by Jenny | 18 Sep, 2022 | Angela Lansbury, Movie Star Cocktails, Murder, She Cooked
Happy International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day! It’s a momentous day for me as I am celebrating completion of the Murder, She Cooked book. I am on tenterhooks awaiting my final proof copy but I THINK it is finished. Here’s Jessica reading an...
by Jenny | 14 Jun, 2022 | June Havoc, Movie Star Cocktails, Murder, She Cooked
The June Havoc Almond Cocktail has been on the “to test” list for a while as she is in not one, but two episodes of Murder, She Wrote. The first is a truly remarkable one for film buffs. The Days Dwindle Down (1988) has a star-studded cast...
by Jenny | 4 Jul, 2020 | Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Movie Star Cocktails, Rock Hudson
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...
by Jenny | 19 Jun, 2020 | Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!, Ralph Bellamy
Gosh, I’ve just realised that I am a week behind with the Quarantini Times! So here’s a link to the demo for Ralph’s Scotch Sour and hot on the heels of this will be the demo for the Marlon Brando Godfather. Where does all the time go? I have no...
by Jenny | 9 Jun, 2020 | Gertrude Niesen, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
This one comes with a warning, Mr R had to put me to bed for half an hour after consuming just one Buzz-Bomb (and some of the rest of the champagne of course). I lay there like a MUMMY, unable to move a muscle. This cocktail is a humdinger and no mistake. The brain is...
by Jenny | 30 May, 2020 | Don Ameche, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
Don Ameche was a man’s man and didn’t have any truck with mixed drinks. He liked his bourbon straight up and with no nonsense about a chaser. Here we raise a glass to him and get excited about next week’s BUZZ-BOMB cocktail. Mind you, looks like he...
by Jenny | 23 May, 2020 | Binnie Barnes, Movie Star Cocktails
Up periscope! This cocktail is a humdinger. Mr R thought it was “psychoactive” and I saw a yellow aura all around his bonce after drinking just one of these Schnorkels. It was like he’d just eaten a bowl of Ready Brek. The Schnorkel wasn’t...
by Jenny | 8 May, 2020 | Douglas Fairbanks, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
This week’s Quarantini Time features a cocktail named after the swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks gleaned from the amazing Savoy Club Cocktail Book. As his niece Leticia Fairbanks pointed out to me in a comment on a previous post about this cocktail, her uncle was...
by Jenny | 1 May, 2020 | Martin Landau, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
I love Martinis! I waxed lyrical about them here when the Carole Landis Martini was the recipe of the month. So here’s a little video demo of the way Martin Landau likes his Martini… …and here’s the recipe – CHEERS my lovelies! 2 oz good...
by Jenny | 24 Apr, 2020 | Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!, Shirley Temple
It’s Friday so you know what that means? QUARANTINI TIME! This weeks cocktail du jour is the Shirley Temple. Mind you, I realised after watching an episode of Mad Men the other day that a cocktail should have 3 ingredients and these only have two. I suppose that...
by Jenny | 17 Apr, 2020 | Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!, Vincent Price
When I volunteered for the Vincent Price Blogathon I had grand plans of throwing an elaborate dinner party with many dishes gleaned from Vincent’s fabulous cookbooks. Remember the days when you could have chums over for food and fun? I could have kicked off...
by Jenny | 16 Apr, 2020 | Charlie Chaplin, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
My second movie star lockdown cocktail was a Charlie Chaplin. A very fruity little fella composed of sloe gin, lime juice and apricot brandy. I had a few technical problems with the Mary Astor Painless Anaesthetic video so I may do that one again sometime, but a new...
by Jenny | 31 Mar, 2020 | Mary Astor, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
Hello chums! Get your cocktail shakers out and join me on Instagram Live this Friday for a MOVIE STAR COCKTAIL! I was planning to make a little edited video showing this cocktail under construction but I didn’t get around to it. A special prize to anyone who can...
by Jenny | 27 Jan, 2019 | Dinner and a Movie, Kay & Fred's Movie Night, Mary Astor, Movie Star Cocktails
I was beside myself with excitement when I saw that my fave food mag Delicious Magazine has a new column called Kay & Fred’s Movie Night. Kay Plunkett-Hogge and her partner Fred will be selecting a movie and suggesting a meal to have alongside it each month....
by Jenny | 28 May, 2017 | Mary Astor, Movie Star Cocktails
It has been the week of the bad back. Painkillers haven’t touched it. Alternation of the application of a frozen slab of parsnip soup with a hot water bottle has had no impact. The only thing that helps with the constant pain is BOOZE. Luckily there is a new...
