Dana Severance

My sister and I have decided to start another weekly (to bi-weekly) family ritual to make sure that the ties that we actually see one another more frequently than for holidays. Like all good traditions and rituals, it involves food!

Every once in a while I find a foodstuff that just rocks my world. It’s the kind of thing you sneak up in the middle of the night to grab another taste of. I’ve done this with several different condiments in my life. Most recently is the delicious rice topping known as furikake.

I love the 17th Street Farmer’s Market . Every once in a while I manage to pry myself away from the regular grocery store grind. When I do, I make straight for this little Market. One of the beauties of the store is the variety of food you can find there. Occasionally, you hit a [...]

So, like I mentioned in my onigiri post, I wanted to try more traditional ingredients for the filling. The latest one I tried were umeboshi. I was not prepared.

Onigiri are essentially salted rice balls with a tasty filling. I’ve wanted to make them for quite some time, but what I didn’t realize was how bloody easy it was. I’ve long known of a recipe at Just Hungry, so an adventure was in order.