I made the Hokkaido milk loaf. It´s really delicious. Sweet, but not too sweet. It didn´t grow much, maybe cause I kinda mixed the yeast with the salt. I used half of the recipe just in case it didn´t turn out fine. But it did!
I also made swiss rolls. I was going to do the baps we make every week but then there was the recipe in the flour package and I thought: let´s give it a try!…. Result: delicious too!!! So tempting and soft and the smell mmmm….
Hey I´m gonna stop making sweets and buns for a while, since they tempt me much more than my boyfriend and I end up eating what I shouldn´t, and since my family is away I can´t give them anything either L………….What a shame!!! I enjoy so much making them although it was only for giving it as presents.
Sometimes I think if we lived many many years ago I could bake all this stuff and sell it in the streets just as the muffin man did. J…. I truly love these old stories! Wouldn´t you like sometimes to step back in time? I would!!! Even though today we have many freedom and comodities, on the other hand all are rules, rules, rules, and you have to pay even just for breathing! So then, we´re not that free as it seems.

Yesterday we made a little trip to the shops. We were looking for some stuff for the new baby to come ( from my boyfriend´s sis) + some stuff for my sisters´little girl…We didn´t find what we were looking for, just some clothes for my nephew, but I also wanted to buy her some toy, but I didn´t like what there was in the shops. In the end I found a kewl thermo, with capacity for 550 ml. I fell in love with it, so funnyly decorated ¡! I showed it to my boyfriend and then left it on the shelf again. But then I remembered I wanted to buy one of those thermos for making my own yogurt… and that one was perfect!! Cause it was not too big but had the capacity for 4 yogurts… so that was perfect for our kitchen….. Then I also saw these lil´ bowls… I saw some in those shops that sell everything but they never fit with their lids, so I never bought them. Small bowls are not easy to find so I bought this little set of 4 bowls ( also from the baby´s shop ), perfect for storing yogurts, lemoncurd, custards etc…yippie!!

My boyfriend was looking for those things you put in the baby´ s cradle, arghhh I don´t know the english name for that!! Sozzz , well the thing is that all we saw was not very great, they were ugly in fact!! So in the end he bought some basket for the swimming pool we have in a field my family owns.

I just had to draw some of the stuff we bought, including that lil´dress for the new born baby which is pretty funny too. I need to buy more colors if I have to keep on painting + practising.

I made three bottles of Lemon Syrup J… Now I¨m just waiting for the label of them, as my boyfriend offered to make them for me… I´m waiting!! …I love labels, cool designs, and I also love glass bottles and I´m kinda collecting them. Of course they are supposed to have some use. We have plenty of lemons these days and I need recipes!! So I also made two different LemonCurds and the result was not very good, in fact they look great but the taste is awful.. arghhhh —- Can you believe it??

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I don´t know if it´s because I added the whole egg, white part + yolk. I made lemoncurd once and though it wasn´t that great as I expected at least you could eat it! And the difference with this time is that I used only egg yolks. But I had all that lemoncurd made, so I was not going to throw it!!!

So I made the dough for ginger cookies+ added lemoncurd… the result is great!! delicious ginger cookies with lemon flavor!! Yep yep…!!! I don´t know what could fail with my poor lemoncurds, the thing is that now they´re resting in the freezer waiting to be used with more cookies. And the bad thing is that I don´t know what Lemoncurd is supposed to taste, but I´ve read everywhere it´s really delicious. I should try and make it again but ONLY with egg yolks, not the whole egg. This afternoon I´m preparing aniseeds cookies and I also want to experiment adding sum lemoncurd…..

I think I bought the barbecue sauce mostly because of the kewl design + kewl bottle. And I was wondering what it tasted like the barbecue sauce. I would also like to try to make this sauce by myself cause I don´t like much the flavour of all those spices.

I don´t like ketchup at all but sometimes we mix ketchup to make some sauces, and I think Heinz is the only ketchup I can stand, so we always buy this brand.

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I liked to paint a lot when I was a kid, but bit by bit I left the ‘hobby’, well I usually used pens + watercolors+ felt-tip pens + markers etc to decorate FB´s (friendshipbooks that is ), me and my sis enjoyed a lot at it!. The watercolors case is a present I got when I was about 13, some some years ago now… I was surfing through some arty blogs and I just felt like trying, they were so good!! so here you are my first sketch!! I would like to practise a lot more and be creative but that´s something not very easy to me… SO for the first practise I used the Kitty bee + blue Rino.

P.D.: I forgot to say Rino has been helping with the cookies!! Here he is with the aniseeds!

-VIENA ROLLS
-ABERDEEN ROWIES
-CRUMPETS
-BAGELS
-APPLE PIE
-HOKKAIDO BREAD
-LIGHT NAAN BREAD

If someone has some special or delicious tested crumpets recipe I would really appreciate the help, as I´ve been searching through the net and the info seems not to be very clear. Anyway, it seems they´re quite delicious and everyone wants to repeat after eating them so I´m pretty curious about their taste… And I love ancient recipes!!!
I have Elizabeth David Book, gotta collect the tuna cans since I don´t have cooking rings for the crumpets !
Same thing goes for Aberdeen Rowies, if someone has a tested yummy recipe would be pleased to get it. If not, I´ll have the choose from the recipes I´ve collected.

