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 station platform. It doesn’t...
Oooh, how I wish I could be in Bristol this weekend. They are having a Cary Grant Festival – it looks amazing. One of the organisers Charlotte Croft emailed last year to ask if I would send Cary’s Mushroom Canapés recipe which I duly did. They will be serving some of these delightful little morsels again this year, at...
Oooh, how I wish I could be in Bristol this weekend. They are having a Cary Grant Festival – it looks amazing. One of the organisers Charlotte Croft emailed to ask if I would send Cary’s Mushroom Canapés recipe which I duly did. So if you hot foot it to the Cary Grant Cocktail Party...
These probably caused the most consternation amongst our guests. I think everyone wanted to like them, because everyone likes Cary. But they are indeed a bit weird. Most folks aren’t used to tinned mushrooms these days, but we wanted to do the canapés as per original recipe – might use fresh ones another time. Mind...
An update on yesterday’s post. On a little trawl around the internet I found this: The Clark Gable Salad, on the MGM commissary menu, consists of green chicory chopped with romaine, a deep covering of hard-boiled eggs and a circle of slivered beets. French dressing. Which reminds me that the Garbo sandwich now appears on...
I had a gentleman caller last night. It was date 3 with a fellow from OK Cupid known around these parts as “Mr Shoulder” and I did enjoy seeing him smoking a fag whilst hula hooping at about 1 in the morning. Reminded me a bit of Johnny Marr strumming away with a gasper firmly...
My fungi phobia is abating and I was quite surprised about how much I liked these. Even though the little critters looked WEIRD, they tasted good. I made them with something quite funky I found in Morrison’s. A jar of “mixed mushrooms” in oil. I tried to find a picture of them on Google to...
It’s been an EPIC week. I’ve had two more responses from film star copyright holders in the affirmative and have been nominated for a blog award. How FABULOUS – click on the VOTE button if you’d like to – Little Blog Awards (Silver Screen Suppers should be near the top on the right hand side)...
Graham Crackers are in the house WHOOP WHOOP! The lovely Moya is here from NYC and brought me some in her handbag. I am very excited and have all kinds of plans for them. It was so great to see her, probably about 15 years since we’d caught up and she looks exactly the same....
My lovely work colleague Kim came over last night for a trying on session and Cary’s Pie. We are going to an awards ceremony next week and Kim wanted something vintage to wear. My wardrobe was raided, many frocks were paraded up and down the landing and a decision was made. Well, a choice of...
Mmmm. The Tuna Pie was good. Little pastry biscuits on top. Yum, yum. I’m looking for an alternative Cary recipe for the book to replace the apple pie. He’s got some good ones too. He’s a man who loved his fish. This could be the one. Chicken of the Sea in a pie. It’s a...
“You’re just a bunch of molecules until you know who you are.” I’m trying to work it out Cary, honestly I am… So the double boiler was put to its second use of the weekend – attempting for a second time to make the weirdo sauce that TWO stars have published as a favourite recipe....
