Pour peanuts into a blender and pulse for 5 seconds. The peanuts won’t be finely ground yet. Use a spoon or rubber spatula to scrape the peanut bits from the sides and pulse for another 5 seconds.

Volunteers Jared Delmas and his father Erich Delmas pound rice with large mallets as part of the process of making mochi at Livingston United Methodist Church in Livingston on Saturday December 28, ...

Made by pounding cooked glutinous short-grained mochi rice, mochi is a sticky Japanese food eaten as a sweet or savory treat. Mochi is to Japanese people what latkes are for Jewish people, or black ...

The most recognizable rice cake in the West is Japanese mochi, but there is a wide and wonderful world of Asian rice cakes, all possessing symbolic meaning in the context of Lunar New Year. My family ...

Bainbridge Island's tradition of more than 30 years, the Mochi Tsuki celebration, returns to start the new year in 2023 after a two-year hiatus. The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community will ...

As sweet rice steamed at the Grange Hall on Hagen Road Saturday under the watchful eye of Hideko Sugiyama, volunteers stood ready outside to pound it with mallets into rice patties — or “mochi” — to ...

LIHU‘E — Chef Carla Dusenberry, who leads the major food events at the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple Zenshuji in Hanapepe, said there was no way to create mochi, a traditional Japanese New Year significant ...

Growing up in a Japanese-American family, I spent the majority of my holidays and summer vacations living in Japan. Of course, being a kid and constantly having a sweet tooth, I subsequently ate ...