Mochi is yucky

A friend at work told me that her family loves mochi. It's a Japanese food made with brown rice. It's a kind of dough that you bake.

Since it's made from brown rice I figured that maybe I could eat it as a low-guilt treat. Plus, since it's Japanese, I thought my husband would approve.

Well ... I followed the directions and baked some this evening. The plain unsweetened variety was pretty awful. I put a little honey on it, which made it somewhat tolerable. However, THAT kind of defeats the virtuosity of the experience. Plus, even with the honey it was not all that interesting.

Experiment: FAILED.