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Japanese New Years Soup
28Sep09
One of the few food-related traditions that I inherited from my childhood home is “o-zoni,” or Japanese New Years Soup. The “o” is an honorific, so from here on I’ll refer to it as zoni. Zoni is a soup containing mochi rice cakes, and for the first 30 years of my life it never occurred [...]
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Tags: bamboo shoots, burdock, carrot, chicken, dashi stock, kamaboko, lotus root, mochi, New Years, root vegetables, shiitake, stew, taro, yuzu, zoni
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