by Jenny | 26 Mar, 2023 | David Niven
How I love a homemade fishcake, and how I love David’s recipe for making them. Because basically, it’s a fishcake template. I am sure David wouldn’t mind you putting in whatever you have around the place. Here’s his recipe, in his very own...
by Jenny | 15 Feb, 2022 | David Niven, Edward Woodward, Jack Cassidy
A conversation with a colleague way back in November reminded me of my pledge in 2017 that I would ALWAYS make a Jack Cassidy Quicky Green Bean Casserole for Thanksgiving. As I had a spare evening on my hands on the last Thursday in November, I decided to make one...
by Jenny | 21 Jun, 2021 | David Niven, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
“My wife makes a simple little thing called Jansson’s Temptation that’s terribly good. It’s nothing more than a potato and onion thing done in cream…” the suave David Niven told food writer Johna Blinn in 1967. I agree with David 100%. This dish is indeed terribly...
by Jenny | 12 May, 2020 | David Niven
I think my lockdown quarantine feral eating period is almost over. My panic buying of store cupboard staples seems to have abated and the compulsion to eat salad cream directly from the jar on a spoon seems to be slowing down too. But here is something I made when I...
by Jenny | 6 Jul, 2019 | David Niven, The Great Bear Project
It seems strange to be writing about something that happened on a cold January day when we are slap bang in the middle of a heatwave here in London. But I’m catching up on writing about The Great Bear Project. Finchley Central is the last of the Northern Line...
by Jenny | 18 Jan, 2019 | David Niven
I am a person who likes to follow a recipe. I am not a freestyler. But I make an exception for David Niven. I love his fish cakes recipe, because he basically issues a carte blanche for making them however the hell you like. So here’s his recipe, just as he...
by Jenny | 23 Dec, 2018 | David Niven
In the heatwave we had here this summer in the UK, I was reading Nigel Slater’s Eating for England on my commute to and from work and it gave me a powerful urge to eat some rice pudding. I’m sure it was partly to do with the sudden changes of season we get here...
by Jenny | 7 Dec, 2018 | David Niven
“Traditionally we have Swedish food on Christmas Eve and toast each other with mugs of glögg, After doing the whole Swedish bit, we celebrate Christmas Day with a typical English dinner of turkey and plum pudding. We wind up tons heavier, not speaking to anyone.” I...
by Jenny | 12 Sep, 2016 | David Niven
I’ve been wanting to try this recipe ever since I had an email conversation with my beloved Michael MacMahon about Jansson’s Temptation. I think it was after I had cooked the best film star recipe ever, Jocko Marx’s Herring...
by Jenny | 6 May, 2014 | David Niven
David Niven was plucked from the pack for this month’s recipe of the month and it’s a goodie. I love fish cakes. I like the way David writes a recipe too… I’m going to transcribe his recipe exactly as he wrote it, then let you know how I actually...
by Jenny | 3 Feb, 2008 | David Niven
“You can count on Errol Flynn, he’ll always let you down.” Perhaps it is a bit of portentous syncronicity that Niven has a good quote about Errol as I am supposed to be embarking upon “Errol Week” tomorrow. Almost finished reading his...
by Jenny | 6 Oct, 2007 | David Niven
“I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.” I don’t usually write about things I haven’t made myself but I must just mention the marvellous “My Man Godfrey” cocktail...
