Our lil hamster boy Pitus is very happy cause he´s heard our blog has been featured as the blog of this week, so we´re all very glad! So does our hamster girl B. who finally agreed to appear in a picture ( she´s very shy ).

Two days ago i got a wonderful surprise when i got home!
it was a small package from Hong Kong, and it included a tiny set of stapms.
the starring is Mashumaromitaina Fuwafuwanyanko, what a name!! i only knew when i saw the stamps on ebay i  had to have them! they´re really amazing, they look like real stamps for your letters, even my boyfriend liked them :)!.
i couldn´t find many info on the cartoon, mostly cause it´s in japanese!!! will try to find out later. But thanx to another blogger i could find some info on him. IT´s a sweet cat who´s mad for hot chocolate!!!! (just like me).

If there´s something i can´t stand is: surfing through food blogs and not finding the recipe along with the pictures … so i´m gonna stop being that lazy and i´ll start with the muffins recipe. Next will be the orange cookies ! recipe for sourdough english muffins:110 grams sourdough, 160 gr. all purpose flour, 100 gr whole wheat flour, 276 gr milk

… mix everything and let it rest 8 hours or overninght.and the next morning:

add 75 gr flour, 3/4 teasp..salt, 1 teasp. baking soda, 1teasp. and 1/2 honey and mix with the other dough, about 7 or 8 min.,——————————————————————————–
be carefull cause it´s so sticky, and opposite to what i read it never stops asking for more flour, maybe there´s something i´m doing wrong, anyway i´m kinda used to it,
the dough is like a lil´monster asking for more and more flour… add only a lil´and keep on kneading… let it rest about 1:30 minutes, make about 8 or 9 balls and give them a muffin shape, i do it with my hands, ( i have to try the method of rolling the whole dough into a large sheet and cutting the muffins with some cutter, glass or something so that they are perfectly round. My next muffins will be made this way), do some marks with the fork and put in the pan about 4 minutes each side.

recipe for the orange kitty cookies: zest of 2 oranges, juice of 1 orange (135ml) (this is my adapted version with the exact amounts so that you don´t fail!), same amount olive oil (135ml), same of sugar ( 135g.), 1 tablespoon milk, 2 egg yolks, 10gr. baking powder, 400gr. flour+3 tablesp., some vanilla extract if you have

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- mix orange juice+oil+yolks+sugar.

-mix flour+baking powder and add the liquids mix, you will see it has an oily texture.

-let it rest on the fridge for a while, i like to leave it about 2 hours.

-give the cookies the shape you like the most and cook on a hot oven, 180-190º about 15 minutes.

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AMAZINGLY the recipe lead me to a product i didn´t know the existence of:

ORANGE TREE by SANRIO

i love cooking, esp.. sweets and english muffins, sourdough english muffins…. the smell is so good… last summer i started with my starter and i couldn´t believe it finally worked out fine!! now i have 3 starters, a rye flour starter, a strong flour starter and a raisins starter… i love to see all the bubbles on them.

i haven´t tried english muffins with normal yeast yet, and it would be pretty interesting since sometimes you don´t have the time to prepare the inicial dough 8 hours earlier, or the night before, or simply all of a sudden you think you would love to eat english muffins for breakfast or afternoon meals!

this is my rye starter:

and these are the muffins:

i found the recipe via internet, it was so surprising the fact they were not cooked in the oven but in a pan… i was doubting i had success but in the end….voila!

ohhhhhhh happy new year friends!!! have you seen the delicious video by sanriotown!?… merry xmas from sanriotown??? it´s absolutely sweet with sweet keroppi as the star he is! i even cried! i would love to see cartoons with all the sanrio characters on them. do they exist? Please let me know!

When i bought the molds, i also bought the bathroom set, i had seen it a long time ago and my boyfriend agreed to buy it to me as one of my xmas presents :), so now there´s another kitty living in my house, …. i also bought these two lil stamps, i´m addicted to stamps, in fact i just won another set of stamps from ebay :).!!!! and apart from that i bought two precious lil coffee cups, as a present to our two lil hamsters boy and girl. they were very happy to get them!!!

Wanna wish all sanrio lovers a Happy New year!!!!

Today i made 2 Panettone, though i´ll have to wait for the result, i´m not very sure cause my oven is not very good but we´ll see. It´s tiny so the panettone grow and almost burnt! in fact they did a lil´bit. :(. They will go with lemon glaze!

Anyways i would love to see kitty molds, sanrio molds and gingerman molds, please feel free to send me an email with a pic and i´ll post them here, i think it would be so funny!!!!. So in a few days if i collect some pictures i´ll post them here. Gingerman molds are pretty hard to find here in Spain so i´m curious, i know they´re so famous everywhere but here!!! So i´m planning to make my own gingerman mold hehee .

Meanwhile i´ll enclose the picture of the bag of molds i used for the kitty cookies + the mold i forgot…

they are delicious and pretty easy to make. and if you have some patience and someone helping you then it´s better :)… so my boyfriend joined and helped me with the molds when i was having a look at the oven,,,, everyone said they were pretty good, the only bad thing is that the cookies dough has to be not thin cause then you can´t draw the shapes of the faces of the lil bear, kitty ,the letters on the hello kitty big mold ect, which is a pity. for example these molds wouldn´t work with my ginger cookies cause the dough has to be pretty thin on those. luckily these ones were so different, that the big ones had a strongest orange flavour and the texture is good, they don´t need to be thin like other cookies. thanx god!!!

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another funny fact is that the following day i discovered another kitty mold i just forgot since i put it in another bag!!! so next time there will be other cookies with the kitty face !!!!

yessss!!!! we made kitty cookies!!!