We the tweemees have the glamorous advantage of living next to a japanese food supplies store.
Since I decided that my new passion would be learning japanese (yeah, please laugh at me and my genki-des-ka),
I walk in there at least once a week, looking for something little and fun and then try to bring up all my guts to have
a japanese conversation about how much I´d have to pay and wishing them a nice day.
I haven´t made it yet. Too nervous and all discouraged when the shop assistant talks to me in german before I have even started my attempt.

I love japanese products. Little illustrations everywhere, everything talks or has a face.

So as we stumbled upon the pancake package, that showed a smiling bowl with smirking eggs and happy flour, I wanted it,
no matter how it tasted or despite the fact that the content was mere flour, sugar and baking powder.
Gimme that laughing pancake!

Making them was very easy, just pour one medium egg, 100 ccl milk and one sachet of the powder into a (hopefully smiling) bowl
and mix it up.

Then heat a pan (without oil), take a ladle and put the mixture into the pan.

Wait for about 20-30 seconds, then turn it around.
After another 15-20 seconds take it out and try to eat it as hot as you can with some chocolate cream or honey or syrup on it.

Om nom nom!

There is no better season to fill your tummy with delicious pumpkin than now.

So if you wanna be romantic and cook for 2, here´s what you need:
1 onion
1 tablespoon of butter
1/2 pumpkin (middle size)
1 cup of rice
1 soup cube
1/2 lime
a pinch of salt/pepper/nutmeg

1. Cut the onion and the pumpkin into small pieces, heat the butter in a pan and throw the stuff in.
Roast gently for 5 minutes (nothing should get brown).

2. Put the soup cube in a glass of warm water, stir and put it into the pan.
Let it simmer for 10 minutes
(you do not want to have your pumpkin too soft by now, otherwise the end result will be “le grand mud”.)

3. Add a cup of rice and give that half lime of yours a soft squeeze over all, so it adds a fresh note to everything, plus 2 cups of water.
Then add salt, pepper and nutmeg (not too much, it then tends to taste soapy).
Cook until rice is done.

I put in the peel of the lime too. I don´t recommend that, everything gets too bitter.

4. Add Parmesan and Grana Padano.

Hmmm, fresh cheese!

5. Et voila! Ready!

Make the yumm yumm!