Yesterday I made mochi(rice cake) for New Year’s Day. The process of making rice cake is called mochitsuki in Japanese. I use a mochitsuki machine to steam glutinous rice(rice for rice cake) and pound it. On the other hand, some people especially in local area make mochi all by hand using a usu and a kine which … [Read more…]
Are you enjoying the holiday season? For Japanese housewives, winter holiday season is NOT holidays!! That is most busy days for us. Because a set of New Year events are the one of most important seasonal events in Japan. We clean a house(we clean everything in a house. For example, clean bathroom, wipe windows, wipe … [Read more…]
Ikebana for winter holiday season. But for many Japanese it’s working day except for around New Year’s Day… Later I arranged those flowers in two vases.
Tomesode is a full dress for a married female. In the photo, the bride wears white kimono, and her mother wears black one(tomesode). According one explanation, coloring means that a parson is influenced by others. So a bride wears a white kimono which has no color, and after being married she wears a black one … [Read more…]
Day2 1 Fried Japanese scallop, bacon, and enoki mushroom with butter. 2 Taimeshi 3 Roast beef 4 miso-soup Rice is the staple food in Japan. So we use a rice cooker almost everyday. By using a Japanese rice cooker, you can make roast beef very easily. I use that to steam beef after roasted it … [Read more…]