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Last weekend we were at a friends house for a party and one thing I saw there really shocked my mind. The apartment was terribly disgusting, the floor was dirty and the kitchen was full of dirty spots where you could see what they have been cooking for over one month.

I mean, I am not one of the cleanest person in the world or even organized! My room is a complete disaster if you come... but if I am expecting someone to come (like that "prepared" "party") or even if I think someone will come and visit me (I lend someone something or a friend owns me money...), then, I will try to clean it all up and keep it as better looking as I can.

Last weekend's experience made me realize that many students don't care about the hygiene of their dorms and they see it as a disturbing fact that piss them really off.

Once, I was visiting one friend of mine who lived in the same old dorm as I did, and man... I had to run to my place and bring him a bathroom cleaning product because his toilette was freaking disgusting! Now I know why he could never reach to get ladies to his room!!! I even think the toilette couldn't flush because of the dirtiness that was settled in the bottom of the toilette (eeeewwww...). Well, I showed him how just trowing a bit of the bathroom cleaning product, letting it work and just pushing the bottom, he could have a WHITE new toilette. I will always remember his face of how shocked he was and how EMBARRASSED he was feeling that moment.

With all of those experience I wanted to share with you, my readers, an easy way to keep your home clean and tidy! This printable I found it a while ago in one of my favorites websites "popsugar" and I have it in my bedrooms wall. It is easy to follow and you will see that if you follow it, it will be easy for you to have a decent place to leave!!!

And this is not just for students; if you are a grown up this will work for you as well ;) (so no excuses!)

As some of us live in students dorms, we don't have that many rooms at our apartment so it's kinda easy to accomplish some days ;)

To download the FREE printable just click on the image or here.

I hope you follow this daily steps and keep your place clean!!!

For you who are leaving away from home and having a little bit of problems with the "cleaning stuff" I will be keeping posting about this subject if you find it interesting and useful :)

Your cool team :)

Sausages omelette

Sausages are one of the basic ingredients that one can find in any student fridge. Because of their tastiness and easy to cook or combine make them one of the must in a student diet.

Sausages have different variants; you can find the typical frankfurt, to the more worked bratwurst or vegetarian sausages. And there is as well a lot of types for cooking them! From boiled, to fried, to hot dogs, to grilled...

One of the most popular ones lately in the student life have been the pasta-sausage version published by the website 9gag.

Here we want to introduce you a new way to eat them, let us introduce you the sausage omelette!

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RECIPE

Sausage omelette

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 eggs pro person (so if you are a couple use 4..)
• Sausages of any kind (better if they are boiled because we will fry them)
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• A pinch of salt
• Music in the background (this is optional ;) )

DIRECTIONS:

First we fry the sausages.

Meanwhile we beat the eggs in a separate bowl with the salt and once the sausages are done we mix them all together.

Then, we put the olive oil in the pan and pour all the ingredients in it.

You will have to cook the omelette in a medium-low temperature and once you see its a bit done in the upper side you will have to grabe a plate and turn it upside down for a perfect cook!

The egg is done a little bit in the middle and well cooked on the borders

Let it cook a bit more and you will have your super sausage omelette done!!!

Give it a try and let us know what do you think!

Your cool team :)

The Miso Soup - international kitchen

College has started again in Germany and so does eating badly and repeating the same dinner every night (leftovers from weeks ago, boxed pizza, pasta...). Last week we came up with an idea with some of the integrants of the blog, let's share our recipes and easy ways to eat properly and different every day without losing lots of money and try to get us back to our hometown flavors (as almost we come from several different countries).

Today I wanted to share with you one of the easiest way to drink a miso soup without spending much time in the kitchen and introduce it to you as a "new packet soup/dinner" to you. 

As many of you might now, miso soup is one of the most famous soups in the Japanese diet. You will be able to find this soup in every Japanese and asiatic restaurant.

This soup is made by:

• "miso paste" ,which consist of dough of smashed soja beans and kôji 
• dashi broth
• fresh tofu
• wakame seaweeds 
• spring onions

This would be the basic ingredients for this delicious soup but you can find it with a lot of variety including to it seafood, meat, omelette, etc.

Doing the miso soup takes a long time and can sometimes (depending on you cooking skills and PATIENCE) be impossible or really hard to made.

