Subarashii!

 

Tonight's dinner consisted of 12 different dishes (if you include the rice):
Braised salmon
Braised mushrooms
Miso cucumber
Soy carrots
Wakame stir-fry
Sweet potatoes
Broccoli and sugar snap stir-fry
Salted salmon
Miso cod
Soy sauce egg
Rice with sesame seeds
Fried green peppers

None of the dishes were difficult to make; the hardest part was timing it so that everything was ready at more or less the same time. Luckily, most of the dishes taste pretty good warm or even cold, as one would expect from recipes designed for bento boxes.

It certainly felt healthy, although I wonder about the amount of sugar and salt used.( Japanese women might not get fat or old, but I bet they get dental cavities.) But there was no dairy and relatively little in the way of carbs, so we promptly followed this up with a big tub of chocolate midnight cookies ice-cream. And that's why the Norfolk Dumpling will get fat!