Daily Menu - August 2004

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2004-08-31 Tue

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup - akazuki and teteimo | fried bean sprouts (Chinese pickles, pork and kikurage mushroom) | grated yam, natto and okra | chilled tomato
LUNCH --- gohan | grilled salmon | fried water convolvuluv, shimeji mushroom and anchovy | simmered eggplant and wax gourd (deep-fried tofu)
BETWEEN-MEALS --- raisin sandwich cookie | coffee
DINNER --- rice gruel | simmered pumpkin | eggplant with sesame paste | leavings | cheese | cracker | pear

It's called "wax gourd in spite of summer vegetable, because it comes from that used to it used to be a preserved food during winter. When we cook, it comes to clear, thicky, and a bit acidity. Nice!

2004-08-30 Mon

BREAKFAST --- gohan | clear soup of somen noodles and myoga | fried tofu with hot spicy sauce | vinegared akazuki | peach | grape
LUNCH --- gohan | baked fu with sweet miso | fried sweet pepper and bamboo shoot (pork and eringi mushroom) | pineapple
BETWEEN-MEALS --- ume plum jelly | green tea
DINNER --- rice gruel with shredded ginger | soup of wax gourd and scallop | cucumber with sakekasu | simmered soybean | braized Kiriboshi-daikon and dried Shiitake mushroom (leaving) | pickles

A new table comes today. It's Oak Village-made that we had wanted to get for a long time. When we visited workshop the other day, we fell in love with this table at first sight and bought. We feel having a dinner at hotel tonight.

2004-08-29 Sun

BRUNCH (Peco and Tomi) at soba noodles restaurant --- soba noodles
BRUNCH (Poco) --- simmered soybean (leaving) | simmered leek and cake of pounded fish (leaving) | hot somen noodles (with komatsuna and shimeji mushroom) | sushi | pear
BETWEEN-MEALS --- green shiso juice | bun which made from fu with a bean-jam filling | coffee | pear | grape | coarse tea
DINNER --- Tofu paste with komatsuna | simmered soybean | chilled boiled molokheiya (sesame) | tofu | simmered potato and chicken ball | pickles | cheese | cracker

We've not had white rice today.

2004-08-28 Sat

BRUNCH (Tomi and Peco) --- school meals
BRUNCH (Poco) --- leavings (cucumber and Chinese jellyfish salad, dressed bitter gourd and kikurage mushroom with ume plum paste, pickles) | cheese | cracker | pear | peach
DINNER --- sushi pressed in a square mold | braized Kiriboshi-daikon and dried Shiitake mushroom | wax gourd dressed with a thick starchy sauce (pork and maitake mushroom) | simmered potato and chicken ball (carrot, onion and dried shiitake mushroom) | pear | Watson pomelo jelly

We've had a bumper crop of pears this year. The pear is easy to go bad as same as fish. Then we eat hard.

2004-08-27 Fri

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (fu and myoga) | simmered leek and cake of pounded fish (dried shiitake mushroom and fu) | grated yam, natto and molokheiya | pear
LUNCH --- gohan | dressed okra and boiled fish paste with ground sesame | grilled salmon | grape
BETWEEN-MEALS --- green tea pound cake | coffee
DINNER at Japanese-style bar --- beer | sake | deep-fried ground fish meat (with octopus) | Chinese salad (mianma and black-eyed pea) | pickled eggplant | gelidium jelly | boiled green soybean | boiled thin slices of pork with sesame dressing | broiled sweetfish with salt | fu baked and coated with miso | grape jelly | yatsuhashi (sweets which is a specialty of Kyoto) | fresh squid from the sea

We had before-weekend dinner at bar of Machiko who loves dainty food. She cooked fu which we presented and squid which her husband and son fished. She is quick and expert, besides, cheerful and happy cook.

2004-08-26 Thu

BREAKFAST --- gohan | fried leek ad egg with natto (leaving) | pickles | pear
LUNCH --- chilled udon noodles | fried cabbage and pork (sweet pepper, bamboo shoot and eringi mushroom) | cucumber and Chinese jellyfish salad (squid, wakame seaweed, small tomato , myoga and sesame) | pickles | pear
BETWEEN-MEALS --- bun which made from fu with a bean-jam filling | green tea
DINNER --- fried cabbage and pork | cucumber and Chinese jellyfish salad | dressed bitter gourd and kikurage mushroom with ume plum paste | boiled soy bean (leaving) | egg jelly (leaving) | simmered soybean (leaving) | pickles | cheese | cracker

bun which made from fu with a bean-jam filling is extremely pleasant and superb sweets.

