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all i want for christmas...
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luxurious hmm? it's a yamaha piano table. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. when i grow up and get rich, that will be very welcome. of course, for now, eh. not necessary. yeah, this piece is irrelevant to what i want for christmas this year :D it was just something i felt like i needed to toss in. haha. but back to my original topic. Christmas. 2010. What do I want? personally, I don't wish for much. I wish I had a cozy fireplace,  a beautiful christmas tree  with lots of presents underneath :) ,  my sister,  friends,   yummy untraditional asianized christmas banquet,    and a good merry time with more taromochi adventures <3 |
Posted by
aimeealistair
Hi mochi!
Hello~ I'm tarooo !!!
Me and my minions :D
Anyway, i laaaahve your post! It motivated me to get these pics and present them to you!! HAHA
My finals are next week, so gotta study this weekend. Fortunately, I'm pretty knowledgeable about the material we will be testing on so I don't need to study THAT hard.. lol but i really still do.. which leaves me more time to prepare for the extra credit! Unfortunately, the extra credit lives up to its name since the one that we will have is freaken hard. We have to memorize.. or attempt to memorize 300 drugs, classes, and subclasses -___-; its a whole new studying to do. Hopefully my brain will function well!
I can't wait until the end of next week :D though my heart's desire (yea, corny, deal with it! :D) won't be around :[.. BUTTT i'll be spending all or most of my time with one of my beautiful sisters!! :D
Much love :)
Posted by
thatHazelnut
say hello to the actual taro mochi :)
YUMYUM.
it's purple :) PRETTY! ^^
just kidding :)
Posted by
aimeealistair
taro & mochi
to taro:
At the start, it wasn't about the meaning behind what we were labeling ourselves. It was more about how it sounded and how it felt to us. But the more I think about it, I start thinking about how deep it can get :) All I knew about taro before you mentioned it to me was 'a sticky round root-like looking thing with a coarse and rough skin that my mom used to cook when I was young.' All I could recall was that it was really slippery when peeled and you absolutely needed to cook it before eating it. For mochi, it was pretty the issue of me being a huge fan of the sticky evolutionized rice and being addicted to the dessert since I was young living near Little Tokyo. But now, I think they're appropriate labels for us on a more deeper sense :)
Taro is a root vegetable that has extreme toxicity and is considered inedible raw. The cause of this is because taro contains high levels of raphides, which are calcium oxalate crystals that are found in plants as a defense mechanism against plant predators. Once consumed, seeing as how calcium oxalate is highly insoluble, it tears at the soft tissues inside the human (or predator's) body and can cause edema, kidney stones, rheumatoid arthritis, and more. However, once cooked or left in cold water for a long time, the toxins reduce, and taro becomes edible with care. It can actually be good for the body once cooked as it becomes a good source of nutrition that boosts the immune system against malaria and yellow fever. Taro also brings out a sweet nutty flavor that is popular all throughout Asia.
To sum it up, taro is a food that goes through patience and time to bear fruit to an amazing taste and many benefits. Like you. You have a coarse but cute outside but if anyone attempts to just take you up for grabs immediately or too quickly with no effort, they'll come to understand that you aren't an easy person. When you don't like someone on first impression, you have a side to you that definitely knows how to growl and bite. But when someone pours in time, effort, and genuinity, you are a person that will blossom up to your peers and gift them with an amazing friend and dashing example. That's you.
As for me? I'll keep it short. Mochi is something that originated in Japan. During festivity times, men would pound away for hours with heavy wooden mallets on oversoaked cooked sticky rice while turning and wetting it. There is always the risk of injury when making it, but the labor-intensive process is continued to finally result in mochi. Mochi is the reward to hard work, labor, and risk. The chewability becomes intriguing in the mouth and the sticky addictive opaque dough can become a great final touch to a sweet sidekick. It is popular to put in taro, red bean paste, white bean paste, strawberries, and even ice cream inside of mochi to develop amazing desserts and it is also used as a popular final touch and topping on frozen yogurt.
