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
All the best in 2014,
Joel W.
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