- by Jenny
- Tessie O'Shea
What makes these DIET Scotch Eggs is anyone’s guess but I can tell you this, they were DELICIOUS! Why I have never made a scotch egg before I do not know. They would definitely be in my list of top...
- by Jenny
- Food Photography
I’m a member of the Bread Angels, a brigade of micro-bakers who love making bread and sharing it with friends, families, neighbours and even to complete strangers. Our motto is BAKE WELL. DO GOOD. Being part of this group has brought me so much happiness. ...
Ah, Mr. Hitchock. There is much debate about this quiche recipe. Hitch famously disliked eggs, but what is a quiche lorraine without eggs? Um, ham and some milk in a pastry case? Methinks perhaps it was raw eggs that gave him...
- by Jenny
- Peter Fonda
I made a lovely version of this recently with cherries instead of blueberries. It was DELICIOUS. I couldn’t find my spirulina so it wasn’t the usual green sludgy colour that puts my chum Greg of Recipes for Rebels off, but to me, the green is what...
- by Jenny
- Ian McShane
On impulse I bought some posh wild salmon from Planet Organic this week. I looked at the price and thought, “Imagine if I was paying for this in a restaurant, it would be TWICE as much” and took the plunge. It was utterly...
- by Jenny
- Michael Learned, Murder, She Cooked
When I was young, I absolutely LOVED The Waltons, and I cannot think of Michael Learned without thinking of her as the mother of the clan. But Michael is also in Murder, She Wrote so she’s on my test cooking schedule for the next book… Recently I...
- by Jenny
- Dinner and a Movie, Liberace
Liberace was born on this day one hundred years ago. Happy birthday Lee! Recently I got an email from my chum, food writer Orlando Murrin, asking me if I’d ever seen The Loved One which features Liberace playing an undertaker. Well yes, I had, but not for a...
- by Jenny
- Blog Awards
Yesterday was the blog’s birthday. I’ve been scribbling away here for THIRTEEN YEARS – oh my goodness. When I started this thing I was utterly miserable after a relationship break-up and now I am the happiest I have ever been. I know for sure though, that making...
- by Jenny
- Doris Day, Rita Hayworth
So sad to hear the news about Doris yesterday. I love her so much! After living under a misapprehension that she was a twee, girl next door type for many years I actually WATCHED one of her films (Pillow Talk) and immediately became a big fan....
- by Jenny
- Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
My goodness, this is a HUMDINGER of a recipe. I love cheesecake and I thought I had never made one before, but then I remembered Marion Davies’ Meadow Cheesecake. Whereas Marion’s was GOOD, Angela’s recipe is utterly BRILLIANT. Hence, it is...
- by Jenny
- Tessie O'Shea
It’s not a very appetising recipe title is it? At the beginning of this year, I pledged to make one thing a month from the Tessie O’Shea Slimming Cookbook and I am a bit behind, so expect TWO slightly weird dishes from Tessie’s 1970s kitchen this...
- by Jenny
- Dinah Shore
This morning in bed the conversation went like this: Mr Rathbone: What are you blogging about? Me: Dinah Shore’s Sunday Baked Eggs. Mr Rathbone: Whose eggs? Me: Dinah Shore’s Eggs. Mr Rathbone: Dinosaurs Eggs? I think they found some of those in the Antarctic. This...
Oh, how I wish I were in San Francisco right now! They are having a super dooper silent film festival at the wonderful Castro Theatre with a truly wonderful line up of movies. The lovely Gary Mayer of Eat Drink...
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....
- by Jenny
- Kay & Fred's Movie Night, Madhur Jaffrey
When Delicious Magazine pops through my letterbox each month I almost tear it apart looking for the Kay & Fred’s Movie Night column. First excitement is always, “What is the movie gonna be?” closely followed by “What’s the dish gonna be?” This month...
- by Jenny
- Murder, She Cooked, Ruth Roman
Since making Grace Kelly’s Caesar Salad I’ve been inclined to have a couple of heads of romaine lettuce in the crisper rather than little gems. That is the first time I’ve ever used the word CRISPER, but you know what I mean, that drawer that is...
- by Jenny
- Gloria Stuart, Murder, She Cooked
Cakey, cakey, bread, bread! When I first looked at this recipe, I thought it was going to turn out like soda bread. It kind of did, but it was much more like a cake than bread. I liked it, but good toast it did not make....
- by Jenny
- Murder, She Cooked, Richard Anderson
The Six Million Dollar Man was one of the programmes I remember begging my parents to let me watch when I was a kid. Starsky & Hutch was one of those too. Richard Anderson played Oscar Goldman in The Six Million Dollar Man, and...
