Curry Bunny

I know "curry again!" But it's easy. And they eat up, that's the best part! 

Colorful Sandwich and more

I'm getting lazy these days. Just simple everything-they-like lunch. 

Bunny Sandich with Vegetables

This lunch is for JJ. It's Saturday, so they have to go to Japanese school all day. 

One of great things about Japanese school is that they have 45 minutes lunch break. 

Especially for kindergardeners, they spent enough time to finish their lunch. 

Ones who are finished early, there is a story time waiting. (thanks to volunteer moms!)

What a treat! And they stop at the bathroom before lunch for kids to wash their hands! 

Hope they will have a nice day at school :) 

Curry Heart

It's Valentine's day week. So the theme is "heart." 

I made heart shaped rice balls and placed in curry. 

Lion Rice ball

This is really easy. Round rice ball in a silicone cup, made it look like a lion. 

I love Panda Bento

I love you rice balls with hot dogs. Made strawberries in heart shape :) 

Butter Roll Sandwich

There is a really good Japanese style bakery in Novi. 

This week, I bought a bag of dinner rolls, and made them 

into sandwich. Elephants are just decoration :) 

Vege and tortilla sandwich

I like adding all the fruits and vege like this. It is colorful and delicious. 

Japanese Pumpkin

Once in a while I feel like traditional Japanese food. This is pumpkin, 

cooked in soy, sake, milin, sugar, and dashi. Yum. 

Curry Bunny and Snowman

This is repeat, but kids favorite curry and rice. I made bunny for JJ and snowman for CC.

It's easy, you can use left over from dinner. 

Brown Rice Pilaf

Normally, brown rice is kind of hard to eat. You know it is healthier. But if you 

don't cook right, it doesn't taste good at all! 

Now, I used my new pressure cooker and that turn out so good! 

 In 6qt size pressure cooker, 4 cups of brown rice, one cup of frozen corn, 

one cup of frozen peas, and one and a half cup of frozen carrots. 

Heat one Tsp butter, add all ingredients, mix a little, add 

3 3/4 cup of chicken stock. Then let the cook the rest! 

White Rice

This is white rice. It may not look anything significant. 

However, it does. Why? Because I cooked this in my new pressure cooker! 

Each grain of rice stood up and so shinny! I'm very excited :) 

Japanese Fried Chicken

If you are wondering what is different in Japanese style fried chicken, here 

is ingredients: marinate chicken in soy sauce and grounded ginger.

Then use corn starch for breading, not flour. You can use flour, too, but 

that made the breading kind of heavy. You don't need dipping sauce. 

But my kids like to dip in the Ranch dressing. 

My lunch 10

When kids are at school and having lunch alone at home, this is what I have for lunch. 

It may not look very much, but rich in flavors. The egg omelette is my new 

favorite. I can almost eat this every meal. 

My lunch 9

What I have here is: Salmon flakes over rice, egg omelette, Maitake mushrooms, 

cucumber with shiso/kombu flakes mix, fruits. 

My new favorite is this egg omelette. Yellow one was left over from 

kids lunch. Then I made this Osaka flavor omelette I had just learned 

from my friend. Simply mixed with chopped green onions, and red ginger, 

maybe small amount of Dashi soup (powder) then cook in the same way 

that you would cook egg omelette. The ginger tastes great with eggs 

that gives some kick to it. It's not necessarily spicy, but I like salty or 

spicy over sweet. It is delicious :)