Lemon's drop-inn

[Yuracye]

Always need more beta fish.

Kyndreth: Ahhh. That's exciting! I can't wait to see it. ;;;
Oh gosh. o ____o It takes that long to make? Damn.

It just looks so... intricate and delicate. I feel like I'd somehow end up punching it and squishing it. rip.

Lemon: Need those green wings. orz

[Kyndreth]

It shouldn't take that long, I just didn't have the right tools or the right preparations. Took me a bit longer to figure things out.

Lel, it looks that way, but I don't think it will be? I could be wrong though.

Lemon: Oh, got the green wings? Or are you saying yay finally we get green wings?

[Yuracye]

Ohh, okay. I was going to say. xD Usually if food takes that long, I can't be bothered. But, I'm also super lazy, so there's that. orz.

Hmm. I'm just also very clumsy, so I view most things that way.

[Kyndreth]

Yuuup, some of that time was just waiting for it to boil while on medium heat. And then letting it soak more. And then peel the skins off the beans. Next time, I'm just not bothering. That took forever.

Eh, I'm a klutz too. We'll see. I'll let you know in approximately. 10-12-ish hours how it works out?

[Yuracye]

Oh. Well, I suppose that makes sense. That can take forever sometimes. u vu
You peeled the skin off of the beans? Geez, that does seem tedious. I definitely don't have the patience for that. orz.

Ah, perfect. xD Yes please! I'd love to know!

[Kyndreth]

Yup. It is tedious stuff. Less tedious if I used a food processor tbh.

Yup, first to get through work, then to boil the raw bean paste with sugar and water, then to make the nekiri dough. Theeen I can start making the wagashi

[murmurlade]

do you really have to pick off all the skin from the beans?
your eyes must be pretty good unless they're huge beans?

why don't you use a food processor?

[Kyndreth]

I didn't have to, but I did. Lima beans, so yeah, huge beans.

Couldn't find it?

[murmurlade]

lazy kyuun...... or perhaps, messy, disorganized kyuun.
oh, Lima beans! Those are pretty big.
Wagashi is starting to sound like 10 times the effort, and not enough returns! Just like macarons! Delicious, expensive, and difficult to make. Stupid French patisserie.

[Kyndreth]

Both adjectives fit me. All three adjectives fit me.

Lel, wagashi wouldn't be so hard if I was in Japan, I'm pretty sure there'd be shiro-an in stores there. It's really simple, but the shiro an is the time-consumng tedious part.

[murmurlade]

You're delicious, expensive, and difficult to make? What?
Is this some kind of riddle now? YOU'RE EDIBLE???
/leans over hungrily

Ah, true. I just googled shiro-an and wow what do you know its in our local baking supply store. They have stuff like anko and shiro-an and kan ten? I think that's how you call it? But the quality is pretty bad.

[Kyndreth]

I meant lazy, messy and disorganized actually XD
Technically, yes. I'm edible.

Heeeh, I see. I found anko easy, but shiro-an is another beast
Then again... there was one other store I didn't check.

[murmurlade]

Ohhhh. My bad.
Is it difficult to get around in your town? How's the public transport~? Or do you drive? Must be crap to waste petrol on shiro-an lol

[Kyndreth]

I didn't make em that well... oh well...


small album is here (started from after dough was made)

[mdom]

oooh beautiful!!! Look at that sakura!

Also lima beans huh... Well, if there's no japanese market there's probably no azuki beans selling xD is the taste good, too?