Happy new year 2014! What kind of New Year do you all have? Do you go to Hatsumode with your lover, get together with relatives and make a fuss, and have fun days?

The author, who spends his lazy days without any particular plans, decided to look for "horse" food after this year's zodiac, the horse, to try something for the time being.

● Try to find "horse-shaped" food

First, look for horse-shaped food. I thought, but I couldn't find this. I remember getting a souvenir, but was it because of my mind? I thought it was a horse-shaped sable or a "red beko" type sable from Fukushima / Aizu, but when I looked it up, it was a cow. I think cows and horses are quite similar in silhouette.


Certainly, the cucumber and eggplant prepared in the tray with disposable chopsticks (it seems to be called "spirit horse") must have been horses. When I go to Gugu, the cucumber is a horse, but the eggplant seems to be a cow. It ’s a cow again !


No, let's give up the shape of the horse. Take action with "Bashamichi" (a famous souvenir from Yokohama Bashamichi).


● I wish I had a "horse"

It wasn't "horse" to enter from the shape, so I searched for one with "horse" drawn on the package. However, in this cold weather, the destination is limited to the supermarket in the neighborhood. I went straight to the confectionery section.

It will look like an ordinary "Umaibo". But take a closer look. Isn't it written as "a" good "stick"? It ’s a horse. It ’s a horse! (Everyone saw it with cold eyes.)



● I think I should make a "horse"

I thought Umaibo was a good idea, but it wasn't accepted, so it may be better to make an effort to make it by yourself. If you try to google with "horse type", it will come out "cookie type". The cookie type of the German company stadter has a mane and looks like a horse. Oh, there is also a "cake type". But cookies and cakes are too high to bake . Make someone.


I had no choice but to give up (decided) handmade. There is no time left, so let's activate the weapon for the final week. Take out the favorite "caramel corn" that you bought at the convenience store earlier, and you're ready to go. Start work.

All you have to do is steadily arrange the caramel corn in the shape of the word "horse" . I thought it would end soon. However, I noticed it on the way. The shape of the caramel corn is ridiculously unsuitable for this task. I should have chosen straight sweets. I should have done something like Pocky! I wonder if the salvation was that the "honey" part was easy to make and that a pentagonal piece was included for a limited time. I feel that the "dots" have become a little more luxurious. In the end, it took me five minutes to do all this work.

I was thinking of making "horse", "horse", and "horse", but I was frustrated by the single letter "horse". The caramel corn, which has a shape close to a straight line, has disappeared. After all, I should have made it Pocky.

Even if it's not sweets, if it's not horseshoe-shaped (also called U-shaped), yes, it seems that you can make osechi black beans. What is important is the spirit of arranging beautifully. That's all it takes to be "horse" .

Anyway, thank you for your continued support in 2014! I hope you can meet many "good" things this year as well.