„Nυssgιpfєℓ“ ~ Nυt Croιssαηтs

For 18 nut croissants you need:

puff pastry (already rolled)
125g ground hazelnut
50g sugar
100cc milk
1 tablespoon of lemon juice

oven baking temperature: 180 C°
baking time: ~20min

Instruction:
filling
1. Mix all the ingredients (except the pastry) together.

croissants
2. Cut out 18 rectangles from the puff pastry. (You can choose the number and the size of the rectangles on your own)
3. Put the nut filling in the middle of the pastry
4. Roll it together and form the croissants
5. Bake the croissants about 20 minutes.

If you like, you can mix some icing sugar with a bit of milk and glaze the croissant while it is still warm, sprinkle it with almonds.

Cнιαяιтy Bαzααr ιη Zυg

A very short entry about the bazaar in Zug before the commercial break is over (Monday is my TV soap day ) I am terribly tired  Yesterday we were at home half an hour after midnight and I went to bed at one o’clock at night…  It was a exhausting but eventful day!

Here some pictures:

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…and I am back to being a student!
My second school day and first Saturday-lessons are over. Funny teachers, lovely class mates and very interessting subjects!  In the morning we had Information Technology (I love it!) and we already got the first group project. In the next lessons we will learn more about Google Adwords, Sharepoint, website analysis and Facebook. Our project is Facebook *lol*  In the afternoon, we had the subject Access Center – everything about learning process, personal analysis, team work and self-discovery that helps you to get to know yourself better.

Oh yes, and I got my student card today!  (but it cost me 50 CHF!!!!!!)

Gσσ∂вує Sυммєя! Hєℓℓσ Aυтυми!

Autumn officially started today It’s suddenly getting damn cold the last days and you even can follow how the leaves are changing their colours and falling from the trees. I rather prefer warm/hot seasons cause in cold seasons, my hands and feet quickly become freezy, even though I am wearing fluffy socks and gloves.  Nevertheless, autumn is a very nice season and I look forward for some yummy specialties like chestnuts and pumpkins  As you can see I’ll already started to bake seasonal sweets with our home-planted Japanese pumpkins. The one which is growing in our garden has a pretty cute name: ほっこり姫  (Hokkori Hime means a kind of “Heartwarming Princess”). It has a green skin and an intense yellow-orange colour in the inside.

Here is my recipe for カボチャ-Cupcakes (Kabocha is Japanese and means pumpkin ).

For 15 Pumpkin Cupcakes you need:

100g butter
1 egg
0.5 cup of sugar
1 cup of flour
100cc milk
2 teaspoon of baking powder
¹/₂ teaspoon of cinnamon
¹/₄ teaspoon of ground ginger
¹/₄ teaspoon of ground nutmeg

selfmade pumpkin puree
2 pumpkins (I used my Japanese princess ^^)
100g sugar
4 tablespoon of water
a pinch of salt

for the frosting
100g butter
8 tablespoon of squeezed pumpkin (selfmade)

oven baking temperature: 185C°
baking time: ~25min

Instruction:
pumpkin puree
1. Wash pumpkins, cut them into quaters and remove seeds.
2. Cook pumpkins in a pressure cooker.
3. After the cooking, the pumpkin should become soft and you can remove the green skin very easily.
4. Squeeze the yellow-orange part of the pumpkin through a sieve. (repeat the procedure several times)
5. Add sugar, water and a pinch of salt to the pumpkin and cook it well in a pot.

 

Cupcakes
1. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.
2. Cut butter into little pieces and add it to the flour-mixture.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together approx. 400g of the pumpkin puree (see recipe above), milk, and egg.
4. Add pumpkin-mixture to the flour-mixture. (mix mix mix)
5. Fill the dough into the baking cups
6. Bake the cakes and let them cool completely on a rack

the golden combi – also known as pumpkin spice

 

7. For the frosting just mix all the ingredients together and let it cool in the fridge. Use a frosting tube and put the cooled buttercream on the cakes.

8. Last but not least: Don’t leave your Cupcakes naked – give them a bit of decoration!

if you like you can half the cakes and squeeze the frosting between

 

Oh dear, it’s already dark outside and I still should prepare my school stuff. We have school tomorrow!  It supposed to be quite hard to study on Saturdays. No more free time from 8.30am until 5.00pm, but I hope to get used to it soon. Fight Miho, it’s only for two years!!

I gιvє мy ƒιяsт Lσvє тσ yσυ

僕の初恋をキミに捧ぐ  ♥ Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu
I Give My First Love to You

Takuma, a boy who is told he will die before he’s 20, and Mayu, a girl who is in love with him…

The story begins when they are little kids. Mayu, whose father is a doctor, meets Takuma, who is hospitalized in her father’s workplace. They develop feelings for each other, but Mayu learns of Takuma’s grave illness and that he will die before he turns 20. The distraught children make one promise for an uncertain future.

Time passes, and the girl becomes a young woman, and the boy, a young man. Mayu continues to support and love Takuma. On the other hand, Takuma, who knows his days are numbered, pushes away his feelings for Mayu and distances himself from her. He cannot stand to see her cry or hurt her more than he already has. Then Mayu meets another man who has feelings for her, and Takuma meets a woman who has the same illness, and their feelings for each other begin to waver.

Misunderstandings, unsaid thoughts, the frustrations and chagrin of youth… What will become of their love while the clock keeps ticking away in Takuma’s life? (asianmediawiki.com)

Finally I had some time for my own to look my long-awaited DVD.  I could hardly believe that only a few minutes had passed… a lot of little tear drops were rolling down my cheeks!  I really couldn’t hold my tears back! I already knew that it is going to be a (very) sad story but right from the beginning? Could you watch a movie without crying, when a pretty little girl is searching for a four-leaf clover and pray for her sick friend? She was screaming:

“Please, god of the four-leaf clover – Please, save Takuma – Don’t kill Takuma – Please, let us be together forever – Please, cure his disease – Please, Please, Please…”

I’d love to have this key strap *___*