新年明けましておめでとうございます。
Happy New Year! Hope 2021 will be better than 2020... To make 2021 better, decided to start 2021 in as much as proper Oshogatsu (お正月, New Year) that I can do. It is good to start the year in proper way.

Omochi (お餅, Japanese sticky rice cake) is a staple of Oshogatsu (お正月, New Year) cusine, isobemaki (磯辺巻き) is the way I like to have Omochi.

Store bought mochi, not freshly made. First has to cook or grille mochi.



Can use oven toaster, grill, oven, stove top, etc. I used oven toaster at broil, has flip mochi from time to time, cannot just let is sit. Then on to other ingredients.



Soy sauce and nori (海苔, sheet of sea weed). Cook/grille mochi till it balloon and pop.



Mochi is now very hot, careful in handeling. Soak cooked hot mochi with soy sauce.



Cut nori into the width of mochi, and wrap mochi with nori.



To finish up cook/grille short a minuite or so. Have Isobemaki when it is still hot.



This is the way I like mochi.