給食だより

【地産地消献立：いちごパン】

いちごパン　牛乳　スパゲッティナポリタン

グリーンサラダ　ヨーグルト

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Spaghetti day!  I love school spaghetti, it is sweet with just enough savory flavors to have a nice balance.  Today’s salad is a good one too.  It is like the flowering veggie salad, but instead of cauliflower we get corn instead.  It is sweet from the corn and the vegetables soak up the dressing very well too and have a nice juicy crunch.  Today’s pasta was quite good and in particular I liked the large cut of the onions and the green peppers.  You can really enjoy the flavor of the veggies together with the sauce.  The bread and yogurt I ate at the same time so make a kind of strawberry yogurt bread.  The bread had a really nice strawberry flavor and the sweet creaminess of the yogurt paired with it well making for a nice refreshing dessert after the pasta and salad.  Wonderful lunch!

ごはん　牛乳　ホイコーロー

豆腐とわかめのスープ　オレンジ

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Today’s menu is hoikoro and tofu wakame soup. Hoikoro is one of my favorite items of all time for school lunch.  The soup is actually quite good and the flavor is different.  We have eaten a lot of miso soup recently so it’s a nice change of pace to get a new type of soup.  The wakame and tofu are a nice pair as well.  The hoikoro was on point and absolutely great as always.  Super flavorful and went down with rice perfectly.  I was hungry today and ate it rather quickly!  I like to save one or two bites of rice to clean my plate since the sauce with the hoikoro is really good. Finally there was a nice orange slice which was a nice tangy dessert to conclude the meal.  I ate mine in one bite!

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　あじの竜田あげ

ひじきのいため煮　五目みそ汁

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Today is the ‘rice menu’ day with lots of foods that go great with rice.  The hijiki is quite good and I particularly enjoyed the little bits of meat in it today.  I got lucky and there were a few really big ones in there so it was great.  Today’s miso soup was also quite special and filled with many nice ingredients like potatoes, abura age, and daikon.  It was quite good and the vegetables gave it a lot of nice flavor.  Now today’s main dish, the fried Aji was excellent.  I don’t think we have gotten the aji tatsuta before and it is super good!  Great flavor from both the good fry up and also the flavor of the tatsuta as well.  Super juicy and perfect with rice because of how salty it is.  I wish I had saved more rice than I did to enjoy with the aji age.  A quite pleasant lunch, which didn’t look so good on paper (to me) but ended up being really delicious.  Thank you!

ごはん　牛乳　えびシューマイ

ハムとニラの和え物　マーボー豆腐

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Today is the Mabo/Shumai combo menu.  It is always a good lunch.  The ham and nira salad was great.  Loads of bean sprouts, sesame seeds, and tons of flavor as well.  The mabo was fine, hot, and loaded with meat which was hearty and filling.  The shumai were little explosions of flavor that really went well with the tofu.  A yummy lunch today!  Warms you up on the rainy and cool day we are having.

三色丼（そぼろ・ごま和え）　牛乳

けんちん汁

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Unfortunately I was not here today so I didn’t get to enjoy the yummy sanshokudon!  It is one of my faves too!  Next time!

【マーマレードの日】

ミルクパン　マーマレード　牛乳

チキンのオーブン焼き　ツナサラダ　カレーうどん

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Curry Udon and Baked Chicken!  Today’s lunch is another interesting combination and today is also known as Marmalade day!  The tuna salad is a home run as always and has excellent savory and sour flavors from the tuna and dressing as well as nice textures.  The curry udon was excellent today and the spices were really kicking which was nice.  Curry is always good in school lunch, but the level of spice varies greatly and today was super good. For me, the oven baked chicken is the main event today because it is the perfect size for making a little chicken sandwich.  I rip my bread in half and then split it again to make two buns and enjoy a chicken sandwich.  It is delicious, the chicken is crunchy and cheesy, but the inside is tender and nice.  Perfect chicken today!  Finally, the marmalade.  I used the second half of my bread today to enjoy a little marmalade bread dessert and it was great.  The orange flavor was on point and there was even some zest as well which was super tasty adding a little sour and bitter flavor as well which was a nice addition.  Great lunch today.

