Easy 3 ingredient breakfast - Oatmeal Flats

U know how it is when you get back from a vacation?  There's hardly any food at home and the fridge requires some stocking up before you can start cooking anything proper?

Well, we just got home from a 3 weeks vacation in the US and I am so sick of eating out all the time.  In Singapore, I eat home cooked food 80% of the time.  So you can imagine how eating out daily upset my system.  

So when I woke up today, I was scouring the kitchen and refrigerator for something to prepare for breakfast and I was so lost coz there was no bread and eggs in the house for me to whip up something simple.  

I thought hard and long and decided to try making some oatmeal flats (yeah, I decided to call them that) for brekkie.

Here's the ingredients I use: 

• 3 tbsp oatmeal
• 1 tsp peanut butter
• raisins 

I added hot water to the oatmeal before adding the rest of the ingredients.   The consistency of the oatmeal has to be thick and not runny.

Then I cooked them on a non-stick pan for about 10 mins, flipping them often to prevent browning.  

Added some strawberries that my mum bought the night before and viola! 

EASY PEASY HOMEMADE BREAKFAST!!!!

I am a happy trooper!

The outer layer of the oatmeal flat was nice and crisp while the inside was still slightly soft and warm.  No extra sugar since the raisins are sweet enough.

Talk to you ladies soon!!!

Easy cinnamon sugar snacks

Hello friends of Hazelnutt House (",) 

Well, I love anything with cinnamon and toasting or baking with cinnamon & sugar is like having natural air freshener in the home.  I bought this tiny bottle of cinnamon sugar in Daiso while in Japan. 

I have a HUGE gigantic bottle of plain cinnamon powder which I picked up at Phoon Huat as backup.  I'm not even sure if I will be able to use it up but since the smaller bottle wasn't available when I wanted it, I had to settle for this giant of a supply. 

So, here are some easy to prepare snacks that Kiddo can help out with.  

First up, 

Cinnamon Sugar Wrap

Kiddo spread butter on the wrap and we went on to sprinkle cinnamon powder and sugar all over. 

Pop it into the oven and wait... not too long though, coz it will start turning black very quickly.  So, stand next to the oven and watch over it (",)  I'll say it will probably take 5 minutes or so.  If you are using a toaster oven, it will be much faster.

Next up, 

Cinnamon Sushi

Kiddo flattened regular square shaped bread with a rolling pin and went on to spread butter on the flattened pieces.  Next we added cinnamon and sugar and started rolling each slice into a log.  

Lastly, we cut the log up with a knife and that's that... oh yes, we did pop these 'sushi' pieces into the oven for about 5 minutes.  

I used to teach in an international school and there was cooking class every week.  I tried this out with different spreads e.g. chocolate, peanut butter and jelly and butter with rainbow sprinklers and THE KIDS LOVE IT!

Lastly, 

Cinnamon Banana Toast

We sliced the bananas into thin pieces and layered them onto buttered bread.  Sprinkled some cinnamon and sugar all over and toasted it (",) .... a warm and comforting snack indeed, but beware, it is pipping hot once out of the oven!

Oh man... now I feel like baking me so cinnamon rolls!  

Check out my cinnamon roll entry here (",)