That's where we came into the game ;) 

For those who would like to enjoy one miso soup without spending 3€ in a small bowl or not wanting to leave home to get one, we recommend you to give it a try to the "packed" version that you will be able to find at the asiatic food shops.

Last week we went to visit a huge asian market in Berlin and we came up with some instant miso soups and we decided to give it a try... well it became our favorite soup for sure! The flavor is almost the same as you can get in a restaurant and the seaweeds were amazing!! The only bad thing was that you could feel that the tofu was not fresh but apart from that we have to recognize it taste pretty amazing :)

The pack we bought it was the "tofu flavor" as we were not sure about the prawn or meat - but we will definitely give them a try as soon as we finish this pack! - 

It looks so cute ^^

It's really easy to make, you just unpack to miso paste and the mix of seaweeds, tofu, and broth, and then you add boiling water.

one pack for miso paste and one for the mix

And voilà! You will have this amazing soup for a light dinner or as an appetizer for the following dishes!

Yummy!!

If you live far from an asiatic food shop here we attach you a link from amazon where you can buy a similar one :)

どうもありがとう 

Your cool team :)

College cinema

We love going to the movies but being away from home, living in another country where your mother tongue is not spoken and you don't understand as good as you wish the local language can make you the cinema experience a waste of time and money... :(

We tried it once in our local city but ... NOPE, it didn't work. 

Time after we went to Berlin; to the cinema that's is located at Potsdamer Platz where you can view original version movies (so in english basically). The cinema is called "Cine Star" and it's located at Sony-Center; the place it's really cool and well it was appreciated to watch a movie you can understand :)

yes... germans eats nachos at the cinema... u.u'

But well, going to Berlin in the cold winter days taking a long journey or just having to pay that much to watch the film retourned us to the sad stage of movie watching and as in Germany is forbidden to download movies, music or anything we decided to try to look for something different.

At first we tried this websites where you can watch movies online but the experience wasn't quite the same and the quality of the movies on our TV was awful... But when all the faith was lost, a friend of mine came up with a great idea. Let's make our own cinema.

In our place we have a 40" Television which is pretty awesome for watching moves and another friend (who loves computer games) had some super cool spare speakers; so with this combo we had the great chance to create our cinema.

We are minimum 5 friends who love cinema, so what we decided to do is rent a movie in Amazon which can cost like 3€ maximum or so and the quality is really good and the price divided with all of us is quite much less than going to the cinema.

If you get interested on creating your own cinema I will let down written the TV and speakers we have in case you are thinking of changing yours:

Television Grundig 40" (Good to watch movies and play games!!):

 


Bose Speakers:



And don't forget about the HDMI cable so you can log your computer to the TV!! (We got a long one so we can use the laptop from the sofa so we don't have to stand up... call us lazy :P)



Also another friend have an Amazon Prime Video account so many of the films are free!!! So then we pay him maybe one or two euros because we feel bad for using his account :P I personally recommend to have an account like this ones because the stuff they have is pretty new and cool!!! But if you reunite some friends you can share the payment of the account and create your own cinema like us :)


Ahhh!! And if you get to make a cinema like ours don't forget to make homemade popcorns (you will find a recipe soon here) and coke with ice!!! :)

Your cool team :)

Easy - Cheap - Fast Doughnuts

Doughnuts....

Like really, Doughnuts are amazingly delicious <3 I could eat so many doughnuts at once ^^

Yep, this would be me... :P

In Germany there is a more famous kind of doughnuts called Berlinas

This kind of doughnuts are more like the old doughnuts with no holes and filled with ham. They are really tasty but from my point of view the ham or cream are changing too much the "doughnuts" essence. My fave ones are the "Simpson" doughnuts with the strawberry flavored glacé  :P

Dukin' Doughnuts gets the best ones :)

Where I live there is no bakery or shop that sells this kind of doughnuts, they all sell the "berlinas" and they don't calm my carve of this delightful dessert :9 That's why last weekend with some friends of ours we decided to make ourselves doughnuts but since we were in some kind of "movies marathon" we didn't have the time to prepare all the ingredients and make them the "right way". So we decided to give it a chance to some fast doughnuts and make another day the "true" doughnuts. 