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

大阪づけ　肉じゃが

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Niku Jaga Vs. Natto day!  Always mixed feelings on this lunch day.  I plow through my natto quickly and it was fine today.  After that I quickly eat plenty of the daikon and cucumber salad as well as rice to clean my chopsticks of the sticky strands as well as begin the long road to restoring my mouth to a state where I can enjoy the nikujaga.  Today’s nikujaga was a work of art.  I love the flavor and textures of nikujaga, the sweet and oniony broth and delicious juicy meat and yummy soft potatoes, onions, carrots, and beans as well.  Always this menu feels like a battle between the delicious and too good to be true nikujaga and one of my very few kyushoku nemesis, natto.  Still, every lunch is a good one even if there are one or two things I don’t like!  Thankful as always.

【アセロラの日】

はちみつパン　牛乳　トマトオムレツ

花野菜サラダ　クラムチャウダー　アセロラゼリー

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Today is an interesting lunch menu with a variety of items but I don’t really know the theme.  Unless the theme is delicious food items because today has all delicious menu items.  The flowering-veggie salad is one of the best of all time because of the choice of dressing, the subtle variety of crunchy and soft textures, and the fact that these veggies soak up the dressing perfectly making for super balanced and very flavorful bites.  Seriously one of my favorite salads.  Coming off of the salad I jumped right into the clam chowder, another favorite of mine as I have stated before, any and all kyushoku stews are delicious and today is no exception.  The texture of the veggies was perfect and the clam bits were yummy too, but overall I felt like it had more liquid than usual and wasn’t as thick and stewy as I was expecting.  Still, a really delicious stew.  The tomato omelet is a new spin on a classic menu item.  This omelet is always changing depending on when and with what it pops up with. Today is the tomato version.  The egg itself is actually flavored pretty strongly which is nice and has a light hints of salt and maybe even garlic mixed in.  In the center is a little surprise burst of tomato sauce, which had a nice flavor as well and even chunks of meat and onion too.  I think so far this is one of the best versions of the omelet to date.  The honey bread was delicious and had a light sweetness to it which was nice as well.  I ate most of it with the milk as a lead up to the dessert besides the portions that I used to clean my soup bowl.  Today’s dessert was acerora jelly and it was a nice sweet finish to the meal.  Great lunch today!  One of the best so far!

ごはん　牛乳　青ヒラスの照り焼き

野菜のおひたし　みそ汁

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Today is a Japanese lunch with salad, soup, and fish. The salad was packed with cucumbers and cabbage and had a lot of katsuoboshi mixed in as well giving it a really yummy smoky flavor.  There were also many sesame seeds as well making this crunchy, yet juicy salad really tasty.  Today’s fish is aohirasu and I personally don’t like it much.  I like teriyaki very much, but I think the natural fishiness of this type fish is a little bit much for me.  It is very popular with the students, though. I will admit that it tasted better to me this time than compared with when we got it last year. The soup was a nice simple miso soup with tofu and seaweed which was quite delicious and great along with the final few bites of rice.  A tasty school lunch although the fish isn’t my favorite, but looking at the rest of this week’s menu, things are abut to get super delicious!

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 the super yummy ginger pork and vegetables with shrimp ball soup on the side.  The ginger pork is excellent and has a nice gentle ginger flavor, but super big flavors from the green pepper and onions, which are my favorite.  Loaded with lots of meat too, this dish is great with rice and very satisfying.  Although the shrimp soup has a lighter flavor than the ginger pork, it is still super delicious and the shrimp flavor is a nice contrast to the pork and ginger.  The noodles have a great texture and it is nice and hot.  Two great dishes making for a simple menu overall, but both with great flavors, lots of tasty ingredients, and complex flavors.  A perfect Monday meal to charge us up for the week to come!