No Bake Cornflake Cookies

If you enjoy eating cornflakes, you will enjoy it better by adding these ingredients to 6 cups of corn flake cereal:

1 cup corn syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter

Here is how you can make it.

You can watch a video on how to make it at The Craft Patch Blog/

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.

How to make crepes

This is how Western crepes are made.

Combine 1-1/2 cups milk and 2 eggs and whisk until smooth. Add 1 cup flour, 1/4 tsp. salt, and 1 Tbsp. oil. to mix and whisk until smooth.

Heat lightly greased 6 inch skillet. Spoon 1/4 cup batter into skillet. Tilt pan to spread batter. Return to heat. Cook for 1-2 minutes or until bottom is browned. Repeat with remaining batter. Spread 2 Tbsp. whipped cream cheese on crepe. Arrange 1/4 cup sliced fresh strawberries on cream cheese. Roll up crepe.





Source:
https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/basic-crepes/9cfb8afa-58e0-4afb-9a83-acf09a3665f6
https://www.bhg.com/recipes/breakfast/brunch/how-to-make-crepes/

This is the way the Chinese cook pancakes.

The Laundry Room Tips

A portable laundry rack that runs on wheels is very convenient to have in the house.



It is good for days when it looks like it is going to rain but there are clothes to be washed.  You can push it to the corner where the sun is shining and push it back in when it starts to drizzle.

You can hang many items on this laundry rack as its poles are extendable.



These circular hoop hangers are suitable for hanging heavier clothing such as jeans, pants, thick clothings or sweaters.  There are also useful for hanging bed sheets and pillow cases.



If you hang the bottom of the pants with pegs as shown in the photo, the weight of the pants will pull the creases out as it dries so that there will less creases for you to iron out.



However, instead of using these loop hangers for drying all items in your laundry, it is best that you use the kind that you regularly hang your clothes on in the wardrobe.  These are heavy duty hangers which can be used to hang pants or thicker clothing.  You are likely to get free hangers like the black one if you send your clothes out for laundry service.



The ones below will not take too much space in your wardrobe.  Try not to choose one with smaller hook as it will make hanging it difficult if the poles of your drying rack or wardrobe is of a bigger diameter.



You can remove dried clothes, that do not need ironing, from the laundry rack and store it in your room without the hassle of changing hangers.  Leave the remaining dried clothes on the laundry rack and push it into the room where you do your ironing.

There should also be a fordable umbrella rack for smaller pieces of clothing, such as, inner wear, socks, shorts, mop cloth and small kitchen towels.  One that is strong and large enough that you can hang a few items together is better.



As it is installed with grips at the end of each hanger, you can slip your items into the grips to hold them securely to the rack. An extra clothe peg can be used to prevent the longer pieces, such as,  towels from being blown off by the wind.



Can you count the number of loop hangers you will need if you do not have an umbrella rack like this?  No mad rush to get the clothes in when it rains as you just need to grab this one piece of hanger.

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.

TENDER LEAFY GREENS BROTH

You can use vegetables to make soup.  You can decide what you would like to add to the soup by looking at the optional ingredients listed.


This is how the cooking process looks like.



Here is a unique way to cook soup with Spinach, century egg and salted egg.