- by Jenny
- Fionnula Flanagan, Murder, She Cooked
It’s been a tradition for me to throw a birthday dinner for my beloved Battenburg Belle for many moons but we have missed two years due to RULES so I loved, loved, loved being able to do it this year. The big hit of...
- by Jenny
- Peter Falk
Four years ago today my Columbo cookbook was put out into the world. Writing this was so much fun and it has brought me huge joy ever since. The thing that makes me most happy is knowing that people all around the world are...
- by Jenny
- Murder, She Cooked, Wayne Rogers
This recipe has been hanging around on the Murder, She Cooked test cooking list for a lonnnnnng time. A few people volunteered to have a go at it, and then declined once they realised that liver was involved. No problem for me though, I love liver!...
- by Jenny
- David Niven, Edward Woodward, Jack Cassidy
A conversation with a colleague way back in November reminded me of my pledge in 2017 that I would ALWAYS make a Jack Cassidy Quicky Green Bean Casserole for Thanksgiving. As I had a spare evening on my hands on the last Thursday in...
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...
- by Jenny
- Betty Driver, Heinz 57 Challenge
Those of you of a certain age will no doubt already be reminiscing about the good old days of Coronation Street when Betty Williams (played by Betty Driver) worked behind the bar of the Rover’s Return. Her hotpot was always...
- by Jenny
- Carroll Baker, Murder, She Cooked
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. This is a simple but very tasty baked chicken recipe. It doesn’t look much on paper, but often these “ye olden dayes” recipes are like that. I made a small version of this as dinner-for-deux and we wolfed it down! Although Carroll’s...
- by Jenny
- Kathleen Beller, Martha Raye, Murder, She Cooked
Here are links to all the recipes that featured on my weekly Murder, She Cooked Substack in January. I’m not going to duplicate them on the Silver Screen Suppers blog, so if you are interested in the recipes, just click on the appropriate link. Martha...
- by Jenny
- Heinz 57 Challenge, Jon Pertwee
For the 3rd of the Heinz 57 extravaganzas, I had a fun cookalong with Jan Manthey – winner of the Vincent Price Cucumber Crocodile competition, cult film director extraordinaire, author and one of the frontmen of The Dylan Rabbit. Jan runs the most excellent Saucy Seventies...
- by Jenny
- Edie Adams, Heinz 57 Challenge
When I published Edie’s ham recipe in my Murder, She Cooked Substack entry for the Capitol Offense episode, I was absolutely thrilled when someone special spotted the above pic on Instagram. Her son, Josh! He sent the following message, “Mom was NOT a...
- by Jenny
- Gene Tierney
Here’s a suggestion of a beverage to accompany Gene Tierney’s Leaning Tower of Tuna (aka Tuna Salad Royal). A refreshing glass of V-8. I stumbled across a V-8 ad featuring Gene whilst writing the previous post and that of course, sent me down a huge research rabbit...
- by Jenny
- 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...
- by Jenny
- Katharine Hepburn, The Great Bear Project
More or less as soon as we were able to venture out into the world again after the first pandemic lockdown we got back on the trail of The Great Bear. Stop #15 was Hendon Central...
- by Jenny
- Kate Mulgrew
Yum. What more can I say? So easy, so delicious. Kate, after the disaster of your meatloaf, you have redeemed yourself! Kate is in 3 episodes of Murder, She Wrote and I’m not sure which episode this recipe will be...
- by Jenny
- Heinz 57 Challenge, Marlene Dietrich
It is hard to find the source of the much bandied around factoid that Marlene Dietrich’s favourite meal was hot dogs and champagne. If anyone knows for sure when or where she said it I would love to know. But it’s a good foodie...
- by Jenny
- Mary Brian
I am sailing into 2022 with optimism! It’s a while since we’ve had a sweet treat as the recipe of the month, so I thought I would kick off the new year with one. These little biccies are so easy to...
Here are links to all the recipes that featured on my weekly Murder, She Cooked Substack throughout November and December. I’m not going to duplicate them on the Silver Screen Suppers blog, so if you are interested in the recipes, just click on...
