mugi-cha(sun tea style)

Making barley tea:-)

4/20

daughter's :

I made fried soy bean with sweet and sour sauce. It is tasty for a bento box. It's hard to eat with chopsticks...

How to make fried soy bean:

1. cook soy beans (or can soy beans drain).

2. coat the soy beans nicely with corn starch.　*better not put liquid with cooked water or from can for "nice" coating.

3. fry with a generous amount of oil (doesn't need to be deep fried). *don't use anything to stir up, shake the pan instead.

4. drain excess oil on kitchen paper.

5. mix soy sauce, sugar, and rice vinegar(2:2:1 works well) in a microwave safe bowl, and microwave it until the sugar is dissolved(about 10 sec. I think...).

6. put the fried soy beans in the sauce.

I put sesami seeds, fresh green onions and fried green beans(same way with the soy beans).

Yum!

4/12

husband's :

onigiri
baked tofu
salad from garden
banana & almond better
apple

daughter's : I didn't have time to put fruit for her. . only husband, today.

onigiri
salad from garden:-)

Today, I cooked the rice with this ↓

It was OK.

How to make Onigiri (rice ball)

1. cook rice

2. put rice in a bowl (I put carrot leaf frikake this time)

3. put some rice on a plastic rap, so your hands don't get ricy. If you want to put some filling on the rice, this is the time.

4. hold together.

4/2

the day's bento :

fried rice (I put carrot leaf furikake too!)
broccoli and carrot
Boca -meatless chik'n nuggets

I use Boca -meatless chik'n nuggets and broccoli A LOT! They are good bodies.

6:45 wake up (I'm hoping to wake up 6:30, but it doesn't happen usually...)
6:55 start to make breakfast and lunch
7:00 wake daughter up
7:15 daughter comes to table (she is hoping to wake up earlier, but it doesn't happen like me...) / let her eat and continue cooking
7:25 putting all the food in a lunch box, and take a picture of it
7:30 putting daughter's lunch bag in her backpack, and brush my teeth and tie her hair and...
7:40-45 leaving to school

My super heroes, the nuggets and broccoli, are awesome for this harebrained schedule.

4/1

I put same things for both, husband and daughter :

rice with furikake
spinach and kale from the community garden
purple potato
hijiki-ni (a kind of seeweed)
Boca -meatless chik'n nuggets

The vegetables include, hijiki(one kind of see vegetable)-ni*, are all leftover from last night. I like that they(especially I can) eat several variety of food in one meal, like buffet:-)

*"ni" means simmered(boiled).