Silver Screen Suppers

My foodie penpal package this month came to me from Bonnie Scotland.  The lovely Isobel put together a perfectly packed box with these wonderful things inside.  Everyone at work oohed and ahhed when the cheese came out – it survived the journey but had ripened beautifully on the way! It’s been really cold this week [...]

When I was a pre-teen I joined an organisation that fixed you up with penpals.  I really wish I could remember what it was called but you had to fill out a complicated form with tick boxes to tell them all about yourself so they could match you up.  What your hobbies were, whether you [...]

Look out for my lounge on Saturday night on BBC’s Arena about the Beatles’ film Magical Mystery Tour – it was used as a location to represent a 1967 front room on Boxing Day. Now to business! This will probably be my longest post ever. Any conference where you get handed a breakfast margarita to [...]

Eek – I’m featured on Food Blogger Connect today.  I’m going to be attending this three day event in London and am beyond excited.  Can’t wait to meet food bloggers from around the world, exchange ideas, eat loads of delicious food and listen to some great speakers.  Will report back. I realize that nobody will [...]

Wow, what a week!  On Thursday I got up at 5am to go and see the Olympic Torch in Camden.  I love the fact that my local tube station in Highgate was all flagged up for the Olympics when I got there at 5.30: The torch relay was coooooooooool.  Then on Friday night I went [...]

I rocked up at The Guild of Food Writers annual awards ceremony on Wednesday and it was just wonderful.  I was thrilled that one of my heroes Yotam Ottolenghi was only a few feet away from me accepting his award for “Jerusalem on a Plate” and that Claudia Roden won the lifetime achievement award. I [...]

What a lovely surprise.  Queens of Vintage magazine are running my piece about Silver Screen Sandwiches again.  You can read it here: Silver Screen Sandwiches If any readers of the article drop by – hello and welcome!  I blog about all my adventures in cooking the favorite fodder of my favourite movie stars right here.  [...]

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…                

I was so thrilled to be invited to give a presentation to the Guild of Food Writers about my Silver Screen Suppers project.  I was very nervous to be speaking to such an esteemed crowd but they made me very welcome and I had lots of lovely compliments afterwards. We had wonderful retro-styled canapes made [...]

Stop Press!  Programme is available on the BBC Listen again service – 78 Revolutions – until the year 2099 according to their website so no rush! In a very rare non recipe related post, I just thought I would let you all know that I’m on the radio tomorrow.  I’ll be presenting a show about [...]

I’ve set myself a rigorous testing schedule for 2011 and can already see it’s going to be hard to stick to it.  I’m back in the wonderful world of internet dating and it is a right bun fight already!  Paid my subscription on Monday and have been on two assignations this week. The first guy [...]

Oh what a week it has been!  DJing at The Savoy AND Claridges in the same week.  How very glam!  Masses of free cocktails at the former and one each paid for at Claridges – four cocktails and a bowl of peanuts was £80.  Not joking.  We got some good photos though. All sorts of [...]

Season’s Greetings! As is tradition there was a Christmas screening of “It’s a Wonderful Life” at Rosalind’s place. Her very own Jimmy Stewart had NEVER SEEN THE FILM. It caused much amusement as Rosalind and I kept passing each other tissues and when it had finished Jimmy flipped the TV over with great haste to [...]