Cooking with Marion

In December Marion saw that she had bought a "wrong" type of rice. Eriko, our Japanese friend, said that it was not meant for making some kind of rice cake. So when I discovered a recipe in a Japanese cookbook for making sweet rice balls with red bean paste, which Marion and I love, we had to get togehter and try it!

  

 We bought red azuki beans, cooked them for an hour, mashed them with a cup of sugar and then formed them into balls. We also formed the cooked rice into balls.

  

 Flatten the red bean paste, place a rice ball in the middle, and cover it with the paste.

  

 And then it should look like this. Not the prettiest dessert in the world, but it tasted good. Next time we would double the amount of sugar though.