Japanese - the new international cuisine?

so international week sort of lost its umph - 和食 just seems so much easier sometimes.

Thurs: K as super hungry by 6pm, when I went to get some rice to throw natto into for her, I realised that I had set the timer on the rice cooker for 6:30AM.....this happens a bit, actually. So I had to "チン" some rice for her, and I had the left overs of the quiche. J got home only 30mins later, and he had a simple meal of natto-rice too.

Fri: 金目代の干物, miso soup, 冷奴, salad

Sat: hot dogs - freezer clean out ;-)
Sun: Kura-sushi. They have all these new items on the menu, esp some stuff for World Cup so I had a big blow-out here trying all the new stuff, as well as my usual favourites. K had 5 plates of sushi herself, including 2*salmon!!!

weekend in gunma and monday girls at home

Saturday lunch - くら寿司 (25 plates!!! K had 5 for herself, plus a 茶碗蒸し.... We are gonna hit the 3000yen mark for kaiten sushi soon the way we are going!)
night - hotel dinner (away for weekend for 忘年会 with friends) I can't remember what it all was, but it involved individual nabe and konyaku sashimi. K shared mine, which worked out the right amount for me. I also had 2 bowls of rice with it!!!

Sunday breakfast - the full monty at the hotel. K had my natto with rice for breaky. I enjoyed the pickles, and a bowl of rice, followed by some onigiri!
lunch - てんぷらそば
night - I wasn't feeling so well (perhaps from the oily tempura and long car ride?) and K had eaten in the car all the way, so K had onigiri, and J had ほっともっと from around the corner when we got home.

Monday lunch - baked beans on toast for K and me (yum)
dinner - K had tricky pasta leftovers from the other night as again not feeling hungry. Might have some snacky stuff later on, or another piece of toast.... J is at a work dinner/drinks.

long weekend round-up

Sunday Lunch: Maccas
Sunday Dinner: ramen, at home

Monday breakfast: Brown rice with fish and miso soup (J only haha. Although K did eat almost half a fish, and that was *after* her weetbix breakfast! I settled for a cuppa tea)
Monday lunch: くら寿司. I enjoyed my yuba and あぶりチーズほたてsushi followed by caramel chocolate cake
Monday Dinner: left over costco chicken pizza

attempt at veges

Dinner tonight is chicken soup with carrots, long onions, and celery. Not much variety, but plenty of volume of veges in there. Will pump up the volume with left over rice, and also some yummy bread rolls from train station bakery before we got on train to come home after our big shopping/library/bank morning out.

Left home a bit later than usual this morning when going for a walk down to the station, so "Forest" was open - stopped in to get some bread for the walk, but there was not that much there even when the shop had just opened. Strange bakery. Ended up getting the same mini-sauasage in a roll for K, and a chicken teriyaki pizza slice for me (which was yummy). Lunch was maki-sushi for K, but she dropped all of them, so went lunch-less. I had 2 oinari-san. Why do they get a -san on them, hmmm? I think our bread was filling enough that we didn't need much for lunch.

weekend eat outs

Saturday and Sunday were spent almost entirely in home centres looking for furniture. So meals were on the run (not that that is anything different to a normal weekend - I tend to avoid standing in the kitchen on weekends or public holidays, and either eat out, or let J whip something up!)

Saturday
Lunch : Sushi-ro, our favourite 100yen sushi train!
Dinner: No 18, the chinese shop down the road. I made J drive there as I was sooooo worn out from standing and walking all day. I think it took us longer to park the car, than it did to drive there from our house, that is how close it is!! The lady was happy to see us - second time in less than a week. Bet she thinks she has got some new regulars, lol. I had the 八宝菜 からあげ set, that comes with rice, pickles and soup. J had noodles and gyoza, and K had wantan soup. It was good.

Sunday
Lunch: Gusto, as it was the only place we could find after leaving one home centre, en route to the next one. I don't think I have ever eaten at Gusto before, so I was a bit dissapointed that the didn't have any bread sets, only rice and took me ages to decide on the menu(ended up having "cheese-in-hamburg" but hey, it is cheap family restaurant with drink bar so it did the trick. And K got an Anpanman lunch so she was happy too.
Dinner: J whipped up a lovely pesto pasta, served with salad. After the heavy/greasy lunch it was perfect. K had shirasu with her pasta, and yes, she lapped up the pesto pasta. She has had it before, when visiting a French friend of J's - their kids ate it, so K did too, seems that she is now a fan.

I feel like I ate too much and am still bloated this morning. I think I need to be more careful with my eating or else I am gonna explode, seriously! I am not worried about putting on weight per say while pregnant. but my body is usually pretty good at telling me when to slow down, I just feel off if I am eating too much on a regular basis. So more healthy, vege-centred meals and less snack (boo-hoo) for a little bit I thinks.

another weekend

Saturday was busy, shopping for sofas and fridges, so we ate accordingly: Ikea hot dogs for lunch, and Kura-Zushi sushi train for dinner (located right beside Yamada Denki).

We haven't been to くら寿司 for a while (actually had only been to it once before where it didn't leave much of an impression) but this time we were quite impressed by the 100yen standard and range of sushi - it beats 100yen Kappa-Zushi, or even non-100yen Bikkuri-Zushi where we went last weekend and never got half the things we ordered, as the old guy keps on saying "yep" but never making my sushi. I enjoyed the ゆばsushi this time. Oh, and the caramel cake (he-he-he). The system at Kura-zushi is pretty cool: there is a little slit at the end of the table where you put your empty plates and it counts them up automatically for you. For each 5 plates that you eat, you get a "spin of the wheel", and if you win, you get one of those toys in plastic egg cases. There is a mini touch panel screen at your table that you can order food from, and when your order is getting close to you on the conveyor belt, the touch panel starts beeping at you to let you know to take your order off! Very cool.

Sunday night was back to just K and me, so we had left-over curry and rice. I don't mind doing left-overs when there is at least a day of something else in between.