{"id":9600,"date":"2022-02-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9600"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:28:51","slug":"potatoes-but-not-as-you-know-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9600","title":{"rendered":"Potatoes… but not as you know them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are a lot of things to say about the newest game in the Pok\u00e9mon series, Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/strong>. Alas, those things will likely have to be said by others, because I only want to talk about one very<\/em> tiny aspect of the game today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this game, there is a character named Beni. He runs the Jubilife Village’s restaurant, and apparently makes a mean potato mochi. His potato mochi is so mean<\/em>, in fact, that every time you complete a task in the story, your character and their friends go to the restaurant to celebrate and stuff themselves with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being an uncultured North American hermit, I was completely unfamiliar with the concept of mochi before I started playing this game. I’d heard the word before, and I knew it was something you eat, but I didn’t really know what it was. I didn’t have a clue if it was traditionally made with potato, or if the potato variety was special. It was all a big mystery to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The image above is what sweet potato mochi is supposed to look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image below is how my sweet potato mochi ended up looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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There are a few caveats here! Firstly, I am an inexperienced sweet potato masher. Part of my problem is, I think, that I did not mash my potato adequately. Hence why it’s all lumpy and weird-looking. Secondly, you’re supposed to fry mochi in a frying pan with oil. I used my air fryer with no oil. You see why they didn’t look so smooth and evenly cooked? Lessons learned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the bright side, while my abominations don’t look appetizing in the least (I would give them an F for presentation), they were actually quite delicious! A-, in my book. The only real problem is that I used a little bit more soy sauce than I should have. I used the amount that the recipe told me to, but that’s too much soy sauce for my personal preference. I knew that, but I did it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also chose to use sweet potato instead of regular potato because… that’s what I keep on hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re interested in giving potato mochi a whirl, just pop it in the Googler and take your pick of the six million recipes available. This is the one<\/a> that I used as a base, although I obviously made a few tweaks. Artistic license and all that. Next time I’ll probably try to follow it a little closer. I guess it makes more sense to learn the basic recipe before you go trying to do your own spin on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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