Decided to try something new with the leftover turkey bones. I made paitan ramen broth out of it. Made a tare, cooked up some noodles, and put together a few bowls of Thanksgiving leftover paitan ramen. Would recommend.

#ramen

Happy Bento Friday! Classic Japanese hambagu with sauce and rice. Comes with a salad of spinach, lettuce, strawberries, avocado, and freshly sweet corn tossed in olive oil and lemon juice, fruit salad of peaches, pineapple, and blueberries, and strawberry fluff salad. いただきます。

#bento #bentofriday

Happy Bento Friday! Today's main is two kinds open face onigiri. Salmon mayo and chicken mayo on rice with a salad of cabbage, bell peppers, broccoli florets, and a cherry tomato in a strawberry vinaigrette and a cranberry, pineapple, mandarin orange fruit salad. いただきます。

#bento #bentofriday

Tried my hand at homemade pizza with a new electric pizza oven. First one is definitely on the thick side, the second had a hard launch. Both were delicious. Three kinds of mozzarella and provolone.

#pizza

I decided it was time to start #bentofriday back up for my wife and her co-workers last week. I forgot to post then, so here is last week's #bento and this week's. I at least five or six bento for them every week. いただきます。

1/3

I made British fish and chips tonight, complete with mushy peas. Flounder and cod. Tasted great.

My stuffed flounder,
pancake, disagrees.

#fishandchips

I’ve been keeping myself busy making lots of breads with my new bread machine.

It is a delicious distraction from everything going on.

I also made more bread. A loaf of white oat bread. Haven’t had any yet but the missus says it is pretty good. A definitely dented one side getting it out of the bread machine.

I used to make bento for my wife and her coworkers every Friday. Now I just make them occasionally. Today’s bento is egg soboro and niku miso over white rice with fresh red raspberries and cherry tomatoes. いただきます。 #bentofriday #bento

Today, I broke out my new bread machine and made a plain, white loaf of bread. We may have eaten half of it in accident.

Yesterday, the wife and I made melon pan together. It turned out nearly as good as from bakeries in Japan. Pretty pleased with it. #melonpan

Was inspired by Bob’s Burgers #bobsburgers make a perfect brussels sprouts burger.

First attempt: brie, brussels sprouts, and ground pork over jellied cranberry sauce. Almost.

Second attempt: harvati, brussels sprouts, and ground pork over jellied cranberry sauce. This is it. #burgers

New Year’s called for me making Japanese food. So I made #tonkatsu for the Eve and #gyudon for the Day. Nit as good as restaurants in Japan but still delicious.

Today’s Japanese food sharing is monjayaki and okonomiyaki. We are no strangers to okonomiyaki but the monjayaki was new and delicious. #okonomiyaki #monjayaki

When we’re in Japan, we eat breakfast in the Kyoto style. That means we get lots of baked goods. I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed eating the goods. 1/3

Continuing the food from Japan posts, today is all of the #tonkatsu eaten. I had quite a bit. 1/2

Without anything else more important to talk about, how about more Japanese food? We really like the CoCo Ichibanya chain and will hit it when we can't think of anything else for a meal. #curryrice #curryraisu #cocoichibanya

What could be better for a first post than showing off some of the #ramen from the last few weeks in Japan. Wish I was still in Japan eating more.