Silver Screen Suppers

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

“I’ve come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me.” Well, I’ll see if anyone ever asks me Anna… I love this picture, and I am going to measure my own hair when I get home to see if it is as long as Anna’s. Could be… Had a lovely time with little Shirley [...]

“Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.” All the recipe-wrangling over the last week or so is beginning to bear fruit. Our first feedback form arrived this morning fresh from the floral-bedecked marital home of the new Mr & Mrs Day in West London. As a wedding gift I [...]

There is a mini Vesuvius erupting in my oven. I decided to make Ruth a birthday cake using Anna Mae Wong’s Tea Cake recipe. I made twice the mixture and instead of making individual muffin type cakes, bunged it all in a cake tin. As Sidney and I waited for the spare ribs to come [...]

“I’m Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I’m a Hollywood star.” It’s my first night in the new W1 abode. Night is falling over Centre Point, Big Ben and the London Eye and a batch of tea cakes are in the oven. The Marathon Man from my office requested some [...]

“Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.” I can hardly believe that this is a 1940s photograph of Anna – she looks so MODERN. And her cakes are so good. Rosalind and Jimmy both said so. Unfortunately they got a little squashed in transit from Washington D.C. but Rosalind [...]