One of my New Year’s resolutions is to finish writing some blog posts that have been in my drafts for ages. This one has been sitting around for about 3 years I think. But it’s a fun one! Sometimes recipes are favourites because they remind me of an occasion. So it is with this one....
One of my resolutions for next year is to get on with the top 100 movie star recipes list. I have so many fab recipes to share, I just need to get amongst it. This is a din-dins I crave on a regular basis. It is a fabulously simple singleton’s supper. I am sure you...
It’s Yul Brynner’s heavenly birthday today, and here’s a post that’s been in my draft folder for ages. Happy birthday, Yul, my heavenly heartthrob… I recently did a bookbinding evening class here in Hastings, and I LOVED IT. The first four weeks of the course involved learning about the many and varied book structures that...
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 could equally just do...
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 Clyde’s Baked Ham...
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 around your fridge. You have to like...
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 shiver and shake...
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...
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 this dish and sometimes fantasise about surprising...
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 3 for £7 deal on their delicious little bits and bobs range...
“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 good. I suppose that it should really be known...
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 of the blog’s birthday I decided...
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 in many incarnations in recipe books and magazines, but this version from the New York Times...
