給食だより

ホットドッグ　牛乳　チャンポンメン

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Champon and hotdog day.  The champon is hot and delicious and filled with tons of ingredients.  I like the shrimp and Naruto, as well as how juicy and soft the noodles are.  Its really good.  The hotdog is pretty good and nice and smokey.  The cabbage and ketchup help balance the dryness of the bread and make a nice little meal.  Nice lunch today!

【地産地消献立：白菜】

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

小松菜のごま和え　すき焼き風煮

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Sukiyaki and Natto day.  I eat my natto quickly and then proceed to the salad!  The salad was fresh, crunchy, and tasted sweet as well from the sesame.  It was a great palate cleanser after the natto and my mouth wasn’t sticky at all.  The sukiyaki today was amazing.  So many noodles and that sweet and savory broth is so delicious.  The tofu is slightly cooked and has a nice texture and the carrots and cabbage were great as well.  The meat was filling and tasty.  Truly a rollercoaster of emotion with today’s lunch, but it is ultimately a delicious one despite the natto.

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　さばの味勝焼き

五目ひじき　どさんこ汁

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Dosanko soup, fish, and hijiki today.  A Japanese meal.  The hijiki was good and a little sweet.  I enjoyed it.  The saba with miso was alright.  I don’t really like this fish and sauce combination very much.  Today’s main dish for me was the dosanko soup and it was amazing.  The buttery flavor of the broth and the delicious vegetables and pork make it super hearty and enjoyable.  I like it very much.  Nice lunch today!  Thank you!

ポークカレーライス　牛乳　こんにゃくサラダ　みかん

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Curry and rice day!  The seaweed salad that comes on most curry days is the same as usual.  I don’t really like the texture very much, but it tastes quite good.  The curry was excellent.  Good spice level today and I was surprised by how big the potatoes were.  Maybe they cut them larger or added them to the stew later because they were really big and still had fairly sharp edges!  It was great.  And a wonderful juicy sweet mikan to conclude the meal.  Perfect lunch as the weather starts to get really cold.

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ

キャベツの塩こぶ和え　さつま汁

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Karaage and sweet potato soup day!  A real nice lunch.  The salad was a simple cabbage affair with a nice sharp dressing with salty kobu which is really tasty.  The soup is hot and warm, tasting great, and the sweet potatoes add such a nice flavor and smooth texture to it.  Today’s chicken doesn’t have a special flavor like it has recently, but is just classic Japanese karaage.  It tastes great!  I enjoy having it with my rice and it was a great meal overall.  I am full and feel great.  Thank you!

はちみつパン　牛乳　スパゲッティミートソース

ビーンズサラダ　みかんゼリー

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Spaghetti and bean salad today with a nice mikan jelly and honey bread.  A nice menu that looks great.  The bean salad is amazing and so colorful and delicious.  It is crunchy and has lots of nice textures as well and with the dressing it has a nice unified flavor in addition to all the varied tastes from reach bean and the broccoli.  Today’s meat pasta is amazing and today’s is some of the best I have had from school lunch in a while.  The flavors are there and there is a bit more complexity besides a simple tomato and meat sauce.  The peas add a nice little extra bit of texture and I think there must be some kind of cheese or other flavor in there which takes it above and beyond.  Absolutely wonderful today.

三色丼　牛乳　沢煮椀

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Sanshokudon! One of the tightest and most delicious meals around. If all kyushoku menus would battle against eachother in a tournament, I believe that sanshokudon deserves to be in the top 10 for sure, if not the top 5. Today’s soup, sawaniwan has a unique and delicious flavor. Gobo and daikon give it a nice earthy base flavor and the carrots and daikon being cut so thinly and in strips give it an interesting texture as well. The sanshokudon is delicious as ever with wonderful spinach with sesame, and the delicious chicken and egg mixture. Delicious!

