Sincerely, Nikole: Tasty Treats: Jack O' Lantern Rice Balls

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween. Today I stayed in with my boyfriend and watched "A Nightmare Before Christmas" and gave out candy to trick or treaters. Before all this occurred, my neighbor was having a block Halloween party at their house. The party was a potluck and so each neighbor or guest brought in their own dish. It was really nice seeing all the different types of food and just bonding with my neighbors. I helped my mother make Jack O'Lantern Onigiri or in English a "rice ball". My mother dyed the rice orange and we bought meat at a local Japanese food market. She stir fried the meat and included it as a filling for the rice ball.

If you want a step by step instructions, here it is in the simplest way:

1) Make rice

2) Stir fry the beef

3) In a small bowl, put a tiny layer of rice and put a small portion of meat above it and then put the 2nd layer of rice

4) Pick the rice out of the bowl and pat it together and mold with your hand into a ball

5) Place seaweed in any decorative way on your rice ball or wrap it around the rice ball like this!

VOILA you have your own Onigiri or Rice Ball.

Here is our Jack O'Lantern Onigiris!