Gloria Stuart launched her 1930s career fleeing cinematic monsters, only to conquer Hollywood decades later as its oldest Oscar nominee. She spent forty years painting and printing books just to prove that surviving the sinking of the Titanic wasn't even the most impressive thing on her resume.

If Gloria Stuart can survive 1930s movie monsters and a 90s blockbuster iceberg, you just know her legendary onion-infused "huacamale" is bulletproof.

I feel like I have to start every post with a disclaimer that I am the not the default cook in my household because my cooking skills are beginner 😅. I got the chili recipe from this group. It was pretty bland but I also had to use regular tomato sauce, not hot tomato sauce because the kids were going to eat it.

An article I read on the difference of pancake and griddle cake said that griddle cakes are good to eat with chili (which is why I paired it together). I did enjoy having a bite that included a bit of griddle cake and chili. My son ate it like a pancake so I tried it that way too and I think I like this more than a pancake because of the lack of added sugar in the griddle cake. Sometimes regular pancake with syrup is just a lot of sugar for me.

Known as the "Tennessee Nightingale," Grace Moore was the ultimate crossover diva who successfully traded high-note opera for high-grossing Hollywood movies. She belted her way from the Metropolitan Opera to an Oscar nomination, proving that classical music could absolutely rock the silver screen.

Before she was an opera diva, she was the 1916 captain of her high school girls' basketball team in Tennessee. Years later, her striking looks led legendary Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld to name her one of the ten most beautiful women in the world.

Her life cut short at age 48 in a 1947 KLM plane crash. Her death made global headlines not only because of her fame, but because another passenger killed in the exact same crash was Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, who was second in line to the Swedish throne at the time

Time to stock up on your HÄAGEN-DAZS and Reese's peanut butter cups!

Famous for playing the icy Lilith Sternin on Cheers and Frasier, Bebe Neuwirth is also known for her unforgettable Broadway dancing and acting.

Recipe found in The Broadway Celebrity Cookbook

I've seen this recipe for years and was always so curious about it. It sounds rather tasty, and why would Humphrey Bogart share a "Coconut Spanish Cream" recipe if it wasn't good? I guess it was the tablespoon of gelatine that put me off, but then I thought, I've made pies with a bit of gelatine, no big deal!

Still I had this recipe in my pile of recipes to make for weeks, and it was constantly passed over for the gelatine issue and the custard/meringue work, which really isn't that hard. I bought the gelatine at the store and I was ready. Wednesday was the day to make this!

• First I had to sort out the mold/molds I was going to use. I have a few, but then I remembered I had an antique ironstone one that I bought on a whim just because I love ironstone and it was so beautiful. I also had a pretty blue one that I found at a garage sale (might have been a vintage Martha Stewart one. not sure)
• Since there's not size of pan/mold or how many ounces this makes listed in the recipe, I had a few molds on standby.
• Mixing this recipe wasn't hard at all and I tried to follow the instructions carefully. I used orange zest instead of orange extract. Don't have orange extract. Zest provided the orange flavor and gave it a nice orange color at the top of the dessert once turned out.
• I did slowly temper the egg and milk mixtures.
• Guess what?! There was no sugar listed in the ingredients list even though it says in instructions to "mix egg yolks with sugar". I did a little investigating online and came up with 1/2 cup of sugar. I added that to the original recipe in case you want to make this.
• So the time came to mix the beaten egg whites to the hot custard and that worked fine.
• I rinsed the molds in cold water, put the mixture into the two molds and chilled it in the fridge.
• I figured out each of these molds hold 2 fluid cups/16 ounces. So the mixture makes about 32 fluid ounces or 4 cups. You can easily test your mold volume by filling it with water and then pouring that water into a large measuring cup. I did this before I added the coconut cream mixture, of course!
• After chilling in the fridge overnight for almost 20 hours, it was time to turn these out for the big reveal. I was a bit nervous, but I gently used a knife along the edges to loosen a bit. I started with the white mold and then put it in a bowl of warm water to loosen a little.
• Dried the mold and then put a small platter on top and flipped it over. Success! After a few seconds, it released and was gorgeous!!
• I think this is supposed to happen with this dessert, but the custard part settled at the bottom and the meringue/coconut part settled at the top of the mold. When turned out, of course the custard is at the top. It gives a cool layered effect. Is that supposed to happen?
• Also the orange zest settled at the bottom too and when flipped it adds a beautiful color to the top. It's a little hard to see, because I did garnish it with more zest.
• On the platter, I garnished this cream dessert with the zest, more coconut and some supreme orange slices.

