Just back from a wonderful weekend in Stroud with Gary C and chums. Two days of belly dancing, eating a vast amount of delicious food and consuming a vast amounts of red wine and fruity cocktails. Fabulous! Just wanted to write a quick blog entry before the site goes offline for a few days. It’s [...]
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Janet Gaynor’s Ice Box Cookies
Oh what FUN it was to be on Market Kitchen! They had cooked up 4 dishes to be sampled but I was so nervous I didn’t take a bite of any of them! Alex James from Blur was on the show too and my favourite moment was seeing the look of horror on his face [...]
Cary Grant’s Tuna Fish Pie
My lovely work colleague Kim came over last night for a trying on session and Cary’s Pie. We are going to an awards ceremony next week and Kim wanted something vintage to wear. My wardrobe was raided, many frocks were paraded up and down the landing and a decision was made. Well, a choice of [...]
Jimmy Stewart’s American Apple Pie
Tonight’s post is a slow process because to be frank, I am absolutely sloshed. Usually a fast touch typist, tonight this is like typing underwater… My lovely Walthamstow chums have been over for lunch and it was supposed to be a dinner and a movie affair – Barbara Stanwyck’s wine soaked leg of lamb with [...]
Rudolph Valentino’s Secret Spaghetti Sauce
My lovely friend Gary C is coming to stay for a couple of nights next week so I have made a batch of Rudi’s spaghetti sauce for us to have one night for dinner. I couldn’t get the Italian sausage I usually get for this dish so bought Sicilian sausage instead. I hope that won’t [...]
Dolores Del Rio’s Arroz Con Pollo
“Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or changes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.” Wow, Dolores you are a wise, wise woman. I shall only think beautiful thoughts and do beautiful deeds from now on. Edmund came to dinner last night and [...]
Gloria Swanson’s Butterless Devil’s Food Cake
Oh my goodness! It is with much excitement that I report that the first edition of Vintage Life magazine is out and it has my article on GLORIA in it. Oh how very lovely! I am going to try and link to it here… http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/588/1101/6824/3/49/0/ I had heared nothing from the editor for months so [...]
Bette Davis’ Marmalade
Bette looks how I feel. Mildly pissed off that her marmalade yet again hasn’t set. I am beginning to come to the conclusion that it must be the ratio of fruit to sugar that’s to blame rather than my technique. I’m going to have to do some research on preserves. It was nice to have [...]
Gloria Swanson Frock Competition – RESULT!
Well, the competition has closed and the winner has been announced. The answer to the question, “Which fruit did Gloria Swanson regularly keep in her handbag?” was AVOCADO. Quite a few of you guessed correctly, and everyone amused me greatly with their reasoning for choosing certain fruit, but only one person could win the frock [...]
Claudette Colbert’s Claudette Colbert Cake
I’ve been putting off testing this as it looked like a bit of a challenge. It was, but it was worth it! Basically I made a Rita Hayworth’s Angel Cake then followed Claudette’s instructions for fancifying it with home made lemon curd filling and lemony frosting. Oh YUMSKI as my French colleague Marie-Agathe put it. [...]
Cary Grant’s Tuna Fish Pie
Mmmm. The Tuna Pie was good. Little pastry biscuits on top. Yum, yum. I’m looking for an alternative Cary recipe for the book to replace the apple pie. He’s got some good ones too. He’s a man who loved his fish. This could be the one. Chicken of the Sea in a pie. It’s a [...]
Thelma Todd’s Scripture Cake
Lolita over at Lolita’s Classics has done some lovely work colourizing some pictures of Thelma Todd. Wish I knew how to do that, I’m sure I could spend many a happy hour colouring in! One of her readers left a link to a brilliant song and dance routine featuring Hot Toddy and I’m going to [...]
Irene Dunne’s Shrimps and Rice
“Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.” Brand new test cook Kim sent over a report on her cooking of the shrimp dish. She also, much to my delight, sent a photo of the finished result which I shall load up to the Flickr site (you [...]
Boris Karloff’s Steak and Kidney Pie
“The monster was the best friend I ever had.” Aw Boris, that’s so SAD! I am so lucky that I have such wonderful friends. And some who REALLY love the Silver Screen Suppers project too. King loves it so much that he made a great big gorgeous pie for us last night EXACTLY to Boris’s [...]
Silver Screen Sunday – Now Voyager
“…don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars.” It’s a good point Bette, we just CAN’T have it all… As someone once said, you can’t expect to have a great job, a great relationship and a great place to live all at the same time. You can only have maximum two at once. [...]
