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I'm in foodie heaven, and everyone here seems to be Japanese!
My girl bought me early birthday/Christmas gifts last Friday. I received an amazing new rice cooker, the Zojirushi Micom NS-TGC10 fuzzy-logic cooker. It’s incredible! It has settings for brown, white, sticky rice, and porridge (risottos, puddings, cereals). It will even bake a cake! A cute feature: it plays the “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” melody when it starts and “Amaryllis” when it stops. So far I’ve made brown rice, sushi rice, basmati rice, and steel-cut oats, and that’s only since Friday!
The other gift I got was a Mr. Bento Japanese lunch jar. The Mr. Bento is a stainless steel thermos with little Tupperware-like containers inside. One is made just for rice, another just for soup (has a no-leak gasket), and the other two are for side dishes. It even came with its own metal spork and spork cover! I packed my first bento today. It had a couple of rice balls, baby carrots, a sliced up orange, and a bowl of miso soup. Now I’m fascinated by the art of bento and am collecting little cutters, molds, and other goodies to help me build a better bento. Geeky, maybe, but fun!
