<NOBI~RU, OMOCHI NO SHIAWASE.
>I am drying OMOCHI (the rice cake) which I made for
OSHOUGATSU
(New Year holidays) well.
OMOCHI HA, NIHONDE FURUKUKARA TABERARETE KITA SHOKUHIN DESU.
Rice cake has been eaten for a long time in Japan.
OMOCHI(Rice cake) is made of glutinous rice pounded into paste
and molded into shape by hand
.
MOCHITSUKI is the traditional mochi-pounding ceremony in Japan. The cooked rice is pounded with wooden mallets (KINE) in a traditional mortar (USU).
Two people will alternate the work
, one pounding
and the other turning and wetting
the MOCHI(rice cake). They must keep a steady rhythm or they may accidentally injure one another with the heavy KINE(wooden mallets.)
There are few families having such a tool recently.
OMOCHI (Rice cake) may also be made in an automatic mochi
machine, similar to a bread maker
. Both the thing to cook rice and the mixed up thing can be easily done by this now.
You might think the insipidity.
CHIKAGOROHA, (Recently), there are a lot of people who buy OMOCHI (the rice cake) in the shop because even making with the rice cake machine is also time-consuming
.
When I eat OMOCHI (a rice cake),
MAZUHA,(at first) I toast it with a toaster.
(We originally bake it with a SHICHIRIN (clay charcoal stove) or a HIBACHI (brazier), use a KAKKOII AITEMU
(cool item), but. There are few families using it now.
) 
I soak OMOCHI
(a rice cake) hot from the oven
in hot water
and smooth it off.
Hey hey hey
Stop eating it girl
.She mixes the powder of the DAIZU (soy bean), SATOU (sugar), little SHIO (salt) together and makes KINAKO (soybean flour.)
OMOCHI NI, KONO KINAKO WO
TAPPURI TSUKETE...
coat this rice cake with lots of kinako...
DEKIAGARI
The completion!
KORE HA AMAKUTE OISHIIDESU.
It is sweet and is delicious
.KODOMO MO DAISUKI DESU
.A child loves it, too
.
SARANI, (Furthermore), KINAKO (the soybean flour) is very nutritious because it is DAIZU (a soy bean).
There is a person who puts soybean flour in the yogurt and eats in Japan
.I wish soybean flour become popular as a health food abroad, too
.
Here is Mamemochi.
(Bean rice cake.)
If the KUROMAME (black soybean) is put when OMOCHI (the rice cake) is mixed up, it becomes it in this way.
Bake it brown first
.Then dipping it into a mixture of SHOUYU (soy sauce), MIZU (water) and SATOU (sugar).
And wrap it with NORI (seaweed paper.)
DEKIAGARI
Completion
The cooking of OMOCHI
(the rice cake) raises the mood of OSHOUGATSU. (New Year holidays.) I do not think that I want to eat OMOCHI (a rice cake) in summer
. Surely the food which is traditional in all countries will be the taste which matches in the season
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Great blog Miko san!
Been reading for a while.
Hope the family is well. Happy new year!
Neil san,
Thank you for your comment.
Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu to you too.
Please come again.
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I loved reading your blog about the Japanese customs and your traditional food during these special occasions. Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and for the Chinese, we have to decorate our homes with red and gold ornaments to symbolise luck and prosperity. I hope that you had a very happy New Year! =D
miko san, i am happy to know you receive my comments. your english is very well (: , i am very glad to read your blog because i want to learn japanese language then i feel that you make your blog for me and everybody. i am busy with my studies by now so i only have few times in the net. Miko san i love to eat OMOCHI, when i went to japan i always bought it of two packs and i eat only one. I miss omochi so much. Here in cebu there is sale it sale but very expensive but the kind of rice cake is the one that you "yaku" grill then it expand, i endure to bought it for my self beside its high cost. You are amazing the fact that you can make it.
miko san i remember that it was winter in japan and me and my husband visited Hesedera temple. My husband bought me a rice cake it was color green and there is minced green grass on it. It was really delicious and i miss it so much.
Dear Miko san,
Thank you very much for the lovely photos and commentary! I really like your blog, only it makes me a little homesick for Japan, where i lived for one year.
Take care, and best wishes to your family,
Sarah
Fascinating about the rice cakes! Absolutely NO idea how they were made. Recently I had seen the little machine BUT..I had no idea about communal way of making them with the large wooden pounders! Wow! I really do learn something about Japan!
yesterday was the day of my national poet - his name is Robert Burns and he is national poet of Scotland - watashi wa Scotland -jin desu!. He died 250 years ago and was famous throughout the english speaking world for famous 'new year song' Auld lang syne'. I wish your family the best wishes for the 'year of the OX'. This year I received no 'nenga-jo' from my JJapanese friend. His father died last year.
I adore your website - so interesting and so wonderfully Japanese! Good luck to your family!
Another interesting post :) Those rice cakes look delicious ... I want some >_
As always, I love reading your posts Miko-san - please do some more about Japanese traditional foods in the future :)
very well, miko san. everyday if i have time i well check your site i want to learn japanese language. i am married for 3 years with my japanese husband but i cannot speak japanese well. i am trying hard to learn beside my busy schedule in nursing school.
Greetings... Thank you very much for the recipe and Japanese traditional food you've putting to your blog. i like to eat OMOCHI and im planning to do this for the help of your recipe. BUT i dont know how to make a KINAKO. PLEASE send me the proper procedure how to do the KINAKO.
Thank You Very Much.
Take care, and best wishes to your family.
with all due respect,
Norberto
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