Arco (TN)

Arco (TN)
Showing posts with label lentils. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lentils. Show all posts

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Mochi Cakes and Circles - haiku ad tanka - January 8, 2015


File:3 types of lentil.jpg
WikiPedia


circling the table
families eat lentil soup
New Year's Eve

circles of mochi
offerings for the gods
in Japan

family circles
from greats to babies
feasting life

full circle
another year's ending 
a new beginning
with kagami-mochi
and thick lentil soup

© G.s.k. ‘15
Credits: Kagamimochi

I love traditions and those linked to the family and prosperity abound through out the world especially during the various New Year celebrations.  Go and visit Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for more about Kagamimochi ... as for lentils ... in Italy, on New Year's day it is nearly obligatory to eat lentils in one form or another so that family and friends will be prosperous throughout the year.  For the occasion I prepared a dish of Persian Rice with lentils ... not everyone can stomach lentil soup ;-)

Haiku Horizons- Circle

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai - Family and Kagamimochi