Did you know you can make mochi?
Remember back in 2020 when we were ordering our groceries online and then wiping them down before we touched them? Instead of risking COVID to go to the store, some poor Safeway employee or Instacart shopper was trying to figure out what to substitute for toilet paper and King Arthur flour. Well, my husband, who is a pretty serious foodie with a penchant for cooking whatever he impulse bought at the farmers market did not faire well without being able to wander the aisle of Berkeley Bowl for an oddity or visit the new Schezwan restaurant to order something he'd never seen before. So, we started trying to diversify our online food shopping ordering from the 99 Ranch Market. Very quickly, we both took full advantage of our mutual boredom with what was in the pantry and started ordering really silly stuff. We ordered rivers snail soup, crispy salted egg shrimp heads, and every brand of ramen and frozen dumpling they would bring us. And one day, probably after a beer to two, I impulse