Ee by gum! Mr Rathbone had the choice of anything he wanted for his pre birthday dinner and he selected Toad in the Hole. Last time I made this for him I did Vincent Price’s recipe but this time I chose our Gracie’s – seen below in all its splendour. In the spirit of turning...
Loved the way Nathalie plated these up – on a big plate! We’d thought about doing them in little shot glasses but there were a lot of guests and not a lot of shot glasses. I’m going to start haunting all the charity shops in the new year… My favourite comment of the night was...
I found the little brown shrimp I’d been looking for. Even though I have never had potted shrimp I knew the big pink ones that are more available wouldn’t be right and these teeny brown ones were perfect. This was recipe of the month last month and I’ve been waiting for the halcyon days of...
As Britain is so very, very British at the moment at this time of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee I thought we should have a very British dish as the recipe of the month. How more British can you get than Gracie and Potted Shrimps? I found this scanned cook book on the internet a few...
Eee by gum. Charley proclaimed this to be probably the best Silver Screen Suppers dinner so far, and as he has been the recipient of so many, that is saying something. But even though I do say so myself, it was indeed delicious. What I love about so many of these recipes is their simplicity....
Ee by gum! It’s Our Gracie’s turn to host the recipe of the month cookalong. I made her Toad in the Hole when I lived on the houseboat and remember it being rather tasty. I’ll have another go at it this week I think. It’s that sausagey kind of time of the year… Budapest was...
“At Mary Ellen’s Hot Pot Party The lads & lasses all were gay and hearty” How wonderful that Una in Charlottesville, Virginia had a go at Gracie’s Lancashire Hot Pot! At the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains a traditional Lancashire recipe got a good going over and the results were rich but very tasty...
Aha! It makes my heart glad to see that America’s Sweetheart of Song is now cooking away out there in the Lone Star State. Go Ruthie! One re-run and one near disaster on the cooking front this weekend. I made Constance’s chicken dish for the delight of El Pantero Negra on Saturday night. I was...
Ee that hotpot were grand! I was rather bemused by the chunks of lamb the butcher had provided and had neither the correct implements nor the emotional wherewithall to get much meat from between bones, fat and things that looked like the cotton wool tubes dentists use to soak up saliva. What ARE those and...
Oh the joy of rustling up dinner a deux on the boat with the sun shining in through the open doors and Desmond Carrington playing Perez Prado, Joyce Grenfell and Gracie Fields on his most excellent Radio 2 slot. Got super excited when he plugged his Friday night show which is a whole half hour...
