June 27 July 1

June 25-27 away for weekend. Dinner at saizeria mon night on way home.

June 28 - chicken schnitzels with whole baked baby potatoes, carrots, cabbage and zucchini
Schnitzels crumbed in panko, parmesan, Italian parsley, garlic. Served with sweet pickles, yum!

June 29- Hokke fillets, chinjao rosu, rice. l was soooooo clingy and fussy last night -- he ate no dinner himself, neither did I (had some rice with furikake at about 10pm). Had to use up those pesky piman(red and green). K had natto, Hokke and piman rice ;)

June 30- yakisoba with 生春巻き(goi cuon= Vietnamese spring rolls)
**edit** ditched the spring rolls and went for:
* prawn and squid 塩焼そば　(salt rather than sauce yakisoba)

July 1- hmmmmm....curry perhaps?
***edit*** Friday night I ended up doing frugal friday course of:
* zucchini and tuna champuru (poor man's version of champuru, J was not very impressed, but I actually really enjoyed it!!)
* fried dumplings (焼き小籠包)

I sea food

**Preface**: PIL rang up Sun afternoon to say they had sent us some seafood from Hokkaido(wakkanai to be exact) where they are spending 2-3weeks driving around. Mon morning the delivery guy came with two big boxes, which I opened to find:

15 scallops, in shells

octopus

sea cucumber (I DO like this)

2 snow crabs

1 king crab legs

some kind of fish fillets

AND an entire Salmon!!!! Which J had to hack into while still frozen to cut fillets
Hope this explains some of our seemingly extravagant meals for this week :)
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Sun Jun 19- curry and rice
Mon Jun 20- seared s+p scallops and zucchini, curry leftovers
Tues Jun 21- steamed salmon and vege in a pot, rice
Wed Jun 22- Chinese chili prawns; cabbage in oyster sauce; snow crab; rice. Kids had vege prawn maze-Gohan but K also enjoyed the crab!!
Thurs Jun 23- Spag Bol with carrots, red piman, zucchini, onion, mince. Cucumber, tomato and shiso salad. French baguette
Fri Jun 24- ??

June 13-

mon Jun 13 --
spinach, onion, eringi mushroom quiche
mashed potato; pumpkin, carrots
Cream of celery and cabbage soup

{planned menus for the upcoming week}

豚キムチ -- tonight!!

yakisoba (big cabbage in fridge!!)

chili prawns (J's request)

beef stew/casserole

Would ideally like to have fish one night too, so may have to revise this as we go.

June dinners in review

(lucky I keep note most nights in my notebook)

Wed Jun 2nd - チンジャオロース (inspired by Lulu and her menu planning!!)
Fri Jun 3rd - yakitori, inari, chirashi sushi bentos. J had a biz trip to Osaka, and we picked him up at shink station, and got some bentos for dinner then too.
Sat Jun 4th - 回鍋肉
Sun Jun 5th - lunch for MIL birthday at yakiniku, somen noodles for dinner!

Mon June 6th - J had work dinner, so natto rice night for me and the kids, plus a piece of the crumbed cod (tomorrow's dinner)

Tues Jun 7th - garlic breadcrumbed cod, eggplant/zucchini/onion short pasta in tomato sauce.

Wed Jun 8th - J had work drinks, so rice and shirasu and spinach for the kids.

Thurs June 9th - teriyaki chicken drumsticks, miso soup

Fri June 10th -
b'fast was the most tasteless bread ever! Used salted butter and thought that it would mean I dont have to add the tsp of salt!! Oh no! So so so bland!
lunch - onigiri and teriyaki chicken leftovers bento
dinner - Indian vege curry (packet mix from Aus) with zucchini, potato, beans. We never have Indian at home. Wouldn't you beleive it that the only day we do, J has Indian all you can eat for lunch!!! rotflmao ;) oops. Kids had rice with shirasu/leftovers.

Sat June 11th -
b'fast - fresh white/rye bread toast
lunch - chinese at bamiyan
dinner - vege platter (carrots, cucumber, olives, cheese and french onion dip; sweet pickles/ sweet chili sauce/yoghurt dip) and bbq at home with friends. Steak, eggplant, asparagus, pumpkin, chicken wings. YUM! and lots of champagne;)

Sun June 12th -

b'fast - fresh bread, croissants, scrambled egg, bacon, sausages
lunch - eringi mushrooms and zucchini fettuccini in white cream sauce
somen, steak and onion in ponzu, salad