Marie Cookpad

  I think of all the cookies and bars in the world Chocolate Chip bars have to be my absolute favourite! Golden brown and stogged full of semi sweet chocolate chips.  So good with a glass of ice cold milk, or a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, or whatever beverage that floats your boat!   The cookie/bar part is beautifully crisp and buttery  . . .  those chocolate chips creamy and chocolaty  . . . oh, they are so very delicious.    They are not something I have made really often, largely due to the fact that most recipes  make far too many and we are only two, and to be honest, cookies and bars are at their very best on the day that they are baked.   Not that that has ever stopped me from enjoying my fill every day that I have them in my house.  Therein lies my dilema.  I just cannot be trusted with a full cookie jar. In my quest for smaller recipes for the smaller family, and to lessen my temptation,  I present to you Small B...

  I've been super busy this week, prepping, photographing, etc. recipes for a new site that I am authoring on.  Its been a lot of work for this first week, but from now on it will only be one recipe a week, so shouldn't take up too much of my time.   I am hoping that it does well, because so long as it does, then I have a job. If not, then back to square one.  I'm okay with that because I love what I do here in The English Kitchen and always have done.   I just wanted to let you know that's why there hasn't been a lot of new recipes on here for this week, but I am here today to share something new with you and that I hope you will enjoy!   Right in line with my plan to highlight more Cooking for Two recipes this year I present Easy Chicken Parm for Two!   Deliciously tender and flavour filled crisp coated chicken breasts, baked atop a flavourful mix of spaghetti and marinara, and topped with oozing mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses.   You can use a ...

  I'm here today with another recipe that I have downsized for the smaller family, Mapled Pork Chops.  Oh boy, but these chops always make my pork chop loving husband drool when he knows I am making them!   They are so simple to make and oh-so-delicious!  There is no frying involved. You simply pop the chops into a baking dish, top them with a special flavour mixture, cover and then bake! Easy peasy lemon squeasy!    The original full-sized version comes from a cookbook I have entitled,  Recipes Worth Sharing, recipes from America's most loved Community Cookbooks.     Its original attribution is the Community Cookbook entitled,  If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen , by the Junior Service League of Independence Missouri.    I have always loved Community Cookbooks. They are real gems filled with the favourite, tried and trues of communities of good cooks! You can't beat them, and this recipe is a prime exa...

  Continuing on with my quest to present to you smaller sized, delicious recipes, today I present some dessert crepes!   I used to be a bit intimidated by crepes. In the Christmas Market you always have that stall selling crepes and they are very popular on the continent, all at a pretty high price.  Somehow the brain fools us into thinking that is something is expensive like that we can't make them at home.   If you can make a pancake however, I am happy to say you can make a crepe!  A rose by any other name, a crepe is merely a very thin pancake without leavening, I might add.    I was really surprised when I moved over here to the UK and ordered pancakes one day. They were crepes, not the thick fluffy ones I was used to. Those type are called Scotch Pancakes here.  Anyways, crepes . . .   Crepes are not that hard to make.  The key to making good ones is to make sure that your skillet is heated properly  from the get go.  I l...