Anyone who has read The Celestine Prophecy knows that coincidences can be meaningful. Well, I’ve had a whole heap of them this evening. Yesterday I felt that, almost a year after splitting with Sidney. I was ready to get back in the fray. So I took the plunge and signed up to a dating site. [...]
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Shirley Temple’s Mammy’s Pecan Squares
Apologies for my ranting and raving yesterday. I felt so bad about leaving the blog open on a downer like that I got up early to make some of Shirley’s Pecan Squares before work. I believe that my sister of the skillet refers to these as “Shirley Temple’s Goddamn Pecan Squares” as her two attempts [...]
A Bulgarian Shirley Temple
I am in BULGARIA having a whole heap of fun. I’ve been meeting Laurel’s neighbours (mostly very cheery toothless ladies who want to hug and kiss me) and eating cauldrons of “four kinds of meat”. I’ve had one “Joan Crawford Day” which consisted of me re-reading Charlotte Chandler’s fantastic biography in preparation for my lecture [...]
Shirley Temple’s Mammy’s Pecan Bars
Well, I am not going to lie. It has been a rough re-launch of the Stateside Silver Screen Suppers Campaign. But here is why: Many cookbooks from the early period CLEARLY were intended for those people who are A. naturally gifted in the kitchen or B. had extensive staff who were naturally gifted in the [...]
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Cary Grant’s Tuna Fish Pie
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Diana Dors Competition
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Joan Crawford’s Bisquick Cheese Straws
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Ginger Rogers’ Coffee Parfait
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Joan Crawford’s Salad Number One
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Errol Flynn’s Roast Leg of Lamb
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Celia Johnson’s Chocolate Sponge Cake
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Book Test Cook 13 – Jimmy Stewart’s Chicken Pie
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Diana Dors’ Easy Fruit Cake
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James Mason’s Plum Jam
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