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Vicki's Oshogatsu 2007

What to do in between steps (Making ozoni, step 2)


Published: Jan. 5, 2007 Modified: April 11, 2025

Chop the daikon, carrots; soak the mizuna and cut that, too.
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Making ozoni, step 2

Cut the carrots.

That's my mom in the kitchen, cutting the carrots while the mizuna soaks in the background.


2000s Boyle Heights food New Year

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Vicki's Oshogatsu 2007
My "oshogatsu" this year was quiet. I started off 2007 at a friend's house popping bottles of champagne and twirling noisemakers. Went home at 1am. Woke up the next morning at 8am and went with my mother to an annual New Year's Buddhist …
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