Mochi

Mochi is a asian dumpling like pastry that taste very yummy. It's made with rice flour for the dough and sometimes with a sesame seed coating, mochi HAS to be the yummiest Japanese pastry ever. Somtimes theres a peanut filling, red bean paste filling, ice cream filling evan a Nutela filling in mochi. Here are pictures of mochi (Japanese mochi and thia mochi) .

japanese mochi

Thia mochi.

THE DURIAN! (AN AWESOME fruit!)

Durians are really smelly, they smell worse than rotten eggs! Also stinky socks. So do you think you would wanna eat that?! Well I don't think so, but Durians taste really good, at least I heard that they do. Anyway so I just saw a Durian not that long ago.  IT WAS HUGE! Seriously it was like 17 inches tall! And about 7 inches thick! Look at the picture at the bottom to see how durians grow. Durians are really cool fruits because of how big they are. Durians grow in Asia, they are green as you can notice by looking at the pictures. You can make durian pancakes. Fermented durians look a lot like scrambled eggs to me, you can eat durians by simply holding it in your hands, after taking out the fruity flesh.
 So you can tell that durians don't smell wonderful, they are like the opposite of roses. They are spiky but you can touch them, they just have big spikes, but they are like triangles that are popping out. Anyway,what I am trying to say is that they don't hurt with the spikiness. WARNING NEVER SMELL A DURIAN!

My pet gerbil Oreo

My gerbil is so cute so I just thought that it would be great to let the whole world see my adorable gerbil. Gerbils are rodents, they look like hamsters/rats it's just that gerbils have fur on their tail so it's not like a rat's naked tail. Oreo always chews stuff, you know why? Because rodent's teeth never stop growing, she has to shorten them so she can eat and open her mouth. The other reason why is because she gets bored a lot, so that makes her entertained.

This is so cute, (she's taking a nap)

(Oreo up close)

This is what she looks like when she's very tired, it's cute.

:)You can tell why she's called Oreo.

About to drink water

The salad I made for her.

33 famouse japanese snacks (pictures by Asami, JapanTalk, 27,2011.)

I think that it's really cool to see what snacks people in Japan eat, I also think it's cool to see all the varieties of snacks and how odd they are. Anyway I hope you like this and enjoy looking at it and, by the way if you like it comment!

by lily

33 Famous Japanese Snacks posted by Asami, Japan Talk, November 27, 2011 33. Wasabeef Wasabi/beef flavored chips. 32.Cream Collon Crispy cream candies with an unfortunate name. 31.Every Burger Chocolate biscuits that look like tiny burgers. 30.Poifull Fruit flavored jelly beans. 29.Pucca Crackers with a chocolate filling shaped like fish. 28.Green Gum Love the simple names of Japanese products. 27.Crunky Popjoy Bit-sized chocolates with crunchy rice. 26.Sweetie Gum 25.Chelsea Classic Japanese hard caramels. 24.Kani Pan Crab shaped sweat bread. 23.Dars Chocolate squares. 22.Kinoko no Yama Literally "mushroom mountain", cute chocolate topped cookies. 21.Jagariko Cheese and vegetable flavored potato sticks. Jagariko is a play on the word "Jagarimo" which means potato. 20.Chokobi 19.Hi Chew Fruit flavored chewy candy. 18.Koalas March Koala shaped cookies with various fillings such as chocolate and strawberry. 17.Pinky Small tangy mints. 16.Baby Star Ramen Chips meant to taste like ramen noodles. 15.Bisuko Classic Japanese biscuits. 14.Tohato Caramel Corn 13.Meiji Chocolate A classic basic chocolate bar. 12.Papico Frozen treat in bottle shaped plastic that tastes like a milk shake. 11.Kitkat Okay, so Kitkat is not Japanese. However, Kitkat is consistently one of the top selling chocolate bars in Japan. Kitkat in Japan has many varieties not available in other countries such as cherry blossom flavor. 10.Caplico Fake ice cream cones. 9.Tiroru These classic chocolate squares have dozens of flavours and seasonal varieties. 8.Milky Milk flavored caramels. 7.Gari Gari Kun A classic sherbet bar that comes in various flavors. "Gari Gari" is the sound of chewing. 6.Umaibo Snack sized sticks similar to potato chips that come in various flavors. 5.Ghana Chocolate Popular brand of slightly dark chocolate. 4.Choco Baby Little cylinders of waxy chocolate. 3.Apollo Space capsule shaped chocolates with a mix of strawberry and milk chocolate. 2.Choco Ball Waxy chocolate with a crunchy, strawberry or peanut filling. 1.Pocky Pretzel sticks covered in chocolate.

I got a mouse!

Her name is Fluffy, Fluffy the Mouse. And she is adorable!  She's a little shy, so she is scared of my hands also because the average adult fancy mouse weighs 1-2 ounces (that means they are tiny) so my hands seem like a giant hand to her. She's about three inches long. She is the second pet I got and she is the most adorable rodent I ever saw next to Oreo of course, (look at my older post: I got a gerbil!). She doesn't like papaya at all, she always leaves it around her cage, we're so alike because I don't like papaya either, it's just that I don't leave it around a cage. :) I think it's cute when she runs around in her ball that she uses for exercise. It's a thing for rodents to run around your house for exercise, it's usually a transparent ball that they go in. My mouse is such a clean freak that she cleans herself in her exercise ball, I have to say that about twelve times a day she cleans herself. Anyway I will be putting up pics of her soon.

This is what i'm going to make all by myself!

German Pancakes

This recipe comes from SchoolFamily.com's GoodNCrazy Mom, aka blogger Carissa Rogers. Rogers writes in this blog post about the role these pancakes play in her busy household, and describes them this way: "Once baked, these may look like Martian pancakes, but they're delicious and perfect for breakfast or dinner on Sundays—or any day of the week!"

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Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• maple syrup (optional, for serving)
• 2-3 bananas, sliced (optional, for serving)
• powdered sugar (optional, for serving)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Place the butter in a 9x13-inch baking pan, then put the pan in the oven while the oven is preheating to melt the butter.
3. In a large bowl, mix the remaining ingredients together (eggs, flour, milk, and salt).
4. Pour egg mixture into the melted butter (watch for hot splatters).
5. Return the pan to the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
6. Let cool slightly.
7. Cut the pancake into squares and serve with maple syrup or sliced bananas and powdered sugar.