Easy Milk Tart Recipe

Here is another recipe I would love to share with you. My husband absolutely loves milk tart, and for years I have not been able to make one as the recipes I came across was not as easy and most of the times had ingredients which is not available in my pantry. 

So as a usual working mom, I would normally just buy the ready made ones at the closest super market.. 

But the search did not end there... 

About two months ago I came across a recipe that I found extremely easy to make and play around with too.

I have been making it almost every week since then and my family absolute love it! 

So without further a due, here is the recipe:

What you will need:

1 Liter Milk
250g Butter or Margarine
3/4 Cornflower, mixed with a little bit of cold water
3/4 Cup of Sugar
2 Eggs
Pinch of Salt
1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Essence

Method:

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• Bring the milk and butter or margarine to boil in a pot.
• Add rest of ingredients to the pot and cook on low temperature for 10 min, stirring constantly.
• Throw thickened mixture into a dish, with or without crust.
• Sprinkle cinnamon over the mixture.
• Store in refrigerator. 
• The milk tart should be ready to serve when the dish feels cold at the bottom. 
• Normally after an hour
• Should you prefer a crust, you can make the traditional one (which I will post at a later stage), or pack the bottom of the dish with tennis biscuits or crushed marie biscuits (mixed with a little bit of melted butter)

Serves: 6-8
Preparation time: 15 min

Quick and Easy Pancake recipe

Fool Proof Pancakes:

What you need:

2 Cups Cake flour
2 Cups Water
2 Eggs
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Cup Cooking Oil

Method:

Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
Make a hole in the middle of the mixed dry ingredients and add rest of ingredients
Mix well until you get a runny mixture
Bake pancakes in a pancake proof pan with either cooking spray or a little bit of oil
And you're done!!

Preparation time: 10 Min

Cooking time: 30 Min

Serves 8-10

You can sprinkle some cinnamon and sugar to taste, or anything else you like

Savoury pancakes can work well for dinner, by adding mince or chicken as a topping

Urine stains in mattress

SOLUTION FOR URINE STAINS OM MATTRESS



In my previous blog, I was talking about bed wetting in toddlers.

I have over time learned how to deal with it at the best way I could.

Toddler do have accidents, especially at night while sleeping. The end result is ending up with a urine stained mattress that is not a pretty sight at all!

So below is a few steps you can try to get these nasty stinky stains out of the mattress, with little effort, yet excellent results!

ON FRESH URINE STAINS:

1. Take some paper towels, sponge or toilet paper (what ever you got at available at the time), and press on the stain to get rid of the excess urine

2. Make up a solution containing of the following:

• Water
• Baking Soda
• Vinegar
• Rubbing Alcohol (optional)
• Spray Bottle

3. Spray the infected area on the mattress and leave solution on for about an hour (the whole day (if possible) could also work wonders

4. You will see the stain and urine smell disappearing like magic!!

5. If prefered, you can vacuum the mattress at the area once its dry to get rid of any residue left behind from the solution

FOR OLD URINE STAINS YOU CAN SKIP STEP 1 AND FOLLOW THE REST OF STEPS.

I HAVE HOWEVER COME ACROSS STUBBORN ONES WHICH NEEDS A BIT OF SCRUBING WITH A BRUSH

And that's it! As easy as pie. I tried this several times, and it works perfectly.

It beats having to carry out the mattress outside (which I have done before) and washing it, waiting for it to dry the whole day!

Bedwetting in toddlers

For all the mommies out there, you probably went or still will, or probably am going through the stage where bed wetting becomes part of your daily life. I, for one, have been struggling for more than a year now to get my 5 year old to stop doing it. 

People have given advice, also research for solutions. Some times it works, but not all the time. Some of the "solutions" that I have tried and still do is the following:



1. Do not allow him anything to drink after 19:00
2. Make him go the loo before bedtime
3. Take him to the toilet in the middle of night


 (not waking him up completely, just picking him up and sitting him down on the toilet to "do what is needed")


These steps I follow every night as a bedtime ritual, and I have to say that it works most of the time. 

But the "accidents" still happens.

But don't despair. Bed-wetting isn't a sign of toilet training gone bad. It's often just a normal part of a child's development.

One day I research why this does happen, and if it is normal for a toddler his age. Apparently these "accidents" should get better by the time he is 7 years old? They call it "bladder control" that gets better as the child gets older.