2004-08-25 Wed

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (spinach and scrambled egg) | ohitashi - komatsuna and shimeji mushroom | fried burdock and carrot | water melon
LUNCH (Poco) at soba noodles restaurant --- chilled udon noodles with vegetables tempura
BETWEEN-MEALS --- green tea pound cake | coffee
DINNER (Poco) --- pumpkin sandwich | croquette roll | beer

Tomi and Peco go on business overnight trip. They are having dinner at Yonemura which Chie and Deco recommend.

2004-08-24 Tue

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (potato and wakame seaweed) | grilled dried sardine | fried leek ad egg with natto | pear
LUNCH --- gohan | fried bitter gourd (pork, shiitake mushroom, corn and egg) | simmered pumpkin | pickled red turnip
BETWEEN-MEALS --- ice cream (melon flavor) | coffee
DINNER --- rice gruel of leaf mustard and baby sardine | cucumber with sakekasu | egg jelly | boiled green soybean | simmered soybean | simmered potato and cake of pounded fish with egg | pear

What has been on the table these days is pear "Kousui" variety grown in Kureha. They are harvested only during two weeks this season.

2004-08-23 Mon

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (spinach and egg) | simmered potato and cake of pounded fish with egg (onion, shimeji mushroom) | okra and natto with ume plum paste | grilled pickled mackerel with grated radish | pear
LUNCH --- gohan | simmered fu, dried adductor muscle and dried shiitake mushroom | grilled dried squid | vinegared cucumber and octopus | pineapple
BETWEEN-MEALS --- milk pudding | tea
DINNER --- rice porridge with nameko mushroom and tofu | croquette | deep-fried sardine | broiled eel | grilled eggplant | vinegared akazuki | sugar flavored kidney beans | sauteed eggplant and green pepper with miso (leaving) | pickles | water melon

We have a good appetite, I should say. We haven't known weariness from the heat this summer, too (including a cat).

2004-08-22 Sun

BRUNCH at ramen noodles restaurant --- beer | chilled tofu | gyoza | breaded pork cutlet | salt ramen noodles (Tomi) | miso ramen noodles with deep-fried dish, rice ball (Peco) | ramen noodles with leek and rice ball (Poco)
DINNER --- hot-pot of tofu and nameko mushroom | sauteed eggplant and green pepper with miso | vinegared cucumber and octopus | grilled pickled mackerel | spaghetti (tomato and anchovy | squid) | bread | cheese | pear

At dinner we cooked at random, and then it became semi-Western-Chinese cooking.

2004-08-21 Sat

BRUNCH --- gohan | sashimi (yellowtail) | grilled saury with grated radish | okra and cake of pounded fish (myoga and sesame seed) | boiled komatsuna and yuba (deep-fried tofu and shiitake mushroom) | gelidium jelly | vinegared akazuki | pickles (radish, cucumber and carrot) | pickled eggplant
DINNER (Peco and Poco) at soba noodles restaurant --- fried eggplant and sweet pepper with sweet miso | pickles (eggplant and cucumber) | rolled omelet | chilled soba noodles with vegetables tempura | adzuki-bean soup with buckwheat | beer | shochu (a clear liquor of buckwheat)

The saury which fishmonger recommended was plump and juicy !

2004-08-20 Fri

BREAKFAST --- gohan | clear soup of asari clam (fu and myoga) | grilled pickled sardine with grated radish | cucumber with sakekasu | molokheiya and natto | boiled green soybean | pear
LUNCH --- gohan | sauteed zucchini and shimeji mushroom with sweet miso | tofu paste with bitter gourd | pickled Chinese cabbage | grape
BETWEEN-MEALS --- cookie | coffee
DINNER --- chilled or hot udon noodles | steam asari clam steeped in sake | boiled green soybean | simmered eggplant and black-eyed pea (leaving) | sauteed okara (leaving) | steamed cabbage and salmon (leaving) | water melon

I thought to make other dish for fried one, and I dressed with tofu paste. It's for higher.

