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.

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.

うめ～梅！

since I knew J was gonna be late home today, and he usually rings to say he is on his way home just as K and I are in the bath*, I wanted to prepare stuff that could be easily heated up at the last minute, so this is what I did:

＊　chicken 梅シソ (only had chicken breast, as J bought it when shopping on the weekend, and when I said to buy chicken, he thought I meant for me only, so he bought breast.Haha, now he has to eat it too - he doesn't like it, reckons it is always ぱさぱさ). I have made this recipe before, with sasami, but this was just as good, I guess since it is steamed it keeps the breast meat moist. The 梅干 were big plump ones done in honey, and delish! I just love de-stoning them, coz I get to eat the flesh left around the stones. I still have a lot of shiso left over, as bought one of those trays for 99yen (must have about 8 bunches of 10leaves each.) so tomorrow I am shiso-ing again. But I really like shiso too, so this is good!

＊　brocolli with tuna/mayo/cheese/egg topping this was yummy, will bookmark this to use again.


＊　豆腐のねぎ炒め, since I had some tofu about to go out of date. This also was good, kinda like a poor man's (as in simple version)　マーボー豆腐

and rice (1/3 玄米 2/3 white rice, since I actually remembered to soak the brown rice from this morning!) and pickles, leftover squid marinated in mirin to round it off.


*of course, we could have an earlier bath, but this afternoon we went to the neighbours for a play in the afternoon, so there wasn't much time after, and K had to eat (brocolli, chicken 混ぜrice)