- by Jenny
- Angus Lennie, Hazel Adair, Noele Gordon
OK, so Crossroads is more cathode ray tube than the silver screen but my justification for this post is the amazing Noele Gordon. She was the star of the iconic TV soap that I remember well from my youth, Crossroads. This ran for over 20 years on...
- by Jenny
- Grace Kelly
I had intended on making this for the James Dean birthday dinner I made with my chum Greg of Recipes For Rebels. Time got the better of me though, so I made it instead when the lovely Battenburgbelle came over for tea...
- by Jenny
- Robert Quarry
I am back from my holiday where I have to admit, I ate like a piglet. There was so much amazing food including slip sole at my favourite restaurant in the whole wide world – The Sportsman in Seasalter. Also, a new discovery and possibly already...
I definitely have more movie star recipes for chilli than any other dish. I’ve made Robert Mitchum’s, Johnny Cash’s, Monte Hale’s, Trish Van Devere’s, Anne Sheridan’s, Barton MacLane’s, Richard Arlen’s, Tex Ritter’s, Warner Baxter’s and of course, my fave of them all, James Garner’s. There are...
- by Jenny
- Martha Raye
I am on Doctor’s Orders to eat liver once a week but I rarely do, so when I spotted this, I was on it like a bonnet. I totally love me a jacket potato and one with livers? Once again I couldn’t find my...
- by Jenny
- Bette Davis, The Great Bear Project
Bette Davis’ Baked Beans were the first thing I ever made for the Silver Screen Suppers project way back in May 2006. I was living on a houseboat with a tabletop oven that...
- by Jenny
- Bette Davis
Oh my goodness, this is the most delicious movie star favourite dish I have made in a LOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG time. Bravo Bette! This recipe is a winner. Despite having an ingredient that is not available here in the UK. When any of my...
- by Jenny
- Boris Karloff
One of the bad habits I have as a person prone to clutter is over-buying of ingredients. I’m not as bad as the people in Marie Kondo’s book who buy thousands of toilet rolls or stockpile hundreds of toothbrushes, but I am certainly guilty of it...
- by Jenny
- Peter Fonda
Summer is a’coming in and mornings in my flat no longer involve breaking through icicles to get into the kitchen. Therefore the Easy Rider Smoothie is BACK! I really love this smoothie, I love the taste of the spirulina and it really feels like a HEALTH TONIC....
- by Jenny
- Farley Granger, Murder, She Cooked
I am a fan of the baked potato. I love them. Especially the Pat Phoenix way of pimping them up with sardines! But of course, sour cream and chives is a classic pairing, so testing this recipe for the Murder, She...
- by Jenny
- Gene Tierney
The food I crave more than any other is TUNA so I am always looking for interesting things to do with it. This tower of loveliness absolutely fits the bill! I was thrilled to discover a whole heap of celebrity...
- by Jenny
- Jean Harlow, Movie Star Cocktails
When I think of Jean Harlow, I always think of her like this… so when I saw that my lovely internet chum Samantha of Musings of a Classic Film Addict was co-hosting a Jean Harlow Blogathon I thought to myself, I’m going to spend...
- by Jenny
- Jan Smithers, Murder, She Cooked
It’s Real Bread Week here in the UK and on Saturday I rustled up a loaf to Jan’s recipe. This recipe marks the start of me testing for the Murder, She Cooked book and is up for grabs over at the Murder, She Wrote...
This month’s film suggestion in the Kay & Fred’s Movie Night column in Delicious magazine is a MODERN film. I rarely watch anything post-1968 – could I do it? Committing to following Kay and Fred’s suggestions is a bit like being in a book club...
- by Jenny
- Tessie O'Shea
Yep, you read that right! Butt-chive! It’s time for February’s Tessie O’Shea recipe. It’s from chapter 2 of her brilliant Slimming Cookbook in the Hors D’Oeuvre and Snacks section Naturally I chose it because of the recipe title. Tessie likes to shorten words so butt...
- by Jenny
- Johnny Cash, Peter Falk
It’s a whole year since I published the Cooking With Columbo cookbook, I can hardly believe it. Ages ago I wrote a blog post all about the exciting day I had when the book came out, but I haven’t published it until now. I think...
