Taste as good as it looks

Today’s menu

☆ Steam yam with minced pork （ミンチ豚入り山芋蒸し）
☆ Vegetable stir-fries with spicy sweet oyster sauce　（野菜の甘辛オイスターソース炒め）
☆ Rice (new crop) （新米）
☆ Fried pork cutlet : Tonkatsu　（トンカツ）
☆ Green tea


Steam yam with minced pork （ミンチ豚入り山芋蒸し）
If you are hired, or you had to work late, but need to eat something good, Steam yam with minced pork is really good for you. Its really easy, and healthy. You can put minced chicken instead of minced pork.
Ingredients:
A
Minced meat: 1/2 cup
1 tbs of soy sauce
1tbs of sesame oil (if you don’t like it, you don’t need to)
Pinch of salt
Pinch of pepper
○ Add everything together!
B
1 1/2 cups of mince yam Add yam to A. Put it into a serving ball dish. Put about 2 inch of water into a deep pot. Steam it about 10~15 minutes. Put little bit of soy sauce. If you like, you can put hot sesame oil too.
Meshiagare召し上がれ。 (←means ‘Please eat up’ and ‘Bon appetit’ in Japanese)

Vegetable stir-fries with spicy sweet oyster sauce　
（野菜の甘辛オイスターソース炒め）
Ingredients:
A
All kinds of vegetables (in the picture, you can see, green pepper, onion, carrot, pak-choi, egg plant, lotus root, and sliced pork) : you can use chicken or beef instead of pork. Vegetables: You can use left over vegetables in your refrigerator.
B : Sauce
☆1/2 of chicken stock
☆1 tbs of soy sauce
☆1/2 tsp of sugar
☆2 tbs of oyster sauce
◇1 tbs of sesame oil
△2 tbs of starch with water
Mix ☆ together.
1. Continue stir-frying until Vegetables becomes wilted. Put ☆ into the pan. When the sauce become ticker, put △, and put ◇ .






Fried pork cutlet : Tonkatsu　（トンカツ）
Use fillet or chuck part of pork. Sprinkle salt on the pork, leave it about 10 minutes. Dip it into flour with beaten egg, and rolled the pork in breadcrumbs. Fry it to a crisp!! Moreover, if you could not eat up all, you can make sandwiches out of this for your lunch.


Rice in this season is great. Oct is the season for newly harvested rice in Japan. Look how shiny they are!!! Taste sooo goooood !!! You wash rice tenderly but quick as you can within about 5 minutes until the rice water be cleared. Like a picture.