Oh my goodness, I’m 1 week away from my third trimester – and I am certainly been filling myself up with a lot more fried foods, like this matcha mochi donut. To celebrate also passing my gestational diabetes screening for pregnancy, I also went on a craze for mochi anything – particularly mochi donuts. I first had anything like a mochi donut back in Kyoto’s Mister Donut (photos of it here) and it was damn sensational and always a must for everytime I see a Mister Donut – let alone transit at Kyoto station. I’ve recently learned pon de ring and mochi donuts are actually not the same thing, but after making pon de ring with all the types of flour, having to wait for yeast to raise and struggling with my oven **will post photos of the disaster**; I’ve opted for the easier, mochi donut alternative that was a thousand minutes quicker and million times easier to work with as well.
I have to admit, I’m definitely getting more sluggish and it’s showing – hopefully not too much in my work here. But growing a freaking human being inside me (by now, apparently 14 inches long from head to toe and at ~1.7lbs) is certainly making my back hurt; I feel like I’m a decade older. I think the weirdest “symptom” was feeling a kick or some sort of punch in my stomach when I was driving back home from work. But hey, it’s comforting to know that there’s so many other women out there who go through this around the world (and for generations and generations)
Anyway, the holidays will be our last Christmas before this little monster comes out, and I have to admit I’m happy to just drink hot chocolate (with marshmallows?) + hot apple cider with O and our furry friend, Bagel curled up by the fire with our Christmas tree (that’s a mouthful)
Mochi donut
Ingredients
- 1 C cake flour
- 3/4 C glutinous rice flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 C granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3.5 oz silken tofu
- 1 lg egg
- 2 tbsp water (room temp)
- 2 C canola oil*
Directions
Matcha glaze (from Feedfeed)
Ingredients
- 1/2 C White chocolate chips
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 2 tsp matcha powder
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