- by Jenny
- Janet Gaynor
If I were a more organised person I would ALWAYS have a batch of Janet’s cookie dough lying resplendent in my freezer for when unexpected guests pop round for a cup of tea. The thing I love about this recipe...
- by Jenny
- Hedda Hopper
My frozen archives have got out of control. For a woman who lives alone, I have a ridiculous amount of stuff in my freezers. Yes, I have two, and they are both CRAMMED with leftover Silver Screen Suppers fodder and a vast amount of milk products and...
- by Jenny
- 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 other brave souls. ...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
My darling Shellac Sister Jane sent me an email back in February which said: “I’m just about to attempt this … have all ingredients including two pineapples looking like they need rum and umbrellas … and one hopeful dog sitting on her...
- by Jenny
- Mary Pickford
Oops – I missed one. Vic said: “Sponge based trifle cake in a drink form.” There are various versions of this cocktail online but we followed the recipe in the Stork Club Book: 2oz.rum 3/4 oz. pineapple juice 3 dashes grenadine Shake...
- by Jenny
- Lana Turner
In bed with Mr R, I bemoaned the fact that for Lana Turner’s Salsa I’d forgotten to get a comment. He said: “no comment” (he doesn’t like tomatoes). I’m super rich in leftovers and very happy with the...
- by Jenny
- Helen Twelvetrees
At the end of the night my ex boyfriend and my current boyfriend were the only people left. They had a discussion in the kitchen about whether I should keep the left over Sherry Gorgonzola or throw it away. The...
- by Jenny
- Zasu Pitts
When Nathalie distributed the Chocolate Cherry Creams she had made all you could hear around the place were variations on the word “mmmmmmmmmmmmmm”. We all had one of these divine treats each, and there was just one left to...
- by Jenny
- Annette Funicello
Made with Yinzerella in mind… These were really tasty – there are little sausages in there! Wrapped in a kind of scone dough – or as the American’s would call it (I think) biscuit dough. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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- by Jenny
- Sal Mineo
Mr R observed that these were the “room splitters”. Some loved them, some weren’t so keen. Mr Wiskey insisted on calling them Salmonella Quick Pizza Snacks. I thought they were super tasty. I used Tesco Finest tomato pesto instead...
- by Jenny
- Ray Bolger
I didn’t know that Ray Bolger played the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Lawrence said, “All the rest of him was made of straw, apart from his balls which were made of potato.”
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- by Jenny
- Boris Karloff
I had two avocados knocking around the place so figured some guacamole wouldn’t go amiss. Much to the amazement of all of Lawrence’s 1,579 Facebook friends he’s off the booze for a month. He arrived proudly brandishing 4 cans of Kaliber...
- by Jenny
- Ida Lupino
Favourite dish of the night (zero leftovers). Mr R: “They were bloody good. Not up to Ottolenghi’s meat ball standards of course.” Me: “Do you want to say that to Ida’s face?”
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- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
Surprise hit of the evening. Tortilla chips with potted ham and cheese and gherkins. Here they are just about to go in the oven: There was much fun in the kitchen making these as we imagined Joan INSISTING on perfectly shaped...
- by Jenny
- Bette Davis
Hollywood Salad contains cream cheese and dried fruit. Lawrence proclaimed it to be: “A cheeseboard on a biscuit”.
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- by Jenny
- Douglas Fairbanks
I think it was Nathalie that said this: “tastes like a lollipop”. I loved the fact Mr R popped a blue mermaid into her glass so that the cocktail colour co-ordinated with her outfit. Joshua sent a text to...
- by Jenny
- Shirley Temple
On Sunday night Nathalie and I hosted a Hollywood and Canapes Party at my place – the first of many we hope. Our lovely guests were Becky, Joshua, Mr R, Amy, Vic and Caroline. As we made such an enormous spread...
- by Jenny
- Mary Pickford
Mr Rathbone liked these. He thought they tasted like “candied rum” – how poetic! He liked the photo too – saying that the parrot added a “touch of the tropical”. I think that I got the recipe from the Stork Club Bar Book but for speed here...
- by Jenny
- Boris Karloff
Boris went viral this week! A big thank-you to all the readers who emailed me a link to his guacamole recipe – it’s all over the place on t’interweb. I took it as a sign that it should be the recipe of...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Oh YEAH. This was just as delicious second time around, and this time cooked on the BBQ rather than in the oven. For yes, it is summer and I’ve been to my first BBQ for about 3 years. It was lovely! Here’s me pretending to be...
