100th Post

Yay, this is my 100th entry on this blog! I thought I had to make it special and so I was thinking what I could write about. Nothing seemed special enough, although there were lots of things.

Renai had another live, this time near Mannheim, which is really far away from Berlin and we had to stay for the whole weekend.
Our live was quite good... why only quite? Because the monitoring was immensly loud, that none of us could hear herself singing ... meaning we were too loud or too silent or not on tone or or or ... it was really confusing. -_- We also made a lot of dancing mistaktes ... somehow the whole performance was just too weird!! Can you imagine?!

But for the evening we went to a ballroom dance. It was kinda interesting and I was really looking forward to it, because it was the first time for me. Everyone looked awesome! Let me show you some pictures! :D I must excuse, because the quality kinda sucks ... the lobby was dark and we had to use flash...

Yumi, looking stunning! She made the skirt herself.

The unhappy couple. XD I actually forced them to pose like this, but they reminded me of a prom couple!

Giny! Looking murderous as always. XD

 Daisy with another great dres!! Aww, I really want a dress like that!!!

Laureen in a cute, frilly dress.

Mina with my huge, blonde wig.^^

And me with her wig! We had a situation and didn't know what to do with our hair, so in the end, we just switched.^^




Aaaaaand today... is actually my birthday! I'm getting older and older. X.X
Yesterday was my stageplay ander after that, my friends were with my and the whole ensemble waited for me to turn older. Everybody sang for me and it was really a nice turn. I still wish, it never happened. T_T

And today I celebrated with my family. My parents, grandparents and me, we all went for lunch and we had cake aaaand I got presents... maybe I should show you some pics tomorrow.

Hanami 2012 and more

Yay!
So last week, college's 2nd semester started and this time I'm taking classes in modern history. I'm really happy. I'm learning stuff about the civil rights movement and about pirates and about Europe's international relations during the 19th century. Quite some interesting stuff. Actually, I was supposed to study this weekend (or rather not study, but carefully read some texts, because the one prof seems strict), but I just didn't do it. Instead, I was spending Saturday by doing nothing and today was Hanami.
I went there with Lau.chan and we tried to pull off Lolita for a whole day for the first time! I'm going to use pics from her blog, because I'm too lazy, to load them myself.^^""

It was Lau.chan first time to actually wear Sweet Lolita and she did a great job! She never wore the shoes before, a big headpiece and she's not a wig-person (unsolved mystery...)

I've completely dressed her up as my own little doll,^^"" but from now on, she can surely pull off Lolita herself.

Rrrrr, my petticoat was always showing, damn it! >_<
Some other Renai girl's were there, too.

Mina as maid

 

and Giny as the handicaped pokemon Teddiursa, which lost its moon...
Yumi was there too, she was being Misty from Pokemon, but we didn't take any pictures with her. >_<
At the end, I was just really tired and my feet are killing me!! But it was really fun and we were invited to a Lolita group (can you believe it, they invited us!), I've met an old friend from school (gotta write her an e-mail soon!) and people've been taking our picture all the time, so now there are quite some pictures of us circling around ... kinda weird ... but kinda awesome.

Bento: Salad Rolls

Last week I went to celebrate Hanami with friends. And although it was more like tree-watching because all the cherry blossoms were already withered, it was really fun.

I had the obligatory Hanami picnic with a friend, who is quite new to bentos and cooking in general, so she just made a fairly simple lunch. But the taste was good and so I don't see, why she wasn't happy with it. Just because Mozart started off with composing a sonette at age 3 (or was he already 4?!...) doesn't mean we all have to be little obnoxius geniuses, right? Plus, since Mozart had some big time problems with alcohol and died at age 35, he might not be the best role model.

Well, what was I saying? Ah yeah, we had picnic and I made several bentos for that occasion.

Fried chicken Karaage, Annindofu, cherry tomatoes and cucumber
Salad rolls (big rolls, futomaki)

It was really good! I never made either annindofu or salad rolls, but both went absolutly fine.

If you'd like try out the salad rolls, here's the recipe:

For 3 rolls you need:

2 cups of prepared sushi rice
3 sheets nori seaweed

Fillings:
3 Tbsp canned tuna
6 surimi sticks
shredded omelet (1 egg + 1 tsp sugar + a dash salt all beaten and then fried in a pan)
Lettuce
Mayonnaise

Optional makisu

1. Lay makisu or plastic wrap over a flat surface. Put 1 sheet of nori on it and with wet hands spread 1/3 of the sushi rice leaving 2cm at the top uncovered. At about 1/3 from the bottom place 1 tbsp tuna, 2 surimi sticks in a line, 1/3 of omlett, some lettuce leaves and mayonnaise.
2. Start rolling up, while carefully pressing the fillings inside. Bring near edges of the nori sheet, so you get a roll. Roll up and press the whole roll, so it won't fall apart later.
3. Remove makisu or plasticwrap. Slice roll with a wet knife, be careful not to remove the nori wrap.

And that's it! You can enjoy perfectly healty and delicious futomaki without needing fresh fish!

Das Rezept gibts natürlich auch in Deutsch:

Für 3 Rollen braucht ihr:

2 Tassen vorbereiteter Sushireis
3 Blätter Nori

Füllung:
3 EL Dosenthunfisch
6 Surimisticks
Kleingeschnittenes Omlett (1 Ei + 1TL Zucker + eine Prise Salz, alles verschlagen und in einer Pfanne gebraten)
Salatblätter
Mayonnaise

eventuell eine Makisu

1. Lege die Makisu oder Plastikfolie auf eine grade Oberfläche. Verteile 1/3 des Reises mit angefeuchteten Händen auf einem Noriblatt. Dabei muss oben ein 2 cm Rand stehen bleiben. Ungefähr 1/3 vom unteren Rand entfernt, platziere 1 EL des Thunfischs, 2 aufgereihte Surimisticks, 1/3 des Omletts, etwas Mayonnaise und 1, 2 Salatblätter.
2. Jetzt geht's los mit Aufrollen. Die Füllungen vorsichtig zusammenpressend, bringst du die Enden der Makisu oder der Folie zum oberend Reisran. Drücke die ganze Rolle von außen, damit sie schön fest wird und am Ende nichts rausfällt. Drücke schließlich den restlichen Nori Teil über die dicke Rolle, ohne dabei die Plastikfolie einzuwickeln!
3. Schneide die Rolle mit einem feuchten Messer in Stücke, ohne das Nori zu verletzen.

Fertig!


Still insecure? Learn how to make Futomaki with this great video: