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The load out
Feb. 9th, 2009 05:25 pmGear is packed. The little red wagon is staying home so I can have a taiko dojo in my garden. (Taikotaikotaiko!!! Whee!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Siege projectiles chicken teriyaki onigiri seasoned with a shot of futomaki are cooling in a gallon zip-lock in the fridge. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mochimonkey frequently mentions old-Japanese-lady-hands in connection with mochi production. I think it also applies to making onigiri, especially if you don't use molds. You have to mold the rice into balls while it is still hot enough to glue itself together and as you get deeper into the pot, the rice gets hotter!
Sake and snacks for the party have been acquired and stowed in safe places where they should not get crushed. I never made it to Nippon-ya for their fancy mochi assortment, but people seemed happy enough to eat the supermarket mochi and manju last year. It'll do.
Documentation for the Artisan's Display has been more or less cobbled together. I modified the write up from October Crown for the shibori sampler to include the plum blossom kosode, printed out the hiogi docs from my website. Since I never actually wrote up the sugoroku project, I printed out some info from Sugoroku.net and Sengokudaimyo.com, which will simply have to do. Then I started printing out other articles from Wodeford Hall and whacking it into a binder that will probably not get looked at, but what the hell. Look Ma, a Body Of Work (TM)! If I print out any of the poetry, I'm gonna need a bigger binder.
I think I actually even have time to do some more finishing work on the shibori kosode this evening.
Hm. Weather.com says Florence, AZ is getting rain tonight into the AM, with clearing and sunny later in the day. Fair through Friday, with a 40% chance of showers Saturday and Sunday - which of course is days away and is not graven in stone. (Crap! Forgot to throw the "beater" geta in the truck! They're ugly as sin, but they're made for mud.)
mochimonkey frequently mentions old-Japanese-lady-hands in connection with mochi production. I think it also applies to making onigiri, especially if you don't use molds. You have to mold the rice into balls while it is still hot enough to glue itself together and as you get deeper into the pot, the rice gets hotter! Sake and snacks for the party have been acquired and stowed in safe places where they should not get crushed. I never made it to Nippon-ya for their fancy mochi assortment, but people seemed happy enough to eat the supermarket mochi and manju last year. It'll do.
Documentation for the Artisan's Display has been more or less cobbled together. I modified the write up from October Crown for the shibori sampler to include the plum blossom kosode, printed out the hiogi docs from my website. Since I never actually wrote up the sugoroku project, I printed out some info from Sugoroku.net and Sengokudaimyo.com, which will simply have to do. Then I started printing out other articles from Wodeford Hall and whacking it into a binder that will probably not get looked at, but what the hell. Look Ma, a Body Of Work (TM)! If I print out any of the poetry, I'm gonna need a bigger binder.
I think I actually even have time to do some more finishing work on the shibori kosode this evening.
Hm. Weather.com says Florence, AZ is getting rain tonight into the AM, with clearing and sunny later in the day. Fair through Friday, with a 40% chance of showers Saturday and Sunday - which of course is days away and is not graven in stone. (Crap! Forgot to throw the "beater" geta in the truck! They're ugly as sin, but they're made for mud.)
