Marie Cookpad

  A  lot of us are going to be entertaining people in our home over the next month or so.  Some of them may even be staying overnight.  When I have people overnight, one thing I like to do is to serve them a special breakfast in the morning when everyone is up and about.    I don't think you can get much nicer than a beautiful Apple Puff Pancake.  It cooks in one pan and will feed six, and you don't have to stand over top of it while it is cooking like you do regular pancakes.   You can throw it together, pop it into an oven and then sit down and enjoy a hot drink or a glass of juice with your guests.   Its really very simple to do.  If you are thinking ahead, you can take the milk and eggs out of the refrigerator as soon as you get up so that they are at room temperature, but no worries if you haven't had the forethought to do that.  I give you instructions on how to do that very quickly in the notes of the recipe.   I like to...

  If you had to pick one thing that was synonymous with Saturday night suppers when I was growing up it would have to be the Baked Bean Supper.  I am not sure if this is a Canadian maritime thing or not, but Saturday night in our home usually meant baked beans.   Sometimes my mother would serve them with ham and scalloped potatoes as I have shown them here today, and sometimes it would be wieners . . .   Sometimes we would have oatmeal brown bread and sometimes we would have steamed brown bread . . .  sometimes it would just be white bread and butter, but there was always bread of some sort.   All the better to sop up all of those delicious juices from my mother's baked beans.  They were so good you didn't want even a morsel to go to waste. If it had been polite to lick our plates we would have been licking our plates.   Mom always started her beans on Friday night.  She always used dried pea beans, or dried haricot beans as they are called o...

  You are sure to love this recipe I am sharing with you today. Not only is it very unusual, but it is also quick, easy and delicious!      A skillet sized chocolate chunk cookie that bakes on top of the stove, right in the skillet!   I told myself that this year I wasn't going to buy myself any more cookery books, but then the other day when I had gone to Gordale to buy my Christmas cards, lo and behold, this little book jumped right into my basket!  How could I resist however.  Cookies in a Pan by Sabrina Fauda-Role.  It was just far too tempting and the price was right, only £3.99.  A real bargain.   Everything for the cookie gets mixed together right in the pan.  Melted butter, egg, flour, sugar and baking powder . . .  I added some vanilla paste because I am quite unable to leave things well alone, and a chocolate chunk cookie with vanilla is to me perfection.   You spread the batter out in the pan, press some ch...