- by Jenny
- Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
In her brilliant book Postitive Moves Angela Lansbury gives women of a certain age lots of excellent advice on living a healthy, vibrant life. As I AM a woman of a certain age, I decided to follow her life plan for a day. I...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
It’s been a while since there was a FAIL in the Silver Screen Suppers kitchen, but these cookies were most definitely a fail. I’d never made them before and I was making them in advance of my “Living My Life Like Angela Lansbury Day” (blog...
- by Jenny
- William Shatner
Sometimes I cook a movie star recipe and for some unknown reason, I don’t blog about it immediately after I cook it. Then of course, tempus fugit and I forget the dish even existed. Such is the case with these burgers. This recipe was included in...
- by Jenny
- Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for ages as I am pretty obsessed with making bread. Angela is the same, in her brilliant book Positive Moves there’s a great photo of her making bread with the caption, “I don’t ever want to be...
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...
- by Jenny
- Martin Landau
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours…. Yes! I am so lucky that I have good neighbours. Here’s a little tale about a lovely encounter I had with a neighbour on the bus home on a Friday evening recently. I do not know her name, but...
- by Jenny
- Lauren Bacall, The Great Bear Project
On a chilly October Sunday morning I sprung out of bed, super excited about the next stop on The Great Bear Project. I love having these firmly in the diary, getting all the wherewithal together,...
- by Jenny
- Carol Channing
I was really sad to hear that Carol Channing had gone to the Hollywood in the sky recently. I was lucky enough to meet her once and she was a STITCH. In this photo, she has just told me and my chum Caroline a very...
I was beside myself with excitement when I saw that my fave food mag Delicious Magazine has a new column called Kay & Fred’s Movie Night. Kay Plunkett-Hogge and her partner Fred will be selecting a movie and suggesting a...
- by Jenny
- Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Cooked
On Sunday I am planning to live a whole day like Angela Lansbury. I am going to follow her guide to healthy eating… and I am going to do the Positive Moves workout… Then in the evening I am going to watch Who Threw the...
- by Jenny
- Phyllis Calvert
If you are squeamish, you might not want to read this post. I know lots of people don’t like offal, they think it’s awful. That was my attempt at a joke by the way, but for health reasons, I eat it. It’s...
- by Jenny
- David Niven
I am a person who likes to follow a recipe. I am not a freestyler. But I make an exception for David Niven. I love his fish cakes recipe, because he basically issues a carte blanche for making them however the hell you like. So here’s...
- by Jenny
- Tessie O'Shea
Some foodie chums over on Twitter issued a cooking challenge at the end of last year. Select a mad cookbook and make stuff from it throughout 2019. My choice is the Tessie O’Shea’s Slimming Cookbook. There are several reasons behind my selection… 1 – I need...
- by Jenny
- Glen Campbell
My motto for 2019 is USE IT UP AND WEAR IT OUT. I am going to try and have a “make do and mend” attitude about everything in my flat. Stop buying more stuff and start appreciating the stuff I already have. I...
- by Jenny
- Peter Falk
There’s a chance to win a copy of the Cooking With Columbo cookbook on the airwaves at the moment – closing date for entries is 20th January 2019. If you skip over to this link you’ll be able to listen to the most excellent Just...
- by Jenny
- Roland Young
Do you still have leftover turkey and ham and stuffing and pigs in blankets knocking around in your fridge or freezer? This is my FAVOURITE way of using up Xmas bits and bobs. You can, of course, make this from scratch, I’m...
- by Jenny
- Corinne Griffith
I had a lovely, lovely Christmas with my folks. Hope yours was good too dear reader. Here’s a glimpse of the kind of delicious fare that was on offer chez Ma and Pa Hammerton in Suffolk… This was the Boxing Day feast. There was of...
- by Jenny
- David Niven
In the heatwave we had here this summer in the UK, I was reading Nigel Slater’s Eating for England on my commute to and from work and it gave me a powerful urge to eat some rice pudding. I’m sure it was partly to...
- by Jenny
- Elizabeth Taylor
I went back to basics recently as I know there is an awful lot of eating and drinking ahead over the next couple of weeks. I had an Elizabeth Taylor breakfast of one piece of unadorned toast, a cup of coffee and an apple. It was...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
It was the idea of TOAST POINTS that made me want to try this recipe. I had never heard of such a thing before and now I am obsessed with the idea of serving TOAST POINTS with everything. Not least because in a recently...
- by Jenny
- Jennifer Jones
Oooh, I do NOT like making cakes. I find it toooooo stressful! BUT, there is always an upside. People love homemade cake, even if you think it is a disaster. Not actually my cake. Someone else’s cake wreck. So it was with Jennifer’s cake....