2004-08-19 Thu

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (spinach and egg) | grilled Atka mackerel | steamed cabbage and salmon | chilled tomato | pickles | pear
LUNCH --- gohan | simmered eggplant and black-eyed pea (deep-fried tofu and eringi mushroom) | fried lettuce and dried shiitake mushroom | pickled eggplant
BETWEEN-MEALS --- grapefruit jelly | tea
DINNER --- rice gruel with ginger | vinegared akazuki | simmered carrot, bamboo shoot, baked tofu, deep-fried tofu, royal fern and dried shiitake mushroom | cucumber and Chinese jellyfish salad (leaving) | fried squid and cabbage (leaving) | egg jelly (leaving) | water melon

It was hot and hot thanks? to typhoon. When it's hot, water melon is good.

2004-08-18 Wed

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (spinach and deep-fried tofu) | fried squid and cabbage (sweet pepper, carrot, shiitake mushroom and onion) | cucumber and Chinese jellyfish salad (tomato, myoga and enoki mushroom) | dressed okra with ume plum | pear | fig
LUNCH --- gohan | simmered carrot, bamboo shoot, baked tofu, deep-fried tofu, royal fern and dried shiitake mushroom | egg jelly | grilled squid | pickles
BETWEEN-MEALS --- mitsumame topped with bean jam | coffee
DINNER (Tomi) --- leaf mustard and baby sardine pilaf (frozen food) | fried burdock and carrot | vinegared cucumber ad yam | grilled summer vegetables (eggplant, myoga and green pepper) | grapfruit jelly
DINNER (Peco and Poco) --- chilled udon noodles (myoga) | grilled summer vegetables (eggplant, myoga and green pepper) | dressed bitter gourd and squid with ume plum | gelidium jelly | vinegared mozuku seaweed | simmered soybean (leaving) | fried konnyaku (leaving) | fried leaf mustard (leaving) | pickled eggplant

Lunch box reopen today. Hot reopen, too.

2004-08-17 Tue

BRUNCH --- pressed sushi with trout | cucumber with sakekasu | chilled tomato | simmered pumpkin | fried burdock and carrot | boiled okra dreesed with ume plum | pickles (carrot, cucumber, eggplant and radish) | pear
DINNER --- gohan | eggplant and green pepper curry | fried konnyaku | fried leaf mustard | vinegared cucumber and yam | simmered Soybean | pickled eggplant | water melon

Because we've had a lot everyday during the Bon, it's a day of abstinence today.

2004-08-16 Mon

BRUNCH--- gohan | miso soup - akazuki and teteimo | grilled cod and salmon | fried bitter gourd | grilled eggplant | cucumber with sakekasu (myouga) | simmered thick cucumber with starchy sauce | vinegared akazuki | boiled eggplant with sesame paste | simmered soybean | chilled tomato | boiled green soybean | pickles (carrot, cucumber, eggplant, myoga and radish) | coarse tea
DINNER --- pressed sushi with trout | vinegared cucumber and yam (myoga) | fried eggplant sn deep-fried tofu | simmered soybean | croquette | deep-fried sardine | leavings (grilled eggplant, simmered thick cucumber with starchy sauce, fried bitter gourd, boiled green soybean and vinegared akazuki) | pear

Summer all-star vegetables assembled in full force on the table at brunch.

2004-08-15 Sun

Summer holiday

2004-08-14 Sat

Summer holiday

2004-08-13 Fri

BRUNCH --- gohan | chilled tofu | gelidium jelly | boiled sweet corn | simmered sweet corn in apple juice (leaving)
DINNER --- cucumber with sakekasu | grilled eggplant | simmered thick cucumber with starchy sauce | pear

When we make cucumber with sakekasu, lately it's popular in my house that we cut cucumber into 7 or 8 millimeter thick and enter myoga.

