"Our family's New Year's dishes" Simple New Year's dishes and ozoni (rice cake soup) to resemble a toast with sake!

To celebrate the New Year, we served a simple New Year's feast and ozoni (rice cake soup) at our dinner table, using artwork by Toyama artists so that everyone could enjoy a little bit of their favorite foods. We toasted in a style reminiscent of the New Year's sake ceremony! The mochi (rice cakes) were made on the 30th, grilled, and used in the ozoni soup, which was served in a broth...

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Osechi ryori, a traditional New Year's dish, is a lucky food in which each ingredient is imbued with a wish.

"Osechi ryori" refers to celebratory dishes eaten during the New Year. "Osechi" is an abbreviation of "osechiku," and it is a mixture of dishes eaten at the beginning of the year to pray for a bountiful harvest, celebratory meals of samurai families, and dishes of commoners celebrating the New Year. Furthermore, during the first three days of the New Year...

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