New Year's, Japanese Style

Trade in your champagne and hors d’oeuvres for sake and mochi.

Basic Sweet Mochi (An Mochi)

Perfect for wrapping around ice cream.

Saturday, January 17, 2009 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus 12000 SW 49th Avenue, Portland, OR "Mochitsuki Memories" celebrates Oregon’s 150th birthday and the history of the Japanese American...

for all ages. Please visit www.mochitsuki.org for more information.

If you live in Northern California, you could pick up some freshly made at the Koyasan Temple. We are doing the mochitsuki on December 30th I believe.

know the significance of this?) and Mochitsuki (pounding of sweet rice) at 1:40. Food booths, samurai action show... etc. There will be a tea ceremony and sake tasting corner at the New Otani. The add in “Sushi and...

" and pounded with a “kine” in a “usu” before New Year’s at a "mochi tsuki" During the summer I help with a cultural camp and we were fortunate to have a mochitsuki.The big kids started the pound and...

area to see if they had a mochitsuki today or tomorrow in anticipation of the new year celebration.

I wonder if you have a defective machine. We use several machines at our annual mochitsuki and we have never encountered the problem that you described. You might want to check with the manufacturer.

still have the pictures of the occasion. My uncle had made a kine (mallet) light enough for me to handle. Check out this link I found: http://www.geocities.com/sansei_online/photos/mochitsuki/index.html

cakes in the ozoni recipe? Can I substitute mochi or is that too far off of what the recipe calls for? I am helping at a mochitsuki at the temple where my daughters learned to play taiko drums for the last 10 years.

With a mochi addicted daughter, I’ve sought to make my own Mochi at home. I’m talking about the kind of mochi usually eaten on New Years day...the kind made at various Mochitsuki events, pounded sweet rice....

the bowl (one at 12:00, one at 3, one at 6 one at 9). We pounded the mochi in rapid succession, first the 12 guy, then the 3 guy, then 6, etc, for about an hour. It was almost like a dance. The process is called mochi-tsuki. In...

I think the correct spelling in romaji is Satou-shoyu for sugar and shoyu. My last batch of mochitsuki mochi started to peel away layers. I guess it got too dry or freezer burned. I soften first in the microwave on a...

to its green branch and leaf. Kagami mochi, as this is called, is commonly used as part of the Japanese New Year’s decor. If the mochi is fresh and still hot, which is unlikely unless you go to a mochi-tsuki (mochi making...