Marie Cookpad

  After all of the excess of the past few weeks, I wanted to cook us something simple for our tea tonight, and yet I still wanted something delicious.  Its New Years after all  . . .  and whilst the traditionalist in me was telling me that I needed to be baking  a Ham like my mom always did, the lazy person in me said, no, no, no  . . .  the lazy person won!    Let me introduce Sweet & Sour Chicken Nuggets.   I know that sweet & Sour sauce is a very popular dipping sauce for chicken nuggets  . . .     And sweet and sour chicken balls are a very popular entree on a Chinese menu.  This tasty recipe combines the two, plus has the added convenience of using frozen chicken nuggets.    By all means if you are a purest, do make your own chicken nuggets from scratch.   There are plenty of good recipes out there.    There are also some very good quality frozen chicken nuggets available these days as well, made from chunk chicken and not ground chicken.  This is what I used.      I have

  Its hard to believe that here we are on the last day of 2018!  I wonder what the new year will bring to each of us.  Good things I hope.  I know I have a new book coming out shortly.  This one is about half the size of the last one, but I have had nothing but good reports on it, so I am hopeful that it will also be a success, fingers crossed!   So that is one good thing to look forward to, on my part at least.  I try always to look at each new year as an opportunity.  I am not one much for making resolutions and such.  If I can end the year having done something good, and being a little bit better than I was the year before, then I call that year a success!    I have never been one much for going out on New Years Eve.  It was always a bit cost prohibitive for us My parents always went to a dance each year. As children, we would be just as excited to ring in the New Year as they were.  But that was mainly because we knew they would bring us home a party hat and a noise maker to play w

  I wanted to create something a big special to share on here for New Years Eve.  I had rather a lot of egg whites in the refrigerator from when I had made our Egg Nog for Christmas, so it only made sense to do something with them.    I toyed a bit with the idea of doing a Lemon & Blueberry Meringue Roulade . . .  but then I decided not to go that route.  Todd's not overly fond of lemon and since he will be eating the majority of it, then I thought I best make something he would enjoy!    I did see a chocolate pavlova that looked really tasty, but Todd is also not a huge fan of chocolate desserts.  (I know!  How can anyone not like lemon or chocolate desserts???)   That's when I decided to make him a Salted Caramel Pavlova . . .   With a simple billowing marshmallow-like base  . . . .   Filled with rich softly whipped double cream  . . .  I do add a bit of vanilla bean paste, but it is perfectly delicious on its own without any additions . . .   Over that I drizzled some me