Marie Cookpad

   I really love tomatoes as I think I have told you in the past.   They are quite simply one of my favourite things.  For months and months now I have seen other food bloggers being gifted with boxes of beautiful boxes of rich and delicious looking tomatoes from The Tomato Stall , on the Isle of Wight. .  Finally I couldn't stand it anymore. lask week I decided that Todd and I deserved a bit of a splurge after being stuck in our home on lockdown for the past 10 weeks. I bit the bullet and ordered us a mixed family box.    I think it is just amazing that we live in a day and an age where something like this, grown and harvested on the Isle of Wight, can be picked on one day and then be sitting on my dining room table the next.  They are absolutely beautiful, and arrived undamaged except for one which was slightly squashed. I ate that right away like an apple, lightly sprinkled with sea salt.  Oh boy was it ever good!!  I was not sor...

  I found  myself with rather a large bowl of apples that I wanted to use. There was a mix of varieties.  Todd probably would have wanted me to make a crumble or a pie, but I found myself wanting to make applesauce.   I had some porkchops I had thawed out and applesauce is something we love to have with pork.  We also love to eat applesauce in a bowl, just as a dessert.  My mother used to cook herself up a large saucepan of applesauce every now and then and she would enjoy it for days. Having spent a great deal of my growing up years in a prime apple growing area of Canada, I come by my love of apples quite naturally!   I wanted to try something a little bit different this time however. I just didn't want to simmer apples . . .  I decided to roast them in the oven and created an oven roasted applesauce, which if I may brag for a few minutes turned out to be stupendous!   I had a mix of apples . . .  some were sweet eating apples and some...