Lets Do Lunch (around the world).

By the way, it is the birthday of my son today. He became 4 years old. Probably the cake for birthdays will be prepared tonight. The photograph later.

I've been under the weather lately with the cold/flu/hay fever sort of problems. This is when I really crave hot spicy food with strong flavors. I've been making homemade chili a lot lately. 

Sounds good, I just made my hot-n-sweet spaghetti Memphis soul food style, plus garlic bread.

orange chicken in a wok tonight--  very simple sauce of orange juice, rice wine, garlic, Sriracha, and hoisin in a smoking hot wok with peanut oil, over Basmati

Today's Tokyo does not have good much weather. The unstable weather does not feel summer very much. And today's lunch does not have many changes all the time either.

A rice ball. A chopped salmon enters among them. The seasoning is saltiness in the whole.

Yes!! Sunomono!! It is a dish for the summer that Japanese know well.

The octopus often makes salad with seaweed in Japan. The seasoning is soy sauce and vinegar or something. Or it is marinade.

It looks good. I did not have such a lunch recently. I always should always take in a fish and vegetables and seaweed, too. An eel and an octopus are known as summer seasonal food in Japan. It is food to maintain physical strength.

 ^ you could grill meatloaf (actually that sounds quite good), but normally it's baked in the oven at a high or medium heat, 375 to 425 f

 ^ my favorite sandy

meatloaf this week; the onions and peppers should be sauteed before going in the meat mixture, many don't do that.  And a healthy teaspoon of salt is very important.