Ha ha – these were fun to make. I think I over cooked them but they were amusing little fellows while they lasted.
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Silver Screen Sandwiches
What a lovely surprise. Queens of Vintage magazine are running my piece about Silver Screen Sandwiches again. You can read it here: Silver Screen Sandwiches If any readers of the article drop by – hello and welcome! I blog about all my adventures in cooking the favorite fodder of my favourite movie stars right here. [...]
Competition Time – Jackie Cooper’s Gingerbread Men
Just sent out the monthly newsletter, a bit late this month as it’s been busy, busy, busy. I’m running a competition for the best Gingerbread Man – should be fun. Recipe is here if you are not a newsletter subscriber, I’m excited about the prospect of getting some pictures of crazy Gingerbread Men and am [...]
John Boles’ Picnic Marble Cakes
Aw these were cute! I made them before work as I knew making dinner would be a scramble. I had the ladies of the book group to dinner and it was lovely. We drank lots of wine and talked about the book a little bit, but seemed to talk mostly about my adventures on the [...]
Cary Grant’s Mushroom Canapes
My fungi phobia is abating and I was quite surprised about how much I liked these. Even though the little critters looked WEIRD, they tasted good. I made them with something quite funky I found in Morrison’s. A jar of “mixed mushrooms” in oil. I tried to find a picture of them on Google to [...]
Richard Brook’s Brooks-Barthelmess Special
I don’t know what the link was between Clive Brook and Richard Barthelmess but I guess at some point they rustled this up together. Maybe they were flat-mates in some seedy boarding house before they hit the big time? If anyone has the insider knowledge, please let me know. Perhaps they made this for their [...]
Mae West’s Salada de Tuna
I was craving Mae’s salad for lunch when I was at the supermarket today so I tried to remember what was in it on the hoof. So this is basically Mae’s recipe with the addition of a few things I had knocking around the fridge – lettuce, rocket, some beetroot and a few cubes of [...]
Claire Windsor’s Snow Drops – a reader’s version
A lovely surprise via Facebook this week. Rebecca in Wisconsin posted two pictures of her version of the recipe of the month – don’t they look cute? Rebecca added some cocoa powder to the icing sugar which I thought was a genius touch. The Silver Screen Suppers Facebook page is a very new thing for [...]
Silver Screen Sunday – Vincent Price “Bounty of Paradise” Polynesian Party
Pineapples! I’ve been wanting to throw a whole Vincent Price dinner party for a long time and Easter Sunday seemed like a good time to do it. It was SPECTACULAR. First up were Rumakis (above), water chestnuts cloaked in chicken liver with a bacon wrap. Divine. I should have made more, 2 each was not [...]
Dorothy Wilson’s Chutney
Whose idea was it to start making a chutney at 9pm in the evening? I blame the bottle of sherry I bought today for my Vincent Price Teriyaki sauce. I used 1 tablespoon of it for that, and seem to have drunk just about the rest of the bottle this evening preparing for tomorrow’s VP [...]
Recipe of the Month – Claire Windsor’s Snow Drops
Just sent out my monthly newsletter with this month’s recipe – they are SO CUTE. If you fancy a little baking over Easter or any time in April these are very much recommended… I have 4 days off work for the Easter holiday. Yippee. I do love work, but it is nice to have some [...]
Barbara Stanwyck’s Kipfels
These were very cute, but next time I make them I will try to roll the dough much thinner. I think a trip to the cookshop is required, I think I need one of those mats for rolling stuff out on, you should see my kitchen worktop. Cooee. Both of my blind dates would [...]
Bette Davis Scallops
Most contemporary chefs would be alarmed at the amount of time Bette cooked her scallops for (30 minutes parboiled then 10-15 minutes under the grill) and I was a bit concerned they would be chewy, but they turned out fine. Here are before and after shots of the bacon-y little tidbits. I am already mildly [...]
Errol Flynn’s French Deviled Tomatoes
I decided that if my date for tonight cancelled again I would give up on him – even though he’s the first single man I’ve met that I fancy for what seems like forever. And he has done, so I’ve put myself back on the internet dating scene. Having enormous fun already – and I’ve [...]
Joan Crawford’s Charcoal Broiled Steak
A mustard mystery of Miss Marple magnitude in Melton Mobray this weekend! Oh my goodness the intrigue! Trix, Jane and myself made a pilgrimage to the Great British Mustard Bash: a six hour round trip to see if my Colonel Mustard’s Mustard’s Chocolate Beer Mustard had pleased the judges – if only for its beautiful [...]