2004-08-12 Thu

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (myoga and somen noodles) | boiled okra with ume dressing | simmered fried bean curd cake and konbu | simmered sweet potato in apple juice (thawed) | pickled eggplant | peach
LUNCH --- gohan | grilled salmon | fried sweet pepper and bamboo shoot (pork and kikurage mushroom) | pumpkin salad (tomato and cucumber) | fig
BETWEEN-MEALS --- pudding-like arrowroot cake | powdered green tea
DINNER --- chilled udon noodles | boiled sweet corn | chilled tofu | simmered deep-fried potato (leaving) | Sugar flavored kidney beans (leaving) | cheese | red wine | pear

The dishes always on the table 2 : Soft pickled plum

2004-08-11 Wed

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (fu and myoga) | grilled dried sardine | vinegared shredded radish and carrot | sugar flavored kidney beans (thawed) | peach
LUNCH --- unrolled sushi | sauteed eggplant and green pepper with miso | spring roll | lightly-pickled cucumber and myoga in soy sauce
BETWEEN-MEALS --- coated almond | coffee
DINNER (Tomi) --- unrolled sushi | hijiki croquette | simmered radish and chicken ball (leaving) | grilled flatfish (leaving) | sauteed okara (leaving) | boiled komatsuna and asari clam (leaving) | pickles
DINNER (Peco and Poco) --- somen noodles | simmered deep-fried potato | simmered fried bean curd cake and konbu | cucumber with sakekasu (myoga) | fried cabbage and pork with miso (leaving) | peach

The dishes always on the table 1 : Tsukudani (food boiled down in soy)

2004-08-10 Tue

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (pumpkin) | fried cabbage and pork with miso (sweet pepper, eringi mushroom and bamboo shoot) | spinach with sesame paste | peach
LUNCH --- gohan | grilled flatfish | sauteed okara | pickles (carrot and cucumber)
BETWEEN-MEALS --- pudding | coffee
DINNER (home party at Yoshie's house) --- beer | sake | white wine (Meursault 1997) | sashimi (sea bream, suzuki and squid sandwiched between sheets of konbu) | fried bitter gourd and squid's legs (tofu and egg) | pickled cucumber and myoga with sakekasu | simmered adductor muscle and konbu | simmered fried bean curd cake and dried shiitake mushroom | simmered eggplant and myoga | hijiki hamburg steak with grated radish | salad (tomato, cucumber and lettuce) | tomato stew | gohan | pickles | fu bun with a bean-jam filling | tangerine | green tea

We were invited to the home party today. We had a lot of Yoshie's thoughtful and healthy treat and drunk a bit (lot?) of good sake.

2004-08-09 Mon

BREAKFAST --- gohan | kimuchi nabe | chilled tomato | pickles (radish)
LUNCH --- gohan | grilled salmon | scrambled tofu (carrot, corm, fresh soy bean, shiitake mushroom and bamboo shoot) | pickles (eggplant and myoga)
BETWEEN-MEALS --- sweet snow (Korean sweets) | coffee
DINNER --- rice gruel seasoned with kimuchi | simmered radish and chicken ball | cucumber with sakekasu | various leavings

Hot pot from the morning. We had it with streams of perspiration pouring.

2004-08-08 Sun

BRUNCH --- gohan | sashimi (squid) | fried eggplant and deep-fried tofu (eringi mushroom) | freid sweet pepper (minced chicken and maitake mashroom) | vinegared octopus and cucumber | okra and natto | chilled tofu | gelidium jelly | pickled eggplant | cold tea
DINNER --- gohan | simmered pumpkin | boiled komatsuna and asari clam (shimeji mushroom) | boiled sweet corn | various leavings

Peco cooked with sweating in the morning.

2004-08-07 Sat

BRUNCH --- rice gruel with ginger | boiled sweet corn | boiled bean sprouts (pork, Chinese pickles, kikurage mushroom, myoga ad tomato) | grilled horse mackerel | sashimi (yellowtail and shrinp) | gelidium jelly | simmered akazuki and kipper with Japanese pepper (thawed) | grilled green pepper | grape
DINNER at Sushi bar --- vinegared horse mackerel (yam and cucumber) | sashimi (octopus, squid, vinegared mackerel and abalone) | vinegared cockle (yam and cucumber) | hand-rolled sushi (abalone, egg, the fatty meat of tuna, rolled sushi, flavored boiled rice and natto wrapped in fried bean curd) | beer (chimay blue and kirin) | sake (shimehari)

We, especially Poco, had sushi at sushi bar after a long time.

