給食だより

ごはん　牛乳　あじフライ

五目ひじき　けんちん汁

～Lunch Report By ALT～

January is already at an end.  Only about 2 months left of the school year!  Only two more months of school lunch.  Today we have a wonderful ajifry as well as hijiki.  A tasty classic and it does not disappoint.  The hijiki is good and the aburaage is juicy and filled with flavor.  That and the nice chunks of meat added in alongside the beans makes it a pretty good salad.  We also got a soup as well, kenchin soup.  It has a very light flavor and is filled with lots of veggies and tofu.  It is the cool down menu item after having bites of the powerful ajifry.  The ajifry was super crunchy, fried perfectly, and had a nice fairly gentle fishy flavor and on the inside a soft texture.

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（ドイツ）】

ホットドッグ（コッペパン・ソーセージ・ケチャップ＆マスタード・

ザワークラウト）　牛乳　ポテトシチュー

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The last day of world lunch week.  Today is Germany.  We get a hot dog with sauerkraut-style cabbage and a potato stew.  I tried the sauerkraut first since I had a talk about it with the nutritionist.  It was very good and reminded me of the momizuke.  The hotdog itself was delicious and great with a little ketchup and mustard along with the kraut.  The real superstar of the menu today though is this potato soup.  Seriously all kyushoku stew is delicious and I will stand by that claim, but today was a masterpiece.  The depth of flavor is wonderful and the vegetables and ingredients were prefect. An amazing lunch and a perfect meal to conclude the week!  Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：日本で給食が始まった頃の献立】

【地産地消献立：野口菜】

ごはん　牛乳　焼き鮭　白菜のもみづけ

野口菜のみそ汁　味のり

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I just realized today that this week is ‘World Menu Week’ for school lunches. That makes sense. Today’s lunch is an homage to what school lunch was like when Japan first began the school lunch program. A simple meal of momizuke, grilled fish, and miso soup with flavored seaweed on the side. The momizuke was delicious, crunchy, and fresh! The soup was quite flavorful and tasty. The aburaage was juicy and salty. The nori was a nice addition to the rice as well adding some sweetness. I also really enjoyed the salmon as well. It went great with the rice and was quite tasty. Wonderful meal today. Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（インド）】

ナン　牛乳　ダールカレー（豆のカレー）

カリフラワーサラダ

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Another new menu today!  Daal (beans) curry and naan bread with a cauliflower salad.  The salad was excellent.  Reminding me of the flowering veggie salad, but this has cheese and some tunafish in it as well.  Very good.  The curry was great as well.  When Indian style curry comes up in kyushoku it has a different base flavor and is a nice change of pace.  The spiciness was decent and it had plenty of beans as well which were quite enjoyable.  I thought the naan was ok.  An excellent lunch and both the salad and curry were awesome!  A meal I would love to eat again!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（台湾）】

ルーロー飯（ごはん・肉そぼろ・ゆで野菜）　牛乳

大根スープ　給食週間デザート（ミルクプリン）

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Another rare and interesting menu item today! Ruurohann. An interesting dish of ground meat and stewed vegetables. Today’s daikon soup was quite good and had a fair amount of flavor and delicious texture from the abura age as well. The ruuroohan was amazing and the meat and bamboo shoots were delicious and had a sweetness, but also another flavor I couldn’t catch, but reminded me of fish like squid. Super delicious and extremely easy to eat and great with rice as well. I wanted to keep eating and before I knew it I had finished it all! I really hope that we can get a chance to eat it again soon. Lastly, today’s dessert was milk pudding, which was sweet and tasty. Really a nice and creamy dessert to finish the meal. I am very full and very happy! Thank you!

【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!

【終業式・クリスマス献立】

バターロール　牛乳　もみの木ハンバーグ

イタリアンサラダ　オニオンスープ

クリスマスデザート

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Christmas eve and the day of the closing ceremony for the second semester.  A SUPER Christmas themed lunch today.  Hamburg shaped like Christmas Trees, star cheese in the salad and star noodles in the soup as well as cute snowman Naruto too. The salad is one of the most delicious ones and the little cheese stars add such a great level of depth to it.  The colorful greens whites and reds also give it a real nice holiday vibe.  The soup is delicious and so cute.  I used the bread roll and made it into buns so I could eat a hamburg tree sandwich..  It was delicious.  There was also a super tasty dessert.  It was a delicious and creamy and sweet strawberry jelly and pudding with some whipped cream on top.  A super duper festive and delicious lunch to kick off the winter vacation for the students!

ごはん　牛乳　にらまんじゅう

白菜おひたし　キムチ入りとん汁

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Nice menu today!  It is an interesting and delicious blend on Asian recipies.  The salad was tasty and the katsuo boshi was excellent.  The kimchi soup was absolutely delicious with a yummy spice level and lots of hearty vegetables.  The nira manju as well was super good and the strong nira flavor was delicious.  It was meatier than I expected and a true treat.  Wonderful lunch today!

【冬至献立】

米粉パン　牛乳　スペイン風オムレツ

ツナサラダ　かぼちゃシチュー

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Yes!  Today is a delicious pumpkin stew.  The tuna salad was delicious and surprisingly hearty.  I like this salad a lot.  The omelet was tasty as well.  I liked the potatoes and onions.  Today’s main event is the wonderful pumpkin stew and it was magnificent.  The pumpkin flavor was so strong and the color along could tell you how much pumpkin was used in it.  It I delicious and I missed having yummy stew with lunch.  Wonderful meal today!

ビビンバ　牛乳　春雨スープ

アセロラゼリー

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Delicious bibinba today!  The veggies are so tasty and the meat so flavorful.  It is the perfect mixture!  It is so great with rice as well.  The harusame soup is tasty and hot and nice with the bibinba too.  Last there was a sweet and cold acerora jelly which was a perfect finish to the meal.

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのごまみそ煮

もみづけ　ざくざく煮（福島県の郷土料理）

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Today is an all Japanese lunch.  The momiduke was nice and crunchy with a light sesame flavor.  The zakuzakuni was quite delicious and everything was cut into small chunks or cubes.  I like when my food comes in cubes.  This soup reminded me of oden.  The fish, iwashi, was amazing.  This is one of my favorite fish that comes in school lunch and I love the sesame and miso sauce that comes with it.  So wonderful.