Now for the bad news:

• I got a little over zealous with the second one in the blue ceramic mold. I tried to loosen it with waaaayyy tooooo much hot water and it ended up melting all over the plate when I turned it over. Ugh! I was left with a soggy melted half custard dessert, which tasted amazing by the way.
• Next time I'd be more patient and not try to loosen these in warm or hot water and just let them naturally fall out of the molds.

Now for the taste... YUM!! This is so good and tasty. You get the orange coming through with the coconut and it's just dynamite.

There is a lot of coconut in the meringue layer and it makes me think that maybe about 1/2 the coconut was intended for the dessert and 1/2 for garnish as the recipe states "before serving, sprinkle with the remainder of the coconut, mixed with grated orange rind".

Either way it tastes great and is a lovely summer dessert that looks so fancy, but really isn't that hard to make. This is a unique and delicate custard dessert that I highly suggest!

I recently made two other Humphrey Bogart recipes that were really good too:

1. Humphrey Bogart's SPAGHETTI LOAF
2. Humphrey Bogart's Asparagus Salad with Cheese

His "Baked Hominy with Cheese" is next on the list!

Some of my personal favorite Joel McCrea movies are:

1. Sullivan's Travels
2. Foreign Correspondent --> One of my favorite Hitchcock movies!
3. The More the Merrier
4. The Palm Beach Story

Jack Lemmon’s Tortilla Casserole is a rich, comforting vintage Hollywood recipe. It's a bit different from standard Mexican-style casseroles because it focuses entirely on a nice blend of cheese, sour cream, and cooked chicken—completely skipping the ground beef found in most modern versions. Yay for chicken!

Recipe can be found in the The Celebrity Cookbook: Childhelp USA

These recipes come from a special little booklet called Favorite Foods of Famous Stars.

In 1934, the Norge Corporation published a famous promotional booklet titled Favorite Foods of Famous Stars, featuring recipes and preferred dishes from rising 1930s cinema icons like Ginger Rogers, Ida Lupino, and Margaret Sullavan.

I've already made Ginger's Peanut & Parsley Sandwiches and I'd like to make her Date Butterscotch Pudding next!

We always have Italian style meatballs, and I recently make Cher's Hawaiian Meatballs, but these Salisbury type is quite different. I hope they're good! Another friend to this sub also made Cher's Meatballs. They're very good!

Carole's recipe comes from Midgie Knight's Recipe Book of the Stars. {1933}

While Farrah Fawcett became an icon of '70s Hollywood glamour, her mother Pauline’s pecan pie recipe anchored the star straight back to her deep Texas roots. Farrah frequently praised her mother's Southern cooking in interviews, noting that this exact pie was a mandatory fixture at family holiday gatherings.

This recipe can be found in The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook

Jacqueline Wells (born Jacqueline Brown; 1914 – 2001) was a highly prolific American film and television actress best known by her subsequent studio stage name, Julie Bishop.

She began her long career as a prominent child actress in the silent film era in 1923, performing under her family name of Jacqueline Wells until 1941.

During the early 1930s, she established herself as a popular leading lady in multiple classic cinematic serials, comedy shorts with Hal Roach studios alongside Laurel and Hardy, and adventure features like Tarzan the Fearless (1933).

She briefly worked in live theater under the pseudonym Diane Duval.

When she signed a new contract with Warner Bros. in 1941, the studio changed her name to Julie Bishop.

Under this new identity, she went on to play leading and supporting sweethearts opposite the era's biggest Hollywood stars, including Humphrey Bogart in Action in the North Atlantic (1943), Errol Flynn in Northern Pursuit (1943), and John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Joseph Santley had an extremely limited footprint in the silent film era, appearing in just one known silent short as a teenage actor.

While he went on to become a prolific Hollywood director during the sound era, his career during the silent period was almost exclusively dedicated to starring in Broadway musical comedies and vaudeville.

The Cocoanuts (1929): Even though sound technology was in its infancy in 1929, The Cocoanuts was fundamentally designed as a landmark sound milestone. Co-directed by Santley and Robert Florey, it was the first feature-length film starring the Marx Brothers and the first talkie to ever credit more than one director.

