Thurs Feb 17th

B'fast - cereal for K (small bowl only)
- mango in yoghurt for L and me

Lunch - onigiri and anman

well, the story behind this is that K chucked a major wobbly at playgroup, screaming for udon about half-way through, putting her shoes on and attempting to leave.....not really sure why,, except maybe that I wasn't paying attention to her coz it my turn to run an activity. Oh, and maybe she was actually hungry, looking over what she had for b'fast, and no snack before playgroup, oops ;(. Anyway, we ended up with conbini bought lunch, eating it on the way home rather than our regular eat together after playgroup "date"

Dinner - Kimchi nabe for J and me. Pork, oysters, chinese cabbage, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, tofu, leek and udon.

K and L had grilled chicken, pumpkin, carrot, asparagus; and udon noodles.

what do you do for dinner, on a cold winter's night??

肉うどん, of course (!?)

While I had thought of doing a nabe, for the night before J goes away for a biz trip to France, I didn't have any pork, or plain fish and was weary of trying a nabe with beef (altho sukiyaki would have been nice, I don't think the beef we had was good enough for that!), so I went back to what I know - niku-udon, and threw in all the veges we have, so a nice fridge clean up to boot too.

Sliced beef with chinese cabbage, carrots, shiitake, shimeji mushrooms, sliced daikon, Japanese leeks, and flavoured the broth with katsuo-dashi and konbu-tsuyu. Easy, peasy, but yummy.

International food week begins

Sun: JAPAN >edamame tofu, somen, squid (sashimi style and with olive oil/s&p). we had lunch at sushi-ro, just to keep with the theme ;-)
Mon: THAILAND > Pad Thai

lets see if I really can go a different country each night this week, lol.

懐かしい

Nagasaki champon for dinner.

I have never made it before, but figure it can't be too hard - it comes like an instant noodle mix. I probably could have even made it from scratch, oh well.

I lived in Nagasaki (sasebo) for a year when I was on high school exhange, and my host family used to take me to Ringer Hut for champon. I never ate it at home - I guess Ringer Hut is so nice and cheap that even Nagasakiites don't bother making it at home. J and I used to go to Ringer Hut a bit, when we lived near his parents as there was one close by, but we haven't been for ages. I always end up ordering 皿うどん when I go anyway, hehe.

But since we had the prawns, pork, chinese cabbage, and carrots in the fridge, all I need i s J to bring home the snow peas and squid and we have an a Nagasaki champon to rival Ringer Hut!