Julia McKenzie’s Courgette Casserole
Well this one was a pleasant surprise! I thought this would be a soufflé affair, but actually it turned out to be a much more veggiecentric dish which was surprisingly delicious. This was on the "to test" list because Julia McKenzie is one of the Miss Marples I want...
Dinner and a Movie – Announcement
I'm excited to announce that I'm launching an online dinner and a movie club. I'll be proposing a classic movie each month and suggesting appropriate movie star recipes for you to try alongside. Watch and cook in your own time, indulging yourself in an evening of...
Audrey Hepburn’s Potato Balls – Hampstead – The Great Bear – Stop #18
On our tour around the stations of the Northern Line, carrying film star foodstuff, I am always on the lookout for something appropriate to scoff on the platform. Hampstead is renamed Audrey Hepburn in Simon Patterson's genius reimagining of the map and the cute...
A Bette Davis Cocktail
During the first UK lockdown of the pandemic, me and Mr R made Friday night videos of the movie star cocktails we made when all the pubs were closed. It was loads of fun and we stuck all the videos on YouTube if you fancy having a look. Lots of cocktails were named...
Ann Blyth’s Blueberry Muffins, Lee Meriwether’s Peanut Butter Cookies, Jack Carter’s Fresh Fruit Kuchen, Yvonne de Carlo’s Salome Salad, Marsha Hunt’s Ham With Love, Robert Vaughn’s Stuffed Zucchini, Jayne Meadows’ Bean Curd
What's been cooking over at Murder, She Cooked? Quite a lot since I last did a round up. If you are a Murder, She Wrote fan, skip over to the Substack for episode reviews and companion recipes. Here's what's been going on in Cabot Cove - clicking on the recipe title...
Vincent Price’s Hotchpotch of Curly Kale
I had two frankfurters leftover from the Richard Basehart Frankfurters and Beans extravaganza written about here and that could only mean one thing. Hotchpotch of Curly Kale. I was determined that this recipe go in the Supper with the Stars book as I love it so....
Eartha Kitt’s Crocked Rabbit With Winter Vegetables
This recipe has been right at the top of my "I wanna cook" list since it first appeared in Greg Swenson's brilliant Recipes for Rebels book. Mostly because it is cooked in a CHICKEN BRICK and this is one of those things I bought for a specific movie star recipe and...
Raquel Welch’s Wonder Soup
I was so sad to hear that Raquel has gone to that Hollywood in the sky. I've had a girl crush on her for ages. Here's a blog post I wrote in 2018. It's a bit of a rambling ode to Raquel so if you just want the recipe, scroll down to the bottom. I can report the...
Robert Wagner’s Chili
For a Christmas gift Mr Rathbone pledged to test 3 recipes for the forthcoming Cooking the Detectives book for me. What a lovely present! This was the first one ticked off the list. A very tasty chili courtesy of Robert Wagner. The above pic was taken before the...
Spencer Tracy’s Cod Chowder – Recipe of the Month – February 23
I went back to an old method of selecting which star to focus on for my recipe of the month. Mr R bought me a fabulous pack of movie star playing cards for the first birthday we celebrated together. I cut the pack and Spencer Tracy was presented to me right there on...
The Heinz 57 Challenge – with movie star specials!
Mr Rathbone and myself decided to celebrate spending 57 years on this here planet by attempting to consume 57 Heinz based meals in a year. Did we manage it? YES! It was loads of fun as we sourced lots of Heinz things that aren't on the supermarket shelves here in...
Joan Crawford’s Potato Salad
I'm working on an exciting project to kick off 2023 - a reboot of my Joan Crawford cookbook. This has been available on Blurb since 2014 and was the first movie star recipe collection I published. I had lots of vintage JC postcards and over 30 of her recipes and I...
Gina Lollobrigida’s Wreath Cookies
I was sad to hear that Gina Lollobrigida has headed off to that Hollywood in the sky. As a tiny tribute to Lo Lollo, here's her recipe for wreath cookies. These were recipe of the month way back in December 2012 and they were so cute. I guess they are designed to be...
Joan Hickson’s Cod in Cider – Recipe of the Month – January 2023
What a treat this was! Such a simple recipe, but utterly delicious. I only have two recipes for Joan in the collection, the other is for marmalade. I was going to try both, to see which one would be best suited for the forthcoming Cooking the Detectives book, but...
Grace Kelly’s Pissaladière – Golders Green – The Great Bear Project – Stop #17
Ah, the beloved Great Bear Project! Our bid to cook our way through the 21 movie star stations as imagined by artist Simon Patterson on the two top spurs of the Northern Line is done. BUT, I still have to write up 5 of them. I am playing catch-up. What can I tell...
Shelley Winters’ Caesar Salad
Happy New Year! I spent Christmas with my mum and watched a lot of telly. For ages I have been trying to remember the name of a game show I accidentally watched once that had me crying with laughter. I just couldn't for the life of me remember the name. When we...
