September 4th, 2015 (from the archives)

From the archives (had no school lunch today):

Large rice. Two spring rolls. Japanese style shepherd's pie (carrot, potato, and ground pork in a gelatinous sauce with the strong flavour of christmas spices - cloves? nutmeg? i don't recall). Miso soup with wakame and tofu. 200ml Hokkaido milk.

This one was interesting. The slop at the top is kind of a japanese take on shepherd's pie. Uses ground pork as the meat, and has quite a bit of gelatinous sauce. The most interesting part is the spices - it reminds me very much of the spices in Tortiere, which I think is cloves.

Another interesting thing I'll touch on is the miso. It is often made with contrasting ingredients - this day's combination (wakame and tofu) is quite common. The wakame floats, while the tofu sinks. Other times it will have a contrast in textures (something chewy like fried tofu with something that falls apart easily like maybe potato?). It's kinda cool!