MarieAlice

about me

Some pictures of my little corner of the kingdom:



Hi. I'm a Canadian East Coast gal, living in what's known as the Garden of England. I live in a lovely tudor cottage on a beautiful Manor Estate. I'm working as a Chef in the Manor House at the moment, but am also a qualified Medical Secretary. I was a stay at home mom for 22 years, but separation and divorce necessitated that I take up a new career! I have five wonderful children, ages 18 to 32, and two beautiful grandsons. I have been collecting recipes and cooking since I was a young girl, and have accumulated quite a large collection that seems to grow all on it's own! (I swear I have nothing to do with it!) All my cookbooks are my favorites, but I have to say my absolute favorite is a thick blue binder that I have used to accumulate all my tried and trues, newspaper clippings, and magazine clipping through the years. Besides cooking and collecting recipes I also love crafting, having mastered counted cross stich, tole painting, doll making, ceramics and many others too numerous to speak of here. I love to travel and since I moved over here 7 years ago I have been pretty lucky in having been able to travel through out Germany several times, and the south of France, plus the Yorkshire Dales, Wales and the Lake District. I have come to love England and look upon it as my home. On a beautiful sunny day, there is no lovelier place on earth Here is my other webpage, where you will find family pictures, recipes, garden photographs and daily musings about my life here in England etc. http://ayearatoakcottage.blogspot.com/

I also have a blog where I am exploring British food, one recipe at a time. You can check that out at: http://mariecooksengland.blogspot.com/



I am also a self taught artist and enjoy painting in my spare time. I have my own Etsy shop where I ply my wares: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5809775



I also create my own line of cards: It's a Marie Card! Each one showcases my art in a unique way. Feel free to contact me and I'll tell you all about it and how you can purchase a card or cards from me at any time and in any combination.

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Favorite Foods:

I love to cook everything!!! Cooking is like playtime to me and I just love my job to pieces. I get to work in the nicest environment,for the nicest people, working with the best equipment and the finest ingredients. I am fulfilling all my culinary fantasies! My most favorite thing in the world to eat is, I confess, chocolate, chocolate anything...but especially with nuts. I miss my mother's cooking over here. It doesn't seem to matter how well I follow one of her recipes, they just never seem to taste the same. Must be that extra special touch of love she puts into things!

RAK List:
I would love anything that reminds me of home, special things that I can't get over here such as Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix, Good Seasons Italien Dressing Mix, Pepperidge Farm stuffing crumbs, jello pudding mix!!! Betty Crocker Cinnabon Muffin Mix, Hershey's Chocolate kisses, Captain Crunch cereal! Oreo Cookies, Cheese Whiz (I know, me bad)those little Kraft snack crackers and cheese thingies (Man I miss them)Dill Pickle potato chips, anything MEXICAN , Nutter Butters, Little Debbies Snack Cakes (especially the Oatmeal cookie ones) Fruit Jello of any flavour, Hershey's Almond chocolate bars,...could go on and on, but I won't

http://ayearatoakcottage.blogspot.com/