December 23, 2015

Not lunch at all today: Made tourtiere using Mom's recipe. Posted here for the record. Note to self: pie crust from the grocery store in japan is kinda sweet. Still tasted good.

gluhwein; tourtiere.

Tourtiere (Best Recipe Chatelaine - Mom's Recipe)
1.5 lb (680g) ground pork
1/2 c (120ml) water
1 large onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp sage
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/8 tsp cloves
2 medium potatoes
1 egg
pie crust (s)

Combine meat, seasonings, water, onion, garlic in large, heavy saucepan with lid. Bring to boil, cover & reduce heat. Cook for 25 mins, stirring to break up meat. Do not drain.

Boil potatoes until tender. Mash and add to cooked meat.

Fill pie shells. Whisk egg with 1tsp water & brush on top crust. Bake at 375 F (190 C) for 35-40 minutes.

December 22, 2015

Belgian butter cookies; Cabbage salad with roasted sesame seed dressing; Bacon-tuna melt; 200ml Hokkaido Milk

This one is, quite obviously, taken at my house, not at school. Monday was the final day of classes for 2015, so there won't be any school lunch photos until mid-late January. I may still post on here infrequently with other stuff.

Hope you all have a great Christmas!

December 21, 2015

Fukujinzuke; Japanese curry; chocolate pudding (background); clementine; white rice; 200ml Hokkaido milk.

Small portion today. It sucks when the kids like everything, I can't go chow down on what they didn't eat. Also got some cookies and a weird soda-fruit salad thing (the elementary class had been in the home ec room)

December 20, 2015

Special weekend edition: posted mostly because we ordered the weird assortment.

Me: "mixed sando" which apparently meant a salad on one, and pasta/egg/ham on the other. taste 2/5

Ayumi: a giant parfait, the best way to start off any day.

Byron: "banana pancakes", which included 3 pancakes, 4 slices of banana, and copious whipped cream/chocolate sauce.

I was in asahikawa this weekend to buy snowshoes/snowboard boots/watch star wars. I finished all three tasks successfully, several 万 円 poorer. I'll end this with a quote from my new snowshoe packaging:


You feel wildness like a bird.
You play with the wind like a bird. 
Our brand was born in the north ground
for such a great outdoor life.
We hope you all can have a exciting holiday...

December 19, 2015

Special weekend edition: Recent Healthy Dinners

Yakiniku (monbetsu): ¥2800 (~$35) include two beer. Raw chicken necks; raw beef tongue; raw pork belly with spicy sauce; raw chicken cartilege.

With Yakiniku, you recieve raw meat and you then grill it at the table. The chewy chicken cartilege was very high quality at this shop.

Soup curry Samurai, Sapporo: ~¥1300 ($15). Coconut base soup curry, level 6 out of 10 spice, with assorted veggies, rice with charred cheese and karaage.

This soup curry shop was really delicious. The burdock root in the soup curry was amazing.

Miura Karaage Teishoku (Monbetsu): ¥800 (~$10 at current exchange). Rice, pickled daikon, absurd quantity of white meat fried chicken, cabbage salad, miso soup with wakame and tofu. If you're lucky, tea afterwards.

Somewhere in  Sapporo: ¥1200 (~$15) Tempura Don/Soba bowl combo. Tasty but super greasy. Conbini woulda been better.

Somewhere in Yubetsu: ¥850 (~$10) Karaage Teishoku. White rice with grated umeboshi (sour salt-pickled plum); pickled daikon and carrot; cabbage salad with tomato; chawan mushi; reasonable amount of karaage; miso soup with wakame, tofu, green onion.

I've been eating out a bit more than normal i guess. It's all delicious and not very healthy (at least in terms of the number of calories I'm eating).

December 18, 2015

White rice; 200ml Hokkaido milk; salty katsuo-sesame rice flavour packet; steam spinach, ham and bean sprouts in salty vinegar dressing; egg; miso soup with cabbage carrot and tofu.

Standard lunch, delicious.

December 17, 2015

White rice; weird pork-onion-carrot-green onion stuff in sauce; fried white fish; simple miso with potato and onion; 200ml Hokkaido milk.

Typical meal, feels pretty healthy to me.