The film for this month’s Dinner and a Movie is Ball of Fire (1941), and the suggestions for accompaniments are Barbara Stanwyck’s Meatloaf, her Pimento Salad and a cinnamon-based cocktail I have named after her character in the movie, The Sugarpuss O’Shea. As I am moving shortly, I’m in a bit of a whirlwind, so...
This photo says it all really. Can there be anything more summery and delicious than strawberries and cream? With a bit of cake thrown in? I made these a donkeys age ago but summer socialising has thrown my schedule all out of whack so they are only now floating to the top of the to-write-list....
Barbara’s steak was good. Food writer guru Richard Ehrlich agrees with me that her recipe for Leg of Lamb is utterly bonkers. So I’m dropping the lamb and giving the steak a double thumbs up. I might give her Chicken Mousse recipe a go too, just in case that is a contender. There has been...
These were very cute, but next time I make them I will try to roll the dough much thinner. I think a trip to the cookshop is required, I think I need one of those mats for rolling stuff out on, you should see my kitchen worktop. Cooee. Both of my blind dates would […]
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Tonight’s post is a slow process because to be frank, I am absolutely sloshed. Usually a fast touch typist, tonight this is like typing underwater… My lovely Walthamstow chums have been over for lunch and it was supposed to be a dinner and a movie affair – Barbara Stanwyck’s wine soaked leg of lamb with...
“I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I’m ninety and they won’t need to paste my face with make-up.” Well, Barbara didn’t make it to ninety, but she was acting almost to the end of her life in 1990, appearing in Dynasty and its spin off The...
