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