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Book Test Cook 11 – Barbara Stanwyck’s Spanish Style Steak

Barbara’s steak was good.  Food writer guru Richard Ehrlich agrees with me that her recipe for Leg of Lamb is utterly bonkers.  So I’m dropping the lamb and giving the steak a double thumbs up.  I might give her Chicken Mousse recipe a go too, just in case that is a contender. There has been [...]

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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 [...]

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Jimmy Stewart’s American Apple Pie

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 [...]

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Barbara Stanwyck’s Roast Leg of Lamb

Barbara Stanwyck’s Roast Leg of Lamb

“I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I’m ninety and they won’t need to paste my face with make-up.” Well, Barbara didn’t make it to ninety, but she was acting almost to the end of her life in 1990, appearing in Dynasty and its spin off The Colbys. [...]

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