The mochi dish at State Bird Provisions in San Francisco is close to my heart, as it was one of the first dishes I created ...

The good news is when you make this recipe, you can skip both ... the round balls of sticky rice dough with ice cream in the ...

Mochi ice cream has an outer layer of rice flour dough surrounding a puck of frozen ice cream. The glutinous rice flour gives the treat a distinct chewiness that not many other frozen dessert ...

Once cooked, the rice is placed into a wooden or stone mortar and pounded repeatedly with a large mallet by one person, while another quickly turns the dough over between swings. Once the mochi ...

Now living in Orlando, Fla., Pam Chock helped other family members, mostly women, take the pounded mochi dough and roll it into discs on a long table dusted with cornstarch. Some of the mochi was ...