Mochi Making

While Mom and Dad are in Vegas my goal is to take care of getting re-established. Like getting my drivers license changed, switching my health insurance, paying my final bills, etc. But yesterday I filled in for Mom and Dad at breakfast with cousins Jane and Gladys and Gladys' husband Phil. Its a tough job but someone's got to do it!

Gladys and Phil are birthday boy Mitchell's grandparents. They are in Honolulu until today when they head back to California so they will miss Mom and Dad, who are returning on Friday. We had dinner at Jane's house later in the evening, along with Jane's son Dean, his wife Sherry, and daughter DeeAnn (the same one in the Safe Harbor photo with Mom), and also Erica, Marc, and Mitchell!

Jane taught us how to make filled mochi, specifically peanutbutter mochi, which is Phil's favorite! Here are the balls of filling that will go in to the mochi, which is the white cubes at the top of the photo. The purple balls are ube (purple sweet potato) wrapped around haupia. The mochi is made with mochiko, the white substance in the container at the left is potato flour used to keep things from sticking to your hands.


Here we are wrapping the mochi around the fillings.


Here are the completed mochi. The peanutbutter ones are rolled in kinako (toasted soybean flour).









And here is a happy Phil!

Happy Belated Birthday to Anne!