by Jenny | 6 Feb, 2023 | Betty Driver, Charlie Drake, Denver Pyle, Diana Dors, Edie Adams, Farrah Fawcett, Heinz 57 Challenge, Jane Asher, Jenny Agutter, Joanna Lumley, Jon Pertwee, Linda Gray, Marlene Dietrich, Phyllis Diller, Richard Arlen, Richard Basehart, Robert Quarry, Sharon Gless
Mr Rathbone and myself decided to celebrate spending 57 years on this here planet by attempting to consume 57 Heinz based meals in a year. Did we manage it? YES! It was loads of fun as we sourced lots of Heinz things that aren’t on the supermarket shelves...
by Jenny | 10 Dec, 2022 | Heinz 57 Challenge, Jane Asher, Joanna Lumley
I think a New Year Resolution for 2023 will be to write up movie star din-dins experiences IMMEDIATELY after I have had them. Because I am sitting here racking my brains about a dinner party we threw in January and the brain is not being very forthcoming. I know that...
by Jenny | 7 Dec, 2022 | Cooking The Detectives, Diana Dors, Heinz 57 Challenge, Richard Basehart, Sharon Gless
The beans I used in Richard Basehart’s Frankfurter and Beans were Heinz Beanz pimped up thanks to a Sharon Gless recipe, so that dish was a kind of Columbo/Cagney & Lacey mash-up. I’ve made Sharon’s beans before and they are GOOD. A shortcut to...
by Jenny | 27 Nov, 2022 | Cooking with Columbo, Heinz 57 Challenge, Richard Basehart
Ever since we embarked upon the Heinz 57 Project I’ve been thinking that I must make this again. It’s in the Columbo Cookbook as Richard Basehart is in the Dagger of the Mind episode, and I had a feeling Mr R would love this one. If you are a carnivore,...
by Jenny | 19 Oct, 2022 | Charlie Drake, Heinz 57 Challenge
Hello my darlings! Those of you who know Charlie Drake will hear his voice ringing through your head saying that line, I’m sure. When researching Heinz recipes for the Heinz 57 Challenge, I stumbled upon something BRILLIANT. A promotional film split into two...
by Jenny | 23 Mar, 2022 | Heinz 57 Challenge, Linda Gray
I couldn’t resist trying a recipe from the kitchen of Linda Gray. If only as an excuse to bung up a picture of one of the best evenings of my life. In Portugal. Hitting hundreds of people on the head with plastic hammers. What a night! I loved that Sue Ellen...
by Jenny | 14 Mar, 2022 | Denver Pyle, Heinz 57 Challenge
The Jon Pertwee Spaghetti Flan still brings me great joy. Thinking about the fun I had cooking it with my friend Jan of Saucy Seventies Adventures several weeks ago still tickles me and there was a knock-on recipe, if there is such a phrase as a knock-on recipe? ...
by Jenny | 24 Feb, 2022 | Heinz 57 Challenge, Jenny Agutter, Murder, She Cooked
Jenny Agutter waving her knickers on a stick at an oncoming train is one of my earliest movie memories. I think I must have been taken to the cinema to see The Railway Children when it came out (that’s how old I am) and that’s the scene I remember most....
by Jenny | 10 Feb, 2022 | Betty Driver, Heinz 57 Challenge
Those of you of a certain age will no doubt already be reminiscing about the good old days of Coronation Street when Betty Williams (played by Betty Driver) worked behind the bar of the Rover’s Return. Her hotpot was always on the menu and Betty became known as...
by Jenny | 31 Jan, 2022 | Heinz 57 Challenge, Jon Pertwee
For the 3rd of the Heinz 57 extravaganzas, I had a fun cookalong with Jan Manthey – winner of the Vincent Price Cucumber Crocodile competition, cult film director extraordinaire, author and one of the frontmen of The Dylan Rabbit. Jan runs the most excellent...
by Jenny | 25 Jan, 2022 | Edie Adams, Heinz 57 Challenge
When I published Edie’s ham recipe in my Murder, She Cooked Substack entry for the Capitol Offense episode, I was absolutely thrilled when someone special spotted the above pic on Instagram. Her son, Josh! He sent the following message, “Mom was NOT a...
by Jenny | 7 Jan, 2022 | Heinz 57 Challenge, Marlene Dietrich
It is hard to find the source of the much bandied around factoid that Marlene Dietrich’s favourite meal was hot dogs and champagne. If anyone knows for sure when or where she said it I would love to know. But it’s a good foodie fact, even if I can’t...