Marie Cookpad

  We have just enjoyed a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend, with beautiful sunny and warm weather!  Its been really gorgeous!  That makes a change, as the norm is rainy, cold and wet on a bank holiday!    We took advantage of the sunshine to have our first BBQ of the season!  This isn't something we can usually plan well ahead of time.  You have to strike when the iron is hot, so to speak . . .  make hay while the sun shines!    I had some leftover potatoes from the day before, which I divided between two foil packs. I just sprinkled them with some cheese and let it all melt into them while they heated on on the corner of the BBQ.     I thought the star of the meal was going to be two thick and meaty bone in pork chops that I had brined, ready for cooking.  We got our chops at Costco and they really are lovely . . .  loin chops with the rib bone attached, each about 1 inch thick.  Simply gorgeous.  For two...

  We've been having a lot of fun with our Space Grill over these last few weeks.  The Weather has been just gorgeous, warm, sunny and dry.  I think this is the warmest driest summer on record in quite a long while.  Here in Chester we have had a few showers, which has been good, and in fact the other morning when I got up it was raining and there was a rainbow to greet me.  In any case this has been the perfect weather for BBQ'ing and Grilling and we have been using our grill almost every single day!  The other day I decided to try foil pack grilling on it and did a variety of chicken packs.  These are individual chicken dinners all put together in one foil packet, including the chicken and a side/sauce, etc.  Very easy to do and very easy to cook!  I did a Sweet and Sour Chicken pack, a Hunters Chicken and Potato pack, and a Honey Mustard Chicken & Sweet Potato pack, each one being very delicious in their own right.   You simply pu...

  I love peanut flavours.  True confession here, I have a slice of toast and peanut butter every night. If I don't, I miss it.  I don't have butter on my toast, or anything else . . .  just a slice of thick whole wheat toast, lightly spread with peanut butter.  I am a happy camper. Peanut Butter is such a versatile ingredient and a real store cupboard essential, at least in my home it is!    This recipe today is for a delicious marinade that you can make for marinating chicken.  You could also marinate other proteins, like pork, fish or even tofu in this tasty mixture. It works great, and tastes even better!!!   I just love the flavour of this marinade. Its an interesting mix of ingredients that somehow work very well together.  A delicious mix of sweet and salty . . .    I like to use light olive oil.  Its a waste of good olive oil to use extra virgin olive oil in something like this. I use a good quality light olive oil,...

  We really are having the most beautiful weather here in the UK. This is the type of summer we all dream of but only very rarely get.  It's just lovely.  Its grilling weather, the type of weather you want to be enjoying out of doors.  We get so much rain over here, that when the sun shines, we really do make hay!     Or at least cook and eat Al Fresco if we can.  Oh, I do love a good BBQ, don't you?      I took full advantage of our new BBQ grill and temperatures in the 30's yesterday to grill our chicken out of doors.  I love our new BBQ.  Its the nicest BBQ Grill we have ever had, and I can't say enough about it!  But first the chicken!    This lovely dish was adapted from two that I found in a cookery book I have by Clodagh McKenna entitled Homemade.  I love this book. Its a book I picked up a few years ago in a garden centre for next to nothing.   There was a recipe in the book for a Moro...