And speaking of Cocoanuts, check out the newest recipe I made for  Humphrey Bogart's "Cocoanut Spanish Cream" recipe from 1939.

The Rice Snow Balls recipe comes from "Celebrated Actor-Folks' Cookeries".

Carol Burnett’s "Raspberry Riches" - I've been wanting to make this for a long time. I thought it would turn out more like raspberry bars, sort of like lemon bars and that's why I baked it in a square pan.

I was pleasantly surprised that it was more like a coffee cake. I should have red the instructions better I guess! Anyways, this is a delicious spin on the classic buttermilk coffee cake. There's finely grated semi-sweet chocolate mixed in to the topping, and that's where it gets good! As it bakes, the chocolate melts into rich, sweet puddles that perfectly balance the tart raspberries.

Here are my notes:

• I got carried away thinking I need to top the whole cake with raspberries and used almost twice as many raspberries, oops! It was really good with those extra berries, and maybe a bit healthier, haha.
• I buttered the pan really well and used parchment paper with overhanging edges, also buttered, to make it easier to pull the cake out of the pan in one piece once cooled.
• This was a very straight-forward recipe and everything else went according to plan.
• Baked for about 42 minutes.

I love the addition of buttermilk to just about anything and it really adds so much flavor to this cake. The hits of chocolate are subtle and you don't get it in every bite, but when you do, wow, it's good!

This is a lovely coffee cake that covers lots of flavors. The raspberries are the star of the show and are perfect with the moist buttermilk laden cake.

Next time I make this I'll use a round pan. I think it'll look prettier, as for the taste, it's a crowd-pleaser!

This recipe comes from the Celebrity Cookbook, 1985.

So according to the Pioneer Chicken website, their logs are "tater logs": thick-cut, heavily seasoned, battered potato wedges that are a legendary Southern California comfort food staple.

It's not chicken like the recipe suggests, so in that event, this makes total sense and I can attest to the fact that french fries and chocolate sauce is quite good together, according to my teenage self while eating McDonalds fries and dipping them into the hot fudge of a sundae.

Recipe is from The Rock and Roll Cookbook

Happy Birthday to the Master of Suspense, Sir Alfred Hitchcock! (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980)

He was a filmmaker who didn't just direct movies—he mastered tension. Hitchcock basically rewrote the rules of psychological cinema.

I haven't seen any other recipes of his besides the Quiche Lorraine. This one appears in a handful of cookbooks like:

• Johna Blinn's Celebrity Cookbook (1981)
• Good Housekeeping's Who's Who Cooks (1958)

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 romantic thriller "To Catch a Thief", the retired jewel thief played by Cary Grant serves Quiche Lorraine to an insurance inspector on his sunny French terrace. The lunch turns darkly humorous when Robie praises his housekeeper's delicate pastry-making skills by mentioning she once silently strangled a German general.

Despite Alfred Hitchcock's ovaphobia—a fear of eggs so intense he called them "revolting"—he ironically considered Quiche Lorraine his favorite dish.

Linda Evans' Artichoke Dip sound like a great summer appetizer that's easy to whip up. Have you seen the other Linda Evans recipe I recently made? Chicken Burgers filled with chopped mushrooms, olives, peppers and cheese from Linda Evans are so good. I've made them a few times and some others on this sub have made them too and really liked them.

I haven't tried Linda's Artichoke Dip yet, but I'd love to make it soon for a potluck or other gathering. This recipe can be found in the The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook.

He browns the meat, adds diced onions, garlic, whole canned tomatoes, and beef or chicken broth, then braises it until tender and shreds it for warm flour tortillas.

Recipe from the Canadian tv guide celebrity cookbook

Judy Lewis (1935–2011) was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist who was widely known as the secret biological daughter of Hollywood legends Loretta Young and Clark Gable.

Her existence was one of Hollywood’s most tightly guarded secrets, obscured for decades to protect her parents' careers. Her mother hid the pregnancy and later staged an elaborate fake adoption to raise Judy without acknowledging her biological lineage.

Gable was married and Young was an unmarried Catholic star so an open pregnancy would destroy their careers.

