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 here in the UK, and used lots...
STOP PRESS – just stumbled upon a new Richard Arlen recipe (July 2024) – Shrimp a la Maryland! I sent this over to Dave (see below) and by return post, he sent me this! Fabulous! Here’s my post from 2022… Richard Arlen is trending! Well, he’s trending here at Silver Screen Suppers Towers anyhow! I...
Hello sailor! I’ve been thinking about cooking for one a lot lately. (Cooking for one person, not cooking for a sailor.) A while back I wrote a blog post about making Vesper Martinis and Martini Cured Salmon Blinis for one and mused on the joys to be had in treating yourself to something fancy, even...
Do you live on your lonesome? Do you cook yourself something delicious every night? I’ll admit it, sometimes I can’t be bothered, and peanut butter is my closest friend on these occasions. But sometimes, it really is worth the effort and I hereby announce that my new favourite spinster’s supper is Richard’s cabbage with sausages...
I don’t get out much – to eat – but I am an avid reader of Marina O’Loughlin’s restaurant reviews. Last week in Saturday’s Guardian there was a supplement which listed her favourite 50 UK restaurants. Nobody knows what Marina O’Loughlin really looks like… I read every word of every mini review, from 50 to...
Well would you believe it? The very DAY after I spend the weekend canoodling with a new squeeze WHO should phone out of the blue to “see how I am” but the chaw-bacon. He must be finely attuned to the vibrations throughout the ether of an ex girlfriend finally putting a nail in the coffin....
“Some people are just nice guys and nothing, not even Hollywood, can change it.” I LOVE Richard Arlen and mainly because I made his Chili Con Carne last night and it was quite honestly the most delicious Chili I have ever eaten outside of Texas! Despite the fact that I made a schoolgirl error thinking...
