so, tonight's dinner is tuna casserole. last night's was manicotti (for the kids, i had homemade beef stew.) i see a trend here, do you? but then, yoshi had a drinking party last night, kinda last minute, but not nearly as last minute as tonight's drinking party. *huff* but i noticed that half the ingredients tonight's dinner are imported: i got the flat noodles from expat express (and as an aside, why aren't flat noodles sold here in japan?!), and the tuna and cream of mushroom soup are from costco. i got the milk and frozen veggies here, obviously, and although i got the cheese from costco, it was produced here in japan. anyway, it was easy to make (i love my oven. first i microwaved it (without cheese) on high, then sprinkled the shredded cheese on top, then toasted it on 'morning set menu' setting and toasted the cheese on top just perfectly) and the kids love it, they even eat all the veggies (mixed corn, carrot and peas) so that's a good thing. probably took me twenty minutes to make, so not so much moaning before dinner was served!
yesterday's manicotti was kind of a left over. i got the noodles from expat (love them!) and stuffed them with a mixture of cottage cheese, mozzarella (the stuff i used on the tuna casserole) and parsley, but i could only fit half of them into my dish (although i love my oven, it's still rather small inside *sigh*) so i froze the other half. it was great for yesterday because my kids don't really like beef stew (neither did i when i was young) but they love pasta. yay.
i really hope yoshi doesn't have another drinking party tomorrow, i have to take the kids to the dentist so i won't have time for pizza....
today i took hiro and sasha to the dentist (and tommy just came along for the ride). hiro has pain in one of his teeth, and sasha had that 'bad news' the other day at her three-year check. i had to pay for both of them, but since they're both under six-years-old, it was only 600 yen each. that's pretty awesome because they got examined, had x-rays and cavities filled. we do have to go back tomorrow for a little bit of work (they both had cavities in between teeth, so i think they filled the bigger cavity and we'll go back to have the other one done tomorrow. not having it all done in one day is normal here, i think it has to do with insurance billing.) while we were there, yoshi called so then i had to think of what to make for dinner....ugh, i'm just so tired. hopefully the kids will go to bed early today, especially since both hiro and sasha didn't take a nap. wish me luck!
November 19, 2024
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um, what is manicotti? I`ve nver heard of it before..
I absolutely hate the dentist, do your kids have any problems with it?
Here`s hoping you get a good, looooong sleep tonight :)
What do you mean by flat noodles? Like tagliatelle or fettucine? I've never made tuna casserole before but will have to give it a shot sometime! I was vegetarian for so long that I never think to make things like that... I was almost in heaven when I had a tuna melt for the first time a couple of years ago ;)
colorbynumbers - in my family we always referred to manicotti as cannelloni - I think they are basically the same thing so maybe you know it by the same name as me?
I usually buy all my pasta from a foreign booze/food chain called Yamaya - they have loads of variety and they're not as expensive as a lot of foreign supermarkets. Couldn't survive without it!
I've never heard of manicotti either. I'd love to get your recipe illahee, if you had time/felt like posting. :)
I was going to suggest Yamaya too! I've bought linguine and fettucine there, and I've seen lasagne noodles too. They have lots of great pasta sauces and "stuff" too.
Don't let the fact that they are a liquor store scare you, they have quite a lot of foreign foods. I get decaf coffee there too quite often. (It's not 100% decaf, but I'll take what I can find.)
manicotti is a big tube of pasta, maybe three or four inches long. great for stuffing with cheese.
by flat noodles, i mean just plain egg noodles. short little noodles, not spaghetti or linguine. the ones i buy are 'broad'. LOL they are perfect for casserole and soup (like chicken noodle), though you have to be careful because some brands just turn to mush.
ah! Cannelloni, ok..now I get it..is manicotti a different dialect (of Italian) ..is that why the name is different I wonder..
whatever the name, I looooove it :)
ah! Cannelloni, ok..now I get it..is manicotti a different dialect (of Italian) ..is that why the name is different I wonder..
whatever the name, I looooove it :)
cannelloni and manicotti are two different things. manicotti are pre-made tubes, cannelloni is flat pasta rolled into a tube. maybe a fine distinction?
wikipedia says: Cannelloni is often erroneously referred to as manicotti (Italian: sleeves), the latter being a pre-shaped tube that is then stuffed.
In the UK I think, erroneously or not, what is manicotti in the US is sold as cannelloni. It should probably be made from sheets rolled up into tubes but the pre-made tubes are called cannelloni too, and the name manicotti isn't really used. I only know it from visiting my uncle in New Jersey and he had started to call it that instead :)
I wanted to do something like your casserole for lunch today but had a few sheets of abura age to use up so I made quick tuna and corn mayo, mixed it with some leftover rice and stuffed it into cut sheets which i browned in a pan quickly... kind of like very very wrong inari-zushi. They were yummy though!
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