*** Onigiri

• 3 cups uncooked white rice
• 4 cups water for Nishiki premium medium grain - or enough to cook rice according to package, in a rice cooker
• bowl of water
• tear-away-plastic-wrapped nori sheets for wrapping
• plastic onigiri mold (or talented hands)
• Filling: (use something with a strong flavor, as it has to carry the rice)
• "Spam Musubi":
• 7 oz can of spam, finely diced
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• Simmer filling ingredients together in a non-stick skillet until the liquid is dissolved and the spam is glazed
• Untried
• Gobble Gobble (hot Italian turkey sausage, with cranberry glaze)
• Big Fin (Classic Tuna Salad, with mondo flavors)
• Curry-Kaze (spicy curried chicken)
• What's the Dill? (dill-infused chicken pesto)
• Landry List (ground beef, salt, pepper, and corn)
• Bay-Bay Ruth (shrimp and corn with tons of old bay and cayenne)
• Miami Special (pureed black beans, lime juice, spicy chicken)
• Greektastic (yogurt, dill, spicy hummus)
• Pho-get-me-not (deli sliced beef, jalapeno, hoisin, sriracha, basil simmered in beef broth)
• Can't be beet (candied walnuts, citrus vinaigrette, cooked beets)
• Orange ya glad? (stir-fried unbreaded orange chicken)
• Kung Boom Pao (kung pao chicken)
• Prosciutto of happiness (gouda cheese, prosciutto)
• Chicken Teriyaki... yeah
• In a Pickle (pickled cucumber salad)
• South of the Border (salsa, shredded chicken, avocado)
• North of the Border (feta simmered in beef gravy - weird take on poutine)

Rinse the uncooked rice in a mesh strainer until the water runs clear. Immediately put into the rice cooker with the appropriate amount of water. Start the rice cooker.

After the rice is cooked, remove the lid, fluff the rice, and allow it to cool enough to handle.

Get out a shallow dish for holding the finished onigiri.

Fill a large bowl with water. Dip your spoon into this periodically to keep the rice from sticking to it too much.

Moisten both halves of an onigiri mold. Using a regular dinner spoon, fill half of the mold with rice and pack it down a bit. Using a spoon, flatten out the middle of the mold to make a space for the filling. Repeat in the other half of the mold. Add filling. Close the mold. Remove from the mold and compact with hands if necessary. Cover with nori wrapper according to the package directions.

Makes 9 servings, 6 WW PointsPlus.