. Lovely meal and now I am full and ready for the rest of the day, no, the rest of the semester! Thank you and let’s have a great 2022!