Join me tonight to do the Angela Lansbury workout, chums to celebrate what would have been Angela’s 100th birthday! You’ll need to skip over here and pop your email address into the subscriber box and you’ll receive a link when I go live. Get your pastel workout gear on and prepare for some easy stretches...
Just a little heads up for all you Fangelas! A video demo of her salad is now available over on my Murder, She Cooked substack. If you are a fan of Murder, She Wrote it’s well worth putting your email address in for my monthly newsletter – just click on the button below to go...
When I wrote a book all about Murder, She Wrote including recipes from the kitchen of Angela Lansbury and many of her co-stars, I had ten of Angela’s recipes in my collection. Imagine how thrilled I was recently to hear from blog reader Linda DeWeese-Brown that she had an Angela Lansbury recipe that wasn’t in...
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 to be a HOOT!...
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 here at...
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 written with pure...
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 join me for an Angela...
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 oven. I am not sure […]
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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 could have done it without you all. I’m sure if...
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 looking for typos, rogue apostrophes and squinting modifiers. I don’t know...
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 who took the photo (it did make...
The Murder, She Cooked book is almost finished! Publication date is Friday 30th September and I’m hosting a zoom cookalong on Sunday 2nd October at 7pm GMT – everyone is welcome, spread the word! You can check what time this will be wherever you are in the world here – World Time Buddy I brainstormed...
STOP PRESS! All of the writing and tweaking and editing for the Murder, She Cooked book is done – yippeee. I was wandering around with a feeling of great satisfaction and smugness and then FIVE MINUTES AGO I found an Angela Lansbury recipe on the internet I have never seen before. OH MY! as Jessica...
Here are links to all the recipes that featured on my weekly Murder, She Cooked Substack throughout November and December. I’m not going to duplicate them on the Silver Screen Suppers blog, so if you are interested in the recipes, just click on the appropriate link. Edie Adams Boiled Ham and Vegetables Edie Milton Berle’s...
Greetings if you have landed here via Only Murders In the Inbox! The Murder, She Cooked book is now out in the world and available on Amazon or direct from me via my Etsy Shop. Greetings to all who have landed here via the wondrousness that is Tim Benzie’s Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote you have found exactly the...
Oh, how I miss being in a huge room with hundreds of other Murder, She Wrote fans laughing like a drain at Tim Benzie’s antics onstage at one of his Solve-along-a-Murder-She-Wrote events. You are missing it too right? Well I have a TREAT FOR YOU ALL. During lockdown Tim and I got together on Zoom...
The minute lockdown in London is lifted and I can leave my flat I am going straight to Cabot Cove, Maine. I will send you a postcard… OK, I know Cabot Cove doesn’t exist, but why not use our imaginations to travel? The idea of going anywhere other than the postbox round the corner seems...
I love the way someone can decide that a certain date is International Spaghetti Day, or International Doughnut Day or my favourite of all – International Beer Day. Somehow these make their way into calendars of food and drink days all over the internet. I have decided to create a day. I hereby announce that...
I spent my hen night in prison. Cabot Cove Prison to be precise. Cast your mind back to a time before Covid-19. When you could invite 15 of your best friends round to ALL BE IN THE SAME ROOM AT THE SAME TIME without the police being called and you getting fined £10,000 for hosting...
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 vinaigrette. This makes my heart burst with...
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 events. If you have ever been to one of these you will know that...
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 started this blog at a very low point in my life, and it has got me...
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 schema but had to...
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 your own here. and the view from your writing desk is...
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 Positive Moves and just what I...
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 just one, but two brilliant cooking demo...
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 favourite recipes of Angela Lansbury and her many fabulous...
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 month’s Recipe of the Month. Make it! Of course, I am obsessed with...
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 every minute. I...
I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for ages as I am pretty obsessed with making bread. Angela is the same, in her brilliant book Positive Moves there’s a great photo of her making bread with the caption, “I don’t ever want to be so busy that I can’t find the time to make a...
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 Chowder? because I’ll be writing about...