The ones we made didn't have the strawberry flavor just because we couldn't find any extract of it at the supermarket and we thought that "rum" or "cookie" flavor would match that well at least for a first time doughnuts. So this ones are with lemon glacé... and actually they didn't feel like real doughnuts once we tried them but once in your mouth you could tell they were soooo TASTY ^^

The good stuff of this recipe is that you can get 8 doughnuts for less than 3-4€ like REALLY! 

Give them a try, in less than some minutes you will get them done and except for the glacé the rest is already done :D Isn't that cool??

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RECIPE

Fast Doughnuts

Ingredients: 

- One roll of dough (bread dough) 

// We bought one which came in a can for 8 small breads so we came up with 8 doughnuts; if you want to make your own dough late on we will make it the entire way, but as said this is a fast way to make them an easy way to not complicate yourself... We are students don't judge us

- One egg white

- Icing sugar

- Lemon drops (can be extract or from an actually lemon)

- Vegetable oil (to fry)

Extra ingredients:

- Sweet deco :) (Sprinkles, sugar with color, chocolate sprinkles... even bacon :O ) 

- Food coloring

Directions:

Separate the pieces of dough (if it doesn't come separated cut them in a way it will be the same width for all the doughnuts)

Here you can see the can we used with the dough already cut

Mash the dough so it gets thinner and wider. Then with a knife or a mold cut the interior circle. (We did it with a knife, we forgot the cutter at our place :( )

The original dough came this big

So you will have to mash it to make it lower

Then cut the interior circle

 Time to fry! Yes doughnuts are fried... Many of my friends got surprised when I told them we needed to fry them, and even there are some variants which allow you to bake them, doughnuts are fried. Nevertheless, if we baked this dough we would came up with little breads so you have to change the original ingredients of the dough.

Before frying make sure the oil is really hot and don't get burned!

You will see they will grow up a bit and turn brown. Make sure both sides are done correctly and try to get them the same brown shade so the interior dough will get the same done :)

Then take out and put them on a plate with kitchen paper so it absorbs the extra oil.

Cool right ?? :D

Well now it's time to make the glacé. 

Icing sugar and egg white ready for action

 First separate the egg white and put it into a bowl

Add to the egg white some icing sugar and some lemon drops 

not enough sugar

Wanted texture

There is no specific amount of icing sugar I can tell you to mix with the egg white. If you see the mix is not white (like in the second photo) you have not enough sugar. If the mix is too liquid you will need to add extra sugar; if the contrary you need one icing more liquid just add a few drops of lemon juice or water in the case you will add extra flavor later. 

Just take in mind that a single drop can change the whole texture and if you later add essence it will make you a more liquid mix. 

Now that you have your mix as you want it's time to give a bath ...

Put the mix just on the top if you want to add sprinkles later, if not just cover all the doughnut <3

You can add some sprinkles for extra fun :D

And here you have a easy fast and CHEAP way to have doughnuts :)

So, tell me, do you like doughnuts? Which is your favourtie flavor??


I hope you enjoyed it and give it a try ;)


Your cool team :)

PS: Sorry for the quality of the pictures, they were taken from our phones :(

New semester, new hopes

Let's be honest...

Studying sucks... I mean, I love reading and learning new things; starting new semesters mean buying new books, new pencils, new and cooler stuff for school that smells like new and it's just ahhhhh AWESOME!!

But this was in school :( Now we are in college and yes... college rocks, you are older and you can do whatever you like, you can move from home and go to a college dorm (like us) and start going partying from monday till monday and finally live for your own.

This is really cool and it's one of most teens dream but man... living away from home is not as cool as they sold us -_- Living on a budget or having to work to get money to pay your food is definitely awful... Not having your mom with you (or at least all the advantages that you have at home) will make you definitely grow up and discover the true life of an adult (that unfortunately you are becoming to).

We are students at the last year of college (Hopefully we will end by the next summer ^^), who moved not from their parents home, instead, we moved to a different country with a different language!!! 

We want to share with you our life and experiences so everyone can discover how is a student life and maybe discover new things or tricks that they didn't know :)

Enjoy our blog and don't doubt to leave your comments/recommendations :D 

And remember,

you are too cool for college ;)