{"id":977,"date":"2013-09-15T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2013-09-07T09:11:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T13:11:16","slug":"mochi-sweet-rice-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Mochi- Sweet Rice treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Mochi95butterfly2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-978\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Mochi95butterfly2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Mochi &#8220;pronounced\u00a0 Mo Chee&#8221;\u00a0 how cute is that, I just love saying the word even.\u00a0 I was nicknamed &#8220;Mooche&#8221; once because I mooched so much food from others, I love to eat!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8220;mochi&#8221; is a short-grain sweet rice.\u00a0 Its got a gooey consistency once it is cooked up and chewy texture in your mouth.\u00a0 A traditional Japanese food, mochi can be enjoyed any number of ways.<\/p>\n<p>BAKED- You can bake it up into puffy brown little pastries that you can top drizzled with a little brown rice syrup and cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>MELT AS TOPPING\u00a0-It can also be used as a topping for vegetables of your favorite that you like to create a sweet crust.\u00a0\u00a0Place several cut pieces over\u00a0your sweet potato, yam or squash to cook.\u00a0 You will find it\u00a0now has a sweetened pie-like crust to make it extra yum.<\/p>\n<p>WAFFLE IT- This is the method I choose to enjoy\u00a0regularly.\u00a0 Its so easy and who doesn&#8217;t like waffles!\u00a0\u00a0Cut pieces into strips and place into a waffle iron.\u00a0 Press down and create waffle, as you can see from the picture I like to experiment with shapes&#8230;like my &#8220;butterfly mochi?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0I top this with some apple butter and if I am really feeling indulgent some Amasaki.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know what Amasaki is&#8230;well stay tuned, I&#8217;ll\u00a0recipe it up soon enough!<\/p>\n<p>In health,<\/p>\n<p>Safara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mochi &#8220;pronounced\u00a0 Mo Chee&#8221;\u00a0 how cute is that, I just love saying the word even.\u00a0 I was nicknamed &#8220;Mooche&#8221; once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}