Cooking -- January 25, 2010

Four ladies joined us for this year's first cooking class.
We cooked very traditional and popular one-pot dish 'Sukiyaki'.
Fun to cook and eat at the table. For dessert we challenged to
make strawberry rice cakes 'Ichigo daifuku', which was very
delicious.

Hikari School -- January 21, 2010

Today we had the first Hikari School lesson this year.
First we enjoyed Japanese incense ceremony 'Kohdo'.
Quite difficult to follow the proper steps to get the
nice aroma, but we enjoyed this unique ceremony.
After that we had sencha tea ceremony. It was Obukucha
using green tea, dry plum and konbu kelp.