Kujira students (the kindergarten class) went to the Story Book Theater in Kirkland to watch the play “Pinocchio.” The play involved many children’s performances and it was a play that was produced so that everyone could enjoy. Everyone in Kujira laughed until their bellies ached, and seemed to really enjoy the play.
One thing that was fun for the children was to be able to ride in a big van together on the way back to school. Just with driving on the off-ramp from the freeway, everyone was full of excitement with saying “Exit!”
Activity lunch for this month is oyako-don, a bowl of rice with chicken and eggs. Kitchen staff prepared some rice, stewed chicken and egg topping, and some nori seweed. Children had special bowls that is called "donburi" for their oyako-don. Children enjoyed making their own oyako-don a lot.
Panda and Zo class at Seattle Megumi had five dental hygiene students from Seattle Central Community College as special gusts. They lectured how to brush their teeth using pretty pictures. The children were learning and interested in their teeth.
It is the local dish day, today. We're serving one of Japanese chicken dish is called Jibu-ni from Ishikawa area. It was named as jibu-ni because when you cook this chicken, it makes a sound "jibu, jibu" in the pan. Ishikawa is one of the most famous artistic and academic cities in Japan. Please enjoy our jibu-ni and have fun on your activities in the school.
This month's "Megumi's Garden Lunch" menu was Tofu Piccata. Piccata is a dish where you take cheese, egg, and various vegetables and mixed them and then bake. Although it is usually made with meat or fish, today the Piccata was made with supple and fluffy tofu to make a nicely wrapped Piccata. You can even make a delicious Piccata with vegetables like broccoli or zucchini.
When you are living in America, it is pretty difficult to feel and experience the Japanese New Year, but we were able to enjoy many activities that had to do with the New Year thanks to the teachers who set up them up. Traditional Japanese New Year games like “Kaki-zome” (calligraphy), “Fuku-warai” (a blindfolded ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ type of game), “karuta” (a Japanese card game), and “making kagami-mochi” (a New Year’s decoration), were done to create the atmosphere of a traditional Japanese New Year for everyone.
This month’s activity lunch was peeling orange peels by ourselves. Oranges are fruit of the winter, and they are very delicious with lots of nutrition to help fight off colds. The kitchen staff’s instruction to us was “You can peel it in the way you like to, whether it’s from the bottom of the orange where it’s flat, or at the top where the ‘green belly-button’ is.” Everyone did a great job unpeeling the oranges fluidly, and ate them (with yummy sounds).
The second day of the Japanese New Year’s dishes, was cute looking pink and yellow painted sushi rice, cooked red kidney beans, and soup that resembled a New Year’s soup that has sticky rice cakes (mochi) and vegetables. This soup, called “Ozouni” usually has mochi in it, but for this school lunch the kitchen staff put the easy to eat “hanpen” (pounded fish cake) in it instead. It was a fun lunch with the taste of the mood of Japanese New Year.
Happy New Year! Did all of you spend an enjoyable time in winter break?
Today and tomorrow’s lunch will be “Megumi Preschool’s New Year dishes days,” during which the kitchen staff will introduce us to Japanese New Year special dishes.
Today is “Chikuzenni” (stewed vegetables with chicken). It is made with carrots, shiitake mushrooms, gobou root, renkon radish and etc. It is a stewed mix of all the vegetables that are mentioned in the children’s favorite song about bento.
This time Zo class children from Seattle Megumi went to the field trip. They enjoyed picking pumpkins up and riding Hayride at the farm in Kent. They went to the beach park in Renton after that, and they had lunch in the park. Everybody had a great time!
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