Osechi Ryori (Japanese New Year’s Food)

January 2nd, 2010 admin

I’ve written about Japanese New Year’s traditions and I’ve even posted some typical Japanese New Year’s dishes . But this year I decided to go whole hog and make an Osechi Jubako from scratch. You’d think after my recent ramen post (which was nearly a decade in the making), I’d be done with insanely time consuming Japanese food for a while, but I couldn’t resist the urge to share with you the New Year’s food of my people (that, and this project started off as a misguided effort to save some money.) Osechi Ryori (お節料理) is a subset of Japanese cuisine made up of dishes that are …


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