Thursday, February 10, 2011

Rice-Cake Making in husband's hobby room

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.



                                        Sweet beans to be put in the rice-cakes

                                      Husband is fighting with the hotness
                           

       I will make Zouni 雑煮 like this with mochi tonight.
       

4 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. Right, 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 (^^;)

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  3. This looks very yummy! And what a fun process to make it!

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  4. Dear, Dionne
    Take times, thogh. ^^;
    I wonder you have experience tasting one,

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