- by Jenny
- Elizabeth Taylor
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the UK release of Cleopatra Mr Rathbone and I had a screening and lunch courtesy of Elizabeth Taylor. I attempted the make up, straightened my hair and wore the most suitable frock I could find: And we put...
- by Jenny
- Hedda Hopper
Camp Nanowrimo is over – boo. I am ridiculously fond of the whole Nanowrimo experience and it really feels like a holiday came to an end on the 1st August. Yeah, I WON. Well, effectively I met the target I set for myself so hell yeah,...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Woah! Television! I have been on a three day writing retreat and as usual when I spend some time at somebody else’s house I get obsessed by television because I don’t have one of my own. I allowed myself a 2 hour TV break each day. ...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Had a wonderful evening last night with two of my Shellac Sisters, our beaus and two lovely visitors from New York. Film-maker Joel Schlemowitz and DJ MAC from the Vintage Phonograph Show on WFMU. It’s been quite a month for the Shellac Sisters. We DJd...
- by Jenny
- Irene Dunne
Is this possibly the best Silver Screen Suppers chocolate cake EVER? It has pipped Gloria Swanson’s, Shirley Temple’s, Fred MacMurray’s and even Celia Johnson’s I think… This cake provoked more debate at work than any other I have ever made for my colleagues’ delight and...
- by Jenny
- Lilian Gish
I am having lots of fun at Camp Nanowrimo and have done a big picture edit on all 52 of my film star entries for the Silver Screen Suppers book already. It really feels like the book is taking shape. Next...
- by Jenny
- Robert Mitchum
The recipe of the month is UP and if you are reading this in July 2013 you can find it here – it’s an easy peasy one but there is a very SPECIAL reason I am featuring it this month....
- by Jenny
- Liberace, Movie Star Cocktails
I got a tip-off from my favourite food blog Dinner is Served 1972 that the Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas was a humdinger. Yinzerella and her mom watched it on HBO celebrating the event with kaftans and a Liberace cocktail. Here in the UK we are VERY...
- by Jenny
- Omar Sharif
Suprise Sunday session with my squeeze yesterday as his prior engagement was canceled. What a TREAT! Firstly he disappeared into the kitchen to make me breakfast (he’d brought all the ingredients with him) and to my surprise emerged with this: Croque Monsieur a la Rathbone....
- by Jenny
- Errol Flynn
Errol’s coffee enfused leg of lamb is my recipe of the month. I heartily recommend it – delicious! If you make it I would LOVE to see photos and have a little report on how it turned out. I’ve got two...
- by Jenny
- Shirley Temple
Ooh, this was a bit of a triumph. Made for my work colleague Anne’s birthday and wolfed down by the rest of the team with gusto. I made twice the amount of mixture because my cake tins are BIG and I know from experience that...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I offered to teach Mr R to make pastry so that he could make the apple pie. This is beginning to sound like some kind of Rom-Com isn’t it? I do apologise for all the mentionitis over the last few posts but I...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Oh how decadent. The central dish for Vincent’s birthday celebrations was a whole chicken poached in ¾ of a bottle of champagne. The recipe for this dish is at the end of this post… Utterly divine. Once the chook was cooked I made...
- by Jenny
- Douglas Fairbanks
ooh , I am getting everything out of order today… We had one of these after the muffins and before the chicken in champagne. You get the idea… If you’d like the recipe for these -and you should as they are damn fine cocktails –...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
You know when you make a perfect dinner? Everything works like a dream and tastes delicious and is ready right on time? Such was Vincent’s Toad in the Hole with onion gravy (made to Alastair Hendy’s recipe in Home Cook) with a bit of...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Birthday celebrations for Vincent on Bank Holiday Monday kicked off with a batch of these. The blueberries I got from Sainsbury’s were particularly FAT and some of them burst during cooking and that only added to the deliciousness. Eaten in bed.
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- by Jenny
- Charlie Chaplin
On Sunday a fabulous new cocktail recipe arrived from my lovely chum in Athens, Georgia – fellow film archivist Margie Clark. It was superb timing as Mr R was hot footing it over for Vincent Price Toad in the Hole after doing his radio show so...