See YA!

Thanks to everyone who voted for my video. The truth is I would still have liked to modify and add some slides, but my PC is very slow and it REALLY got on my nerves.
I was trying to adapt the slides to the song, but for some reason it didn´t work out. Although I set some of the slides to last only 3 seconds, they lasted a lot more in the final result. I think it´s because of the flash program itself.
Anyways I enjoyed a lot creating it and I didn´t add any sanrio stuff/image because when I read it didn´t have to be sanrio related I thought it meant it strictly, and I was afraid I couldn´t participate or something. And I didn´t even watch the video example of Love is… so that we could get ideas !!! ( silly me!!! sometimes I´m so distracted! ). I just saw it some days ago, it made me smile to see it started with the words Love Is… displaying, just like mine…
But I have the 3rd position, so I won the HK USB :). I´m very glad for it and I can´t wait to finally have it.
Thanks to everyone for your votes and your nice comments, they made me cheer up a lot!!!

Hi ya all!!

Lately I´m not updating my blog much, well it´s because of some reasons…, during the mornings I´m catching up on my english, I have a book which tells about the life during the beginning of the 20th century ( very interesting i love to read it !!!) I find it relaxing and I´m even learning about different kinds of plants, flowers, trees… I can´t believe all the words I still have to learn!. But at the same time is great finding those ‘new words’…. So that way I don´t play with the computer in the mornings since when I´m on the computer time flies. And I´m improving my english a little bit.
And then, in the afternoon we´re taking computer classes. Unfortunately it only lasts 20 days, and it´s only 2 hours every day. It´s interesting to know what is like a computer inside…. but some explanations are so ‘abstract’ to me….
And well, not that much is going on in my life either!!!!!!!! I made croissants again, this time they looked kinda better than last time so I´ll show you the pics, they were good and I´m willing to bake them again….

And last, these days I´m nervous for the Love is contest… what will happen??? I told some of my friends about my blog and about the video I made, and it feels kinda embarassing to me , maybe it´s because I´ve always been a bit shy.

Yes!! Today I´m very glad cause they told me my video is in the Top 5 to take part of the Love is contest. I would really appreciate if you had a look and give me a vote if you like it. Thanx a lot!

http://video.sanriotown.com/video/9977ba75f1fce697

for votes you can go here and choose the one you like the most:

http://blog.sanriotown.com/directors_club:hellokitty.com/

I Think these icons were available at sanriotown some time ago. Now they aren´t. Is there any sanrio fan who has them on the computer??? I would really appreciate if some of you can send me the adorable Purin icons. Thanx!

The truth is that since here in Spain it is impossible to get gingerbread molds, i decided to make some with ceramic stuff, and we went to the shop to look for the materials to do it. How are we gonna make the ceramic cookie cutters??? No idea, but i asked my bf to go with me to the shop and see if i could get any idea. At the same time, I was also looking on ebay. I saw a cute gingerbread family set. Wow! It was really cool, a green plastic set of 4 gingerbread molds. So i bid on it and went to sleep, ( there were 2 hours left for the auction to end ). It was about 1 am and i was pretty sure the molds would be mine… But the following morning… surprise!!! Someone outbid me! I was so dissapointed… and more …. so annoyed!!! The thing is that I lost the gingerbread molds, i was looking for more but the other ones i liked didn´t ship to my country. .. L… ……

And 2 or 3 days later… surprise!!!The same molds with the only difference that they were metallic, so i bought them and… they´re already here! Something as usual in other countries here it is impossible to find, so i´m so glad J … In the end i don´t have a gingerbread mold but 4!!! The whole family. ¡!!. I got them the same day i got the new hk stamps, and they´re still unopened in the package.AT LAST I HAVE GINGERBREAD MOLDS YEAHHH WOOOOOHOOO SO SO GLAD…now what!!!???? Now they´re asking for my fave cookies GINGER COOKIES!!!

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Oh my God look what they´re selling in a shop next to my house!!! A ‘happy toaster’. J. I don´t have any toaster so ….. it´s the perfect excuse for one! ( i wonder what´s gonna think my boyfriend about it )… but see the cute paintings on the toasts!!!

        I have the HK Sandwich Maker, the only bad thing is that i can´t use it since the american electric system is not the same that here, so… i must say it´s a very important decorating element in my kitchen, It gives a cheerful atmosphere. As i say, she´s the queen of my kitchen!!!

And look who´s next to the toaster in the catalog!!! Mr. Sponge Bob Squarepants!!

 Yes! I love the cartoons!! Their sense of humour is pretty hard to find. Some episodes are more childish, but others are Laugh out Loud!  And, as a matter of fact, he´s also in my house! He´s decorating our living-room. I have a Bob ‘plush’ who talks, he says things like ‘ i love to sing!!!’, ‘ you´re my best friend’, he makes strange noises, he even sneezes J!! My sister loves it, and my bf´s sister loved it too when she saw it ( she said we could have bought her one hee hee ), and none of them are kids