- by Jenny
- William Holden
When I had my friend Ben round for dinner once, I asked beforehand if there was anything he didn’t eat. His answer was, “metal.” He’s my kind of man, as is William. There’s nothing he won’t eat, apparently. On the day...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I am pleased to announce the three winners of the Vincent Price Cucumber Crocodile competition. Victoria Price was just delighted to see all of the entries and wrote, “OH MY GOD! These are so great. . .” Haha, indeed they are, for all the...
- by Jenny
- Joe Santos
I do love a recipe with a weird title, and this one was rustled up on One Cold British Night to much acclaim. I had a DINNER GUEST. This is such a rare occurrence in pandemic times that I was excited for days beforehand....
- by Jenny
- Andy Clyde
I had LOTS of ham left over from the Marsha Hunt Ham – With Love recipe and whenever this happens my thoughts turn to Andy’s casserole. It’s not a casserole as we Brits would know it, and it doesn’t look...
- by Jenny
- Marsha Hunt
Fancy a boozy breakfast? I can recommend this bonkers recipe. I do so love a recipe with a weird title and Marsha is in Murder, She Wrote so this was a MUST for the forthcoming Murder, She Cooked book. I also love a recipe...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I just LOVED receiving photographs of the cucumber crocodiles made for the Supper with the Stars book launch competition. It really brought me great, great joy! Here are a couple of photos by Sue Foll of my cucumber croc demo at the book launch (yes,...
- by Jenny
- Barry Newman
To avoid making the same mistake I made with Ob’s Chicken, I am writing this up very soon after making it. It was slightly weird, but good nevertheless! When I have something that needs testing for the Murder, She Cooked book and...
- by Jenny
- Greg Morris, Murder, She Cooked
I am very lucky that my other half, Mr Rathbone, is an excellent proofreader. He’s been kindly reading through all my Murder, She Cooked Substack posts before I send them out into the world and always has brilliant suggestions for tweaks that make my writing much...
- by Jenny
- Keith Michell, Murder, She Cooked
Seitan has been on my radar for a couple of years but I had never eaten it before making this dish. I knew it was getting groovy in the vegan world and good marketing has given me a Pavlovian response to the word seitan....
- by Jenny
- James Coco, June Allyson, Murder, She Cooked, William Conrad
Here are links to all the recipes that featured on my weekly Murder, She Cooked Substack throughout October. I’m not going to duplicate them on the Silver Screen Suppers blog, so if you are interested in the recipes, just click on the appropriate link. June...
- by Jenny
- Shelley Winters
I am a sucker for a Caesar and have tried a few movie star versions. Grace Kelly’s was so good it was Recipe of the Month way back in April 2019, Ruth Roman’s method calls for coddled eggs and Jessica Walter’s garlic oil required a bit...
- by Jenny
- Gloria Stuart
Avocado on toast, 1930s style! This is a brilliant way of using up an avocado that is past its best. Shove it through a sieve then mix some other stuff into it. You can either make it quite runny and use it as a salad dressing or,...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
The book is out and it is GORGEOUS! We just couldn’t be prouder of it. Peter has done an amazing job with all the film reviews and co-star biographies. He had a great vision for how the book would look and...
- by Jenny
- Joan Collins
When Mr R suggested we watch Tales from the Crypt for our Halloween movie, I went straight to the spreadsheet to see what I had that would be appropriate. Luckily my pal Greg over at Recipes For Rebels included Joan Collins’...
- by Jenny
- Diana Ross, Movie Star Cocktails
Yinzerella of Dinner Is Served 1972 made a Mahogany Pie for this year’s Pieathalon and her blog post included some sensational clips of a movie I’d never seen. Mahogany starring Diana Ross. Just one look at these gifs convinced me I had to get hold of...
- by Jenny
- Peter Cushing
For the third Hammer-Amicus Blogathon I thought it would be fun to give everyone a sneaky peak of some of the forthcoming Vincent Price cookbook. In 2018 my co-writer Peter and I collaborated on a piece about Scream and Scream Again for Gill...
Here are links to all the recipes that featured on my weekly Murder, She Cooked Substack throughout September. I’m not going to duplicate them on the Silver Screen Suppers blog, so if you are interested in the recipes, just click on the appropriate link. Claude...
- by Jenny
- Lauren Bacall
The news that Melbourne are coming out of lockdown on Friday received a little squeak of excitement here in London. My chum Taryn of Retro Food For Modern Times will be released into the world after 6 lockdowns totalling 262 days since March 2020. I expect...
