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Toshikoshi Soba or Year-End Soba: A bowl of hot soba noodles to end the year
Revised and updated: This recipe for Toshikoshi Soba, or Year-End Soba, traditionally eaten in Japan on New Year's Eve, is one of the earliest recipes posted on Just Hungry. I've expanded the...
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Mochitsuki in your neighborhood?
Mochitsuki photo by IvvaMochitsuki (餅つき）is a New Year's ritual in Japan, where people get together to pound some steamed 'sweet' or sticky rice into gooey, sticky mochi in a big wooden barrel. Nowadays...
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Ozouni or ozohni or ozoni: Mochi soup for the New Year
Happy New Year! I wanted to post this a little earlier, but better late than never I hope!During the New Year holiday period, traditionally rice is not cooked, to give a rest to the cook. Instead,...
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Homemade mochi (pounded rice) the modern way
Every year around this time, I get a yearning for mochi, that bland, sticky dough made by pounding glutionous or sweet rice into a paste. Mochi (or omochi) is traditionally eaten instead of rice during...
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Mochi and New Year's article in the Japan Times, plus a very rich buttery...
I am a few days late posting this, but this month's Japan Times article is about the traditions surrounding mochi or omochi, the sticky pounded rice cake. Mochi is both eaten and displayed in the...
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