And all the best to you, Joel.
That dish looks as though it would be good for the appreciative consumer: I
might not like it myself though.
However, my Chinese daughter-in-law has made it her job to educate me in more
tastes, and I accept her challenge :-)
Chris
On 1 Jan 14, at 20:20, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Each New Year's Day, my wife makes a traditional Japanese soup called
> ozoni. I posted it to the gallery, and it looks like I'm No. 2, if you
> don't count Brian's doublet. Let's get shaking, boys and girls. Gallery
> looks pretty bare.
>
> I dislike foody shots, but I've never taken a photo of my bowl of ozoni, so
> it seemed inevitable.
>
> We are not really sure of the correct transliteration of the Japanese name
> into English spelling, but my mother-in-law, who speaks both languages,
> thinks the spelling is the best we can do. She's never seen the name
> spelled, nor have I. I have no idea if the soup is still traditional in
> Japan. My mother-in-law is 93 and her parents emigrated to the Hawaii
> territory very nearly a hundred years ago and the traditions they celebrate
> are what her parents brought with them at that time.
>
> The soup is a basic fish stock with carrots, Japanese potatoes, gobo
> (burdock root), mushrooms, and other vegetables, with rice flour dumplings
> called mochi. We were not able to get normal Japanese mochi this year, so
> we have the Korean variety, which I prefer in some ways anyway.
>
> E-5 with DZ 14-54/2.8 @ 5.6. No trickery in post, but I held a card just
> below the lens to bounce a little light into the shadows.
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10407
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