- by Jenny
- Bo Derek, The Great Bear Project
Bo’s Cheese Pies, like Bo herself, are very photogenic… and we had a fun zip out to Colindale on a very windy day in February 2020 in order to scoff one on a tube station platform....
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
To celebrate the launch of the Vincent Price cookbook I’m running a cucumber crocodile competition. All you have to do is make one of these beauties and send me a photo or tag me on Instagram by November 1st. Photos of...
- by Jenny
- Brigitte Bardot
Please note, I am not a fan of Brigitte’s politics, but I am a fan of her artichoke recipe… Aren’t artichokes things of great beauty? Scary to cook though eh? I love them but I rarely cook them as they are DAUNTING. If you feel the...
- by Jenny
- Edward Woodward
HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEEN is coming! That’s always a favourite time of year here at Silver Screen Suppers Towers. I haven’t decided on the menu yet, but I may well include this as a side dish because I LOVE IT. Who doesn’t love cheesy potatoes? This really...
- by Jenny
- Roger Moore, The Great Bear Project
What can I tell you about the Great Bear escapade we undertook in August 2019? Not much! My memory has been scrubbed clean since then due to various life events and the global...
- by Jenny
- Cooking with Columbo, Peter Falk
For all you Peter Falk fans, I thought I would gather together photos of all of his favourite recipes in one post. All these recipes are featured in the Cooking With Columbo book. Signed copies are available via my Etsy shop Otherwise you can order the...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Have you ever made a cucumber crocodile? If not, now is the time! To celebrate the launch of Supper with the Stars we are having a party! Visit Peter’s website for details – everyone welcome! I really hope to see some of you...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Do you ever order groceries online? Do you ever put loads of delicious looking things in your shopping basket, then have a rethink and think, “I am but one human being, living alone, I must be sensible”? and take lots of them out? Have you...
- by Jenny
- 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...
- by Jenny
- Anne Francis
I have a new shiny thing! I am sending out a weekly Murder, She Cooked missive via Substack. Each week there is a little write-up about an episode of Murder, She Wrote with screengrabs from the show and an appropriate recipe from...
- by Jenny
- 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...
- by Jenny
- Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
Greetings if you have landed here via Only Murders In the Inbox! The Murder, She Cooked book is now out in the world and available on Amazon or direct from me via my Etsy...
- by Jenny
- Barry Norman, Vincent Price
Well, my work on the Vincent Price cookbook is done! I delivered all the final tweaks to my co-writer Peter Fuller yesterday and as we must celebrate all the wins these days, fashioned myself a little cocktail. This cocktail featured in an advertising campaign for Angostura bitters...
- by Jenny
- Una Stubbs
I don’t think I have ever republished an old post, but I was sad to hear yesterday that Una Stubbs had passed and I remembered this one about her muesli recipe. First published in 2019. There are some combinations of words that are nice to say...
- by Jenny
- Claude Akins
I have never barbecued anything. I am a BBQ virgin. I have the coals, firelighters, and wood and there are three barbecues in my communal garden but I guess I am SCARED of barbecuing. I planned to brave it...
- by Jenny
- Elizabeth Taylor
Greg of Recipes For Rebels has excelled himself this year for his Cowboy Day Cook-along. Remember the scene in Giant (1956) where Elizabeth Taylor faints when she’s served a big spoonful of roasted cow’s head at...
- by Jenny
- Movie Star Cocktails, Vincent Price
Do you have a bottle of Angostura Bitters hanging around in your cocktail cabinet? You bought it for some tipple or another years ago, and it now just sits there, unloved? Most of us do. Luckily, Vincent Price was involved in an ad campaign that...
- by Jenny
- Donald Pleasence
I had such fun doing my first ever Instagram Live with my Guild of Film Writers chum Bruce McMichael tonight. We were talking about the book Nobs and Nosh which contains thoughts from many movie stars about food, and a few recipes. I made one of...
- by Jenny
- Farley Granger
I had a lovely surprise recently when I went to Jan and Diana’s house to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. Jan had made some baked potatoes using the Farley Granger recipe I’d featured on the blog way back in pre-pandemic days...
- by Jenny
- Cameron Diaz
You know how one thing leads to another? I went on a stupendous rabbit hole research expedition after writing about Keith Michell’s Avocado With Sauerkraut Dressing last week. My googling to find out if avocado and sauerkraut was a “thing” (it is) led me...
