There is a batch of Anna Mae Wong Tea Cakes in the oven as I am planning a little trip to Audio Gold this afternoon. Not just because I’d like to see the lovely men that work there and one of them has already confirmed that he has my stylus in my pocket but also [...]
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Gloria Swanson’s Butterless Devil’s Food Cake
Just back from the wedding of the century, Grace and Douglas are now HITCHED and what a wonderful day it was! Great to spend time with lots of the Walthamstow posse, there was much crazy dancing – especially from Cary who was doing his “Rock Lobster” moves and making me laugh. I DJd on the [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
A momentous day today for Renee who after 7 years working for the Archive is now off to another job, still within the company but not where I can hear her cracking up with laughter about something almost every day. She’s been behind my right shoulder for about a year now and I will really [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck
Had another bash at Anna’s duck dish last night as Daryl (we must get him a film star name) came round for dinner. The duck was definitely not as nice as when I made it for Edmund and I tried to work out why. Was it because I’d used a different type of mushroom? Not [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
I’ve got a day off work today and it is bliss. I’ve got a batch of tea cakes in the oven and I’m still not dressed at 11am. I’m sure that Anna Mae would have worn something a little more slinky than a muu muu in the kitchen but there is a certain pleasure in [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck version 2
Edmund read Tuesday’s post and decided that he would like Anna Mae’s Duck for his dinner last night. He missed the party and wanted to peruse my new flat. As a man with a penchant for the 1930s I knew he’d like it. As nosey as I am, he particularly enjoyed perching on my bar [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck
Oh my goodness, it feels like being in an industrial kitchen this evening as I try and cook TWO main courses. AMWs duck – for the first time ever – plus my all time favourite non-silver-screen-suppers dish – Leon’s Sausage, Kale and Flageolets Casserole. It doesn’t sound like much does it? But my goodness it [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
I missed the Movie Memorabilia Bazaar at the Cinema Museum the other weekend because I was too hungover to leave the house. But lovely Dorothy was there, not in her usherette uniform this time, but still working the Silver Screen Suppers magic nonetheless. She made some of Anna’s Tea Cakes and reports back that special [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
It was “cherry roulette” in the office today as I experimented with glace cherries on the top of my AMW tea cakes last night. They sank to the bottom so I didn’t put any on the second batch. The cakes all disappeared in double quick time so they were definitely a hit. I received several [...]
Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes
“It’s a pretty sad situation, to be rejected by the Chinese because I am too American.” Jennifer has not only posted some fabulous pictures of home movie day here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/onedollyshoe/sets/72157622488364579/ but she has also made some Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cakes. These are proving to be a hit with most testers but they are not [...]
