In my last post on riceballs, I suggested the possibility of making riceballs out of tomato rice and filling them with avocado for a sort of Tex-Mex (Cal-Mex?) flavor. To the riceball purist, this would certainly be an abomination, but to me it sounds delicious – mostly because, as a Californian living in Japan, I miss … Continue reading
I work behind the counter at the municipal library once a week. I am not a librarian, nor am I fluent in polite Japanese, so I sometimes wonder if my presence there is doing anyone a service – but I get to relax, wave at cute children, and go through the newly-returned cookbooks, so who’s … Continue reading