November 30, 2015

Curry with pork, onion, carrot. White rice. Mikan (orange) jelly. 200ml Hokkaido Milk.

Good simple lunch. japanese curry.

November 28, 2015

Bit of a special weekend edition here. We went out today to gather some wild wasabi from a family-secret location our friend was willing to share with us. We cleared the snow and managed to dig up a half dozen small-medium wasabi. 

Freshly unearthed wasabi root

 Next, we decided we would put it to use. First, we gave some to his family since they shared the location with us. Then, we picked up some scallops (hotate), salmon (syake), and tuna from the grocery store. Whipped up some sushi rice. Cleaned and grated the wasabi, sliced the fish.

All the fixins for a sushi bowl. Sliced avocado. Minced tuna. Sliced salmon. Raw scallop. Bottles of Shoyu (soya sauce) and su (vinegar). Grated wasabi mixed with shoyu. White sushi rice mixed with su.

Finally, assembled some bowls.

Assembled sushi bowl.

delicious.

November 26, 2015

200ml Hokkaido Milk; miso soup with fried tofu and greens; fried fish; marinated pork, daikon and carrot; yamamori (mountain of rice)

Had lunch in the teachers room today, because it was a test day.

Also it is full-on winter here, snowed 20cm Tuesday, and it stuck around. snowing again now. Hoping to pick up some snowboard boots this weekend...

the hill in the background is the ski hill in monbetsu. not huge, but only 2.5km from my house. I've seen them testing out the lift etc so they might open soon....

November 25, 2015

Yogurt with fruit (pineapple, mandarin, other stuff). Udon with chicken, cabbage, green onion. 200ml Hokkaido milk. Hotdog bun with sweet peanut flavour sugar.

Only have two days of school lunch. Lucky for you, dear reader, one of them was my Wednesday school with a peanut-sugar hot dog bun.

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!

November 20, 2015

200ml Hokkaido milk. boiled beansprout carrot and spinach. Miso soup with wakame and matchstick daikon, Pork stir fry with onion and green pepper. White rice.

Tasty lunch. At my Jr High schools, I get my lunch tray from the staff room and take it to a random student classroom to eat. This works out quite well usually (I keep my visits more or less fair, but when a class is being really slow to get the lunch dished out I go to a different one to ensure i have time enough to eat). But occasionally I have significantly more food than the students and I feel bad.

November 19, 2015

White rice. Nori packet. Potato pork mash. fishy fish. Miso with cabbage and fried tofu. 200ml Hokkaido milk.

so much rice ugggghh my belly