I don’t know where to start with this post really. There is romance in the air at Silver Screen Suppers Towers and it is befuddling my brain a bit. I will just say this. On Sunday Mr R cooked me a duck and it was divine. I made a Celia Johnson’s Chocolate Sponge Cake for [...]
Book Test Cook 13 – Jimmy Stewart’s Chicken Pie
Another pie! This time made for Shane and Ewan who battled their way around the British transport system to get to me – Northern Line madness. The pie was made exactly to Jimmy’s recipe – including the pastry and I was quite proud of it BUT I don’t think it was as good as the [...]
Diana Dors’ Easy Fruit Cake
At the risk of showing off, I am going to mention again that my Diana Dors Easy Fruit Cake won second prize at the Muswell Hill Horticultural Show on Saturday. My feathers were all puffed up with pride. The morning of the show was always going to be hectic as I had to make a [...]
James Mason’s Plum Jam
I do very much like a man who comes round to dinner with a James Mason film in his pocket that he thinks I might like to see. I had never heard of “The London Nobody Knows” but it is a truly fabulous film. It’s a vivid snapshot of life in London in 1968 – [...]
Dirk Bogarde’s Chicken Clermont
Neighbours, everybody loves good neiiiiiiiiiiigbours. And I am very pleased with the neighbourly gesture Chloe made in matchmaking me with her chum the very lovely Mr R. We had a top evening on Saturday, staying up until 4am discussing our musical star preferences. We agreed on the fundamentals – Judy Garland no, Ginger Rogers, yes. [...]
Douglas Fairbanks’ Fairbanks Cocktail (No. 1)
Just a quick post as I have a DATE tonight coming to my house for dinner so I have an immense amount of cleaning to do… I don’t want to ruin my chances with someone who appears to be quite a stitch by revealing my slovenly side too soon. So just to mention that the [...]
Elizabeth Taylor’s Chicken Steamed in Wine
Being a family of one and following recipes written for 6-8 results in a freezer bursting at the seams with spare portions of delicious but mostly unidentifiable things. I wouldn’t usually serve something from the freezer to company but needs must. I cannot keep buying chook after chook and trying to cram their lovely legs [...]
Vincent Price’s Sopa Poblano (Chili Poblano Soup)
I LOVE it when other people cook! My darling friend Sanja recently cooked a Serbian feast which involved the most delicious thing anyone has ever made for me. SAUERKRAUT with bacon and Romanian sausage. Oh my word it was delicious. And what’s more, she sent me home with a jarful of this precious slow cooked [...]
Book Test Cook 12 – Boris Karloff’s Steak and Kidney Pie
Sometimes what you need is a big old steak and kidney pie and here is one made exactly to a recipe by Boris. It’s only appropriate that Vic should be a guest for a pie like this, as the Universal Monsters song he co-wrote includes a few lines about Boris Karloff in Frankenstein. I do [...]
Claudette Colbert’s Rice Bubbles Cream Meringues
Just a quick recipe tweak. Made another batch of these last night and realised that I’d only put the American oven temperature on this month’s Recipe of the Month page and newsletter. Had a sleepless night worrying about Brits burning their meringues to a crisp at 250 degrees C so the correct temperature is 250 [...]
When Bloggers Meet – The Past on a Plate
Oh what a joy to meet in person the lovely Lauren Hairston Collado of the glorious food blog The Past on a Plate. Lauren was in London from Wichita and I was so thrilled to meet her in person. I’ve been following Lauren’s blog since the day I discovered that she was a fellow fan [...]
Alexis Smith’s Scrambled Eggs and Fresh Tomatoes
Blime – it’s like looking in a mirror – if my nose wasn’t so big. Jane and I had our photo taken tonight and when we looked at it together I said, “I think my nose is getting bigger as I get older” and she said, “I think my head’s going out of shape”. But [...]
Recipe of the Month – Claudette Colbert’s Rice Bubbles Cream Meringues
Ahh, it’s rolled around very quickly this month. Only 28 days in February so no wonder. I’ve chosen something cute as I am just in that kind of mood. This was a recent discovery on the world wide interweb that made my heart glad. I’ve sent it over to Brian at Caker Cooking as I know how he [...]
The Vincent Price Treasury Pilgrimage – Visit 5 – Harrods Food Hall
In The Treasury of Great Recipes Vincent announced: “Probably the most glamorous markets in the world are the Food Halls at Harrods in London” and I say hell yeah! He declared the whole Harrods emporium to be akin to “The British Museum crossed with Les Halles!” Well, you know how I feel about Les Halles… [...]
Book Test Cook 11 – Barbara Stanwyck’s Spanish Style Steak
Barbara’s steak was good. Food writer guru Richard Ehrlich agrees with me that her recipe for Leg of Lamb is utterly bonkers. So I’m dropping the lamb and giving the steak a double thumbs up. I might give her Chicken Mousse recipe a go too, just in case that is a contender. There has been [...]
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Diana Dors Competition
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Cary Grant’s Tuna Fish Pie
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Joan Crawford’s Bisquick Cheese Straws
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Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
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Ginger Rogers’ Coffee Parfait
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