The ex who cannot be named came round for dinner and a movie last night and it was a funny experience for me to have him fall asleep during the movie holding my hand. Hand holding is something I never remember him doing when we were together. It felt quite odd, especially as I sat [...]
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John Wayne’s Cheese Casserole
I have versions of The Duke’s favourite cheese casserole recipe in FIVE different celebrity cookbooks so can only assume it was something he really, really liked to eat. But only this week I found out that the recipe was also featured on that most lovable of all recipe formats, a recipe card… One of the [...]
Claire Windsor’s Snowdrops
Oh these are so cute. And easy to make. A winner. It has been so much fun and so lovely to have Caroline in my clutches for a couple of days. How I wished she lived just around the corner rather than a million miles away in Texas. I do miss her so. We had [...]
Dick Powell’s Truck Drivers Welsh Rarebit
Happy St David’s Day. In tribute to my spiritual homeland of Wales I decided to cook something with a Welsh flavour. What better than Truck Drivers Welsh Rarebit? Caws Pobi – now there’s lovely! I have no idea why Dick’s recipe specifies that this is the kind of Welsh Rarebit a truck driver would have [...]
Marion Davies’ Cheese Patties
I have lovely new neighbours and they had a party on Saturday night. My philosophy is, rather than staying home and getting annoyed at the comings and goings, GO to the party, get really drunk, fall over and ladder your tights. Talk nonsense to everyone. Stagger home across the landing when you can drink no [...]
Clara Bow’s Chicken Chartreuse
I had to buy a pudding basin to make Clara’s mountain of rice with chicken inside. Luckily for me the fancy cookshop in Muswell Hill is open on a Sunday and despite being on a budget I blew £7 on a nice red Mason & Cole one. Now I am already dreaming about making a [...]
Joan Crawford’s Steak with Roquefort Sauce
“Bedroom problems? There is absolutely nothing in my bedroom that bothers me!” Me neither Doris, me neither! Although I WOULD like to have a white telephone beside the bed. Ignoring the fact that I don’t actually have a land line… I am indulging myself on Valentine’s night with the biggest rib eye steak I could [...]
Silver Screen Saturday – Vincent Price Mexican Breakfast
After weeks of my planning and plotting and inventing clues, Heather & Nathan’s treasure hunt was BRILLIANT. When they arrived at the Palace of Solitude I greeted them at the door in a Sombrero with frozen margaritas in hand and so the fun began. I’ve written more fully about the food over at the Vincentennial [...]
Silver Screen Sunday – A Hitchcockian Luncheon
I’ve been reading Pat Hitchcock’s biography of her mother and it is GREAT! There are some of Alma’s recipes at the back and I based a meal around these. But first we had some Joan Crawford canapes, her legendary salami sandwiches and some peanut butter and bacon toasts as above. Sarah said they reminded her [...]
Silver Screen Canapes – Guild of Food Writers’ Recipe Treasury
I was thrilled to be invited to contribute a recipe to the Guild of Food Writers’ Treasury, and it’s gone live today on their website – GFW Recipe of the Month – I snuck in two as they are for little film star nibbles. Gloria Swanson’s Caviar Canapes – seen below – and the legendary [...]
Recipe of the Month – Joan Crawford’s Steak with Roquefort Sauce
The recipe of the month is up. I was thinking about what I would like to eat on Valentine’s Night. I will treat myself to a nice juicy steak prepared Joanie style with a good bottle of wine. I might watch Pillow Talk. I love the scene with Doris’s heated blanket lead trailing along behind [...]
Bette Davis Marmalade
Ah, the website has returned from its holiday at the seaside. I was getting worried there. 5 years of blogging, over 500 posts about hundreds of film star recipe experiments – I thought it had all gone for ever. I shall be lavishing care and attention upon the site now it is back. I made [...]
Vincent Price’s New Year Vol-au-Vent
Happy New Year to all my readers. 2012 is going to be a humdinger I can just feel it! Last night I saw off the old year in style with Corinna and Kate. We had Vincent’s New Year Vol-au-Vent which was a splendid looking mega pastry full of turkey, bacon, peanuts, raisins and onions in [...]
Merry Christmas from Silver Screen Suppers
I’ll be on the telebox on Christmas Day with the Shellac Sisters! I think it will just be a fleeting moment but the programme will be gorgeous anyhow. We did love Darcey…
Roland Young’s Rissoles
I should have gone to bed early tonight, instead I have made Roland Young’s Rissoles from my leftover turkey as is TRADITION. I laughed out loud when I searched my computer for Roland’s recipe and one of the things that popped up was a document called “Gaby-isms”. I lived with Gaby for two years and [...]
