給食だより

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.

【歯と口の健康週間】

ミルクパン　牛乳　スラッピージョー

グリーンポテト　オニオンスープ　ぶどうグミ（⇒７日に変更）

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Very unique school lunch today.  The ‘green potato’ is what my mother used to simply call parsley potatoes, a kind of drier mashed potato with a liberal mix of parsley  Mashed potatoes have to be one of my all time favorite foods and these are not bad.  I think they need salt and pepper, but they are still very good.  They pair well with the soup as well which is quite good.  The onion soup is really nice and has some good flavors.  The bacon adds a lot of good smokey flavors as well which is nice.  The sloppy joe is a super tasty sandwich and tastes very close to the ones I ate when I was younger.  Very interesting and delicious lunch today and satisfying as well.  It is so rainy and dreary today so having a nice lunch like this feels good.

ごはん　牛乳　ぶた肉と野菜のしょうが炒め

えび団子スープ

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Nice simple menu today.  A ginger pork stir fry and some shrimp ball soup!  The soup itself has a very light flavor, but when you take a bit of the shrimp meatballs the flavor explodes and its super delicious as a whole. The texture and juiciness of the spring noodles is great.  My favorite.  The stir fry’s ginger flavor is very strong today.  The meat and vegetables were plentiful as well and it was a great main dish with rice.  Super filling and I feel like I could eat a lot of it!  Fantastic meal today! Thank you!

ミルクパン　牛乳　煮こみハンバーグ

ほうれん草サラダ　ワンタンスープ

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Interesting looking lunch today.  Lots of vibrant colors and a variety of styles as well.  I look forward to it greatly.  The tuna and spinach salad was quite nice.  Very juicy and mushy, but flavorful and delicious with little crunchy pops of sweetness from the corn.  The wonton soup was delicious and I love the juicy noodles and the taste of the soup as well.  Hot and yummy.  I love today’s bread and hamburg combo because if you cut the hamburg lengthwise in half it fits perfectly on the bread making for a nice little hamburg sandwich!  An interesting and delicious lunch which was very satisfying.  Yummy!

いか天丼　牛乳　ブロッコリーのごま和え　とん汁

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Today is ikatendon!  The broccoli sesame salad was delicious.  It had a nice creamy sweet flavor from the dressing and the sesame seeds which was juicy and satisfying soaked into the broccoli.  Today’s tonjiru soup reminds me a little bit of the dosanko soup, satisfying and filling with many healthy ingredients like cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and tofu.  The ikaten was good and the wonderful sauce really gives it the unique and nice flavor.  I always put my ikaten on my rice before I put sauce on it so the extra sauce flows into the rice making it super flavorful.  A nice lunch on a windy and sunny day!

黒とうパン　牛乳　肉団子

ビーンズサラダ　マカロニのクリーム煮

【Lunch Report by ALT】

Just by looking at today’s lunch you know it will be delicious.  The bean salad is so colorful, the stew looks creamy and filled with delicious ingredients and the meatballs are shining with yummy sauce.  The salad was excellent and had a variety of crunchy, juicy, and soft mushy textures which were enjoyable.  Also the salad had a great balance of flavors from the vegetables with sweetness too.  Oh and today is the day!  The stew was perfect.  It was hot and creamy and sometimes there is too much milk which can thin the flavor, but it was really amazing and thick today.  And a true treat, even though we have a super good stew, were the pair of yummy meatballs.  I put them into my bread and made a mini meatball sub.  The sweetness of the bread and the meatballs mixed perfectly making for a nice final flavor in my mouth.  Today was truly one of the best lunches yet this year!  Perfect on all fronts.  Gochisousamadeshita!

【小松菜の日】

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ韓国風

小松菜のごま和え　なめこ汁

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Today is fried chicken and “komatsuna day”.  Today’s salad, the komatsuna sesame salad, was excellent.  I love the flavor of the dressing and the texture is also perfect.  I like the sweetness of the sesame dressing a lot.  The nameko mushroom soup was very tasty and had a nice earthy and salty flavor.  I usually don’t like the sliminess of nameko, but it was toned back today which was nice.  Today’s main event was the Korean-style fried chicken and it was a masterpiece.  Often the specially flavored fried chicken is always good, but today was seriously almost perfect.  The only way it could have been better is if I had gotten mine moments after it came out of the fryer!  The light spiciness and a nice sweetness mixed with a quality garlic and onion base is so yummy.  The sauce on the outside took away some of the crispiness, but it still retained most of its crunchy texture and was excellent.  A truly delicious kyuushoku today. Gochisousamadeshita!

ミルクパン　マーシャルビンズ　牛乳

焼きそば　ハムと大根のサラダ

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Yaki soba and... MARSHALL BEANS!!!  Yes!  What a great menu today.  The daikon, ham, and cucumber salad is great. It is super crunchy and has a really nice almost creamy dressing which adds to the flavors of the ham and veggies.  Today’s yakisoba is wonderful and had a lot of flavor from the sauce.  Also there was a lot of meat and octopus chunks in mine today making it even more hearty than usual.  Finally the marshall beans and bread were lovely as always.  I adore this chocolately nutty spread and it pairs perfectly with bread and milk as well.  Great lunch today.

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのごまみそ煮

きんぴらごぼう　どさんこ汁

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Dosanko Soup day!  Today’s salad is kinpira gobo.  I love gobo for its lightly crunchy texture and sweet earthy flavor.  The dosanko is kind of a savory soup with many ingredients famous in Hokkaido.  It is super good and one of my favorite soups.  The fish today was also very well done and the flavor of the miso was delicious.  Perfect with rice and a very light flavor as well.  Nice lunch today.

ポークカレーライス　牛乳

海そうサラダ　はちみつレモンゼリー

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Curry day!  I am excited for today’s jelly honestly.  The seaweed salad was slimy, but good and had a nice fresh flavor as usual.  The sweet corn and crunchy cucumbers save the texture for me personally.  The curry today was very good and the potatoes were cut quite large making for a nice big hot bite.  Also, today the curry was on the spicier side which was appreciated.  On a hot and humid day like today the curry is delicious, but I started to sweat a little!  Today’s jelly, though, was a perfect finish after the curry.  The honey and lemon are a match made in heaven and absolutely great as a cool jelly.  I wish mine was still more frozen, but it is a hot day and there is nothing you can do about it.  I got one or two really nice frozen bites which were perfect.  Nice lunch to kick off the week!