Mochi making 2011
Let’s see, the difference between this year’s Mochi Making Day and 2009 and 2010 is that this year there was over 190 pounds of mochi!
The annual trip to the Food Librarian‘s family mochi making event did not disappoint. There was lots of mochi, fun and family.
After 56 years of doing this family event, the assembly line was rollin’.
This year there was more than enough help so I did the next best thing…sat around and ate for four hours. With a spread like this – wouldn’t you do that same?
That’s just ONE table of food.
Here’s the second buffet table:
And the salad table:
AND don’t forget the dessert buffet table:
It takes a lot of food to feed a crew of family members making 190 pounds of mochi. Typical of Japanese-American parties there was sushi, enchiladas and tamales. That’s how we roll – Mexican food is a Japanese-American tradition, don’t you know.
Now I have a box of fresh mochi for my Oshogatsu Ozoni – Japanese New Year’s soup. I’m off to prepare for my own personal cooking marathon – New Year’s Day. Wish me luck.
Hello,
Thanks you a lot for this interesting post !!!
Do you know if is it possible to make home-made mochi (like in your post) or kirimochi directly with glutinous rice flour ?
To dry them (oven or air) ? or to frozen them ?
Thanks !
@Quimba
I have many recipes using rice flour aka mochiko HERE.