Marie Cookpad

  Raise your hand if you are a big fan of brownies!  I thought so  . . .  me too!  I simply adore brownies of any kind.  I make really good brownies.  When I worked at the manor the Mr liked for me to bake him a pan of brownies at least once every couple of weeks.  I am sure that missed my brownies when I finished working there.    My brownie recipe produces dense, fudgy brownies, depending on how long you cook them for. You can cook them a bit longer if you want cakey brownies, but  . . .  come on  . . .  fudge . . .     I remember attending a cooking show when I lived down South.  The Celebrity Chefs on it were the Tanner Brothers and Paul Rankin, with guest star Vanessa Phelps.  They did a  Brownie Challenge and what they made were not Brownies in my opinion  . . . .      They were wet and gloopy.  You should be able to hold a good brownie in your hands to...

   I normally like to bake Todd something special at the weekend. Usually it is a cake, but we already had some cake in. (I bought a lemon loaf at Costco on Thursday.)    I thought maybe some  muffins or squares.  Then I picked up this book and went looking through.  Its a cookbook I picked up at Marks & Spencer a while back.  The recipes in it always turn out. So far not a dud in the bunch.    I did have rather a lot of dessert apples so when I spied the recipe for Upside-down Toffee Apple Brownies, I thought  to myself *DING *DING * DING  this is it!  Todd loves apple anything!  Dessert apples are sweet eating apples, that you might eat out of hand.  Think Red Delicious, Pink Ladies, Gala, Fuji, Honey Crisp or Golden Delicious! All are great Dessert Apples.  I had Pink Ladies.   The recipe starts out much as an upside down cake would, with you melting butter and brown sugar together.  In this...

  I was so embarrassed today.  We went to the grocery store this morning to do my weekly shop, only to have my card turned down at the cash register.  Not once, but twice. And then we tried Todd's card and his was turned down also. Has that ever happened to you?  I wanted to wither up and disappear into a hole in the floor.  I have never had it happen before. But then again, normally I check our bank balance before I go shopping. Today I neglected to do that.  Lesson learnt!    In any case this will be a slim pickings week to say the least.  I rise to the challenge.  Thank goodness we have a fairly generous store cupboard!  Perfect for times like this! Oh boy! I don't think I will ever be forgetting to check our bank balance prior to shopping again!   This brownie recipe I am sharing today is one I baked early last week. It is not Rocky Road in the sense of the North American style of rocky road, although it is similar to be su...