Marie Cookpad

   I love living where I do in Chester.  When we lived down in Kent, I really missed Chester. It is in a beautiful location, right on the border to Wales, with quick and easy access to the Coast, the Welsh Mountains, the North along with the Lake District, Lancashire, and the Yorkshire Dales. Once you get into that area we are also only an hour or so from Scotland.  Chester itself is a magnificent city filled with lots of things to see and do.    The area we lived in down in Kent was a prime fruit growing area and we were surrounded by orchards, and I do confess that at this time of year I miss having access to drops for use in pies and such. My Todd loves apple pies and desserts.  I don't make them for him often enough I don't think.    The recipe I am sharing with you today comes from this Pillsbury Cook booklet that I got in Canada, back in 1991.  In Canada they used to have (not sure if they still do) an area by the Til's in the grocery stores where they kept some magaz

   I did have an internal debate with myself on whether to share these sandwiches with you or not. Lets face it they are not very attractive.  They kind of resemble a hot mess . . .  but sometimes that can be a good thing.   I've never experienced a hot mess of something edible that I did not enjoy and I suspect that it is much the same with you!    We all have days when we don't really want to go through elaborate supper preparations. Nights when we just want something hot, tasty and quick! These delicious, albeit unattractive, sandwiches fit the bill perfectly!   We both love fried egg sandwiches, although more often than not Todd will enjoy his on plain white bread. It is I who likes my bread toasted.   We both love grilled cheese sandwiches, or "Cheese Toasties" as they are lovingly called here in the UK.   We both love cheese omelets . . .  with toast and hash browns on the side.   Why not combine the idea of eggs and toast and grilled cheese sandwiches with the

I am enjoying a quiet Saturday as I sit and write this. Usually at the weekends, I like to bake a cake or some such. Sometimes it will be a fancy cake, especially if we are celebrating something, but more often than not it is a Victoria Sandwich Cake.    In all truth our favourite cake is the simple Victoria Sandwich Cake.  That is the one we enjoy eating most of all, and the one I enjoy baking most of all. I know I have shared it with you before, but can you ever share something that you love too many times?  I think not  . . .   My mother always filled our cakes with jam.  With jam in the middle a cake needs no other adornment.  My father always loved cake with jam in the middle and it was something we all enjoyed.   Jam is a very versatile ingredient.  You can change the flavour of a plain cake such as this just by varying the type of jam you choose to use.    More often than not I will use strawberry, because that is my favourite, along with raspberry which follows a close second,