[Elderly] Feel the Arrival of Spring with Snack Activities! Recommended Menus for March

Strawberry Mille-Feuille

[No Oven!] Easy Strawberry Millefeuille with Frozen Puff Pastry Sheets 🍓 Perfect for Valentine’s Day, White Day, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas, and Mother’s Day 🌷 | Strawberry Millefeuille

When it comes to spring fruits, strawberries are definitely one of them.

These days you can even find them at supermarkets in winter, but strawberries are said to be at their best from April to June.

Here’s a recipe for a strawberry mille-feuille made with delicious strawberries in May.

Mille-feuille usually uses puff pastry, but we’ll cook it in a frying pan instead of using a toaster oven or oven.

For older adults who enjoy kitchen work, frying-pan cooking can be a lot of fun.

Layer cream and strawberries between the baked pastry.

Chill until set, slice, and enjoy.

Its store-bought cake appearance and delicious taste are sure to please older adults as well.

Sakuramochi Making

[For the Spring Higan, Sakura Mochi] The world’s easiest sakura mochi made with a rice cooker

Let’s try making sakuramochi, an essential treat for the Peach Festival.

When you think of sakuramochi, you picture a gentle pink wagashi, right? Color glutinous rice with food coloring and cook it; once it’s done, knead it and shape it into balls.

Wrap sweet red bean paste with the glutinous rice, place desalted cherry blossoms or leaves on top, and it’s ready.

Using a rice cooker instead of a steamer makes it simple.

There’s also a type of sakuramochi made by wrapping red bean paste in a pink wheat-flour crepe.

This is called Chomeiji sakuramochi, and it also seems like something enjoyable to make together with seniors.

Enjoy a lovely time with delicious, fun-to-make sakuramochi.

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White Day Buffet Rec

[Ma Maison Hanamizuki Nagaizumi] Snack Activity – White Day Edition

How about an activity to enjoy White Day in March? Prepare a colorful array of sweets and set up a bright, festive buffet.

Choosing together in a lively, cheerful atmosphere is sure to get the conversation flowing.

It’s also lovely to reminisce while enjoying chocolates, cookies, and other treats.

Making white-themed confections in honor of White Day is another great idea.

It will be a fun time to share with older adults as well.

Let’s savor a heartwarming moment while feeling the arrival of spring.

Sakura mochi

March Event [Making Temari Sushi & Sakura Mochi] COMS House Sawa (Serviced Senior Housing)

When it comes to springtime treats, many people probably think of sakuramochi.

It’s also perfect for Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day), so give it a try! There are Kansai-style and Kanto-style sakuramochi, and their methods and ingredients differ slightly.

Kansai-style uses domyoji flour and is shaped like a little bun, while Kanto-style wraps sweet red bean paste in a thin crepe-like batter.

It’s a great idea to decide which style to make based on your facility’s location or the seniors’ hometowns, or even make both and compare the two!

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Three-colored uirō in the style of hishi mochi

[Tri-colored Uiro in the Style of Hishi Mochi] Easy Hinamatsuri Recipe in the Microwave ♪ Japanese Uiro like Hishi Mochi

How about making hishimochi—traditionally made from pink, white, and green mochi—using uirō instead? In addition to flour, sugar, and water, add matcha to the dough you want to make green, and pink sugar to the dough you want to make pink.

After heating each dough in the microwave, let them rest in the refrigerator for a day.

The next day, layer the doughs and cut them into diamond shapes like hishimochi, and your uirō hishimochi is ready! Since this is a two-day process, please make sure to plan so that everyone can have some regardless of the facility’s usage days.

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