How to Make Shiromiso Zoni (White Miso Soup with Mochi Rice Cake) - Video Recipe

"Zoni / Ozoni" soup is a Japanese soup meal with rice cakes (mochi), eaten on New Year's Day, at least in the following two or three days (Shogatsu: 正月).

As for ways of cooking the Zoni, ingredients vary slightly from one region to the other. But in most cases it is either a clear soup (sumashi-jiru) flavoured with dashi (stock usually made from flakes of dried bonito) and soy sauce, generally preferred in eastern parts of the country, or a miso soup generally preferred in the western parts.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXtjeinB1Q

My favorite is Shiromiso (White Miso) Zoni. White miso is a specialty in Shiga prefecture. It has a sweet taste and I love to eat it with bunch of bonito flakes!!! If you have never tried it, I recommend you to try it out :)



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Shiromiso Zoni (White Miso Soup with Mochi Rice Cake)

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 20min
Number of servings: 6

Ingredients:
6 round Mochi (rice cakes)
150g (5.3oz.) Daikon radish
200g (7oz.) taro potatoes *pre-cooked or frozen
6 slices Kamaboko fish cake
6 decorative cut carrots
800ml Dashi stock *Kombu kelp recommended but bonito is OK
160g (5.6oz.) Saikyo Miso (white Miso)
Katsuobushi (bonito flakes)

Directions:
1. Slice Daikon radish in quarter-rounds. Make decorative cut carrot slices. Pre-cook Daikon and carrots in boiling water for 3 minutes and drain well. If your taro potatoes are fresh, please pre-cook them as well.
2. In a large pot, bring Dashi stock to a boil. (Add water and dashi packet. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 5 minutes. Discard the packets.) Dilute white miso in 1/2 cup soup broth and add to the soup.
3. Add pre-cooked or frozen taro potatoes and cook until done. Then add Daikon and carrots.
4. In a different pot, boil mochi pieces until soft (they float to the top when they are done.)
5. Place Daikon at the bottom of a soup bowl or a mug so that the mochi won't stick on the dish. Arrange taro potato, carrot, and Kamaboko on top.
6. Sprinkle with Katsuobushi (bonito flakes).

Believe it or not, mochi rice cake in this zoni tastes nice if you dip it into kinako (soybean flour with sugar). I saw this on TV and tried it and was great!
http://cookpad.com/recipe/1002313

↓レシピ（日本語）
http://cooklabo.blogspot.jp/2012/12/blog-post_27.html
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How to Make Wasabi Tuna Melt Sandwiches & Sugar Rusks - Video Recipe

This video will show you how to make Wasabi Tuna Melt Sandwiches and Sugar Rusks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClOpEYk5zV8

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If you live in Japan, you can get the Sando de Panda at Rakuten.
日本にお住まいの方は楽天からもゲットできます！

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Wasabi Tuna Melt Sandwiches and Sugar Rusks

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 5min
Number of servings: 8 pocket sandwiches

Ingredients:
((Wasabi Tuna Melt Sandwiches))
16 slices bread
A
* 160g (5.6oz.) drained canned tuna
* 50g (1.7oz.) finely-chopped onion
* 50g (1.7oz.) shredded cheese
* 3 tbsp. mayonnaise
* 2 tsp. Wasabi in tube (freshly grated Wasabi is perfect)
* salt and pepper
melted butter
((Sugar Rusks))
200g (7oz.) bread crust
50g (1.7oz.) butter
3 tbsp. granulated sugar

Directions:
((Wasabi Tuna Melt Sandwiches))
1. Sprinkle a pinch of salt over the chopped onion and leave for about 5 minutes. Then drain well on paper towels.
2. Mix A in a bowl.
3. Warm and soften 2 slices of bread in a microwave for 30 seconds at 500w. (In this way, the edges seal together properly.)
4. Spread some melted butter on the slices of bread.
5. Place butter-side down and spread the tuna mixture. Then top with another slice of bread butter-side up.
6. Put "Sando de Panda" on top and press hard to cut out and seal off the edges.
7. Pan fry over medium heat until golden brown.
((Sugar Rusks))
1. Cut bread crusts into bite-sized pieces.
2. Heat the butter in a frying pan. Add the bread crusts and pan fry them until they are crisp and dry.
3. Coat with granulated sugar. When the sugar melts, stop the heat and put on a plate to cool. (Sugar will get hard when cold.)

↓レシピ（日本語）
http://cooklabo.blogspot.jp/2012/12/blog-post_22.html
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YouTube NextUp 2012

I was selected for the YouTube NextUp 2012 program and attended 6-days camp in December.

If you have no idea, YouTube NextUp is about accelerating the growth of the next big YouTube stars.

Our assignment was to cooperate with other 3 YouTubers in a group and edit our videos using any of software google recommends.

I used Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects for the first time in my life. I hope you like my idea :)




I collected autographs of NextUp 2012 members and took videos of them!!!




Videos by group members: I helped and appear in these videos.








During the camp, people were vlogging all the time. Here are the videos I appear in :) I know you want to see my daily vlogs, so I think these are more natural. hehe
















I will add the links here on this post when more videos are released, so please come back to check them out!!!

And of course, please feel free to comment on these videos in English!!! Everybody is welcome to your comments!!! You can say you came from ochikeron. I don't mind! hehe

The time we spent together was amazing!
It was more than I expected.
I love and miss everyone.
At the same time, I thought this is another start to do my best :)

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