Marie Cookpad

  I've been racking my brains to come up with something tasty for the upcoming holidays of Halloween and yes, Thanksgiving (American). It hasn't been really easy having had a ticky tummy for the past couple of days.  I haven't really felt like much in the way of food, eating or recipes!   I've been eating applesauce, bananas and dry toast.  I am feeling a bit better today, thankfully.  I am not sure if your kids were like mine, but getting them to eat anything prior to Trick-Or-Treating was nigh onto impossible. They were very eager to get out there with the other kids in the neighbourhood.     Jon carving his pumpkin . . .    I had made Apple Pie Tacos for our RS activity last week.  It was a presentation on flat breads. I had a bag of lightly salted tortilla crisps leftover and I thought to myself, lets try to do something with those.    Jakey carving his pumpkin ...   Because of my illness I had lots of applesauce ...

  A while back I had bought a Lemon Panettone at Costco.  I adore Panettone and I absolutely adore lemon . . .  it had to be good!  How could I resist!    Fluffy and sweet, riddled with lemon cream and studded with bits of candied peel, it had to be good right?  Wrong. Well, I wasn't exactly fond of it anyways, which says a lot as I am a true blue lover of all things lemon.  It was fluffy and sweet, and there was lemon cream throughout it  . . . but the lemon peel.  I did not like the lemon peel.  The texture and taste jarred with my taste buds.    I knew Todd wouldn't go for it either.  He is not fond of lemon anything at all, and if I didn't like it he was highly unlikely to either.  He does, however, adore a good bread and butter pudding. Of all the desserts I think it is one of his favourites.   I have made bread and butter puddings with the leftover Panettone at Christmas, many times . . .  so it w...

  I always like to pull out the stops a bit at the weekend and bake something special for Todd to enjoy. If some of it also gets into my mouth it can't really be helped!    I was thinking about Boston Cream Pie the other day and I realised that I had never baked a Boston Cream Pie for Todd. I thought it was about time that I did.  Contrary to the name, this is not a pie at all, but a beautifully moist vanilla layer cake with a rich thick vanilla custard filling and a chocolate drizzle topping.  The only resemblance to a pie is the fact that you cut it into wedges!  Oh, and that its delicious! (Mustn't forget that!)   It also looked great for my Teatime Thursday's post on Instagram.  I don't have a lot of teacups so I am trying to dress them up by baking something tasty to go with them!  This is a teacup I have had for over 44 years now.  Its always been one of my favourites!   When Todd saw the chocolate topping he thought . . . "Oh...