Marie Cookpad

  When I lived in Canada I used to love watching the cooking shows on Saturday afternoons . . .  well, anytime really. It was my guilty pleasure.  I used to watch Julia Child, and The Frugal Gourmet, Cooking from Quilt Country, Lidia's Italian Kitchen, and Martha Stewart of course (to name a few).  Another show I enjoyed was one starring Caprial Pence. I can't remember what it was called.  I've always been a fan of cooking television. It started with Take Thirty when I was still a teen at home and Madame Benoit, Wok with Yan and the Galloping Gourmet.   Nothing has changed, except at the start the cooking hosts were older and I was younger and now I am old and the cooking hosts are young!  How did that happen???  Somehow it did it without me noticing!   I actually don't want a lot of food television these days really . . .  I like the GBBO, and on Netflix those shows like Chef's Table and Chef's Table.  My guilty pleasure is the Pio...

  This is a recipe that I have had my eye on for a long time.  I adore peanut butter in any way shape or form.  I do like the creamy style slightly more than the crunchy, but if it's peanut butter I am all for it!   The original recipe comes from a baking book I have had for a while, entitled Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook , by Kathleen King.  I have had it since before we moved back here to Chester and I am ashamed to say this is the first time I have used it!   As a part of my efforts to downsize around here I have been going through all of my cookery books and trying to decide which ones to keep and which ones not to keep.  If they are books I have used a lot, they stay  . . . . naturally.   But if they are not books which I have used, I am having to do some serious thinking as to whether it is worth keeping them or not.  I want to have at least 10 recipes per book, if not more, that I have cooked or am interested in cooking.   This o...