おうちごはん！(Ouchigohan) 

Onigiri Action Halloween Bash!

Japanese Home Cooking with Table for Two

with USJETAA, Colorado, Washington DC, Georgia, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, and North Carolina

Saturday, October 18, 2025

6:00 - 7:30 PM EDT

$10 JSB/JS/JETAA Members / $15 Non-members

Hosted online via Zoom

(Ingredient list recipe card and Zoom link will be provided a few days before the event)

Join USJETAA for the October edition of the family-friendly online Japanese home cooking class series おうちごはん! OUCHIGOHAN and cook along or just watch from your own kitchen!

This October, it’s the Onigiri Action Halloween Bash! We will be making:

• Onigiri (Salmon or Tuna) are hand-shaped rice balls filled with flaky salmon or creamy tuna mayo. We’ll also show you how to decorate them in cute, festive ways for Halloween.

• Pumpkin (Kabocha) Soup is a cozy fall dish made with smooth, naturally sweet pumpkin. It’s comforting and simple to make, perfect for warming up on a crisp fall day.

• Spinach Ohitashi, a classic Japanese side dish dressed with katsuo flakes or sesame seeds for a vegetarian option. It’s light, flavorful, and a nice balance to the meal.

JSB members: find the discount code on the member only portal!

The class is also part of Onigiri Action, an initiative aimed at providing 1 million school meals to children in need. Don’t forget to snap a photo of your onigiri and share it with the hashtag #onigiriaction!

About the Instructor:

Debra Samuels leads the program content and curriculum development of TABLE FOR TWO USA’s Japanese inspired food education program, “Wa- Shokuiku -Learn. Cook. Eat Japanese!”.

She was a food writer and contributor to the Food Section of The Boston Globe and has authored two cookbooks: “My Japanese Table,” and “The Korean Table.” She curated the exhibit, “Obento and Built Space: Japanese Boxed Lunch and Architecture,” at the Boston Architectural College (2015) and co-curated “Objects of Use and Beauty: Design and Craft in Japanese Culinary Tools,” at the Fuller Craft Museum (2018). Debra also worked as a program coordinator and an exhibition developer at the Japanese department of the Boston Children's Museum (1992-2000).

Debra has lived in Japan, all together, for 12 years and specializes in Japanese cuisine. She travels around the country and abroad teaching hands on workshops on obento, the Japanese lunchbox. During Covid 19 she is teaching live online cooking programs to youth and adults.

The Japan Society of Boston is pleased to work with our friends at The Japan-America Society of Houston, The Japan-America Society of Georgia, The Japan-America Society of Washington DC, The Japan-America Society of Greater Philadelphia, The Japan America Society of Colorado, The Japan-America Society of North Carolina, and the US Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme Alumni Association (USJETAA) in this special installment of the family-friendly cooking series おうちごはん！Ouchigohan! - Japanese Home Cooking with TABLE FOR TWO USA, part of the innovative food education program, Wa-Shokuiku: Learn. Cook. Eat Japanese!, where participants make simple, healthy, homestyle Japanese food to enjoy with friends and family.

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