Peanut butter Mochi
Yayoi came home from Japantown today. She was excited. “You must try this new product,” she explained.
It was a flat, pink, gelatinous food substance. Mochi! Mochi is basically a a bland, dry, rice-based(?) wrapper for snacks, like “mochi ice” which is a lump of ice cream wrapped in mochi. (Think of it as a flexible cracker for snacks.)
I bit in to it. A few bites in and I arrived at the payload: crunchy peanut butter. I made my way through the mochi, nonplussed.
“You don’t like it,” asked Yayoi.
“Peanut butter is not my favorite mochi,” I replied.
“I think they are trying to make mochi more American.”
It doesn’t do much for me.
Now, Yayoi is making dinner. My contribution is the “Peanut Butter Mochi Theme Song:”
Peanut butter mochi!
Peanut butter mochi!
Peanut butter mochi!
From my wife, Yayoi!
She suggested that I could blog about peanut butter mochi. I think she’s just trying to keep the tranquility of the kitchen to herself. I humor her.
Earlier this evening I read through and made revisions to the History of Commodore, as found in the Wikipedia.