It is all I can do but hope that I can become truly like that too and become an individual that goes through turmoil, hardships, and tribulations to become one that can embrace my friend's and peers sweetness and amazingness to bring forth something even greater, and become a unique element that tops off lives.
yours,
mochi
At the start, it wasn't about the meaning behind what we were labeling ourselves. It was more about how it sounded and how it felt to us. But the more I think about it, I start thinking about how deep it can get :) All I knew about taro before you mentioned it to me was 'a sticky round root-like looking thing with a coarse and rough skin that my mom used to cook when I was young.' All I could recall was that it was really slippery when peeled and you absolutely needed to cook it before eating it. For mochi, it was pretty the issue of me being a huge fan of the sticky evolutionized rice and being addicted to the dessert since I was young living near Little Tokyo. But now, I think they're appropriate labels for us on a more deeper sense :)
Taro is a root vegetable that has extreme toxicity and is considered inedible raw. The cause of this is because taro contains high levels of raphides, which are calcium oxalate crystals that are found in plants as a defense mechanism against plant predators. Once consumed, seeing as how calcium oxalate is highly insoluble, it tears at the soft tissues inside the human (or predator's) body and can cause edema, kidney stones, rheumatoid arthritis, and more. However, once cooked or left in cold water for a long time, the toxins reduce, and taro becomes edible with care. It can actually be good for the body once cooked as it becomes a good source of nutrition that boosts the immune system against malaria and yellow fever. Taro also brings out a sweet nutty flavor that is popular all throughout Asia.
To sum it up, taro is a food that goes through patience and time to bear fruit to an amazing taste and many benefits. Like you. You have a coarse but cute outside but if anyone attempts to just take you up for grabs immediately or too quickly with no effort, they'll come to understand that you aren't an easy person. When you don't like someone on first impression, you have a side to you that definitely knows how to growl and bite. But when someone pours in time, effort, and genuinity, you are a person that will blossom up to your peers and gift them with an amazing friend and dashing example. That's you.
As for me? I'll keep it short. Mochi is something that originated in Japan. During festivity times, men would pound away for hours with heavy wooden mallets on oversoaked cooked sticky rice while turning and wetting it. There is always the risk of injury when making it, but the labor-intensive process is continued to finally result in mochi. Mochi is the reward to hard work, labor, and risk. The chewability becomes intriguing in the mouth and the sticky addictive opaque dough can become a great final touch to a sweet sidekick. It is popular to put in taro, red bean paste, white bean paste, strawberries, and even ice cream inside of mochi to develop amazing desserts and it is also used as a popular final touch and topping on frozen yogurt.
It is all I can do but hope that I can become truly like that too and become an individual that goes through turmoil, hardships, and tribulations to become one that can embrace my friend's and peers sweetness and amazingness to bring forth something even greater, and become a unique element that tops off lives.
yours,
mochi
Posted by
aimeealistair
Hahaha I got inspired!
In a land far, far away, there was a man that looked like a tape with nice silky hair. He wanted to be like the green lampshade that is touch-sensitive. He asked the lampshade how he came to be, but the simple yet elegant lamp shade did not know and told the tape-looking man to look far and wide. So he did. He looked far and wide across the universe. On day 674 of his journey, he found a wig singing an enchanting yet melancholic melody in the meadow. As he approached it, the wig grew sadder and sang the most beautiful melody this tape-looking man has ever heard throughout the universe. He asked the lonely wig what was the matter, and it told him that it has been separated from his master. Wanting to help, the tape-looking man offered his help to the poor stranded wig and in return, the wig decided to grant him one favor once he tells the wig that he has found its master. Again, he traveled with the wig far and wide to search for its master, but eager to seek his favor first, he decided to play a trick on the wig. One night, he left and came back in the morning telling the wig that he has found its master. The wig happily returned the favor.But before anything, it asked the tape-looking man to lay itself atop his head. What the tape-looking man didn't realize what that this wig is a liar. It will cast a curse on those who lie to it, and grant that being their hearts' desire if honest. Unfortunately, the tape-looking man was rather greedy so as a result, he became a bald frog, which got eaten by the wig and died. The wig became very happy as its hair turned from dreadlock styled to nice, smooth and silky hair.
The end ;]
The end ;]
Posted by
thatHazelnut
Happy Birthday, Taro & Mochi (+ co,) !!!
This is going to be soo much fun! Updates should be made at least once a week :]
Looking forward to it!
Looking forward to it!
Lots of love :)
Posted by
thatHazelnut
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