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This is a simple and tasty meal home cooked by hubby, Papa’s Mediterranean Veggie with Pork Dinner:

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For the meal hubby, sautéed thinly sliced pork in olive oil and butter, added garlic chips, chopped fresh mushrooms, frozen Mediterrean vegetable mix, diced red onion, diced cucumber, white pepper, and soy sauce; and served the mixture on a bed of freshly cooked rice. To accompany the entrée, hubby selected a salad of iceberg lettuce, arugula, sliced cherry tomatoes, and sliced cucumbers topped with bacon bits and creamy cheese dressing.

This is a tasty twist on a local main dish favorite, Pepper Steak Wrap:

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Simply sauté thinly sliced beef in olive oil; add julienned red onion and bell pepper, minced garlic paste, white pepper, and soy sauce; place in the center of heated tortillas and roll.

Another of the lighter versions of bento from a local convenience store with rice, daikon, karashina, gobo/carrot mix, mackerel, potatoes, and scrambled egg.

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A simple and tasty meal concocted by hubby, Papa’s Mushrooms and Pork with Nira on Rice:

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For the dish, hubby sautéed pork in sesame oil; added mushrooms, nira (garlic chives), oyster sauce, soy sauce, and white pepper; and placed on a bed of leftover pre-cooked rice.

For those times when a smaller meal will do the trick, something like this version of a local convenience store bento might be the answer. Included in the meal was rice, katsubushi, seaweed paste, nori, yakitori, pork luncheon meat (spam), and omelet sprinkled with parsley flakes.

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This is a simple and tasty way to use leftover rice, Non-Alcohol Seafood Risotto Dinner:

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Here is a list of everything needed for the meal:

Equipment and All Ingredients Needed

1 Frying pan 1 Stovetop burner 1 Knife 1 Cutting board

2 Cups frozen seafood mix

1 /4 Cup diced white onion

1 Tablespoon olive oil

1 Tablespoon minced garlic paste

1 Teaspoon 1/2 sodium red miso

1 Whole wheat dinner roll

Soft cream cheese

Caviar of choice

2 Cups pre-cooked rice

1/2 Cup chopped button mushrooms

1 /4 Cup chopped chives

1 Tablespoon chopped fresh basil

1 Tablespoon white pepper

1/2 Cup grated parmesan cheese

2 Tablespoons butter

Fresh basil sprigs

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Here’s another original creation from hubby, Papa’s Chicken and Potato Dinner:

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For this beautifully plated meal, hubby made potato patties mixed with flour and finely diced onion; topped with chicken sautéed in salad oil and sprinkled with white pepper; added quartered cherry tomatoes and homegrown arugula; and smothered the entrée with canned mushroom gravy.

This is what I call a Japanese-style “frozen” dinner, Insta-Dinner:

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The meal consisted of frozen okonomiyaki from Osaka and frozen spinach in wonton wrappers that were “cooked” in a microwave and instant miso soup. The only thing that wasn’t instant or premade was the sauce for the spinach wontons which consisted of soysauce, white wine vinegar, sesame oil, and topanjyan paste.

These are tako crisps (octopus chips) called Tako Senbei (octopus crackers) that hubby brought back from his annual gig in Osaka.

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Here’s my version of one of hubby’s favorite no-fuss quickie snacks, Mama’ s Mini-Sandwich:

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This version of mini-sandwich had horseradish and whole-grain mustard on a whole wheat dinner roll, topped with iceberg lettuce, fresh basil, sliced cherry tomato, ham, and onion cheese (tastes just like onion chip dip).