the first oven on new year 初釜

 yumyum~~

my teacher cooked black bean. very sweet and softly. how she put them with pine straw...? the gold salted fish guts is very good for palate freshener.

 Hanabira-mochi;petaline rice cake for new year
http://katnsatoshiinjapan.blogspot.com/2012/01/hanabira-mochi.html
Inside of the pink mochi, some sweetened miso and a candied gobo (burdock root).

菱葩餅（ひしはなびらもち）は、ごぼうと白味噌餡とピンク色の餅を、餅もしくは求肥(きゅうひ)で包んだ和菓子。
by the by the mochi is a little bit hard to cut the stick. sometimes there is happening mochi is flying in the tea ceremony....

http://www.yamatogokoro.jp/shishido/2008/05/english_for_tea_ceremony.html

Futaoki 蓋置き rest for the lid of a teakettle (tea ceremony)
happy turtle is here, its cute~~