バターロール　牛乳　肉団子

花野菜サラダ　ポトフ

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Today is a nice menu with meatballs, salad, and soup with bread on the side.  The flowing veggie salad was excellent and it is one of the best for both its perfect ability to soak up the dressing and still be crunchy, and the fact that the dressing is so good too.  I really like this salad.  I love to use the bread to make a meatball sandwich with the Swedish style meatballs.  The potof is quite good and filled with tons of veggies and the little sausage slices are wonderful as well. A simple but enjoyable light flavor is nice and calms down the pallet after the bright dressing from the salad or the stronger flavors from the meatballs.  The meatball sandwich itself was delicious and the meatballs are done very well.  Such a good flavor. Amazing meal today!

ごはん　牛乳　あじフライ（ソース）

切り干し大根の煮つけ　なめこ汁

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Ajify today with nameko soup.  I started out with the stewed kiriboshi daikon which was pretty good.  I don’t like the texture that much, but it is delicious and has an interesting flavor which is sweet and has a kind of earthy saltiness as well.  The soup as well has good flavor, but a texture I don’t care for that much.  It was nice after eating some ajifry to kind of calm down the strong sharp flavor of the sauce.  The ajifry was excellent and crunchy.  Very enjoyable!  A nice lunch today.

スタミナ丼　牛乳　えび団子スープ

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Cold day today!  Perfect timing for some nice hot STAMINA DON!  Kyushoku staminadon is super delicious and packed with tons of pork, onions, carrots, and other veggies.  It has such a delicious flavor and is juicy and hot.  One of the most solid lunch choices you can ask for.  Also, we got a lovely shrimp ball soup as well.  I really enjoy the light flavor compared to the powerful flavors of the stamina don.  The noodles in the soup are extremely enjoyable and the shrimp balls taste delicious and nice.  Perfect meal for a cold dreary day!             

ココアあげパン　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

ポークビーンズ

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An interesting lunch today!  Today we get the ham and daikon salad which is one of the best.  The hame, daikon, cucumber, and dressing go so well together.  A crunchy masterpiece really and it is such a simple dish too.  Besides the salad we have pork and beans today as well.  It’s a hearty soup packed with lots of vegetables and has a nice tomato base.  It’s really good.  Also today is another fantastic treat – agepan with a cocoa sugar topping.  It is basically a donut which nobody will ever complain about.  The cocoa flavor was very clear to me and quite enjoyable.  I save almost all my milk to eat with the agepan making for a yummy dessert to this nice meal.

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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Mabo dofu day!  The namul with nira was excellent and had a strong sharp flavor.  It has a great crunch and is refreshing.  Today’s mabo was pretty good.  It was nice and hot and the tofu was juicy and enjoyable.  I could taste a little more spice than usual today I think.  Last, the shrimp shumai were good as well with a strong shrimp flavor.  Overall a filling and enjoyable lunch!  Thank you!

黒とうパン　牛乳　焼きそば

ごぼうサラダ

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A new month and a classic school lunch.  Today is Yakisoba.  The gobo salad was sweet and delicious and I love the flavor and crunch of the gobo.  It is wonderful and I like to use some of the sweet bread to clean the bowl of the dressing.  The dressing and the sweet bread actually go together quite well.  The yakisoba was good today as well.  It is filling and had a light flavor today.  Thankful as always for the delicious meal!

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ韓国風

ナムル　春雨スープ

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Excellent korean-style flavors in today’s lunch.  The namul was pretty good, a simple spinach salad with come carrots and bean sprouts with sesame seeds.  A nice and easy start.  The harusame soup was also quite good.  I liked it mostly for its hotness and the yummy noodles, since the flavor was quite light today, but I could taste white pepper which was nice.  Today’s main event of course is the Korean-style karaage.  It was fried perfectly and still crispy despite being cooled down which was amazing.  It actually had a little bit of spice and some nice savory sweet flavors as well.  The sauce was amazing.  A wonderful meal today that filled me up and made me happy to enjoy. Thank you!