Lynda Day George’s Fresh Peach Omelet
I love a pleasant surprise when I make a movie star recipe thinking, "this is going to be weird." Because yes, this did seem weird to me, but also, it was absolutely delicious. It also felt indulgent and cheeky because I made it for myself for a weekday breakfast and...
Clark Gable Salad
It is TOO COLD for salads at the moment here in London and the thought of having one makes me shiver. But it's hot elsewhere in the world right?! Years ago, in 2013, I came upon a mention of this on the internet. The Clark Gable Salad, on the MGM commissary menu,...
Murder, She Wrote Watch Party Tonight!
Tonight's the night my fellow Cabot Covians! Join me for a fun watch party wherever you are in the world. Fans of Murder, She Wrote will all watch the episode together in their own homes and natter about it via a private chat room hosted on my Substack -...
Christopher Plummer’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
When Gill of Reelweegiemidget Reviews announces a movie star blogathon, I immediately check my movie star recipe spreadsheet to see what I have for the person in question. In the case of Christopher Plummer, in my whole collection of over 8,000 star-spangled...
Jane Asher’s Salmon Fishcakes and Joanna Lumley’s Bean Pâté
I think a New Year Resolution for 2023 will be to write up movie star din-dins experiences IMMEDIATELY after I have had them. Because I am sitting here racking my brains about a dinner party we threw in January and the brain is not being very forthcoming. I know that...
Sharon Gless’ The Blonde’s Beans
The beans I used in Richard Basehart's Frankfurter and Beans were Heinz Beanz pimped up thanks to a Sharon Gless recipe, so that dish was a kind of Columbo/Cagney & Lacey mash-up. I've made Sharon's beans before and they are GOOD. A shortcut to beans cooked in...
Recipe of the Month – Gene Tierney’s Pork with Fruit
I love my local butcher, he really makes me laugh. When I went into The Hampstead Butcher in Muswell Hill to buy the pork for this recipe he was on top form. I told him I was working with Gene Tierney's recipe from the 1940s. When I described her instructions for...
Dinner at the Crossroads Motel
This event has been a long time coming. Ever since Angus tipped me off to the existence of the Crossroads Cookbook I've been promising a night of delights from its pages. For those not familiar with this iconic British soap, I did a bit of a summing up when I made...
Raymond Burr’s Chili Supreme
I am never going to use dried beans again (unless a movie star specifically tells me to). They never, ever go soft for me, no matter how long I cook the little beggers. I cooked the beans for this chilli as Raymond directed me to, with salt pork (in my case...
Richard Basehart’s Frankfurters and Beans
Ever since we embarked upon the Heinz 57 Project I've been thinking that I must make this again. It's in the Columbo Cookbook as Richard Basehart is in the Dagger of the Mind episode, and I had a feeling Mr R would love this one. If you are a carnivore, you probably...
Murder, She Wrote Watch Party – Everyone Welcome
I'm hosting a free Christmas watch party event on Sunday 18th November at 7pm GMT - everyone welcome, wherever you are in the world. All the details are in this Substack post - tell every single Murder, She Wrote fan you know (there are a lot of us about) it's going...
Cary Grant Mushroom Canapés – Brent Cross – The Great Bear – Stop #16
I had to bite the bullet and get over my horror of the mushroom for the next of our Great Bear adventures. One of the requisites of creating a movie star dish appropriate to the station stop on Simon Patterson's reimagined Northern Line is that it can be eaten on a...
Una Stubbs’ Home-made Muesli – My Top 100 Movie Star Recipes #94
The breakfast smoothie season is over. I have transitioned to overnight oats and it will soon be porridge a go-go. I live in a very drafty 1930s flat and it gets so cold here in the winter I need HOT FODDER for breakfast for most of November through to March as I...
Christmas is coming!
Every year the lovely Columbophile mentions my Cooking With Columbo book as a nice thing to buy for a Columbo fan as a gift. This year I get to return the favour by recommending HIS brilliant book, which is brand new and fabulous. The Columbo Companion - any Columbo...
Richard Arlen Recipe Round-up
Richard Arlen is trending! Well, he's trending here at Silver Screen Suppers Towers anyhow! I absolutely love it when blog readers get in touch, either via my Contact Page or via comments on posts. It makes me feel as though I'm not talking into the void. When I was...
Paul Michael Glaser’s Curried Squash Soup
When I was a pre-teen, everyone at my school went bonkers for Starsky & Hutch. We begged our parents to let us stay up and watch it and all girls of my age either fancied Starsky or Hutch. Same with Donny Osmond and David Cassidy, you had to state your allegiance...
Stanley Tucci’s Frittata, Tomato Salad, Spaghetti con Zucchine alla Nerano, Lamb Chops and Roast Potatoes
I was in the same room as Stanley Tucci recently. OK, I was in the same room with him at The Barbican with 1153 other people, but I BREATHED THE SAME AIR. Myself and my kitchen companion Battenburgbelle were in heaven listening to Stanley talk about all sorts of...
