by Jenny | 22 Jun, 2022 | Pearl Bailey
I love Pearl’s way of pimping up broccoli and I am trying to perfect this easy side dish as I eat A LOT of these little green trees. The version I did today was good, but I think I can double the garlic next time. I’m experimenting with black garlic paste...
by Jenny | 11 Dec, 2020 | Pearl Bailey
I keep cooking liver to Pearl’s specifications as her recipe is so easy, and so delicious, but I never seem to get around to telling you lot about it. Well, I found this post in my drafts folder, written at a time when I was I was a bit moody during the first...
by Jenny | 18 Oct, 2020 | Pearl Bailey
Oh how I love Pearl Bailey’s recipes! Her cookbook is definitely in my top 3 cookbooks of all time. It is often my bedside reading. Put this on your Christmas list, it is the funniest cookbook I’ve ever read. As Pearl writes so beautifully, I will...
by Jenny | 2 Aug, 2018 | Pearl Bailey
Whose broccoli would win in a fight? Pearl Bailey’s or Yul Brynner’s? There’s only one way to find out! Well, looking back on my previous entry for Pearl’s broccoli I see that I’d decided Pearl’s was the best, but now I announce,...
by Jenny | 3 Apr, 2018 | Pearl Bailey
I really love it when blog readers email out of the blue for a chit-chat so was thrilled to get a LONG email from Ellie from Devon about Pearl Bailey a couple of days ago. It was Ellie who reminded me way back in 2016 that I had the Pearl Bailey cookbook, but...
by Jenny | 17 Jan, 2017 | Pearl Bailey
Broccoli is my default vegetable. It always seems like the healthy option. I eat it a lot. I do love Yul Brynner’s method of jazzing up the green stuff, but my word, Pearl’s way of doing things, is even better. Oh yum. Very, very tasty...
by Jenny | 18 Dec, 2016 | Pearl Bailey
When I was single for 8 years, I spent a lot of time hanging out with other singletons. It made me feel less like I was the last single person on earth. One of the chums I spent lots of time with, was my friend Ben, and around this time of year in 2012 we...
by Jenny | 13 Dec, 2016 | Pearl Bailey
I love it so much when blog readers get in touch and we start up a little correspondence. It’s one of the very best things about blogging. Ellie emailed me from Exeter to chat about Rita Hayworth and Diana Dors. She told me that she had once staged a...
