Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to things. So it was with the honouring of this voucher which was a raffle prize at the book launch of Cooking With Columbo which was in 2018. Even though the winners of this voucher, Lady Jane and Trix, live just around the corner from me,...
Over on my Dinner and a Movie blog, Gold Diggers of 1933 is the movie of the month. It’s a fab whirlwind ride and I heartily recommend it. Skip over here (or press the button below) if you fancy joining our fun online community – we sometimes have international online watch parties. Here’s Joan’s Sunday...
Man alive these were good! I had to test them for this February’s shebang over on my Dinner and a Movie Substack. I’m proposing a Cher movie. I wonder if you can guess which one? Want a clue? I’d made this recipe once before, but I hadn’t read it right and got the wrong kind...
We are celebrating all things Vincent Price over on the Dinner and a Movie Substack this month. There is a competition to win a copy of the forthcoming Blu-ray release of Vincent’s 1974 TV cooking show. I’m on the “extras” of this, talking about Vincent’s brilliant food writing and demonstrating his cucumber crocodile, melon […]
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COR! This was utterly delicious! I’ve never made chips before and neither had Mr R so we approached this test cook with great trepidation. As we grew up in the 1970s we had fear installed in us about CHIP PAN FIRES by many public information films, consequently Mr R spent a lot of time blocking...
I keep forgetting to let y’all know that April’s Dinner and a Movie selection for the Silver Screen Suppers Club is Pillow Talk with the divine Doris Day. If you fancy cooking up one of her brilliant fluffy baked potatoes, skip over here for the recipe… LINKS TO MY STAR-SPANGLED COOKBOOKS Switch to your own...
This month’s selection for the Silver Screen Supper Club Dinner and a Movie is the wonderful Rebecca (1940) and we had a super fun watch-party last Sunday. Folks joined us here in the UK from Canada and the USA to chat about Mrs Danvers giving our heroine the side-eye and Rebecca having her knickers made...
If you fancy treating yourself to a classic movie plus a movie star din-dins to go with it, over on my Substack the featured movie for February is The Graduate. Here’s a link to the post that contains Anne’s tamale pie recipe – come and join us!
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Mr Rathbone once had a party in his flat, and someone bought him a bottle of absinthe as a gift. But then some big boys in the kitchen drank it all and ran away. Because of this and because it is in a Jimmy Durante cocktail I want to try, I bought him a bottle...
Welcome to new readers who have landed here via Talking Pictures TV. I’m excited to propose a fabulous star-spangled menu for everyone to enjoy alongside a screening of I’m All Right Jack on Sunday 8th October at 6.30pm. We are having a Silver Screen Sunday WATCH PARTY! Everyone is welcome. If you make one, two...
This month’s Dinner and a Movie suggestion is It Happened One Night – skip over to Substack to read all about it, and join in! Clark Gable cooks scrambled eggs in It Happened One Night, so it seemed serendipitous that I had a recipe for same via Claudette. I would have loved to have cooked...
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...
It’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes month over at Dinner and a Movie! Join us if you fancy watching the film sometime in June and then sharing your thoughts on it. There are a few recipes from the Kitchen of Jane Russell for you to rustle up in this post, and here are a couple of cocktail...
I’ve selected Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for June’s Dinner and a Movie, so if you fancy joining the fun, grab yourself a copy of it and watch it in your own time, on your own sofa sometime in June. There will be chit-chat about the film in our virtual reality cinema bar, so get amongst it!...
Greetings to those dropping by from Dinner and a Movie for some extra recipes suitable for serving alongside a screening of Sunset Blvd. First up, possibly the maddest thing I have ever made William Holden’s Lime Gelatine with Carrots, Nuts and Olives. Yes, this is me dressed as Gloria Swanson, yes, I made this in...
Hello chums – I’ve just opened the doors to the Silver Screen Suppers Club virtual reality cinema bar so join us for a chat about All About Eve – the chatroom is open 24/7 on the Substack app. It’s effectively our opening night and it’s all new so let’s see how it goes. Here’s the...
I’ve launched a new THING over on Substack today. A virtual reality star-spangled dinner and a movie club. It is something I’ve wanted to do for ages, and now it exists. So exciting. Come and join us! Everyone is welcome, wherever you are in the world, whether you are an expert in classic movies or...
