Thursday, March 10, 2011

Grainy

L has had a fever all week so basically not eating much more than plain rice or bread, if anything at all.

Mon 7
Pork, 春菊, mizuna, mushroom kimchee nabe, with noodles ( realized too late that had no tofu or oysters for that matter lol, J added frozen squid to the pot when he got home)
Kids had noodles in broth (altho L did enjoy a bit of my kimchee laced pork to suck on)

Tues 8
Dinner- salmon; renkon Kinpira; baby leaf, beetroot, mixed beans, cucumber, carrot and tomato salad; 6-grain rice

Wed 9
B/fast: 6-grain bread in my attempt at whole grain bread. Unfortunately the grains were a bit too hard!!!
Lunch: Egg s/w
Dinner- niku-jaga; mizuna, baby leaf, tomato salad; rice; renkon and yamaimo burgers(?) which I kinda found ok, surprisingly ad I don't usually like yamaimo http://www.kikkoman.co.jp/homecook/search/recipe.php?numb=00001806

Thurs 10
B/fast -- cereal
Lunch-- ham and cheese s/w
Dinner-- I had leftover nabe while the kids had shirasu and rice
(J drinks with boss after work)
Grapes after dinner

Friday, March 4, 2011

Teriyaki chicken finally makes an appearance!

For weeks now I have been wanting to have teriyaki chicken, after kel mentioned it!

Finally got some chicken (drumsticks?!) and marinated them up. Also found some fuki-no-tou at the supermarket, and seems the only way to really eat it is done in tempura. So i braved it- my first ever tempura!!! With batter from a packet, of course. Relatively easy with the IH stovetop. But still a bit of fussing around. Doubt I will bother again

Thurs- breakfast
Lunch- onigiri
Dinner- teriyaki chicken, tempura maiatake, fuki-no-tou and かき揚げ; 揚げ豆腐 with 小松菜 in konbu tsuyu; 16grain rice

Fri- dinner- natto rice for K, shirasu rice for L, curry rice for J and Thai food with beer for me! (I actually had a night out!!)

Sat breakfast - onion and bacon bread from bakery (yummy, and only 390 yen for a big loaf!)
Lunch - udon at home
Dinner - we went out to the Peking Duck restaurant "Cafe 8" again!! Loved it!! Even L seemed to enjoy his duck!

Sun - breakfast - onion, bacon bread
Lunch - Denny's (I had katsudon, K had udon, of course! L had some of everyone's rice, noodles, and J's veges)
Dinner - beef stew and rice, farmers market brocolli

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

looks like we are into broccoli at the moment

Sun breakfast- croissants
Lunch- ramen at chinese restaurant near garden shop that has like 50 old bats working in the kitchen, a bit like a co-op type restaurant. Old-style ramen taste.
Dinner - J made a mac'n'cheese type pasta dish

Mon breakfast - croissants
L had yogurt/farex and kiwi fruit

lunch - out at friend's house cream stew
L also had a banana and some cream cheese pita-rolls

dinner -
L had rice with pureed broccoli, and a selection of broccoli, cherry tomatoes, blueberries
K had rice with tofu, and side selection as above
I got left over curry
J had rice, salad, アジ干物, 冷奴

Tues breakfast
Lunch - egg sandwiches
Dinner - ginger pork (that K helped me make, which meant she actually ate it!!) with rice, salad, and stir-fry eggplant/asparagus and maitake in oyster sauce

Wed breakfast - pizza toast
Lunch - rice with fried cod.
Dinner - J has work drinks, so I am using up the eggs (we bought them 2* times this week, so have a bit of an overload. Vege Quiche (broccoli, sweet potato and eggplant?? hmm, wonder how that will go) and mashed potato.

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edit: So I ended up doing a slightly twisted version of this recipe which basically means I added eggplant, capsicum and asparagus. Was pretty good! ended up serving with steamed sweet potato. L lapped it up (K not so much so, but she enjoyed the sweet potato at least)