rice balls + tokyo salad

I still have a few recipes I want to try from that Japanese book I read. Tonight I tried the author's rice balls. It was actually a simple recipe. Take hot-from-the-pot, burn-your-palms-off rice and shape it into a ball. Poke a hole in it and put in some filling, then reshape it. Take 1/4 of a sheet of nori and wrap it around one half. Use another 1/4 sheet to wrap around the other half. The end. That's it.

We used salmon (from a can, bleh) for half of them and bonito fish flakes soaked in soy sauce for the others. Next time we're gonna nix the salmon, and fill 1/3 with the fish flakes, 1/3 with some krab and 1/3 with some dried Japanese apricots. Hubby, who spent three months in Japan in high school, also wants me to try some sweet red bean, too. Despite our dislike of the salmon, the rice balls were a success and loved by everyone.

I took leftover salad from last night and tossed it with the dressing from the author's recipe for Tokyo Salad. (rice vinegar, brown sugar, sesame oil) Meal complete. Oh! And for decoration, we got to eat with various stormtroopers and droids aimed at us. Nothing like a peaceful meal at gunpoint...