給食だより

【終業式】

ホットドッグ　牛乳　チャンポンメン

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Merry Christmas!  I really wish we had yesterday’s menu today, but in Japan many people think the 24th is Christmas and it isn’t. The 25th is Christmas day.  Today we got a hot dog and some chanponmen.  An interesting combination.  The chanponmen was quite delicious and I enjoyed the salty flavor very much.   The hot dog was very good as well and I like the little container that the ketchup and mustard come in.  It was a fine lunch, but this isn’t what I could consider a Christmas meal!  Thank you!

【クリスマス献立】

セルフチキンピラフ　牛乳　もみの木ハンバーグ

ミネストローネスープ　セレクトデザート

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is clearly a Christmas themed school lunch! Minestrone soup, ‘Make your own chicken pilaf’, A christmas tree shaped hamburg, and a choice of dessert! Quite wide variety of items on the menu today. I started with the pilaf and it was superb. Tons of chicken, and a great variety of vegetables giving it a really nice onion flavor with bursts of sweetness from the corn which stood out. Delicious and a new menu item I think with excellent flavor. The minestrone soup was nice and had a light tomato flavor. I enjoyed it and even think I saw a snowman naruto (Or maybe a ghost? Haha.) in the soup as well. The hamburg was very cute looking and with ketchup it was quite good. Finally the cake! We got a choice of classic strawberry shortcake, a chocolate cake, and ‘cup dessert’, which was pudding or jelly I think. I went for the classic strawberry shortcake because it had the highest weight! Also, believe it or not, I prefer a lighter style of cake and think many chocolate cakes are very dense and heavy. The strawberry was a great choice and it had two layers of sponge, two layers of light and fluffy strawberry cream, and a layer of strawberry jam in the middle. An absolute delight and a wonderful finish to this excellent meal! This was a top 10 for sure! Gochisousamadeshita!

米粉パン　牛乳　白身魚フライ

ブロッコリーサラダ　マカロニのクリーム煮

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is another great day for school lunch. The wonderful macaroni cream stew as well as broccoli salad and fried fish. The salad was delicious and had a lot of creamy sweetness from the corn and the dressing. The fried fish was pretty good and it came with sauce as well which was nice. I enjoyed mixing it with bites of bread so the sweetness of the bread complimented to saltiness of the fish and sauce like a mini sandwich. It was great. My favorite dish of the day though has to be the macaroni stew. I said it before and I will say it again, I love every stew that comes out for lunch and today is no different. Creamy, filled with delicious vegetables and meat, and the macaroni is a great change of pace from the normal ingredients. It was awesome and perfect with the bread. Wonderful lunch!

そぼろ丼　牛乳　鮭団子汁

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a nice simple menu of saborodon and soup with salmon balls. It looks simple but is packed with flavor. The soup was great and very delicious. The salmon balls had a light but very enjoyable flavor which made the whole soup taste better. The saborodon was amazing as always. I love that unique flavor. It reminds me of ginger and soy sauce. The mix with the eggs is perfect and the lima beans add a really nice crunch in there as well. It goes perfectly with rice. Today is a great lunch!

【冬至献立】

冬野菜カレーライス　牛乳　ツナサラダ　ゆずゼリー

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Curry day! Also, it is a special menu today celebrating winter due to the solstice. Nothing wrong with starting a Monday with delicious curry and rice. And a yummy Tuna salad too with Yuzu jelly on the side. The salad was great and I love the sweetness from the corn mixed with the citrusy dressing. The tuna also adds a nice flavor to the mix as well. The winter curry was also quite interesting including renkon, daikon, potatoes, spinach, and pumpkin as well. Very fitting ingredients for the season with many root vegetables. It gave it a unique flavor compared to curry on other days. Interesting! The yuzu jelly was extremely refreshing and new as well. Yuzu has a special smell and flavor that is different from other citrus fruits and it’s very enjoyable. A delicious conclusion to a yummy meal.

