Monday, September 24, 2007

Japanese Blog

I started Japanese blog here. http://hunwaritime.blog119.fc2.com/
Visit here, too! (If you can read Japanese...)
I'm looking forward to your visit!

Friday, September 07, 2007

Today's Sweets

I made the "Shiratama-Mochi with Sesame Sauce" for today's snack.


***Recipe***********
25g Sesame
1/4 cup Milk
1 tablespoon Honey
1 tablespoon Sugar
50g Shiratama powder
50cc Water
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Since we were out of black sesame, I substituted white one as it. Though using black one could make a better contrast with the white shiratama, it's okey this time because it's trial.

First, I started on sesame sauce. I ground sesame with the pestle. It was pretty hard to keep grinding, and I gave up doing that in 10 minutes! ( Do you think I am lazy?) Then I added milk, honey and ... salt instead of sugar! I noticed my mistake when I tasted it to see if it's sweet enough. Yes, it was salty enough! Therefore I should have started all over again. I could succeed in making sauce this time.

Second, during refrigerating the sesame sauce, I set about making the shiratama- mochi. How to make it is as usual.

Finally, I put the cooled shiratama into a dish and poured the sesame sauce on it!

The impression of tasting... it was quite nice! I felt the aromatic sesame smell and fine sweetness. I thought, however, it would be much better to grind sesame more and to strain the sauce once. I will try again with black sesame next time.

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Flower Brooch


Can you guess what these brooches are made from?
Origami? Japan paper? ・・・The answer is newspaper!


I didn't color those at all. I made full use of the original color of newspaper.
I didn't notice there are such a lot of colors on newspaper until I know about this brooch.
What a waste we've thrown away those before!

We can, depending on the combination of colors, how to shape the petals and so on, enjoy the several variation.
Why don't you try to make Newspaper Flower Brooch, too?