Obento for hiking ハイキングにお弁当!

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I went hiking with Obento I made in the morning!!

Obento is a carried lunch.
Usually when we go picnic or hiking we bring them.
And the menu is like these

-Onigiri (Baked salmon, soboro which is simmered minced-pork inside)
-Simmered spinach
-Fried chicken
-Potato salad
-Tamago yaki ( not in this picture)

I like Obento when I go hiking!!
I wrote about hiking this week here

Little Yosemite

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Simmered taro and minced meat 里芋とひき肉の煮物

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This dish is very good with rice!
My husband likes it a lot.

Now taro, sato-imo, is popular in Japanese super markets.

They are brown but inside is white.
I usually used them in a Ozouni which we have in Jan. 1-3rd. It’s a soup. And also I use it like this dish.

Ingredients:
-6 Taroes
-150g Minced chicken meat
-Green onion
—A—
-1/4 cup water
-1 Tsp Hon-dashi
-2 Tbsp Soy sauce
-2 Tbsp Mirin
-2 Tbsp Sake
-1 Tbsp Sugar

Directions:
-Peal taros and cut in half.
-Boil them in a pod until the taros become soft.
-Waste the boiled water and leave the taro in the pot and put A in it.
-When it boils, you can put minced meat in the pot and simmers until the liquid is almost gone.
-Cut green onion and put then on it.

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Stir-fry of Shirataki and mushrooms しらたきとキノコの炒め物

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This is healthier and yummy!

I like this long konnyalu, shirataki or itokonnyaku, we say, like a noodle.

This is good with rice or Japanese sake as a appetizer!

Ingredients:
-1 package Shirataki
-mushroom as much as you like
-enoki as much as you like
-50 ml Mentsuyu
-1 Tbsp sesame oil

Direction:
Cut Sirataki in three and mushrooms.
Put Sesami oil in a pan.
Put Sirataki first and stir until it’s dry.
Put mushroom and enoki in the pan and stir.
Put mentsuyu in the pan.
Put chili pepper in the pan.

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Mackerel simmered in miso サバの味噌煮 Saba no misoni

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We like Saba no misoni a lot!
It’s good with rice and easy to make it.

You can buy cut Mackerel in a Japanese super market.

Direction: for two
1 Put these in a pan and boil it
-water 300ml
-cooking sake Tbsp1.5
-sugar Tbsp2
-mirin Tbsp1/2
-soy sauce Tbsp1

2 Put mackerel and chopped ginger in the pan until it boils it, putting the liquid on the Mackerel.

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3 put a lid made by foil on the Mackerel and boil it for 10 mints

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4 put Miso Tbsp1.5 in the pan and melt it using the liquid in the pan until the liquid becomes sticky.

5 done!

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