Time to Break a Mirror (6)

Have you been following this from the earlier "mirror" posts? If not, this one won't make any sense. But if you have been following, here goes! This is how you get from A to B, from kagami mochi to delicious arare senbei. Arare, by the way, means snow flurries. Nothing says January like snow flurries.

1. The dried-up kagami mochi is brittle, so wrap it in a clean dish towel to keep the fragments from flying all over your house. When it shatters, you get fragments, just like when a glass mirror breaks.

2. Get a blunt instrument--a wooden meat tenderizing hammer, a rolling pin, a carpenter's mallet, whatever you have.

3. Put the towel-wrapped mochi on a flat, steady, surface--a sturdy kitchen table or the floor. Whack it with the blunt instrument until it shatters into teeny tiny pieces. (on the scale of frozen peas and carrots)

4. Collect the fragments. Shake them out of the towel and onto a baking sheet or a casserole pan that you've coated with a thin film of olive oil. Dust them with a hint of salt.

5. Bake for 5 minutes in a pre-heated 220 degrees C oven.

Presto change-o! You have transformed your kagami mochi into arare senbei! Now all you need is some green tea, a couple of mikans just for variety, and a friend to nibble them with.