 
The hot summer is already here!
Today is especially a hot and humid day.
This is the season when the lotus blooms,
and so I decided to make rice wrapped in lotus leaf.
The lotus flower is said to be bisexual with the pistil and stamen in a single flower.
Isn’t that wonderful?
Today, I’m going to add to the rice ginkgo, chestnuts,
and beans and a little bit of sweet pumpkin powder.
First of all, I'll put the soaked sticky rice in a rice cooker and cook it.
It will take about 30 minutes for the rice to be done.
In the meantime, I will prepare the other ingredients.
First, I'll cut the lotus leaf into triangular shapes according to its size and then cut off the leafstalk.
Next, I'll peel the chestnuts and divide them into quarters.
The female and male flowers are distinct in the chestnut trees,
but both the female and male reproductive parts are in one tree.
In the case of pumpkin, the female flowers bloom when the weather is cool
and the male sex expression is promoted when it is warm.
And maple trees change gender as they continue to live.
Now, the rice is done.
I’ll put it on the lotus leaf with the other ingredients as well.
It’s been possible to harvest ginkgo from the trees in the street.
But it may be difficult to harvest them from the streets in the future.
The male and female gingko trees are different
and the female trees which bear the fruits
are being kicked out of the streets these days because of their smell.
Potatoes, which reproduce asexually without males and females,
are said to have been set on fire
because they were not mentioned in the Bible.
On the other hand, beans are rather common and both genders appear in one flower.
When all the ingredients have been are added to the rice,
wrap it all up in them with the lotus leaf and tie it with the lotus stem or a thread.
And now, we'll steam it in a steamer for about an hour.
Now, it is done.
Let’s arrange it on the plate.
The sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf highlights the natural taste of the ingredients and is ready to eat.
It reflects nature to me.
How does it look to you?
Isn’t this all beautiful?
