>After I put Noa-tan down for her nap earlier...
not even 5 minutes had gone by......
when I heard, "Wa~nna~
Wa~nna~"............
[note: what she calls out is 'taa~iii~, taa~iii~'; this is my best guess as to a translation ('-tai' is a verb ending that means "want to ~"), although it's a bit unclear to me what Noa would mean by it in this context]
She was awake and full of energy.........
Hmm
...things don't seem to be going quite according to plan.........
But I guess this means we'll be going to sleep a little earlier tonight, huh~
And then, Daddy came home
[note: Noa's daddy, that is]
So I took the opportunity to get dinner started~~~
As for tonight's menu.........
I'm making one dish using the firm ("cotton") toufu we had in the refrigerator and a little ground meat that we had in the freezer
I chop up some onion,
sauté it,
then drain the excess water from the toufu,
and also chop up some renkon (lotus root),
put everything together in a bowl...and mix well
Next I add in a bit of ground meat,
along with an egg, milk, panko (a variety of breadcrumb), salt, pepper, potato starch, and then mix it all some more
After that, I mold it into shape......
and fry it up~~
That's right!
Tonight we had toufu-renkon hamburg (Salisbury steak)
It's about 90% toufu
So it's healthy, y'see?
And besides that, I also made a boiled dish with kouya doufu (freeze-dried toufu)
and today, once again, we had............
nattou!
But this time it was nattou + takuan (pickled daikon) + okra + egg yolks + green onion~~~
to be rolled up in nori (seaweed used in sushi) and eaten like that~~
Fantastic!!
And in addition, there was a broccoli and tomato salad~~
and, miso soup
And Noa-san's dinner was......
TADA!
Udo
n!
with "onion, carrot, spinach, and shirasu (baby sardines)"
in it too
We enjoyed a delicious dinner again tonight~~o(^-^)o
Gochisousama deshita~~
And I stocked up on ice cream today, so for dessert.........
Heeheehee
