Kagami mochi is rice cake. It is sold all over Japan at New Year, and this version is in supermarkets in a hard plastic case. You use it as a decoration until January 7th, and then January 10th you can open it and cook and eat it.
It's heavily condensed rice - probably equal to two bowls of normal fluffy rice. Usually you break it into pieces, grill it to make it expand and then drop it in soup. Or eat it with soy sauce.
We've had it on the kitchen table over the holidays, with Okaasan telling me every day the appointed schedule for what to do with it.
Came home yesterday.
The microwave and the kitchen table and counter looked like a plastic packing and mochi battle ground...
And the whole mochi was gone....
One happy old lady looked pretty full....
And then ate another bowl of rice at dinner time...
Sweet little post of a nice memory of a happy old lady with her belly full.
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Doris