Wishing you all peace and happiness in 2024!


Wishing you all peace, love and happiness in 2024!  

Thank you so much for visiting my cooking class website!   
Sorry, I'm currently on hiatus.  

Now I do translation work - Japanese into English, English into Japanese.  
If you're interested in this, please visit Moe Mori - translation work
Thank you!   


Sakura in 2023


 Sakura in April, 2023 

Happy New Year 2023

 

    U  no Toshi-Happy Rabbit Year


     May the year, 2023 be filled with peace, love and happiness! 

Harvest Moon in 2022

Chushu no Meigetsu: Harvest moon 
Hoping to have a moonlit night today, on Sept. 10th!

Chinowa-kuguri: Summer Purification

 

                                       

                  

Satsuki: May 2022

On Mother's Day in 2022. 

Beautiful Ukrainian spoon




Against solutions by arms! 

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/conflict-ukraine-pose-immediate-threat-children

https://www.unicef.org/topics/global

A beautiful spoon given from a Ukrainian around 15 years ago 

Risshun - the First day of Spring

       Risshun - the first day of spring  

February 4th (this year, 2022) is the first day of spring called Risshun, according to the lunar calendar.  Hoping we have a peaceful spring!


Wishing you good health, love and peace in 2022!

 

                                     


Wishing you all good health, love and peace in 2022!


The cube of soya - odango

Classic dumplings    -     Odango


Japan is one of the regions that have soya bean food culture, as it is showed well with tofu, miso, shoyu(soy sauce) and natto(fermented soya beans) etc.. 

This simple and old fashioned (gluten-free, dairy-free) sweet dumpling is called o-dango.  Mix shiratamako(sweet rice flour) with silken-tofu(soyabean curd) to make soft and sticky texture balls, and boil them, served with sweet shoyu(soy sauce) flavoured sauce & kinako(roasted soyabean flour)

It is the cube of soya!


shiratamako(sweet rice flour) 150ml
silken-tofu 100gs

topping 
●  soysauce   1 table spoon
  raw sugar   30gs 
  cold water   50ml
  kuzu (or any) starch   1 tea spoon 
●  kinako(roasted soy bean flour)   some 

The Harvest Moon September, 2021

Moon viewing:
appreciating the moon with the autumn harvest!
Sweetpotato dumplings
ingredients: mashed sweetpotato, raw sugar and soy milk


The beginning of spring 2021

February 3rd (this year, in 2021) is the beginning of spring called Risshun, according to the lunar calendar.  Hoping we have a peaceful spring!


Kisaragi: Month of Camellias 2020

Kisaragi- February, 2020

Simmered vegetables with miso & shiitake(mushrooms) sauce/vegan bolognese!

Japanese parfait: matcha shiratama dango, amazake & strawberry sorbet, red bean paste and amazake sauce


Thank you so much! - 2019


Thank you so much for coming to my class this year!

Wishing you all a beautiful and peaceful Holiday Season

Yayoi: March

Yayoi: March, 2019

Chirashizushi/Scattered sushi
for Momo no Sekku/Peach blossom festival


Happy New Year, 2019!

Happy New Year!
May 2019 be filled with happiness, love, good health and peace for you, all!



Vegan deep-fried tofu balls


Daikon radish & shimeji mushrooms shiokoji & miso flavoured
Shiratama dango - strawberry flavoured


Month of Yuzu

Wishing you all a beautiful and peaceful holiday season
Yuzu (Japanese citrus) has a lovely flavour!


Month of Spring 2018

flower: rengyo & shiratama-tsubaki


Yayoi: March




Usuage-tofu rolls with fuki
Usuagetofu - thinly sliced, deepfried tofu
Fuki - Japanese butterbur, similar to rhubarb or celery

Happy New Year, 2018!

Happy New Year! Wishing you all good health,
peace and happiness in 2018!

Shiromiso zouni: Kyoto style New Year's soup