Introducing Gomashio

I made gomashio for the first time (recipe from bento guru Maki @ JustBento) and discovered that toasted black sesame seeds taste very different from toasted white ones. And from Wikipedia - 

"Sesame seeds come in many colours depending on the cultivar harvested. The most traded variety of sesame is off-white coloured. Other common colours are buff, tan, gold, brown, reddish, gray and black."

Ye gods. I've only ever known white and black.

It's the same (more or less) for both kids today. Roast Meat will have this box for recess: rice with gomashio, hambaagaa (to use up the bread crusts from the last two weeks), cherry tomatoes and apple slices.

And Takoyaki, who has finally begun netball practice for this year, will have strawberries instead of the apple.

She commented, "Isn't that rather too much sesame seeds, Mum?" My hand slipped.