Saturday, April 3, 2010

Corn Cob

IMG_7598Amaya loves corn. On the cob. She loves to pretend she is like Mickey Mouse, who she saw eating corn on the cob like a typewriter in a cartoon. She doesn’t care one bit about strings in her teeth.

Plus, there are these things going for corn:

1) it has butter on it

2) it’s sweet

Basically, it’s her perfect food. But I am a foodie genius, and I made it even better: FURIKAKE! (with the butter) If you’re not familiar with furikake, it’s a Japanese “all purpose” seasoning to go on rice, with a little seaweed, salt, sesame seeds, and sometimes other variations. This one we had has some fish flakes in it. I promise you, kids (and plenty of adults) really like this stuff. In a Japanese grocery store it’s easy enough to find a whole aisle dedicated to furikake. Amaya loves Hello Kitty brand while I prefer the more straight adult stuff, with black sesame and roasted seaweed. Try a few out. There’s even Natto furikake. For the corn, I just spread on butter while it was hot, then sprinkled on the furikake. So easy and so good.

Now she wants to marry corn. I swear, when I was making her wait while I took the pictures, I did not prompt her to pose at all.

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6 comments:

Damaris @Kitchen Corners said...

I've been using furikake in everything. I want some of this right now, craving, craving, craving!

Shamrocks and Shenanigans said...

my kids LOVE corn on the cob!!!

Unknown said...

Furikake? Never heard of it but that's the joy of blogs you always learn something new:-) Corn on the cob is a hit with just about everyone in my family

Mariko said...

If you like seaweed at all, you'll like furikake. It's crunchy and sweet and salty all at once!
I also recommend it on popcorn.

Damaris @Kitchen Corners said...

after reading this post that was exactly what I did, make popcorn and top it with furikake.

marla {family fresh cooking} said...

Your daughter is so cute! Lovely blog....my first visit. Corn is on the menu over here tonight and we love furikake.

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