Marie Cookpad

  I discovered a totally amazing cooking page a while back called Feeding a Loon . Kris and Wesley are a really sweet pair of guys who love to cook together in their kitchen. I find them incredibly entertaining and could watch their You Tube videos for hours. (I would love to have their kitchen instead of my 12 in-square space to work in!)   They posted this incredible sounding pumpkin bread a week or so ago and as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to bake it myself.  The Loon just made it sound so incredibly good with his oohs and aahs.  If you have never watched one of their videos you need to.  Why these guys don't have their own cooking show is a mystery to me!   The recipe uses Butterscotch chips, which are not an easy ingredient to find here in the UK, but I did have a few precious bags in my freezer and I cracked one open just for this.  I hoard North American ingredients such as this like gold because they are so hard to come by.  If I ev...

  As a child I was not overly fond of the flavour of pumpkin or winter squash for that matter.  Thankfully as an adult my opinion of such things has changed!  Pumpkin and squash are two of my favourite things!   Especially in the autumn, but then again that makes sense as that is the time of year that these gorgeous vegetables are available.  Or are they a fruit?   I looked it up and Good Housekeeping says that they are fruits.  Fruits are the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of any plant containing seeds.  When you think about it, babies are considered to be the fruit of your womb, so I guess that pumpkins and squashes are indeed fruits.   Fruit, vegetable, whatever  . . .  I don't care.  I just love them both roasted, mashed or baked into sweet bakes such as muffins, cakes, pies, cookies, etc.  They also make fabulous autumn soups.   I think one of the reasons they work so well in baked goods is the naturally affinity th...

  One of my very first Christmas's as a young bride my Mother In Law, Elizabeth Ramsay, sent me a gift that I have treasured for over 40 years now.  It was a handwritten notebook in which she had copied out all of her tried and trues and favourite recipes.    It is old now and pretty much careworn and falling apart . . .  pages splattered and stained . . .  the handwriting is fading in many places.  I really need to copy it out into another notebook before all is lost.    This delicious Pumpkin Bread is one of the recipes that she shared.      It is one of my favourite recipes from out of the book, and one that I find myself wanting bake every year at this time of year  . . .  it is truly a holiday type of bread.    I have made a few changed to it over the years, but not many and none that would change the integrity of this bread.  The basic recipe remains the same.    She did not add any...