#cucumbers

Kale cukes and farm fresh eggs. Dining well tonight! #harvest #cucumbers #kale#gardeners #healthifestyle
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07.13.2020

This blog will likely no longer be active after July 15th. I am returning to my home country and therefore will no longer be experiencing Japanese food. I doubt people will be interested in quarantine food or plain Canadian food.

Today I went for lunch with a former English teacher to a lovely little restaurant in Shimanto. We had the soup curry with mixed rice and a salad. It was actually a little spicy.

07.09.2020

Today marks my final day at my Junior High School and thus my final day eating school lunch. It’s been quite a fun three years here in Japan. School lunches have opened me up to a lot of foods I would have never thought to experience (whole smelt). 

Today was egg and chicken in a soupy bowl. Katsuo rice. Finally a salad of pickled cucumber and bean sprouts. Also a frozen mikan for dessert.

I’ll miss Japanese school lunches so much!

07.08.2020

Second to last lunch. Can you see the massive difference between how my school serves rice vs how my friend’s school gives her rice? So much less. It was barley rice today. There was also nori to eat along with it. There was a clear consomme soup with bacon, noodles and veggies. The salad was a pickled cabbage and cucumber salad. Finally the tofu was covered in tuna and cheese and baked. Pretty damn good.

07.07.2020

Only a few days left. Today was a busy, busy day so I forgot to take a picture. Thankfully, one of my coworkers did!

We had a delicious mixed rice, cucumber pickles, a very slimy noodle soup. It featured okra heavily but had a mild taste. Finally, lots of fried smelt. There was also a jelly for dessert. It was the tanebata festival so it was star themed.

07.02.2020

This is not a school lunch. I had to go to Kochi City with a friend for visa purposes. So we decided to stop for lunch at a nice cafe offering a set meal for lunch. The daily menu for this lunch changes. It was 880 yen for this meal. 

It featured miso soup and white rice along with some side dishes (a leafy pickled salad, some sort of stem pickled with bonito flakes and then daikon thath ad been boiled with konyaku. There was fried shrimp with tartar sauce, chicken karaage and also steak! Finally some pickled daikon and cucumber.

07.03.2020

We’re into July now. Only 5 more days of school lunch for me at this point and I’m going to be missing it! Friday was a nice, classic vegetable curry (featuring pork as well). There was a daikon salad in some sort of peanut dressing. Barley rice. Finally there was a citrus fruit called a “mishoukan”. It was similar to a buntan in that you peel away the sections and eat only the middle. 

06.26.2020

ANOTHER request lunch. Wow! Three in one month but this time it wasn’t karaage. This time we had steak and onion and potato salad! Very unique. Though egg drop soup and wakame seaweed rice made a repeat appearance. This time a blueberry crepe instead of a chocolate one. Overall, really good.

06.25.2020

Really yummy lunch today! Some dumplings, a nice salad with fresh summer corn. A bowl of pork and tofu to put over barley rice. It was filling and really good.

06.23.2020

Not the greatest lunch but it was okay. The cucumber salad definitely had some sesame oil in it which made it delicious! The donburi bowl of pork and bamboo was also pretty good. We had white rice and then a snack of dried beans. 

And also a disgusting mini tomato.

06.18.2020

Today I left school a little hungry because there was no way I was eating a salad specifically called “tomato salad”. Nope. But I did eat the mushroom curry and barley rice. There was also a delicious sumomo plum!

06.16.2020

Absolutely delicious lunch. Fried iwashi fish, cucumber and cabbage salad, white rice and a massive bowl of some sort of potato and tofu salad. There was also a tomato but you know I didn’t eat that.

05.13.2020 / 05.14.2020

Once again, sides were the same. From the same batch. However on Wednesday and Thursday I went with sandwiches. I had egg salad on Wednesday and tuna on Thursday. Overall, still pretty good!!

05.11.2020 / 05.12.2020

We’re back at school baby (whether I think that’s a good idea or not). The stupid virus has gotten in the way of this little project but we will persist! For the month of May I’m bringing my own lunch but I purchased most of it at the supermarket. Karaage, tofu and spinach salad, potato salad and lotus root salad. Finally white rice.

As you can see on the bottom photo, Tuesday’s lunch was basically identical. However I added on some furikake to the rice.

April 30, 2020

Schools are still closed. There are some lovely restaurants though that have started doing take-out. One of these places is Cafe Watch. They closed down their store and moved the check out register to the front door and set up a little booth from there. You can do sandwiches and coffee. We got the egg salad sandwiches and iced coffee. The total cost was 900 yen.

04.07.2020

School started again. Not a good decision and schools are set to close from Monday again. However, for some bizarre reason, school continued for the remainder of the week.

Today’s lunch was white rice, a salad of wilted cucumber and daikon radish with little fishes. Finally buta-don (pork and vegetables eaten over rice). An orange for dessert.