by Jenny | 14 May, 2024 | Andy Clyde, David Niven, Diana Dors, Gene Tierney, Peter Fonda, Phyllis Diller, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes, Una Stubbs, Vincent Price
My blog is 17 years old today. 1,741 blog posts. My goodness! So much water under the bridge and so many recipes tried, with only a few FAILS. I thought I’d do a little round-up of where I am up to with the Top 100. Let’s go! Counting down from #93 Andy...
by Jenny | 17 Feb, 2024 | Mike Douglas, Phyllis Diller
Occasionally, I made a non-movie-star-related dish that I am really proud of. For the Mildred Pierce Dinner and a Movie extravaganza, I made a chicken and waffles dish that made my chest puff up like a proud pigeon! This is a dish featured in the fabulous Brunch at...
by Jenny | 13 Aug, 2023 | David Niven, Diana Dors, Gene Tierney, Peter Fonda, Phyllis Diller, Una Stubbs, Vincent Price
Silver Screen Suppers Towers has moved to the seaside. I put my intention to do this out into the universe a few months ago, and a beautiful place to live has been handed to me on a plate with parsley around it! I have an absolutely wonderful kitchen and am planning...
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 | 13 Jan, 2021 | Phyllis Diller, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
Recipes with weird names are catnip for me. Vincent Price’s Hotchpotch of Curly Kale immediately springs to mind. Elvis Presley’s Hush Puppies is another, but Phyllis Diller’s Garbage Soup is the winner in this category. This fabulous recipe appears...
by Jenny | 14 Feb, 2020 | Phyllis Diller
Making this soup cures all ills. I was feeling somewhat melancholy last Wednesday evening (can’t remember why now) but my fridge was FULL of random veggies and once I got going on this I felt a million times better. The glorious thing about this soup is that you...
by Jenny | 26 Apr, 2018 | Olympia Dukakis, Phyllis Diller
Every couple of weeks I look at all the bits and pieces of vegetable and salad stuff knocking around in my fridge and decide to make a Phyllis Diller Garbage Soup. I feel very virtuous using up all my odds and ends, chucking in a tin of beans and some kind of...
by Jenny | 5 Jun, 2016 | Phyllis Diller
My two best friends are Cathy – an excellent cook and proprietress of the Battenburg Belle cooking blog – and Heather, who has no interest in cooking whatsoever. At least, she professes to have no interest in cooking, I don’t quite believe...
