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...
So sad to hear the news about Doris yesterday. I love her so much! After living under a misapprehension that she was a twee, girl next door type for many years I actually WATCHED one of her films (Pillow Talk) and immediately became a big fan. She is utterly fabulous and so funny. The news...
This was mighty fine. Although Doris’s recipe calls for an Angel Food Cake mix: you can’t get one of those for love nor money in the UK, so in a reversal of all that I have learned via Caker Cooking, I made one from scratch. To Rita Hayworth’s recipe which you can find at the...
Do you know that Della Reese song, “It’s So Nice To Have a Man Around the House”? I love it. Especially the bit that goes: “…Just a guy in pipe and slippers Who will share your breakfast kippers And will help you zip your zippers, it’s so nice…” One of the things I really like...
YUM. Mmmm. This recipe was good. Made for Easter Monday when I organised a little celebration of the glorious entity that is Doris Day. She was ninety recently and hearing her on the transistor radio chatting to Michael Ball the other day, she is obviously is in full control of her faculties. Doris, we love...
