2009.10.16
130. What Does Everyone Eat Every Day?
What do you think about when you are lying in a bed before falling asleep? I always (no exceptions!) think about what I should take for lunch and supper next day.
As I come back home late and want to save money, I make lunch and supper and take them with me to campus.
What I cook is usually so-called a one-dish meal such as spaghetti, fried rice, okonomi-yaki and baked sandwiches. These are all easy cook dishes, aren't they? If I lived on my own, I would cook various side dishes and preserve them in a fridge or freezer. But as I share the flat with 3 people, I hesitate to occupy a kitchen for hours. Because they cannot cook while I am cooking. I guess other housemates think the same way.
I try to use lots of vegetables and make a couple of side dishes as well. Yesterday, I took fried rice and cous cous (both with lots of veggies) plus pickled cucumbers and kóyadófu (YouTube about it).
Since I came to England, I began to eat what I do not like, for example, curry and miso soup (I like Thai and Indian curry very much). But I still cannot eat or drink orange flavoured products :-)
Curry which is easier and cheaper to get in a nearby shop here is the one similar to Japanese curry. I still do not like the taste but, as I said, it is very easy to cook and convenient... and soI cooked it today too. Today's lunch was spaghetti with curry.
As for the miso soup, I feel it is tasty ONLY when I am hungry. So, I eat it when I feel peckish at night - it is healthier than eat biscuits or toast at night, isn't it?
Many of my friends eat out for lunch or take away food from café on campus, but they eat proper food for dinner at home.
I feel people tend to cook or season dishes from their home country. I use more soy sauce than my housemates do, ex Chinese flatmates in a student accommodation cooked Chinese food very often, and British students eat only microwave meals :-P
I believe I am adventurous in food. I am not at all gourmet nor interested in eating out, but I am curious and quite positive to try anything that I have not tried yet. However, in reality, I always eat the same vegetables and variation of my cooking does not expand...I should try more and more vegetables that I do not get in Japan.
Momoko
Thank you for reading!As I come back home late and want to save money, I make lunch and supper and take them with me to campus.
What I cook is usually so-called a one-dish meal such as spaghetti, fried rice, okonomi-yaki and baked sandwiches. These are all easy cook dishes, aren't they? If I lived on my own, I would cook various side dishes and preserve them in a fridge or freezer. But as I share the flat with 3 people, I hesitate to occupy a kitchen for hours. Because they cannot cook while I am cooking. I guess other housemates think the same way.
I try to use lots of vegetables and make a couple of side dishes as well. Yesterday, I took fried rice and cous cous (both with lots of veggies) plus pickled cucumbers and kóyadófu (YouTube about it).
Since I came to England, I began to eat what I do not like, for example, curry and miso soup (I like Thai and Indian curry very much). But I still cannot eat or drink orange flavoured products :-)
Curry which is easier and cheaper to get in a nearby shop here is the one similar to Japanese curry. I still do not like the taste but, as I said, it is very easy to cook and convenient... and soI cooked it today too. Today's lunch was spaghetti with curry.
As for the miso soup, I feel it is tasty ONLY when I am hungry. So, I eat it when I feel peckish at night - it is healthier than eat biscuits or toast at night, isn't it?
Many of my friends eat out for lunch or take away food from café on campus, but they eat proper food for dinner at home.
I feel people tend to cook or season dishes from their home country. I use more soy sauce than my housemates do, ex Chinese flatmates in a student accommodation cooked Chinese food very often, and British students eat only microwave meals :-P
I believe I am adventurous in food. I am not at all gourmet nor interested in eating out, but I am curious and quite positive to try anything that I have not tried yet. However, in reality, I always eat the same vegetables and variation of my cooking does not expand...I should try more and more vegetables that I do not get in Japan.
Momoko
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Thank you, Momoko san ,for your story.
In Japan more and more people prefer enjoying eating and drinking at home
to dining out, because of the depression.Sometimes they buy dishes at super
markets or convenience stores and eat them at home. We call it ”中食”.
The word has been spreading.
So it is very good and natural for you to make lunch and bring them to
campus and have dinner at home. How wise!!
What will your friend say if they eat Okonomiyaki? It is like pizza or
Mexican snack so I think they will like it.
(My American friend's No.1 Japanese food is Takoyaki.She has a
very tiny kitchen so she doesn't cook.)
I wonder if it is difficult for you to get Japanese typical food there in London.
I usually think what I shall do or wear the next day before falling asleep.
See you
In Japan more and more people prefer enjoying eating and drinking at home
to dining out, because of the depression.Sometimes they buy dishes at super
markets or convenience stores and eat them at home. We call it ”中食”.
The word has been spreading.
So it is very good and natural for you to make lunch and bring them to
campus and have dinner at home. How wise!!
What will your friend say if they eat Okonomiyaki? It is like pizza or
Mexican snack so I think they will like it.
(My American friend's No.1 Japanese food is Takoyaki.She has a
very tiny kitchen so she doesn't cook.)
I wonder if it is difficult for you to get Japanese typical food there in London.
I usually think what I shall do or wear the next day before falling asleep.
See you
Posted by lucky mom at 2009.10.17 00:53 | Edit
Hi lucky mom san,
中食？That's a totally new word to me! What is the origin of the word? 外食、内食and 中食？
I feel that Okonomiyaki is one of the popular Japanese foods among non-Japanese people.
I meant to write a bit more about Japanese food in the next entry.
> (My American friend's No.1 Japanese food is Takoyaki.She has a
very tiny kitchen so she doesn't cook.)
My friend and a friend of my friend's have different opinion! I will write about that in the next entry^^
There are Japanese food shops in a big city like Japan Centre and Rice Wine in London. But a range of Japanese food they are selling is limited and expensive. Although we can get quite a few authentic Japanese food such as natto, mentsuyu, sake, miso, konnyaku, Japanese pot noodles, snacks and sweets (there is a wagashi shop in London), etc. but it's a difficult to get some vegetables such as burdocks.
So, when I go back to Japan for Oshogatsu, I always email my family a list of what I want to eat during my stay :-)
Momoko
中食？That's a totally new word to me! What is the origin of the word? 外食、内食and 中食？
I feel that Okonomiyaki is one of the popular Japanese foods among non-Japanese people.
I meant to write a bit more about Japanese food in the next entry.
> (My American friend's No.1 Japanese food is Takoyaki.She has a
very tiny kitchen so she doesn't cook.)
My friend and a friend of my friend's have different opinion! I will write about that in the next entry^^
There are Japanese food shops in a big city like Japan Centre and Rice Wine in London. But a range of Japanese food they are selling is limited and expensive. Although we can get quite a few authentic Japanese food such as natto, mentsuyu, sake, miso, konnyaku, Japanese pot noodles, snacks and sweets (there is a wagashi shop in London), etc. but it's a difficult to get some vegetables such as burdocks.
So, when I go back to Japan for Oshogatsu, I always email my family a list of what I want to eat during my stay :-)
Momoko
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