Greg of Recipes For Rebels has excelled himself this year for his Cowboy Day Cook-along. Remember the scene in Giant (1956) where Elizabeth Taylor faints when she’s served a big spoonful of roasted cow’s head at a BBQ? Actually, I don’t know if it’s a spoonful of cow’s head or something else and it is...
This is the penultimate Quaranatini Time! Pubs are set to re-open here in the UK TODAY so there’s only one more movie star tipple demo video to go. The last time me & Mr R exchanged money for cold beverages in a pub was on our wedding day – 20th March 2020 – which was...
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 love Greg Swenson, author of the fabulous Recipes For Rebels: In The Kitchen With James Dean cookbook. We have never met in person (I am in England, Greg is in Greece) but we are KINDRED SPIRITS and occasionally have a day where we cook the same movie star recipes and make each other laugh...
I went back to basics recently as I know there is an awful lot of eating and drinking ahead over the next couple of weeks. I had an Elizabeth Taylor breakfast of one piece of unadorned toast, a cup of coffee and an apple. It was so simple and actually pretty delicious. If you have...
Well, this was weird. I think if I had made this before my experiments with the Peter Fonda’s “Easy Rider Smoothie” and his sister Jane Fonda’s Smoothie I might have thought this was groovy. BUT, I am now used to protein drinks that effectively are the texture and volume of a huge McDonald’s milkshake. Liz’s...
Battenburgbelle is writing a cookbook. It’s mostly for her daughter (my Goddaughter) who will be flying the nest soon and BB wants her to have a collection of recipes that are do-able for a beginner. She asked if I would contribute something and I can’t think of anything better than Elizabeth’s recipe for chicken. I...
Ooh, I do love a diet plan. Where it is all laid out in black and white what you should have for your breakfast, lunch and tea. But it’s not easy to follow many days in a row when you are a girl about town and have a job to go to that takes you...
I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this blog for 12 years – goodness me. So much has changed in that time. When I began I was a broken-hearted singleton living on a houseboat on the Thames. My tabletop cooker had to be turned on with a pair of pliers… Now I am a landlubber...
This is what you should absolutely cook if you have friends coming round for dinner on a work night and you don’t want to be huffing and puffing in the kitchen while they are enjoying themselves in the lounge. You can get this prepared and cooking in an hour, so you can relax and enjoy...
Today I’ve been recovering from the #cowboydaycookalong at Battenburg Belle’s – it was a humdinger of a hoedown and I am feeling a little worse for wear… Mr R has gone off to record his radio show, so I am home alone, and the brilliant thing is, I have just found my DVD of Giant...
Regular readers may remember that I used to have a monthly column over at the wonderful Eat Drink Films website. Well, this lovely intenet magazine is now an intermittant arrival in my inbox, rather than a weekly one, and I’m happy to say that the last piece I wrote for them is now up on...
On the morning before Cowboy Day #1, half asleep I said to Mr Rathbone: “What mode of transport are you using to get to my place tomorrow?” after a tiny pause he said: “Horse, of course!” After we stopped laughing he said, “Or I might take the stage”. I basically wanted to know if he would be passing...
Yee haw partners, wanna come to a virtual reality party? I’m joining in with this opportunity to don a cowboy hat and eat masses of chili, and you should too! You don’t have to have a blog to participate in this, it’s just for fun! All the details about it are on Greg Swenson’s fabulous...
My 6 day writing retreat has come to an end. Oh, it was so lovely! I’ve got Columbo coming out of my ears… I decided that as I was out of my own environment, it was a good chance for me to take a break from some bad habits. So I didn’t have any booze...
It’s day one of my writing retreat. I will be totally on my own with nobody to speak to except this cat for 6 days. Luckily, Milky is a Columbo fan, as it’s all about Columbo this week. Today, I had to extend my arms as long as I possibly could in order to...
Have you ever made mayonnaise, your very own self? I never had, until I tried making the mayonnaise to the recipe that Elizabeth Taylor champions in her marvelous book, Elizabeth Takes Off. I was very pleased with myself… There will be more, much, much more about what Elizabeth Taylor liked to eat, in my next...
I’m often asked what my favourite film star recipe is. This one would be in the top ten for sure. It’s so easy, and so delicious. It’s absolutely fail-safe, so I chose it for the book group when I couldn’t find my Cooking Price-Wise book… Becky had requested that I make Vincent’s Chicken in Vermouth...
A couple of people recently have asked me what my favourite film star recipe is. For a long time I have said Marlene Dietrich’s Lamb Chops En Casserole but I have switched recently to Liz’s chicken. It is simple and utterly delicious, and the use of a posh EXPENSIVE dessert wine makes it extra special....
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the UK release of Cleopatra Mr Rathbone and I had a screening and lunch courtesy of Elizabeth Taylor. I attempted the make up, straightened my hair and wore the most suitable frock I could find: And we put Cleo on the DVD projector with the lights off even...
Being a family of one and following recipes written for 6-8 results in a freezer bursting at the seams with spare portions of delicious but mostly unidentifiable things. I wouldn’t usually serve something from the freezer to company but needs must. I cannot keep buying chook after chook and trying to cram their lovely legs...
I do so wish I lived in America and/or Canada. Tonight on TV is the premiere of “Liz and Dick” starring Lindsay Lohan as Liz. Through my day job I know a lot more about La Lohan than is really necessary and I’d love to see how she gets on attempting to harness the power...
