Today I thought I’d share a couple of foods I have a little trouble eating. Above is a nice soup with pork, sweet potato, radish, tofu, carrot, green onions and burdock. To the left is spinach with bean sprouts and bonito flakes. Also, to the left, however, are two small fish, whose bellies are filled [...]
After reading a couple books in English about making sandwiches and soups with my 5-year-olds in March, the teachers helped me organize a cooking lesson. Pictured below are children making soup from a recipe we wrote in English. This was the last lesson I had with these children before they graduated at the end of [...]
Apologies for a hiatus in posting. In Japan, the new school year begins in April, so in the past few weeks I have said goodbye to my graduating 5-year-olds, who I have taught longer than any other group of kids here, and started new classes. I have less than three months with them before I [...]
Above are two lunches from last week. At the top is Japanese curry with beef, onions, potatoes, carrots, and peas, served with rice, banana, and a mixture of apple, cabbage and vinegar. The next picture is fried chicken cooked with potatoes, green peppers and onions, served with rice and a mixture of cooked carrots, cucumbers, [...]
Mrs. Q has graciously posted a story I wrote about the lunch I ate for hina matsuri, a holiday we recently celebrated in Japan. Her blog is truly inspiring, so I hope anyone reading will visit her site and show her some support.
As for this week, on Monday I had this for lunch:
Salmon, spinach with [...]
As it snowed for the first time this year, we had this for lunch:
On the left, cooked pork, carrots, potatoes, onions, french beans, and konyaku (also known as devil’s tongue).
On the right, an aemono with a kind of spinach, carrots, cooked tofu, and sesame seeds.
In the back, rice, a banana, and apple wedges (The Japanese [...]
At Midori Hoikuen, the lunch menu is written by a student as a daily classroom chore, then read to class before everyone eats. Unfortunately, even after it was explained to me, the best I can translate is that it’s a little technical, except for the bottom line which reads みかん, mican, meaning orange.
Today’s lunch was [...]
I’ve recently been inspired by two vocal advocates for healthy lunches and better food/cooking education for school children. The first is Jamie Oliver, who is using his recent TED Prize award to fight obesity in America.
The second is a teacher anonymously blogging as she eats her school’s lunch every day in 2010.
One of the most [...]
When I returned to Japan from Christmas vacation, this was my first school lunch:
Baked salmon, aemono (cold vegetable dish) with spinach, tofu, carrots, konyaku, persimmons, and sesame seeds, soup with konbu and mushrooms, rice, a banana and tea. This is typical of what I eat for lunch most days, and to say that I was happy [...]
One day a month, the school’s cook (or cook teacher, as she is called, as opposed to lunch lady) takes a day off, and all the children bring an obento to school. It would be unfair to simply translate obento as a lunch box, as there is a lot more care in presentation and health [...]
