The Friday Five for September 17
1. Are you looking forward to Autumn (or Spring, if you are in the other hemisphere)?
Yes! I love Autumn. The cool weather, the trees changing color, all the great foods like apples, pumpkins/squash, persimmons, pears, sweet potatos, grapes, figs, chestnuts... Japanese people love to celebrate the seasons. We have a Moon Gazing Day, when stores sell special rice cake desserts that are supposed to be eaten while enjoying the full moon.
MacDonalds has a Moon Gazing Burger, which is a hamburger with a fried egg in it.
Translating the title‐ "Looking at the Moon, our hearts lift"
There is even a pie with the moon gazing rice cakes INSIDE 😄
My whole family looks forward to eating it hopefully at least once in Autumn (it is a seasonal thing. We can only eat it NOW :) )
2. What is one thing that marks this season for you more than anything else?
Halloween, because CHOCOLATE!!! :D But mostly yummy food in general.
3. If the months are indicative of your age, with January being your birth and December being the end of the line), what month are you in? June? If I live to a hundred, that is.
4. Do you welcome the cooler/warmer days or mourn their loss?
I think our seasons are laid out pretty well so that I am always looking forward to the next season. Why would I mourn the loss of a season if I know it will come again next year...? Unless I don't know whether I will live that long...?
5. What is absolutely one thing you have to do in the Autumn/Spring?
Bake a pumpkin pie and an apple pie at least once. :D
Yes! I love Autumn. The cool weather, the trees changing color, all the great foods like apples, pumpkins/squash, persimmons, pears, sweet potatos, grapes, figs, chestnuts... Japanese people love to celebrate the seasons. We have a Moon Gazing Day, when stores sell special rice cake desserts that are supposed to be eaten while enjoying the full moon.
MacDonalds has a Moon Gazing Burger, which is a hamburger with a fried egg in it.
Translating the title‐ "Looking at the Moon, our hearts lift"
There is even a pie with the moon gazing rice cakes INSIDE 😄
My whole family looks forward to eating it hopefully at least once in Autumn (it is a seasonal thing. We can only eat it NOW :) )
2. What is one thing that marks this season for you more than anything else?
Halloween, because CHOCOLATE!!! :D But mostly yummy food in general.
3. If the months are indicative of your age, with January being your birth and December being the end of the line), what month are you in? June? If I live to a hundred, that is.
4. Do you welcome the cooler/warmer days or mourn their loss?
I think our seasons are laid out pretty well so that I am always looking forward to the next season. Why would I mourn the loss of a season if I know it will come again next year...? Unless I don't know whether I will live that long...?
5. What is absolutely one thing you have to do in the Autumn/Spring?
Bake a pumpkin pie and an apple pie at least once. :D