Midnight Snack

My meals were fairly uninspired today:  chili rice leftovers for lunch and canned soup and a turkey sandwich for dinner.  Nothing really worth taking a picture of, and nothing you haven't seen before.  It just so happened that my mother smuggled away a pleasant pack of snacks in my luggage the last time I was home.

Okay, so she didn't stow away the bowl, the spoon, the rice, or the water.  What she gave me was packets with the components to make ochazuke - green tea over rice dressed up with other little goodies.  In this case, the goodies are bits of nori - dried seaweed - and crunchy bits of rice cracker.  It's meant to be a way to get rid of old tea and old rice, but since the mix comes with tea powder in it, it really just helps get rid of leftover rice.  All I did was microwave the rice in some water.  I poured the mix on top and mixed a bit, and that was that.  The smell isn't great since, well, seasoned seaweed never smells that great, but it tastes good and made for a nice little snack.

Also, I don't post a lot of Asian stuff, so it's also nice to get some Japanese in here.