My Food Seems To Be Very Cute 🆕 📥

As I write this, I’m eating a bowl of ramen. The soft-boiled egg, cut in half, looks like a little sun. The narutomaki (that white fish cake with the pink swirl) is winking at me. The noodles are tangled like a cozy nest.

I’m not suggesting you need a drawer full of specialized punches and tweezers. I own exactly three tools: a pair of kitchen shears, a toothpick, and a set of round nori punches that came free with a magazine in 2019. My Food Seems To Be Very Cute

I was making onigiri for a sad desk lunch on a Tuesday. The rice was too sticky, the nori was wilting, and my general mood was hovering somewhere between “meh” and “why am I like this.” On a whim, I cut a tiny strip of seaweed into a smile. I pressed a leftover edamame bean into the center of the rice ball. As I write this, I’m eating a bowl of ramen

October 26, 2023

It started, as most things do, with a tiny pair of googly eyes. The noodles are tangled like a cozy nest

It’s looking at a chaotic Tuesday and saying, “No. Today, my broccoli will have rosy cheeks.”