by Jenny | 22 Jul, 2024 | Cooking The Detectives, Raymond Burr, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
Want a simple fish soup recipe? Well, here it is! This is one of those, “chuck it all in a big saucepan and be completely surprised about how delicious it is” kind of dishes. I reckon you could add all kinds of spices or herbs if you wanted to, but you...
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 | 13 Jan, 2024 | Andy Clyde, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
I’m kicking off 2024 with a great little recipe that I return to almost every new year. It’s a brilliant way of using up your leftover Christmas ham or, if it is a different time of year, your Thanksgiving ham or basically, any lovely ham you have kicking...
by Jenny | 18 Nov, 2022 | Top 100 Movie Star Recipes, Una Stubbs
The breakfast smoothie season is over. I have transitioned to overnight oats and it will soon be porridge a go-go. I live in a very drafty 1930s flat and it gets so cold here in the winter I need HOT FODDER for breakfast for most of November through to March as I...
by Jenny | 7 Jul, 2022 | Peter Fonda, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
So it is day 12 of Covid and it is the first day my appetite is truly back. This is the perfect breakfast for a Covid convalescent I reckon because you cannot deny that this is a HEALTH DRINK. It was this recipe that prompted me to start a top 100 as I wrote a blog...
by Jenny | 18 Jan, 2022 | Gene Tierney, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
When I have a big tomato hanging around the place I am often compelled to do this to it… This dish was proposed in an advertisement for Star-Kist Tuna and I always think of it as Gene Tierney’s Leaning Tower of Tuna… I love the fanciful nature of...
by Jenny | 25 Aug, 2021 | Diana Dors, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
This recipe comes as part of a pair with David Niven’s Jansson’s Temptation really. Because whenever I buy delicious marinated anchovies from Ocado to make my #98 dish in the top 100 movie star recipes countdown… M&S always seems to be offering a...
by Jenny | 21 Jun, 2021 | David Niven, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes
“My wife makes a simple little thing called Jansson’s Temptation that’s terribly good. It’s nothing more than a potato and onion thing done in cream…” the suave David Niven told food writer Johna Blinn in 1967. I agree with David 100%. This dish is indeed terribly...
by Jenny | 27 Mar, 2021 | Top 100 Movie Star Recipes, Vincent Price
In May my blog will be 15 years old. Fifteen years of eating and drinking like my Hollywood idols. CRIKEY! I know exactly what movie star dish I am going to cook to celebrate, but you’ll have to wait until then to find out! Here’s a clue… In honour...
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...