2004-08-06 Fri

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup (tofu and myoga) | grilled dried barracuda | vinegared cucumber and octopus with myoga | molokheiya and natto | peach
LUNCH (Tomi) at soba noodles restaurant --- soba noodles with vegetables tempura
LUNCH (Peco and Poco) --- gohan | fried sweet pepper and baby sardine (leaving) | lightly-pickled eggplant and cucumber | blueberry
BETWEEN-MEALS --- fruit cake and chocolate muffin | coffee
DINNER --- grilled rice ball (baby sardine, red shiso and sesame) | boiled sweet corn | boiled green soybean | gelidium jelly | cucumber with sakekasu | sashimi (horse mackerel) | fried eggplant and bitter gourd (leaving) |

The menu suitable for summer.

2004-08-05 Thu

BREAKFAST --- gohan | clear soup of spinach and sesame pudding | fried sweet pepper and baby sardine with myoga | simmered eel and leek with egg (burdock, fu and enoki mushroom) | chilled tomato | peach
LUNCH --- gohan | simmered sweet potato in apple juice | deep-fried eggplant with sweet miso | pickles
BETWEEN-MEALS --- apple jelly | coffee
DINNER at Japanese-style bar --- draft beer | sake | simmered octopus | oden (butterbur, ground fish meat, potato and konnyaku) | vinegared mozuku seaweed | sliced yam | broiled sweetfish | vinegared mackerel | grilled satoimo with sweet miso | potato salad | grilled leek | grilled chicken wing | fried vegetables | sashimi (the fatty meat of tuna) | soba noodles

It's a bad to eat late at night. But, it's fine occasionally...

2004-08-04 Wed

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup - akazuki and teteimo | deep-fried eggplant with sweet miso (walnut, yuzu, plane) | boiled Moroccan kidney bean | okra and natto
LUNCH --- gohan | Tofu paste with Komatsuna | deep-fried sardine | pickles
BETWEEN-MEALS --- rice cracker with almond | coffee
DINNER (Tomi) --- pilaf with leaf mustard (frozen food) | chilled tofu | broiled eel | simmered chicken ball and potato with tomato juice (leaving) | fried eggplant (leaving) | sesame pudding | pickles | grape | banana
DINNER (Peco and Poco)--- ready-made sushi | chilled tofu | gelidium jelly | cucumber with sakekasu | pickled eggplant | simmered chicken ball and potato with tomato juice (leaving) | water melon

Do eat plenty of food to not suffer from the heat.

2004-08-03 Tue

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup | pickled eggplant | fried eggplant and bitter gourd | vinegared cucumber and eel
LUNCH --- gohan | grilled mackerel | simmered chicken ball and potato with tomato juice (onion and carrot) | lightly-pickled eggplant and cucumber | peach
BETWEEN-MEALS --- orange flavored ice cream | coffee
DINNER --- rice gruel with a lot of shredded ginger | sugar flavored kidney beans | chilled tofu | vinegared akazuki | fried eggplant and zucchini (thawed) | sauteed okara (thawed)

There are many dishes using eggplant today, too.

2004-08-02 Mon

BREAKFAST --- gohan | miso soup - akazuki and teteimo | grilled pickled sardine | grilled eggplant | eggplant with sesame paste | vinegared cucumber and squid (enoki mushroom and myoga) | peach
LUNCH --- unrolled sushi (dried gourd shavings, dried shiitake mushroom, egg and okra) | fried eggplant | vinegared akazuki | water melon
BETWEEN-MEALS --- bun with a bean-jam filling | coffee
DINNER (Tomi and Peco) at Japanese restaurant --- simmered summer vegetables | sashimi (abalone, squid and shrimp) | grilled fish | tilefish steeped in sake and steamed | fresh oyster with lemon | rice boiled with myoga | miso soup of grilled eggplant | pickles | assorted fruits | wine jelly with whipping cream
DINNER (Poco) --- unrolled sushi eith grilled eel | grilled green pepper | simmered radish | pickled eggplant | beer (shimay blue)

There are lots of dishes using eggplant today. Yesterday we bought many vegetables at shop which sold products direct from the farm. And Peco cooked with labor.

2004-08-01 Sun

BRUNCH --- rice gruel | miso soup (potato and wakame seaweed) | fried sweet pepper | fried chabbage and squid | cucumber with sakekasu | pickles | Japanese pear
DINNER (Tomi and Peco) at soba noodles restaurant --- soba noodles and vegetables tempura | curry udon noodles | sake

It's very hot everyday. Peco cook against its hot weather. And someone eat heartily.

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