- by Jenny
- Errol Flynn
Oooh, Errol’s leg was fabulous. His recipe was for a 6lb leg but I only bought half a leg (2lb) as it was dinner for two at Silver Screen Suppers Towers yesterday. I had ascertained that Mr R is very partial to lamb so...
- by Jenny
- Celia Johnson
I don’t know where to start with this post really. There is romance in the air at Silver Screen Suppers Towers and it is befuddling my brain a bit. I will just say this. On Sunday Mr R cooked me a duck and it was...
- by Jenny
- Jimmy Stewart
Another pie! This time made for Shane and Ewan who battled their way around the British transport system to get to me – Northern Line madness. The pie was made exactly to Jimmy’s recipe – including the pastry and I was...
- by Jenny
- Diana Dors
At the risk of showing off, I am going to mention again that my Diana Dors Easy Fruit Cake won second prize at the Muswell Hill Horticultural Show on Saturday. My feathers were all puffed up with pride. The morning of the show was always...
- by Jenny
- James Mason
I do very much like a man who comes round to dinner with a James Mason film in his pocket that he thinks I might like to see. I had never heard of “The London Nobody Knows” but it is a truly fabulous film. It’s a...
- by Jenny
- Dirk Bogarde
Neighbours, everybody loves good neiiiiiiiiiiigbours. And I am very pleased with the neighbourly gesture Chloe made in matchmaking me with her chum the very lovely Mr R. We had a top evening on Saturday, staying up until 4am discussing our musical star preferences. We agreed on...
- by Jenny
- Douglas Fairbanks
Just a quick post as I have a DATE tonight coming to my house for dinner so I have an immense amount of cleaning to do… I don’t want to ruin my chances with someone who appears to be quite a stitch by revealing...
- by Jenny
- Elizabeth Taylor
Being a family of one and following recipes written for 6-8 results in a freezer bursting at the seams with spare portions of delicious but mostly unidentifiable things. I wouldn’t usually serve something from the freezer to company but needs must. I cannot keep...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I LOVE it when other people cook! My darling friend Sanja recently cooked a Serbian feast which involved the most delicious thing anyone has ever made for me. SAUERKRAUT with bacon and Romanian sausage. Oh my word it was delicious. And what’s more,...
- by Jenny
- Boris Karloff
Sometimes what you need is a big old steak and kidney pie and here is one made exactly to a recipe by Boris. It’s only appropriate that Vic should be a guest for a pie like this, as the Universal Monsters song he co-wrote...
- by Jenny
- Claudette Colbert
Just a quick recipe tweak. Made another batch of these last night and realised that I’d only put the American oven temperature on this month’s Recipe of the Month page and newsletter. Had a sleepless night worrying about Brits burning their meringues to a...
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...
- by Jenny
- Alexis Smith
Blime – it’s like looking in a mirror – if my nose wasn’t so big. Jane and I had our photo taken tonight and when we looked at it together I said, “I think my nose is getting bigger as I get older”...
- by Jenny
- Claudette Colbert
Ahh, it’s rolled around very quickly this month. Only 28 days in February so no wonder. I’ve chosen something cute as I am just in that kind of mood. This was a recent discovery on the world wide interweb that made my...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
In The Treasury of Great Recipes Vincent announced: “Probably the most glamorous markets in the world are the Food Halls at Harrods in London” and I say hell yeah! He declared the whole Harrods emporium to be akin...
- by Jenny
- Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara’s steak was good. Food writer guru Richard Ehrlich agrees with me that her recipe for Leg of Lamb is utterly bonkers. So I’m dropping the lamb and giving the steak a double thumbs up. I might give her Chicken...
- by Jenny
- Uncategorized
My foodie penpal package this month came to me from Bonnie Scotland. The lovely Isobel put together a perfectly packed box with these wonderful things inside. Everyone at work oohed and ahhed when the cheese came out – it survived the journey but had ripened beautifully on...
- by Jenny
- Richard O'Sullivan
THRILLED to be mentioned on my favourite blog of all time Caker Cooking this week. Such an honour that Brian chose to throw caution to the wind and have a go one of the Richard O’Sullivan recipes I left out when I attempted his 7 Day...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
My recommendation for Valentine’s Night – whether you will be alone – like me – or cosied up with your significant other is this. It’s a GENIUS recipe and is designed to impress your guest OR make you laugh out...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I have three friends who have birthdays really close to Christmas and they don’t tend to celebrate. So I decided, as they are three of my very favourite people, to make them a birthday lunch. I love my Vincent Price...