- by Jenny
- Merle Oberon
In my massive decluttering purge I came across this recently… It was in a box of paperwork from a house I lived in about 15 years ago and I have no recollection of buying it, but it has brought me a lot of fun just recently....
- by Jenny
- David Niven
“Traditionally we have Swedish food on Christmas Eve and toast each other with mugs of glögg, After doing the whole Swedish bit, we celebrate Christmas Day with a typical English dinner of turkey and plum pudding. We wind up tons...
- by Jenny
- Peter Falk
The authority on all things Columbo, the wonderful LC who runs the genius Columbophile website… is running a competition to win a copy of my Cooking With Columbo book – well 3 copies actually! Competition is open until 16th December – get amongst it!...
- by Jenny
- John Wayne, The Great Bear Project
On the Sunday of the John Wayne Great Bear Expedition I was lying in bed and suddenly bust out with, “Ooh, I’m excited! I can see my poncho from here!” Which made Mr R laugh. I...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
My boss Alwyn goes fishing to relax. When he talks about the pleasures to be had in the middle of the night standing in a river in the pitch black watching shooting stars it almost makes me want to do it myself. However,...
- by Jenny
- Elisha Cook Jr., Harry Morgan, Vincent Price
I am a big fan of stroganoff as it is quick and easy to make on a weeknight and feels like a BIG TREAT. I have made two movie star versions recently – both...
- by Jenny
- Pat Phoenix
It was double days at my nephew’s brewery recently and I had an absolutely fab time. On Saturday I had my little pop-up bread and mustard shop, I made some pumpkin fougasse to get in the Halloween mood. Then on Monday myself, Ma Baker and Battenburgbelle...
- by Jenny
- Diana Dors
I was planning to propose Jane Asher’s Chicken in Pumpkin as the Recipe of the Month for November as it seemed super autumnal. But, if you have read the post about it, you’ll know why I’ve switched. It was Mr...
- by Jenny
- Jane Asher
Have you heard of turducken? It’s a “dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey.” Blog reader Melanie asked if Jane Asher’s Chicken in a Pumpkin should be called a pumpricken – hahahahahahahah! When I...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
The lovely folks at my local emporium of meat, Morley’s Butcher in Crouch End, have a great piece on their website about this fabulous recipe. Skip over to their blog for all the details and cook yourself up a delicious steak for...
- by Jenny
- Elizabeth Taylor
Well, this was weird. I think if I had made this before my experiments with the Peter Fonda’s “Easy Rider Smoothie” and his sister Jane Fonda’s Smoothie I might have thought this was groovy. BUT, I am now used to protein drinks that effectively are the...
- by Jenny
- Michael Caine, The Great Bear Project
You know when you spend about five hours making something, and when you come to eat it, it’s a massive disappointment? Well, this was 100% NOT the case with Michael’s pie. It was...
- by Jenny
- Diana Dors
Happy birthday Diana! I am celebrating today by eating a WHOLE BOX of Black Magic. Well, actually I have eaten ONE chocolate and am sharing the rest with work colleagues. Why? Because when Diana was on Desert Island Discs she said that a box of Black...
- by Jenny
- Ava Gardner
I am a big fan of coleslaw in any shape or form. I don’t mind if it is hoity-toity coleslaw or bog standard supermarket coleslaw, I love it all. Although I haven’t seen it on the shelves recently I am particularly fond of “Mexican coleslaw” which...
- by Jenny
- Diana Dors
Diana’s breakfast mash-up has got lots of things in it that I like, and as I’ve reported here before, I do love me a recipe that serves one. Living alone as I do, it pleases me when recipe writers tip their hats to those of us...
- by Jenny
- Vincent Price
I have been craving Steak Au Poivre ever since I had a conversation with my personal trainer Nige about it. Yes! I have a personal trainer, and it is bloody brilliant. The best thing about it is that after seeing Nige for...
- by Jenny
- Pat Phoenix
100% comfort food! What a great thing to do with a jacket potato! This takes me back to my childhood for many reasons. Neither of these girls is me, I will return later and replace with a very similar photograph that IS me. All British photos...
- by Jenny
- Dolores Del Rio
Oh my. These were divine. I couldn’t really believe how good they were, as there were only a few simple ingredients. Make these as soon as you can. Yum. It’s possible that the deliciousness of these was mostly to do with...
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...
- by Jenny
- Mae West
“I never worry about diets, the only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.” Wise words Mae, wise words. I often get a craving for Mae’s salad on a Saturday, I have no idea why. I love all of the...
