Airfry Peanut Butter Banana Brownies

I came across this simple brownie recipe on FaceBook:

Batter ingredients:

Add these:
-1 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
-1 Tbsp Peanut Butter
To mix in:
-1 banana (mashed)

Airfry the batter in a container at 160°C for 30 minutes.  Top the brownie with dark chocolate chips and a sprinkle of sea salt flakes.

Here is another way to bake it with similar ingredients: 

These are the ingredients required:

Easy Way to cook Chicken Breast

 I am not a fan of chicken breast but this looks like an interesting way to eat it.

These are the ingredients required to cook it:

These are the ingredients for the mashed potato dish:

Baked Eggs with Cheese

I came across this TikTok's Baked Egg recipe reading a newsletter from Martha Stewart.

According to Martha, you need: 

-a baking dish
-12 eggs
-feta cheese or any soft, spreadable cheese, such as, cheddar or Gruyère
-salt, pepper and any other seasonings

After baking it in the oven at 400°F for 15 to 20 minutes, mash the cheese and eggs together to create a scramble. You can then sprinkle chopped chives or chili flakes on top of the mixture as garnish.  You can then scoop the mixture out to roll it in a wrap to eat or serve it with your regular toast, bacon, tomatoes and avocado or other seasonal fruits.

Martha shared that the optional ingredients you can add to flavor this dish are:

-mushrooms
-onions
-spinach or peppers. 

You can learn to cook with the above optional ingredients by watching this video I found on YouTube.

Here is another variation I found on YouTube.  The cook added dry tomatoes, onions a handful of fresh herbs as garnish.

3-Ingredient Cakes

I like keeping recipes that requires three or less ingredients to make.  

Here is one for baking sponge cake. 

I can add flavouring essense to the batter if I want to.

I prefer this recipe which I found on YouTube as less sugar is used.

Sponge cake can also be steamed to cook.  The preparation method is the same except that the base of the cake pan need to be lined but not be greased.

This method is a little different as the egg york is separated from the white before it is beaten with sugar.

I would also like to try making 3-Ingredient Greek Yogurt Cake.

It can be baked in an airfryer too.

Shortcut to Cooking Speghetti

To make your speghetti dish, you need to boil a pot of water to cook the noodle till it is al dente first.  Then you need a pan to fry the ingredients to flavour it.  By baking it, you cut down these two processes so you will have less utensils to wash too.

Here is the recipe for it from Feel Good Foodie.  I like it that Yumna shared her recipes with lots of photos.

I first discovered this recipe on "I love Recipes" Facebook page.  I like it better as there are lesser ingredients required to cook it.  Except for Oregano, they are ingredients which I often use in my kitchen. 

Knead your Dough with a Ziplock Bag

If you do not have a hand or stand mixer or a breadmaker and you do not like the idea of using your hands to knead sticky dough, you can prepare it in a ziplock bag.  I agree with Left Brain Craft Brain that it is a fun way to initiate a kid to cook anything that requires dough prepared. 

Watch this video for making Fried Dough Balls" and you will get an idea. 

You can also use the same method to prepare dough for baking bread.  This baker is able to shorten the resting time of the dough by microwing a glass of water for 2 minutes.  She then put the dough in the ziplock bag to rest for 30 minutes in the microwave oven with the glass of heated water.

 

I first came across this idea on Cookrate Facebook page for making Ham and Cheese Bun.  If you are going to use a breadmaker to prepare the dough, you can add the ingredients "3" to "10" in the order I have written it in the following table. 

Korean Street Food Bell Peppers Dish

I shared before how I cooked my Korean Street Food Inspired Bell Peppers Dish.  I cooked them so that my husband can eat them with bread for breakfast.

Recently, I discovered that I can make fried rice with this dish too.  I beat an egg or two into it to cook scrambled egg before adding cooked rice to the mixture to cook.

The dish can also be used to make a pan sheet meal with wraps.  You can see how it is made by watching this video.

What to do with leftover cooked pasta?

Those days of "think of the Kampucheans/poor" to encourage my children to finish their food are over. Now that they can prepare their own meals I encourage them not to waste food by sharing with them ways leftovers can be used.  

But who would want to eat leftover cooked pasta?  Your cooked pasta will no longer be al dente if you reheat it to be eaten.  So, I like the idea of serving leftover cooked pasta crispy by baking it in an oven.  And, that is one of the ways Italians finish their leftover cooked pasta. 

  

 

You can find the full recipes at PastaGrammar.

EASY CHICKEN AND BROCCOLI CASSEROLE

I like checking out recipes that has the word "EASY" in its tittle.  I found this Easy Chicken and Broccoli Casserole on Yummly and I see that it has most of the ingredients that my daughter enjoys eating.  As the instruction is incomplete, I did a search and found this Cheesy Chicken Broccoli Casserole recipe shared by Kristyn Merkley.  I like it that her instructions include how you can prepare the dish and freeze it for 2-3 months. 

I learn from this version that you can replace the can of cream of chicken soup with 1/2 cup of heavy cream.

I also discovered from reading other recipes that you can replace the chicken soup with mushroom soup. I am hoping that my daughter will find it easy enough to cook this herself. I am sure she will consider adding sliced button mushroom to the dish.

I like the idea that this dish use cooken chicken. That means that I can boil a pot of soup with the water used for cooking it.

3-Ingredient Ham and Cheese Crescent Sandwiches

If you need to cook in a hurry, find recipes that use fewer ingredients. Instead of bread, this Ham and Cheese Crescent Sandwiches use crescent rolls and you need only three ingredients to bake it.

Cooking on a tight schedule

If you are balancing between working life and home, there will be times when you feel guilty that you are not able to cook a proper meal for your family to eat at home.  In situations like this, consider cooking meals with a slow cooker that use minimal ingredients as that will help reduce prep time.

 A slow cooker allows you to start cooking your meal before you leave the house and ensure that it is hot and ready as soon as you returned home from work. Avoid rushing in the morning by preparing the ingredients ahead and stored them in the refrigerator.

I have collected many recipes that use only 3 ingredients that you can cook in a slow cooker or croak pot.  Let's start with desserts, "Slow Cooker Peach Dump Cake".



You can also try making it with apple pie filling.

If you want to use an oven, this is how Peach Cobbler Dump Cake can be baked.

 

How to Make Easy Pancakes

This Easy Pancake is from All Recipes.



Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Directions


You can make your pancake interesting by baking it in an oven.  Found this tip for "Apple Puffed Oven Pancake" from Eating Well.



Ingredients and Directions

If you prefer to add banana instead of apples, here is one from Better Homes and Gardens.

Easy Creamed Spinach (Spinach Gratin)

I found this Quick Creamed Spinach with Cream Cheese Recipe recipe on Masala Herb.  It is an interesting way to serve Spinach.  

I made some modifications to the recipe as I do not cook with olive oil.  I also do not keep stock of herbs usually used in Western dishes.

Here is another variation of it which you can cook with just onion and cream cheese.  It can be served: 

-spread over pancake and rolled up to be eaten.
-with the rolled up pancakes topped with cheese and baked in creamy sauce. 

You can watch this video for instructions.

Marble Cheesecake, Callie

Learn how to make your own Cheesecake from this Food and Drink Project Forum.

It won't be boring. There's lots of how-tos photos posted.