ごはん　牛乳　ほっけの塩焼き

白菜のおひたし　とん汁　りんごゼリー

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Back at it again and the first lunch of the week is fish, salad, and soup. The salad is spinach-based with some other veggies tossed in and flavored mostly with delicious smokey bonito. It’s a kyushoku classic and a nice start to the meal. Today’s fish, hokke, is not my favorite. It has a kind of creamy oily texture and the flavor is slightly bitter to me although the nutritionist often tells me that students think it tastes sweet. I ate it quickly with my rice and moved on to the soup which is today’s MVP. It was buttery and filled with delicious vegetables and meat as well. It was flavored quite well and was very enjoyable. Today’s apple jelly was amazing and filled with apple chunks. It had more of a natural texture than jelly making it similar to apple sauce which I love. A fine meal today. Thank you!

はちみつパン　牛乳　スパゲッティナポリタン

ハムと大根のサラダ　ヨーグルト

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Wonderful pasta today.  I have smelled the cooking onions all morning leading up to lunchtime while walking in the halls between classes and it was great.  The daikon, ham, and cucumber salad was excellent.  Great dressing and perfect balance of ingredients as well.  The pasta was not a let down at all and tasted wonderful. The sauce had a light sweetness, but was still salty and savory enough for me.  The little hot dogs were lovely as always.  I use some of the bread for the pasta sauce, but like to save most of it to enjoy with the yogurt and the milk. As a nice little final dessert.

ごはん　牛乳　にらまんじゅう

春雨サラダ　八宝菜

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Chinese menu today with happosai, spring noodle salad, and manju.  The spring noodle salad is quite delicious and tangy with sesame seeds as well.  Strips of ham give some nice flavor as well as the cucumbers, cabbage, and carrots which offer a nice crunch.  Today’s main dish is the happosai, or 8 Treasures Vegetables.  It’s a very interesting naming for a dish, but it has a ton of interesting ingredients which I think are the treasures.  Today’s was tasty and a treasure to enjoy for sure.  Today’s super treasure was the nira manju though.  The strong flavor from the nira and the meat inside the dumpling make for a very delicious treat that was enjoyable.

フィッシュバーガー　牛乳　マカロニのクリーム煮

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A wonderful day for school lunch again.  Creamy macaroni stew and fried fish sandwiches.  Perhaps another reward for the teachers participating in today’s observation lesson?  The fried fish was delicious, crunchy, and had a nice flavor.  The sauce added some tangy flavors to the fishy and meaty goodness.  With the moisture from the boiled cabbage, it’s a nice collection of textures that makes for a yummy dish.  The cream stew was delicious as always.  So hearty and the pasta is quite yummy filled with sauce.  In particular the mushrooms were a nice addition to this adding an interesting texture that was enjoyable.  I feel like the flavor of the cabbage kind of won out over the others and I was hoping for a stronger onion flavor.  It was still an absolute delight and I am very thankful for such a powerful meal before an important lesson this afternoon!  Thank you!

三色丼　牛乳　けんちん汁

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Today the parents came to watch lessons!  With many many people, we also have a meal with many many ingredients.  Sanshokudon!  The kenchin soup was quite good.  I liked how hot and hearty it was, filled with lots of veggies and tofu.  The sanshokudon proper was delicious as always.  The savory egg and chicken with the tasty sweet and sesame spinach as well is a delicious meal great with rice.  Thank you!

県産小麦のコッペパン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

おろしハンバーグ　かんぴょうサラダ　オニオンスープ

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What a bounty on display today!  Hamburg steaks, delicious onion soup, kanpyou salad, and jam with bread.  The salad was excellent and had a wonderful and delicious creamy sesame dressing.  The onion soup was packed with flavor and had a great texture from the cabbage and the sliced onions.  I use some of the bread as buns for the hamburg and enjoy it like a little sandwich.  Its super good and the oroshi sauce is prefect with the bread.  Such a tasty meal and super filling.  Last the tochiotome jam is sweet and enjoying it on the bread with my milk makes for a nice little dessert to end the meal.  What a wealth of delicious foods today and almost all of them using ingredients from Tochigi!