I’m excited to announce that I’m launching an online dinner and a movie club. I’ll be proposing a classic movie each month and suggesting appropriate movie star recipes for you to try alongside. Watch and cook in your own time, indulging yourself in an evening of star-spangled gloriousness. All the details can be found here...
I had a friend inside my flat last week. Is that allowed in London at the moment? I have absolutely no idea, I have totally lost track. Well arrest me if you want, Cathy of Kitchen Confidence came round for a cocktail and as I was planning to test the Vodka Blush from Rosemary’s Baby...
I once saw a series of photographs featuring the same family on the same day every year for many, many years. It was a fabulous insight into the ageing process. I have almost the same record of me ageing over the years with prawns in hand at The Company Shed on Mersea Island… The thing...
I live alone, and when I was single for many years, I absolutely loved a solo Friday night in. I would come home from work, make myself a Martini and listen to the Desmond Carrington Show on Radio 4. Singing along to Desmond’s crazy selection of tunes, I would rustle up something fancy to eat,...
When I told my desk-mate Lucy that I’d made a Joan Fontaine dish and watched Rebecca, she immediately did a “Joan Fontaine in Rebecca” face that made me laugh like a drain. I then did a “Joan Fontaine in Rebecca” face that made HER laugh like a drain. Ah, the fun we have at work!...
Ah, Mr. Hitchock. There is much debate about this quiche recipe. Hitch famously disliked eggs, but what is a quiche lorraine without eggs? Um, ham and some milk in a pastry case? Methinks perhaps it was raw eggs that gave him the heeby-jeebies but he liked them when cooked up like this. I expect it...
Liberace was born on this day one hundred years ago. Happy birthday Lee! Recently I got an email from my chum, food writer Orlando Murrin, asking me if I’d ever seen The Loved One which features Liberace playing an undertaker. Well yes, I had, but not for a donkey’s age so I skipped over to...
I definitely have more movie star recipes for chilli than any other dish. I’ve made Robert Mitchum’s, Johnny Cash’s, Monte Hale’s, Trish Van Devere’s, Anne Sheridan’s, Barton MacLane’s, Richard Arlen’s, Tex Ritter’s, Warner Baxter’s and of course, my fave of them all, James Garner’s. There are many more on the spreadsheet to try too, there...
This month’s film suggestion in the Kay & Fred’s Movie Night column in Delicious magazine is a MODERN film. I rarely watch anything post-1968 – could I do it? Committing to following Kay and Fred’s suggestions is a bit like being in a book club though, I’ll be cooking and watching things I wouldn’t necessarily...
I was beside myself with excitement when I saw that my fave food mag Delicious Magazine has a new column called Kay & Fred’s Movie Night. Kay Plunkett-Hogge and her partner Fred will be selecting a movie and suggesting a meal to have alongside it each month. Whoopee! The first recipe was utterly fabulous –...
I was wondering what to do with all the Edam I had left over from the Diana Dors Cheese and Sweetcorn Pasta Salad I made the other day, and Diana herself had a suggestion in the X-Cel Diet cookbook. Caesar Salad. It’s salads all round at the moment because we are in the grip of...
From June 1-3, 2018, Vincent Price Legacy UK and Silver Screen Suppers are taking part in a fantastic blogathon celebrating all things Amicus and Hammer, hosted by Cinematic Carthasis and Realweegiemidget Reviews, and we’ve picked Scream and Scream Again and Madhouse as our two choices to blog about. I’m serving up some devilishly ghoulish fare,...
I promised myself that one of the things I would do once the Columbo book was finished was this. Treat myself to two celebrity related dishes from my chum’s Tonight at 7.30 cookbook and watch an appropriate movie while I ate them. I know Kristen Frederickson through the Guild of Food Writers. We have never...
Sometimes I fantasize about having chums round for a poker game and serving food like Oscar “Divorced, Broke and Sloppy” Madison does in this movie. He’s a filthy bachelor living in squalor and one of his card-shark chums observes of his disgusting, out of order fridge, “I saw milk standing in there that wasn’t even...
I have never cooked Ramen before, in fact, I have never eaten Ramen before, so this dish was quite an adventure for me. The lovely folks at www.souschef.co.uk emailed me out of the blue to ask if I’d like to try out their Ramen kit and I said HELL YEAH! One of my resolutions for...