コッペパン　マーシャルビーンズ　牛乳

スパゲッティミートソース　ハムと大根のサラダ

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Nice! Pasta and bread with MARSHALL BEANS! I love marshall beans. It is a soy-based chocolate which tastes a little like peanut butter too. The ham and daikon salad is one of my favorites because of the nice juicy and crunchy texture as well as the lemony tangy dressing. It’s a great starter. Today’s pasta was very good and the tomato sauce was very delicious. I liked the meat and the mushrooms as well that gave it a nice texture. Finally I enjoyed the bread with marshall beans spread. I always use a little of the bread to clean the salad dressing and the pasta sauce from the bowl so that the marshall beans to bread ratio is better. A fantastic meal today and one of my favorite kyushoku combinations. Certainly a top 15 meal! Gochisousamadeshita!

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・水産物献立】

ごはん　牛乳　あゆの甘露煮

五目きんぴら　どさんこ汁

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is another special Tochigi menu day. Today’s special menu features fish, konpira salad, and soup. The kinpira was sweet and had lots of gobo and aburaage which gave it a nice earthy flavor. The ayu was quite delicious and sweet, but had a little bitterness as well. It was a nice balance of flavors and I was able to eat it completely from head to tailfin! The soup as well was very well balanced and the sweet flavor of the corn mixed with the saltiness perfectly. It was a delicious lunch today!

きなこあげパン　牛乳　カリコリサラダ

白菜のシチュー

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is another very good lunch day! It has been a great week so far for lunches! Today is hakusai stew, cube salad, and agepan. The salad is called ‘Karikori Salad’ which means ‘Crispy crunchy salad’, but I call it cube salad because everything is shaped like a square or a cube. It is delicious and although the dressing is light, it pairs very well with the natural juiciness of the vegetables and the flavor of the ham slices. I love this salad. And of course it was very crunchy. The stew was very good and the flavor of the hakusai was quite strong among the creaminess of the soup itself. Agepan. I think it is a mystery. Everyone likes agepan and I think it is good, but it is difficult for me to eat without making a mess because it is so big! Today’s agepan has kinako powder on it and it was sweet and nice. What a wonderful lunch. I love every stew that comes with school lunch.

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・牛肉給食】

県産和牛の牛丼　牛乳　沢煮椀　りんごゼリー

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is another special Tochigi menu day.  Today’s menu is a power up Tochigi beef menu and it is absolutely decadent looking.  The soup was good and the crunchy texture of the ingredients cut into sticks was good.  The main menu of the day is the wagyu Tochigi Beef.  Wagyu in school lunch is unthinkable so this is a special treat!  So many special menus filled with delicious and rare ingredients in November and December.  We are very lucky.  The beef, onion, noodle, and carrot mix was transcendent.  The best beef I have ever eaten in school lunch and was perfectly seasoned as well.  The taste of the beef was like eating a large steak and the light sweetness and aftertaste of being cooked was perfect.  The whole thing was an umami festival in my mouth as well.  Wow what a great lunch.  This wagyu was no joke and this is easily the best kyushoku of the year.  Maybe one or two of the other special menus could come close, but the simplicity of a beef bowl with such high quality ingredients cannot be challenged and I will defend it against any other lunch this year so far. And after eating such a treasure as that, we also get a dessert as well.  The apple jelly was great and a nice cap to the meal.  Beautiful. Gochisousama Deshita to the best kyushoku of the year.

ごはん　牛乳　ねぎまんじゅう

切り干し大根のナムル　マーボー豆腐

～Lunch Report　By ALT～

Today is a wonderful day!  It is mabo dofu day!  The namul was excellent and flavorful  I loved the crunch of the daikon strips and the tangy sesame goodness of the dressing.  Today’s mabo dofu was good and nice and hot.  I got a lot of tofu in mine today.  The dumplings might be the best part of today’s meal I think.  I like to put them into the mabo dofu to warm them up and add their flavor to it as well.  Great lunch today!