Marie Cookpad

  Viet Nam has become somewhat of a "Go To"destination for many in these modern times.  I have to say that its never been a place that I have wanted to go.  Mostly because I am not overly fond of high humidity or extremely high temperatures, and I am totally not fond of the two combined!    And so for countries like Viet Nam I am more of an armchair traveller, preferring to enjoy it from a distance and the comfort of my chair in my own home.  I used to be adventurous when I was younger, but not so much these days.   Last year Todd and I watched and enjoyed  a program on Netflix entitled Travels with My Father, with Jack Whitehall and his dad.  (Minus the bad language. You just can't get away from it today it seems.)  Anyways in the first series they ended up in Viet Nam and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing a side of Viet Nam that I was quite un-acquainted with, having only really known it from the conflict in the latter part of the last centu...

   As I write this (Saturday) it is the day of my mother's funeral. I wanted to bake something in my mom's memory today and the first thing which came to mind was these fabulous Butterscotch Cookies.   My mother used to bake these for us all the time when I was a child, either these or her soft molasses cookies.  I've just realised that I don't have that recipe on here either, so I will have to bake them soon to share with you.    To be honest when we were kids we were not overly fond of these.  We kind of took them for granted and not the treat that they were.  We wanted cream stuffed store bought cookies . . .  from the Keebler Elves, baked in a tree.  We were not mature enough to appreciate the finer qualities and value of homemade goodies as opposed to store bought.  (We liked frozen chicken pot pies for crying out loud, and Frozen TV dinners!  😝)   Actually we did enjoy these, we never turned them down  . . ....

  This is a recipe I was working on posting when I got the news earlier this week that my mother had passed away.  I couldn't quite bring myself to finish the post, so it has sat here all week in limbo waiting.  Today is the day of my mother's funeral.  I cannot be there which really breaks my heart.  I still can't quite bring myself to believe that she is gone  . . .   I've been trying to stay super busy all week so that I don't have to think about it all.  As soon as I stop and slow down, the tears come and my heart feels as if it is going to break in two. They tell me that with time this lessens, and the sadness is replaced with happy memories.  I hope that is true.   This was a dessert I prepared earlier this week when our friends Tina and Tony came to us for lunch.  Its a bit of a cheat really, as it uses only 5 ingredients, and those are all store cupboard ingredients . . .  things you are likely to always have in the hou...