This morning we made kan-mochi（寒餅）, which means rice cakes made in a really cold season not the year end. When I was a child(more than 50years ago, haha), making mochi outside the house with all my family by using the traditional way and tools was a sort of annual event of at the end of the year and quite reminisce about it. My mother was really busy gettig ready for doing it. I found the good example from You-tube.
Since my husband retired from his job last year and he wishes to eat fresh ones freqently, we bought a machine. We have already eaten ones we had made last year, he wished to make them again. This is how we did it today.
I will make Zouni 雑煮 like this with mochi tonight.
Wow, looks sooo delicious! I love omochi! It's so nice that you keep this tradition to have omochi even after the New Year. Not ready made but housemade omochi is really special.
ReplyDeleteRight, he even loves the freshly steamed rice and makes rice balls, before making mochi. Haha, really good taste. But I wish I had a big family, only two of us (^^;)
ReplyDeleteThis looks very yummy! And what a fun process to make it!
ReplyDeleteDear, Dionne
ReplyDeleteTake times, thogh. ^^;
I wonder you have experience tasting one,