Hataraku Gohan

Meals of a working life in Japan. The big meal is breakfast.

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Dinner for breakfast

Curry, hamburger steak, gyoza. The dishes other people cook at night, cooked in the morning.

A bowl of gyudon with red pickled ginger, a green salad with tomato, blistered shishito peppers, wakame and glass noodle soup in a wooden bowl, and yogurt with blueberries

Morning

Gyudon, a beef bowl for breakfast

Keema curry on yellow rice topped with a soft egg, with a green salad and a glass bowl of watermelon and grapes

Morning

Keema curry for breakfast

Omurice topped with ketchup beside a green salad, with a cup of pumpkin soup, a slice of pound cake and yogurt with fruit

Morning

Omurice, pumpkin soup, and pound cake

Hamburger steak with melted cheese and a fried egg beside lettuce and sprouts, with mushroom soup in a wooden bowl, melon and yogurt

Morning

Hamburger steak and a fried egg

A white bowl of mapo tofu with ground meat, simmered hijiki, a salad of onion, broccoli and tomato, yogurt with berry sauce, and two muffins behind

Morning

Mapo tofu and homemade muffins

Braised pork and daikon on a blue and white plate, with a large chopped salad, cold tofu, fruit and yogurt

Morning

Braised pork with daikon

Why I eat dinner food for breakfast

Breakfast is my biggest meal of the day. My evenings are light, often cold tofu or a protein drink. So the dishes most people cook for dinner are cooked in the morning instead.

That is why my mornings include keema curry, hamburger steak, and braised pork with daikon. I cook more than I can eat, and what is left becomes my lunch.