- by Jenny
- Uncategorized
When I was a pre-teen I joined an organisation that fixed you up with penpals. I really wish I could remember what it was called but you had to fill out a complicated form with tick boxes to tell them all about yourself so they could match...
- by Jenny
- Constance Bennett
I’m in bed with the heated blanket on listening to Friday Night is Music Night on R2 and it is FANTASTIC because it the theme is “Bond and Beyond” so there is tonnes of John Barry stuff and now they are...
- by Jenny
- Carole Lombard
Made with one hand only! My other was in a sling after a spectacular tumble on the cobblestones of Camden Market. It was quite a drama with lots of lovely stallholders coming to the rescue and work chums fussing and looking...
- by Jenny
- Ann Sheridan, Movie Star Cocktails
Oh auspicious day! Firstly I went to the bfi to be filmed talking about NEWTS for a television programme. Then I got my tax return filed a week early. Then I finally took the plunge and sent my book proposal to Unbound. Ooh, I am so...
- by Jenny
- Dick Powell
Corn. Mmmm. Bacon. Mmmm. Potatoes. Mmmm. This is real comfort food. I love it. Perfect for the book with no tweaking. One of my foodie bucket list items has already been accomplished – well half accomplished. My wonderful friend Cathy has...
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
My photo of Joan’s steak was rotten so here’s a picture of one of the things that made it so gorgeous. Joan sure knows what she is doing on the steak front. Roquefort, mustard and butter on top. Oh yes,...
- by Jenny
- Bing Crosby
Mmm. This was a perfect Sunday brunch to have in bed with The Archers. After a long discussion with Gordon about the fact that even though I’ve been listening to it for years I didn’t know what...
- by Jenny
- Cary Grant, Clark Gable
An update on yesterday’s post. On a little trawl around the internet I found this: The Clark Gable Salad, on the MGM commissary menu, consists of green chicory chopped with romaine, a deep covering of hard-boiled eggs and a circle...
- by Jenny
- Bette Davis, Betty Grable
I absolutely love getting things in the post. One day recently totally unexpectedly I got this from my old mucker Amy Sargeant. She’d mentioned ages ago that there were some film star foods mentioned in this book and I was...
- by Jenny
- Anna May Wong
Ducke wuckie! Mmm. This was good but strangely not as good as the time I made it for me and Lolly. Why? Not sure. Maybe because I was using Japanese rice wine rather than...
- by Jenny
- Gloria Swanson
It’s taken me a while to put away the sequined jumpsuit and get back to normal life. The festive season rolled over into the first week of January with an old skool rock and roll night out to Rock of Ages...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
A lovely new year celebration with Corinna last night. We ate pretzels, cashew nuts, mini sausage rolls, Vincent’s Goulash and a divine Sachertorte made by Corinna. We watched Dinner For One as is tradition (Corinna reckons she as probably seen this every...
- by Jenny
- Ann Sheridan
I had a very vivid dream last night. It was like a fully formed documentary television programme about people who had record players in their kitchens. I saw it as a sign that I should move one of my many record...
- by Jenny
- Alan Ladd
I’m off! Serious test cooking begins. These were delicious. I made them exactly to the recipe apart from being slightly generous with the salt. Served with a big slice of gammon and a mighty dollop of the Temple Big Pan Piccalilli....
- by Jenny
- Joan Crawford
It’s been a fabulous Christmas. I was VERY pleased with my turkey. Vic and Corinna and Isaac came over and we had the traditional Xmas dinner with all the trimmings, fiery Christmas pudding, mince pies and a huge pile of cheese and biscuits. Yum yum. We...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Mmm – this was lovely but I’m afraid there is no photographic evidence as I was too busy getting drunk with David & Katy. I was a bit worried that Vincent’s curry powder would be clove-heavy but in fact once it was all cooked...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I absolutely love my Vincent Price “push button cookery” lessons. The Beverly Hills Cookbook tapes were recorded sometime in the 70s and are just bursting with Vincent’s humour, knowledge and joy of cooking. They are difficult to get hold of but Mike Vines has kindly bunged...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
For the pre-birthday dinner I also made a baked ham to Vincent’s specifications. Here’s a picture of it when it surfaced from the oven. Heather kept eating bits of the crust as I broke it all off. She does love her proper...
