Marie Cookpad

  Cheese Quesadillas make a fabulous quick and easy snack for all kinds of occasions!  Perhaps you want them as a light lunch, or maybe you are entertaining.  These tasty little bites of cheesiness go down a real treat any time!    As those of you who have been reading me for a while know, I am the lucky recipient of the gift of a Degustabox each month. Once a month, around the middle of the month, I am gifted with one of these lovely boxes which contain a delicious assortment of all things foodie.  I just love these boxes.  Each one is always a lovely surprise.    Opening each one feels a tiny a bit like Christmas to me. Always a surprise, and always filled with things that pique my interest and desire to try. Degustabox is a monthly foodie subscription service that sends out a range of 10 to 15 specially selected foodie products . I even have a code that  can give you which will  give you a £3 discount off of yo...

   I have long held a great fascination for the horse and buggy people of North America.  Amish, Old Mennonite, New Mennonite, etc.  Their way of life appears to me to be like a beacon of gentleness and peace in the disturbed landscape of today's modern world.  Amish people are not as modern as the Mennonites.  They eschew anything modern, the Mennonites are a bit more progressive, but their way of life is still a lot gentler and more serene in many ways than our own.   I was instantly drawn to this recent cookbook written by Hope Helmuth of Hopeful Things .  I've only just recently discovered her on Instagram and when I realised she had written a cookery book, I just had to have it to add to my much beloved collection of Amish and Mennonite Cookery Books.   This is a love that began when I was a much younger woman and mother, bringing up my own family. I collected the Food that Schmecks series written by Edna Staebler who lived in the Ontari...

  I don't know about you, but I consider Macaroni and Cheese to be the ultimate in comfort foods. Todd would disagree, as he is not overly fond of pasta of any kind, but the carb lover in me just needs to have some pasta every now and then, and of all the pastas on the earth Macaroni and Cheese is my favourite indulgence.   Interestingly enough, it wasn't something that I really remember my mother making when I was growing up. Occasionally we might have Kraft Dinner Mac & Cheese, but that was considered a treat.  If mom cooked pasta at all it was spaghetti, which my father love, LOVED and still does.   She would brown a pound of ground beef in a skillet and add a can of Catelli spaghetti sauce and call it Italian Spaghetti.  Served with the plastic green can of  grated cheese that was about as foreign as my family got when it came to dinner cuisine!   My children always loved it when I made them Macaroni and Cheese.  Its a pretty economical wa...