by Jenny | 23 Jul, 2020 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
You know how satisfying it is when you find the right tool for the job? And how the smallest thing can give you an immense amount of pleasure in these strange lockdowned times? Here’s a tiny tale of one such thing. This is a beautiful bottle of delicious...
by Jenny | 8 Jul, 2020 | Angela Lansbury
Greetings from Cabot Covid! It’s a very special recipe of the month this month. This was tested for the Murder, She Cooked cookbook by a very special person. Drumroll please! The AWESOME Tim Benzie, creator and star of the immersive Solve-along-a-Murder-She-Wrote...
by Jenny | 17 May, 2020 | Angela Lansbury
Greetings from Cabot Covid (thanks to Tim from Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote for that one). Thursday was the blog’s birthday. For FOURTEEN YEARS I’ve been blogging about movie stars and their favourite recipes. My goodness me, I can hardly believe it. I...
by Jenny | 28 Feb, 2020 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
This is a recipe that I am going to have to work on a bit for the Murder, She Cooked book as I think there must be a typo in Angela’s recipe. Here’s a scan of the recipe from Angela’s fabulous Positive Moves book. I did make some vinaigrette to this...
by Jenny | 25 Nov, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked, Susan Anton
I have been in heaven for a week on a writing retreat in deepest, darkest Shropshire. I was here… and as A.E. Houseman put it Clunton and Clunbury,Clungunford and Clun,Are the quietest placesUnder the sun. Especially when you have a writing room all of...
by Jenny | 8 Oct, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
I wanted to make something to mark the end of the Murder, She Wrote Cookalong and a return to normal life, and this salad was always going to be it. It was fresh, healthy and delicious. Everything you would expect from a recipe Angela included in her wonderful book...
by Jenny | 1 Oct, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Barbara Babcock, Jerry Orbach, Joey Bishop, Murder, She Cooked, Robert Pine, Ron Masak, Susan Strasberg
Greg Swenson of the Recipes for Rebels website and book of the same name is a creative genius. He designed the cover of my Cooking With Columbo cookbook (and proofread it I might add!) He also designed all my lovely Murder, She Wrote Cookalong graphics Greg made not...
by Jenny | 30 Sep, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Diane Baker, Jessica Walter, John Saxon, Lynn Redgrave, Murder, She Cooked
Hoorah! It’s time for the Murder, She Wrote Cookalong! I have been overwhelmed by the amount of folks who have volunteered to test recipes for the forthcoming Murder, She Cooked book and I love you all! The next few days will be all about the...
by Jenny | 8 May, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
My goodness, this is a HUMDINGER of a recipe. I love cheesecake and I thought I had never made one before, but then I remembered Marion Davies’ Meadow Cheesecake. Whereas Marion’s was GOOD, Angela’s recipe is utterly BRILLIANT. Hence, it is this...
by Jenny | 16 Feb, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
In her brilliant book Postitive Moves Angela Lansbury gives women of a certain age lots of excellent advice on living a healthy, vibrant life. As I AM a woman of a certain age, I decided to follow her life plan for a day. I lived my life like Angela Lansbury and loved...
by Jenny | 10 Feb, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for ages as I am pretty obsessed with making bread. Me at the nephew’s brewery with a few loaves Angela is the same, in her brilliant book Positive Moves there’s a great photo of her making bread with the caption,...
by Jenny | 25 Jan, 2019 | Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
On Sunday I am planning to live a whole day like Angela Lansbury. I am going to follow her guide to healthy eating… and I am going to do the Positive Moves workout… Then in the evening I am going to watch Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher’s...
