Sunday, February 26, 2006

St. Valentine's Day

In Japan, Valentine's Day is a day for girls to give boys to chocolate. It began when a chocolate maker mixed up the message of Valentine's Day in the West and managed to focus on the interesting fact that Western women show affection openly to their men on that day. So the chocolate maker made it a holiday on which girls should give chocolate to boys, and made a lot of money. Now, girls often give purchased chocolates to their friends (guy or girl) and make some kind of chocolate treat for that special guy.

In keeping with this, I made the ever so rare (in Japan) Peanut Butter Cup for Ryan--since it's his favorite kind of sweet.

I melted some good plain chocolate and microwaved some peanut butter a teensy bit. Then I mixed a little bit of honey with the peanut butter. After that it was: melted chocolate, peanut butter, melted chocolate, candy hearts and into the fridge. The whole thing turned out quite melty and soft. I also assume it was very edible since it disappeared so quickly.

Eventually, a marshmallow company proclaimed March 14th to be "White Day." A day on which boys should return gifts to the girls who gave them stuff in the form of, you guessed it, marshmallows. Now, they often give white chocolates, not marshmallows.

6 comments:

The Goodfellas said...

did you invent that? it sounds good! :-)

Jenna said...

love the festive pink pants ;)

The Goodfellas said...

ha! i noticed those too! pink and lavendar, i give you 2 thumbs up. :-)

ningyo said...

Ha! Thanks ^_^ I now love pink--isn't that wierd? I mean, it's natural to love pink, but I just hated it so much forever. I remember hating it even when I was 5 years old!

The recipe was created in my mind as I walked home from the station that day. I HIGHLY recommend it.

Jenna said...

i was never a huge fan of pink either, but now my new favorite colors are pink & brown. mmmmmmm yummy!

ningyo said...

Yes, very delicious colors~It was funny once you mentioned that in a previous email. Abigail was here at the time and we scoured the stores of Japan for pink and brown things. We found tons of things! But all of them were pretty gross~meh.