- by Jenny
- Keith Michell
After two disastrous Keith Michell cooking escapades and one that was a borderline fail, he has redeemed himself with this genius way of serving an avocado. This cute little entity has become something that I crave on a regular basis. It’s a lovely working-from-home-lunch and...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I have discovered three big things about myself during the global pandemic. 1) That I love to play drums 2) that the LWS Writers’ Hour is an absolutely magical place where creativity and friendships blossom – it’s international and free folks! 3) that much joy is...
- by Jenny
- Marilyn Monroe
When I heard that two cookbooks owned by Marilyn Monroe were up for auction (thank-you Di and Amy for the tip-offs) I immediately went down an enormous rabbit hole of research. I was here, there, and everywhere in the Google Machine finding out what...
- by Jenny
- 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...
- by Jenny
- Rip Torn, The Great Bear Project
Crikey, I had to get in the time machine and travel back to May 2019 to find the photos of this trip me and Mr R took to Edgware with an egg. It would have been madness...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
It’s a momentous day! I have just emailed the final recipe verdict for the Supper With The Stars book to my co-writer Peter. Yippee. 52 films written about, 104 recipes tweaked, 104 verdicts delivered. Vincent’s kedgeree was...
- by Jenny
- Donald O'Connor, Yvonne de Carlo
I needed some French Dressing for a Diana Dors Artichoke Bean Bowl and I was slightly concerned that Donald’s dressing would usurp the Angela Lansbury Mustard Vinaigrette in my affections but although it was good, Angela’s dressing is more to my taste. I think this is...
- by Jenny
- Dirk Bogarde
This recipe looms large in my legend as it is the first thing I cooked for Mr Rathbone. We met in 2013 on a blind date set up by my neighbour Chloe. We hadn’t seen photos of each other, and I...
- by Jenny
- Keith Michell
So following on from the glorious post of all the wonderful things testers have made for the Vincent Price cookbook, here’s a post about when things don’t quite work out so well. Three Keith Michell recipes, and...
It’s Vincent Price’s birthday today. Let’s celebrate with a round up of some of the dishes cooked for the forthcoming Vincent Price cookbook by our wonderful volunteers. My co-writer Peter has published a sneaky peek of the proposed book cover (revealing the NEW...
- by Jenny
- Arlene Dahl
It’s a big day today. It’s 15 years since I wrote my very first blog post. Oh my! Back in 2016 I was a broken hearted singleton living on a houseboat and I was feeling very sorry for myself. I was rubbish at cooking...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I never cook rice. If Mr R is around the place and we are having curry or chilli or something else that requires a ricey accompaniment, he is in charge. He is the expert. Just as I am the expert in the scrambled eggs department. On...
- by Jenny
- Mel Brooks
What do you stick into the DVD player when you are down in the dumps? If there one film that always lifts your spirits, or do you have a handful to choose from? I need to know my lovelies!...
- by Jenny
- Ken Dodd, The Great Bear Project
If you are not from the UK, you might not know who Ken Dodd is. Where on earth do I begin? I think for the purposes of this blog post, all you need to know is...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
Potatoes fried in a large amount of butter are going to be good aren’t they? This is not clickbait to tease you into reading a disaster story about how potatoes fried in a large amount of butter turned out NOT to be good. Because they...
- by Jenny
- Ellen Drew
Any recipe that includes pickle juice piques my pickle interest. My fridge is FULL of pickle juice and because I love pickles so much, I make a lot of pickles and I eat a lot of pickles. It always seems a waste to chuck...
- by Jenny
- Anne Baxter, France Nuyen
I’m having a bit of a sort out here at Silver Screen Suppers Towers and I keep finding brilliant things like this. When I stumbled upon this wonderful magazine cover, I thought to myself, “did I ever write about the...
- by Jenny
- Jane Russell
Beer with her soup, that’s my gal! I was so thrilled to get an email from my penpal Annette of I’m Annette to say she’d found a Jane Russell recipe on the internet. This was music to my ears as...
- by Jenny
- 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...
- by Jenny
- Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino
HippFest Silent Cinema Festival has begun – whoopee! My Mary Pickford Silver Screen Supper video goes out on Saturday morning and is available for 48 hours so if you have landed here looking for more information about her enchiladas...
