Marie Cookpad

  We are living in such strange times at the moment.  Things are easing up a bit now, but I can't help but wonder if it is not a bit too soon.  Perhaps I am just being extra cautious. But I would rather be that then the opposite.  I do feel for the many businesses which have been feeling the crunch with loss of income, etc. I was recently contacted by PizzaSi and asked if I would like to try one of their 4-seerving size  Pizza Quarantine boxes! They didn't need to ask me twice!   I adore Pizza!    They are a young Italian company based in London that normally operates  business to business, but due to this Covid-19 situation they decided to open their products on a home delivery service, offering Pizza Boxes to people like you and myself, rather than risk going out of business altogether! What a brilliant idea and concept and a wonderful example of making lemonade out of lemons!    This new range is a  Make Your Own Pizza ...

  I was gifted with a quantity of rhubarb the other day and since I usually bake my honey something to enjoy at the weekend I decided to bake him a rhubarb cake.  He does love a piece of cake with his hot drinks.  I don't blame him.  Hot drinks and cakes go together like peas and carrots!   This is one of my favourite Rhubarb Cakes. Quick & Easy Rhubarb Cake is extremely easy to make and oh so delicious! I never get tired of it. Never.   Everything for the cake gets beaten together in one bowl.  There no need for multiple bowls like there is with some cakes.   You beat together the cake ingredients, easy peasy, beginning with the eggs and sugar.  I like to beat them until they are really light in colour.  The volume will also increase somewhat and it will become thick.   I use Vanilla Paste for this because I love the depth of vanilla flavour it gives to bakes, plus the little flecks of vanilla seeds throughout the batter are al...