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  I saw a recipe over on the Betty Crocker site last week that captured my eye.  Spaghetti Pizza.   It seemed very simple and it looked delicious. Two things I really love in the food world are Pizza and Spaghetti.  The thought of both of them combined really made my mouth water and my tastebuds tingle.   I live with a partner who hates both of those things however.  That makes it difficult at times. He will eat it when push comes to shove. He has always been quite good that way.  I just don't like to feed him something I know he doesn't really like. It goes against my principles as a wife and a homemaker. Call me old-fashioned if you must, but I was brought up in a home where the head of the household was very much catered to. Old habits die hard.  I do cook and serve both of those things on occasion, but only in small amounts.  The recipe on the Betty Crocker site serves 8 people. We are only two. I decided to adapt the recipe to a size tha...

 One of the things I am always grateful for living here in the UK, is that I have spent the last twenty years living in a very close proximity to the European Continent, or "The Continent" as it is referred to here.  When we lived down in Kent, we could be sitting at an ouside cafe in France enjoying a hot drink by mid morning, depending on how early we got up.  This was always really nice.  We often went over to Calais and Bologne sur Mer for a day's shopping. There was a huge Carrefour in Calais, so we would go sight-seeing in Bologne, have lunch and then double back to Calais and load up on French goodies before catching the train through the Euro-tunnel back to England.  One time we went over with our friends Jo and Colin and spent a day traversing all down the coast line from Calais South-bound, stopping to have a picnic along the way.  It was a lot of fun. Did you know the French are obsessed with any thing Egyptian?  I discovered that on that pa...

     One of my favourite things of all of the food groups is Pizza. I adore Pizza in any way shape or form. You may not think of it as a food group, but I do.  We have our fruits and vegetables, our meat fish and poultry, our dairy, our grains and breads and then there is Pizza, which from where I am sitting deserves a group all of its own.  It combines the best of all the food groups, and it does it in a most delicious way. I will forever be grateful to the Italians for this delicious contribution to the world. It was always my dream to be able to eat pizza in Italy, but I don't think that is ever going to happen now for one reason or another!     It was not always so, this love I have for pizza. I was well into my teens before I ever tasted a pizza. Our high school did a Winter Carnival every Winter. It lasted several days and it was a happy mix of games and activities.   That was back when we used to get quite a bit of snow in Nova Scotia ...

  You know it is autumn when the temperatures start to dip and the kitchen starts to smell like sugar and spice and all things nice.  Cinnamon. Cloves. Nutmeg.  Yep, a Tomato Soup cake is in the oven!  Tomato Soup Cake?  What the heck? Say what?  Today I am tipping my hat to this fabulously retro recipe which dates back to days of old. I got the recipe from my Canadian MIL.  I am sure she got it from a tin of tomato soup!   People are always really surprised when you give them a slice of this delicious cake and are told what kind of cake it is!  You can almost guarantee their eye brows will rise in question.  Almost like they have heard you wrong. Nope, you tell them. It is Tomato Soup Cake.  And then you can see them kind of nervously dipping their forks into it.  Not quite sure of what to expect.     They raise their fork to their mouth and you can almost see them cringing.  They are not sure what to expect but...