Marie Cookpad

  Todd has been busy picking blackberries these past few days.  They are coming fast and furious now!  Its a good thing we like them. I do try to freeze as many as I can for winter crumbles and such, but I also like to bake Todd a few tasty desserts with them as well!   Nothing could be easier than this Easy Blackberry Galette Recipe!  It has to be one of the quickest, simplest things to make, and its really delicious and tasty when done.   You can make your own pastry for it if you wish.  I highly recommend my Butter and Lard pastry. It is what I like to use for all of my pies and pastries, sweet and savoury.   I also keep ready made all butter short crust pastry in the freezer for use in last minute desserts such as this galette, which makes it even quicker and easier, literally totally NON-FAFF!   Just unroll it, and place it on a baking sheet lined with baking paper . . .   Pile your picked and cleaned fresh berries in the middle....

    The Great British Bake Off started again this week. Personally, I don't think it is as good since it moved to Channel 4.  I miss Mary Berry, I really do.  I am not a huge fan of Channel 4.  It panders to the younger population, with a lot of reality, shock and garbage shows.  I have noticed each year that the contestants on Bake Off are getting younger and younger.  This year there is only one who appears to be slightly older than 40, with most appearing still wet behind their ears.  I'm not sure I like it.  I prefer the old GBBO for sure.    Whenever I bake oatmeal muffins I always think of my middle son Doug, and the trips we used to take into Toronto to spend the day at my ex SIL's . They lived in a lovely house just off Avenue Road, in a somewhat Jewish area of the city.   My BIL would bring home a couple of big bags of fresh bagels from the Jewish bakery, and little paper sacks of fresh rugelach . . .  my SIL woul...

   Mahi Mahi, also known as the Dorado or Dolphin fish is a beautiful fish that is not only sustainable but very easy to cook.  It has a firm white flesh that is fairly mild in flavour.  This makes it quite adaptable, hearty enough to grill and yet firm enough to sear, glaze, fry, etc.  making it very versatile. Don't confuse it with the common Dolphin.  This is not Flipper.  Don't worry. Far from being even closely related to its namesake Mahi Mahi is highly sustainable, responsibly fished and harvested due to strong regulations.  They spawn and grow rapidly, which helps to keep their population stable.    The people at Seafresh recently sent me some to try. I was quite excited at the opportunity to try a new fish I had never tried before!  I decided to give it a somewhat simple treatment.  I created a sweet and savoury rub to coat it with and then simply pan seared it  until it was nicely blackened on the outside, but p...