Recipe of the Month – Angela Lansbury’s Walnut Date Bread
So much has been written about beloved Dame Angela in the last few weeks. An enormous amount of love for her was expressed by so many people in the media. The internet was a better place for a few days. She will live on through her movies and TV shows of course, and...
Donald Pleasence’s No-Name Curry
When this much anticipated book written by the Grand Poobah of Columbo, arrived on my doorstep on Donald Pleasence's birthday, it seemed PORTENTOUS! I use the term Grand Poobah very much in a respectful way as per the first definition below, not the second definition...
Marilyn Miller’s Bronx Cocktail
My lovely friend Sasa reminded me at the Murder, She Cooked launch party that I had vowed to write a book gathering together all the movie star cocktails I know of. It's on the list, Sasa! Our conversation also reminded me that I hadn't yet dipped in to a fabulous...
Ron Masak’s Recipes
I was so sad to hear that Ron Masak had travelled to that Hollywood in the sky this week. He was my favourite of all the Murder, She Wrote co-stars, playing the wonderful character of Sheriff Mort Metzger. I am picturing Ron and Angela chatting over a cup of tea and...
Charlie Drake’s Cottage Pie
Hello my darlings! Those of you who know Charlie Drake will hear his voice ringing through your head saying that line, I'm sure. When researching Heinz recipes for the Heinz 57 Challenge, I stumbled upon something BRILLIANT. A promotional film split into two parts...
Angie Dickinson’s Honeymoon Sandwich
Now that the Murder, She Cooked book is out in the world I have a bit of breathing space and I'm rummaging around in the blog drafts archive for things I hadn't quite finished. Here's a LONG one about our Covid postponed honeymoon for those who would like a sneaky...
Feeling Thankful
After the very sad news this week that our much loved Angela Lansbury has gone to that Hollywood in the sky, I thought I would share some joyful photographs of my book launch. I truly hope that anyone who owns a copy of my Murder, She Cooked book can see it was...
Agnes Moorehead’s Macaroon Delight
Just a quick post to let you all know I have a little spot on the Hollywood Kitchen Show today. I’ll be demonstrating how to make Agnes Moorehead’s Macaroon Delight as featured in Supper with the Stars. Here’s the lowdown from Karie who hosts the show on her Facebook...
Murder, She Cooked – Book Launch Day Tomorrow!
It's book launch day tomorrow and I am stupidly excited. Just to let you all know that I'll be doing some Instagram Lives throughout the day as I'll be Living My Life Like Angela Lansbury for the third time! Come and hang out in the Silver Screen Suppers kitchen or...
Piathalon #9 – Sagittarius Hamburger Pie
Yippeee it is the favourite day of all food bloggers everywhere. Pieathalon Day! It's the 9th year of this bonkers escapade where a bunch of us send weird and wonderful pie recipes to Yinzerella of Dinner is Served 1972 and she dishes them out for each of us to...
(Potentially) Marilyn Monroe’s Cheese Lasagna
Excitement is mounting about the movie Blonde. I haven't had a chance to see it at the cinema so I'll be tuning in on Wednesday when it premieres on Netflix. It's been a long time since I've had a bit of event TV in the diary and I'm going to hook my computer up to...
Jerry Stiller’s Chicken Soup With Kreplach
One night I said to Mr Rathbone over, and over and over again, "This is the funniest film I ever saw" about The Independent starring Jerry Stiller. The next day I could remember nothing about it. Zilch. Nada. So we resolved to watch it again on "Stiller Saturday",...
Virtual Angela Lansbury Cookalong Party – FREE – everyone invited
Greetings lovely readers! My Murder, She Cooked cookalong party on Sunday the 2nd of October is now live on Eventbrite. Everyone is welcome to come along and cook with me, or just be there for the chat about all things Murder, She Wrote while the cakes are in the...
Robert Stack’s Duck a l’Orange
In the run up to my Murder, She Cooked publication day I am sharing some of the wonderful feedback I've received from test cooks. Here's the verdict on Robert Stack's duck recipe from Matthew Lenton an old friend who somehow found me on social media a few years ago....
Angela Lansbury’s Kitchen Sink Salad
Sunday was International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day and I wanted to show my appreciation not only for the wonderful Dame Angela this week, but also for all the fabulous people who tested recipes for the forthcoming Murder, She Cooked book. There is no way I...
Murder, She Wrote Cocktails for Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day
Happy International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day! It's a momentous day for me as I am celebrating completion of the Murder, She Cooked book. I am on tenterhooks awaiting my final proof copy but I THINK it is finished. Here's Jessica reading an advance copy...
Book Launch News!
Greetings friends! The Murder, She Cooked book will be released into the world TWO WEEKS TODAY. Oh my! I am sooooooo excited. I've just realised I haven't shared the cover yet with my lovely blog readers so here you go... Fun eh? A big thank-you to Joan Ransley...
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