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 | 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...
by Jenny | 18 Mar, 2021 | Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino
HippFest Silent Cinema Festival has begun – whoopee! My Mary Pickford Silver Screen Supper video goes out on Saturday morning and is available for 48 hours so if you have landed here looking for more information about her enchiladas or cocktails, please skip to...
by Jenny | 20 Oct, 2019 | Marlene Dietrich
Hot on the heels of Oooooona’s Moooooosli, here comes Marleeeeeeeen’s Sardeeeeeeen. Of course, this pleasing combination of words only works when mispronouncing MarlAYYYYYna Marleeeeeeeen, but hey ho… I made a beautiful loaf of rye bread on a...
by Jenny | 24 Nov, 2016 | Marlene Dietrich
At the weekend I was on writing retreat, and I had a lovely time. Two whole days of nothing but tip tapping away on my laptop in bed, with the heated blanket on. No housework, no admin, no de-cluttering, no shopping, nothing except writing and a...
by Jenny | 18 Mar, 2016 | Marlene Dietrich
Ah, lovely! I had two bananas left over from the Vincent Price Bounty of Paradise dinner party because I forgot to add them to the pork chops main course. So you know what happens when you have two bananas lying around the place over-ripening by the minute…? ...
by Jenny | 25 Jun, 2010 | Marlene Dietrich
Our Pittsburgh turned Dallas based test cook Josef VS sent in a report on Marlene’s Lamb Chops a while back and it’s popped to the top of the “to-blog” list. I’m working my way through them all because round 3 of testing starts in July!...
by Jenny | 20 Mar, 2010 | Bonita Granville, Marlene Dietrich
Bonita, Bonita, Peanut Eater. OK, I am going to try and channel the spirit of Bonita this evening if I ever get it together to get out of the house and go to the Rock ‘n’ Roll night at the Music Palace. I will be going on my own and won’t know a...
by Jenny | 29 Oct, 2009 | Marlene Dietrich
“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.” That is so true Marlene – but the question is, how to tell the real tenderness from the fake… Well, sometimes you know for sure and tonight I shall be having Charley to dinner, a man for whom I have...
by Jenny | 27 Aug, 2009 | Marlene Dietrich
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” Oh what a find! A fabulous picture of Marlene doing what she loved best, off set – cooking. Browsing the site where I found this picture has made me WISH that I lived in Denver. The...
by Jenny | 10 Jul, 2009 | Marlene Dietrich
“I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.” Marlene was not only androgynous, but asymmetrical too! I went to my lock up this morning with heavy heart as it always...
by Jenny | 7 Apr, 2009 | Marlene Dietrich
“Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman’s age, but you can’t fool a flight of stairs.” Oh how I wish someone would invite me to a fancy dress party so I could go looking like this… It’s true about the stairs too –...
by Jenny | 18 Jan, 2009 | Marlene Dietrich
“When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.” I went to the funeral of a very religious friend this weekend and my crazy sister-in-law announced very loudly at the wake to nobody in particular that she didn’t believe in the afterlife....
by Jenny | 8 Apr, 2008 | Marlene Dietrich
Laurel said that he was instantly transported to the banana zone upon eating a piece of Marlene’s cake. It was consumed in large slices in bed in Southend with a nice mug of tea. I am still recovering from the weekend as we barely made it out of the bedroom...
by Jenny | 31 Aug, 2007 | Marlene Dietrich
“Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.” Ahhhhhhh. My 3 week writing retreat in Crouch End is almost at an end. There’s a cat on the stairs, the sprinkler is on in the garden, my massive foot is elevated and propped up on a cushion,...
by Jenny | 7 Apr, 2007 | Marlene Dietrich
“Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” Well, it looks like I have at last broken free from the Toxic Scot. It is over and hopefully this time for good. Feeling positive and full of energy, not sad and miserable. Must...
by Jenny | 14 Mar, 2007 | Marlene Dietrich
“I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.” Well I am pleased to say that Marlene’s Lamb Chops en Casserole contains both potatoes AND turnips which gives...
