Strawberry bubble milk, without berries nor milk

Dark day. Storms are waiting to burst. Let’s have a little fun and something sweet.
It’s magical, everything is made from dry pantry items.

I’ve made the soy milk (easy recipe here).

And with that I’ve strawberry customized my tapioca.
Boil tapioca as needed, rinse, put in a bowl with 1/2 cup water, strawberry essence, sugar to taste, the red coloring. Cover. Let overnight in the fridge.

Tatata da !

It’s pink and it tastes of strawberry… candies. Not very natural.

Put bubbles in a bowl.

Pour soy milk, slightly sweetened and vanilla flavored. Not outside, if you can avoid…

Isn’t that cute ? That’s really good. Maybe don’t mix in advance as the tapioca could give back its coloring into the milk.

Girly strawberry mousse – Frozen Spring (via Gourmande in Osaka)

Spring fruits… not yet. That's great than we can have frozen products now. Silky tofu, banana, sudachi lemon, frozen strawberries and 20 seconds. Smoothed. Garnished. Defrost. It should take the time to eat lunch. It was shaked too. Magnitude 8. OOOOO. I hope people are OK up North. … Read More

via Gourmande in Osaka

Strawberry daifuku mochi

My grand-parents produced strawberries for a living, so I know the beast well enough to be sure it is not a Winter fruit in the Northern hemisphere. But in Japan… they heard there was Christmas in other countries and that seemed fun. So they all wanted to Santa and dress in red. And eat read fruits… like strawberry. Now it’s part of the totally kitsch Japanese kurisumasu…

If you want to see where they come from, and discover those I’ll eat next year probably, visit the Shizuoka Gourmet.

So I know it’s bad, not ecological… and they are not really good. They are sour… Well, I’ve bought a few, a handful.

The trick is to hide them in ball of anko (azuki bean sweet paste).

Prepare mochi.

Wagashi Saga : Photo-menu of all Japanese sweet posts, and recipe posts.

And make ichigo daifuku mochi. OK, the shape is… artistic today. They were delicious anyway.

They go well with a bowl of foamy matcha ceremony green tea… unceremonially served.

1 daifuku :
Cal 137 F0.4g C30.2g P3.3g