In last December we had winter program and on Dec 27th we began preparing for Oshogatsu.
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we cooked a “stretch dish” called “date-maki”.
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Even most moms have never made it. We ground up “hanpen” with a “surikogi” and “suribachi”.
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They ate some and said “It’s so tasty!”, and they wanted to make some more!