Kyuushoku for 25 May

Tuesday

A taste of home

Wild plant rice（山菜ごはん）

Milk（牛乳）

Fried slapjack tuna （カツオの揚げ煮）

Cabbage with sesame dressing（キャペツのごま酢和え）

Miso soup with potatoes（じゃがいものみそ汁）

782 Kcal

36.3 g of protein

There was havoc in the kyuushoku centre yesterday. The heavens opened up on Sunday night and let pour the most unholy storm here in Hyogo. Luckily no one died in the flooding and only a few people were injured enough to go to the hospital. This, however, was not the major news in Sasasyama. The weather centre issued a warning and since the weather centre is probably some off shoot of the ministry of education, science, technology, porcelain and lacey doilies’ freshwater fish division, school was canceled. The schools main worry was not really the students or the rushing water around them, but what the kyuushoku centre would be doing with all of the extra food they’ve been preparing. When school is canceled or teachers take unforeseen breaks, the kyuushoku centre is always in the forefront of the worries.

Anyway, so today was yesterday’s menu. I’m not sure if this means we are going to be one day off for the rest of the year or this is a temporary fix. You can never really tell with these things.

Sansai, literally “mountain vegetation”, are a bunch of edible wild plants made famous in the spring time when the mountains are turning green again. These aren’t as feral as the name suggests. I highly doubt they are even grown on the side of the mountain anymore. My favourite sansai is the whirly looking plant. (shown up there on the menu by the fish)

Katsuo is either called bonito or slapjack tuna. I’ve been told that it’s not actually a tuna but a relative of the tuna. It tastes enough like a tuna though. The katsuo today was pretty good. It was like a katsuo steak or something with some sort of soy sauce on top.

The salad was a traditional kyuushoku fave. No complaints. Same goes with the miso soup. Thank you for just going with what works kyuushoku ladies, even though you’d probably break my legs if I skipped out on lunch some day.

5 shishamo