a full day

This blog has mainly listed out dinners, as I know that I am not (what is the word I am looking for here??) enough to upload what we eat at each meal, each day, however recently I have been trying to make sure that L, and K for that matter, get a good balance of food, so I am gonna try to upload our full daily menu to analyse our eating habits/diet.

(does that paragraph make sense? brain not working, ready for bed...)

Tues Feb 15th
B'fast: spinach and cheese muffins (gee, they really are good!!)

Lunch: Chicken mince, onion, grated carrot, grated pumpkin, tinned tomato* "mac'n'cheese"
Well, am guessing it was like a mac'n'cheese, as I have never had it.
Simply fried up the chicken mince, onion, carrot and pumpkin in olive oil, then added half a tin of tomatoes, then cooked fusilli pasta then mixed in grated cheese.

Dinner: Seafood Thai curry with tumeric rice
Scallops, prawns, abalone, lotus root, carrot and young corn (It makes me laugh that I had all these ingredients in the house, lol!)

The kids had つるつるわかめ, fried potatoes and salmon-rice (L also tried out a corn, but I don't know how much of it he ate ;)


* I didn't intend to put tinned tomato in - still had a bit of tomato puree (in a glass bottle) which I threw into the chicken/vege mix, only to look at the rim of the bottle and see MOULD!! eeewww!! I was this close to throwing the whole thing out, but had nothing else for lunch, so I threw out the bits that had sauce on them (luckily I had tipped the sauce all in one spot, so it was easy to separate) and then used the small amount of un-tainted mix to make the new pasta sauce with tinned tomatoes.

monday night seafood extravaganza

Kaisen-don
MIL had given us some salmon roe a few weeks ago, so I pulled that out of the freezer, to use up with the smoked salmon. I told J at lunch time what we were having, and he said he would bring some tuna home (I *SO* knew he was gonna say that, lol) but he ended up coming home with ミル貝 (pacific gaper clam) and squid to go on our 海鮮丼. SO it was another day of　贅沢.... (very yummy tho!)



Served with egg roll; daikon, 油揚げ and wakame miso soup; green salad with cucumber (yay, have been craving cuc for a while actually - prob simply because it was something ridiculous like 79yen EACH! Finally found them for 39yen each on Saturday); spinach　おひたし, extra avocado and pickles.