by Jenny | 16 Jul, 2023 | Cooking The Detectives, David Suchet, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Calling all Poirot fans! I have a treat for you. Every now and then, Taryn from Retro Food for Modern Times and I do a cookalong together. If you put an enormous skewer through the planet with the top of it going through London, it would probably emerge somewhere...
by Jenny | 28 Sep, 2022 | When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate, Yul Brynner
Yippeee it is the favourite day of all food bloggers everywhere. Pieathalon Day! It’s the 9th year of this bonkers escapade where a bunch of us send weird and wonderful pie recipes to Yinzerella of Dinner is Served 1972 and she dishes them out for each of us to...
by Jenny | 13 Feb, 2022 | Dolores Del Rio, Vincent Price, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Oh what a fun time I had appearing as a guest on Karie Bible’s lovely Hollywood Kitchen Show last Sunday. Karie had invited myself and my co-writer Peter to speak about our Vincent Price cookbook and to make Dolores Del Rio’s Enchiladas and Vincent...
by Jenny | 9 Sep, 2021 | Kay Johnson, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Ah, Pieathalon! The only time of year I write about a recipe that isn’t movie star-related. How can I make this relevant to my readers who come here for movie star fodder I wonder? I’ll think of something. But first, do you want to hear what happens...
by Jenny | 3 Sep, 2020 | When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
There are some things Covid-19 cannot wreck, and one of those is the Pieathalon. I thank all the stars in heaven for that. We Pieathaletes will continue to make mental pies. No matter what. Every year. Forever. I was thrilled to get my recipe because it contained...
by Jenny | 8 Aug, 2020 | Dinner and a Movie, John Cassavetes, Mia Farrow, Ruth Gordon, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
I had a friend inside my flat last week. Is that allowed in London at the moment? I have absolutely no idea, I have totally lost track. Well arrest me if you want, Cathy of Kitchen Confidence came round for a cocktail and as I was planning to test the Vodka Blush from...
by Jenny | 21 Aug, 2019 | Humphrey Bogart, Ron Masak, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Yay! It’s that time of year again! The time when Yinzerella over at the marvellous Dinner is Served 1972 gathers together lots of mad pie recipes and dishes them out. I was THRILLED to get a recipe for Spaghetti Pie – what on EARTH?! Luckily for me, I can...
by Jenny | 1 May, 2019 | Alice Cooper, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Disclaimer: I am British. I have never made a Tuna Casserole, I have never eaten a Tuna Casserole, I have never even SEEN a Tuna Casserole. Therefore, I have no idea what one might look like, taste like or BE like. Tuna Casseroles, before this week, were a mystery to...
by Jenny | 8 Feb, 2019 | Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Martin Landau, Natalie Wood, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
I love Greg Swenson, author of the fabulous Recipes For Rebels: In The Kitchen With James Dean cookbook. We have never met in person (I am in England, Greg is in Greece) but we are KINDRED SPIRITS and occasionally have a day where we cook the same movie star recipes...
by Jenny | 28 Sep, 2018 | Julie Christie, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
My mum is brilliant at making trifle and when I was home at the weekend there was a lovely individual serving of it waiting just for me. I said, “This is a really big helping, I’m not sure I can eat it all.” Her response really made me laugh,...
by Jenny | 20 Aug, 2018 | Robert Quarry, Shirley Jones, Vincent Price, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Yay! It’s Pieathalon day – whoop whoop! One of my favourite things about having a blog is getting invited to participate in some really bonkers challenges. Once a year ACE food blogger Yinzerella over at Dinner Is Served 1972 organizes a...
by Jenny | 19 Apr, 2018 | David Bowie, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
I cannot remember when I have had more fun cooking and eating my dinner. This was quite the loveliest thing I have made in a donkey’s age. Greg of Recipes for Rebels and I had a lot of fun way back in February when we both made Anne Jackson’s English...
by Jenny | 14 Mar, 2018 | Michael Caine, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
When I heard that Gill of the Realweegiemidget Reviews blog was organizing a Michael Caine blogathon I really wanted to participate. I was dying to make his Chicken and Bacon Pie but I couldn’t work out WHEN. Life is so busy at the moment, I...
by Jenny | 19 Feb, 2018 | Anne Jackson, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
I had a rotten hangover on Saturday, so making muffins was a bit of a therapeutic affair. This recipe is from my chum Greg’s book Recipes for Rebels – In the Kitchen With James Dean. I just loved the fact that he was making these on Saturday...
by Jenny | 19 Jul, 2017 | Vincent Price, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Everyone agreed. If you are going to make Vincent Price’s Tropical Chicken, you’d better get yourself to a funfair that has a coconut shy. Because the coconuts you get from Waitrose are TOO SMALL to contain a whole chicken breast when chopped in half and...
by Jenny | 7 Jul, 2017 | Fatty Arbuckle, Jimmy Cagney, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
I absolutely LOVE internet cookalongs, and the first one I ever got wind of was over at Dinner is Served 1972. At that point I wondered if I’d ever be invited to participate in one, like a schoolchild desperately hoping for an invite to the cool...
by Jenny | 9 Jun, 2016 | Fatty Arbuckle, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
It’s my fave cooking experiment of the year. It’s the PIEATHALON! The genius that is Yinzerella, who is maitre d’ of Dinner Is Served 1972, hosts this brilliant cookalong where weird pie recipes are swapped amongst a group of...
by Jenny | 18 Dec, 2015 | Gregory Peck, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Ooh, the Happy Pappy Eggs were good. Why? Bacon fat! Tonight I’m participating in a worldwide cookalong for two. If you drilled a hole through the centre of the earth from London, you probably wouldn’t end up too far from Melbourne, which...
by Jenny | 25 May, 2015 | George Burns, Gracie Allen, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Until I received my Pieathalon challenge, I’d never seen a Burns and Allen Show. I totally understand now though, why it’s an institution, for those who are into their retro classics. I made my acquaintance with George and Gracie last weekend because...
by Jenny | 30 Jun, 2014 | Simone Signoret, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Call the exaggeration police! This Mile High Lemon Chiffon Pie should be renamed the One Inch High Lemon Chiffon Pie. I was sooooooo excited to get my recipe for the first annual Pieathalon, organised by my cyberchum Yinzerella over at Dinner Is Served...
by Jenny | 2 Sep, 2013 | Bette Davis, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Does that sound appealing to you? Me neither! I’ve been looking sideways at this recipe for many years thinking about attempting it and then running away. Luckily for me, I was invited to participate in the Knoxapocalypse II challenge along with 6...
by Jenny | 16 Mar, 2013 | Vincent Price, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Oh what a joy to meet in person the lovely Lauren Hairston Collado of the glorious food blog The Past on a Plate. Lauren was in London from Wichita and I was so thrilled to meet her in person. I’ve been following Lauren’s blog since the day I...
