Well, that’s it for #OnigiriAction – it was just not possible to get another ‘pretty’ entry sorted but I’m pleased with some of the okazu and onigiri fillings devised through this campaign – I hope it’s been a successful one that has improved the lives for the better. Though I must admit – I have […]

#OnigiriAction may feature the triangular shaped riceball, but they are also traditionally barrel, spherical and disc shaped. Though in retrospect, I can see why you’d avoid round with a visible umeboshi, especially if you pack a pair – hurray for boobies? Perhaps I should repeat it for a cancer awareness campaign #BoobieAction November 21 Ate […]

I did attempt a ‘charaben’ style entry for the intersting #OnigiriAction contest but the rookie mistake of heating a riceball that has a slightly oily filling destroys their structural integrity.. At least the Sichuan style harusame salad was a revelation – I’ve got to get a recipe settled (though reduce the oil content somehow…) November […]

Getting in the experimental mood with shapes and flavours, as the #OnigiriAction continues. It would be good to do a ‘contest level’ lunch but I’m just not feeling it yet. Only if the flavours and thus the contents are something I’m happy with I might try, but that would mean taking photos in an English […]

“A pox upon your houses” – someone cursing me, probably. It’s been rather virulent of late; at work as well as the local have been struck which makes me a conduit in making this flu (or flus) rather successful. Well, #OnigiriAction is still a-go! October 24 Brought down by a head cold on Sunday so […]

I was pretty much flagging about lunch – complacency into cheese toasties and depression into how much weight I’ve gained over the years – when it was a news story I read in a foreign tabloid ‘news’ paper that I discovered the World Food Day Campaign. Despite the name, the campaign is to run from […]