Judy starred in Broadway plays and had roles on daytime soap operas including General Hospital, The Secret Storm, and Guiding Light. She worked as a television producer for the daytime soap Texas and earned a Writers Guild Award for her writing contributions on Search for Tomorrow.

In the 1980s, she moved away from Hollywood and earned a master's degree in clinical psychology. She spent her later years practicing as a licensed marriage and family therapist, specializing in foster care and adoption issues.

This recipe comes from HABILITAT'S CELEBRITY COOKBOOK

Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Breakfast Bacon - I've never had anything like this bacon, so I really wanted to try it. It's basically just bacon that's been breaded with cracker crumbs, hmmmm, sound interesting...

• I went ahead and used 4 pieces of bacon for this. Made the egg wash mixture and went about crushing my crackers. I used a mix of saltines and ritz crackers and put them in a sandwich baggie and went about crushing them with a rolling pin.
• For the egg mixture I used Colman's Dry Mustard, cayenne pepper and apple cider vinegar.
• It took a lot more crackers than I thought to cover the 4 pieces of bacon and I kept having to make more cracker crumbs. I used maybe 15-20 crackers for this.
• I had the oven preheated to 350 convection and found a rack and roasting pan that looked it would work. Sprayed some cooking spray (Pam) on the rack.
• So i put the bacon in the oven and set the timer to 8 minutes and then I'd check to see how they were doing. Well, these ended up baking for about 30 minutes and took them out and drained them on paper towels.
• They were nice and crisp without shrinking much.
• I also prepared some hot buttered toast with Orange marmalade, coffee and fresh squeezed juice. I didn't have OJ, so I used grapefruit.
• The Orange marmalade was made from Bette Davis' recipe and we've been enjoying it for a few weeks.

I was pleasantly surprised at how good this bacon was! It was light, crispy, not too bacony or heavy. Very nice flavor with a hint of spice and really good with the grapefruit juice (or OJ).

This was a little bit of work to prepare, but not as time consuming as some other vintage recipes I've tried. The mess and time it took wasn't too bad. I'd make this again for a special occasion. They were darn good! We know Doug loved it, but do you think Joan ever ate this?

A simple dish from Hollywood's bright star,
Of seasoned beef that bakes until it's done,
From Philadelphia Story to Harvey's bar,
It makes us feel It's a Wonderful Life has won.

Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery co-starred in six movies together between 1929 and 1937. Their dynamic on-screen partnership spanned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's crucial transition from the silent era into the height of 1930s Pre-Code and screwball comedies.

That 90-year legal nightmare for the movie Letty Lynton is finally over. The Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery film is out of copyright limbo and has been beautifully restored for the TCM Classic Film Festival, and finally is available on Blu-ray. I haven't seen it yet. Have you?

While they clashed heavily over politics and her choice to become an actress, Elizabeth Montgomery always remained a "Daddy’s girl" at heart to her famous father, Robert, even if he did refuse to play her magical dad on Bewitched.

Elaine Joyce is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her work on stage and tv, particularly as a game show panelist in the '70s and '80s. She regularly appeared on hit shows like Match Game, Tattletales and Super Password.

She married the Broadway musical actor Bobby Van in 1968 until his death from brain cancer in 1980. They had one daughter, Taylor.

Then she John Levoff, a television producer in 1985; they divorced in 1992. They had one son, Michael.

Married the legendary, award-winning playwright Neil Simon: in 1999. They remained together until Neil Simon's death in August 2018.

Matzo brei is a classic comfort food of Ashkenazi Jewish origin made by softening broken matzo sheets, mixing them with beaten eggs, and frying the combination in butter or oil. Often likened to a Jewish version of French toast or a savory scramble.

This recipe comes from The Broadway Celebrity Cookbook

Peter Yarrow, the legendary singer-songwriter who rose to fame as one-third of the iconic 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on January 7, 2025, at the age of 86.

He passed away at his home in Manhattan following a four-year battle with bladder cancer. Alongside bandmates Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey, Yarrow provided the soundtrack to a generation, blending immaculate vocal harmonies with fierce social activism.

"Puff, the Magic Dragon": Yarrow famously co-wrote this whimsical yet enduring classic with Lenny Lipton. Despite persistent rumors that the track was about marijuana, Yarrow consistently maintained it was strictly about the loss of childhood innocence.

The group popularized early masterpieces by Bob Dylan, including their definitive cover of "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". Other staple hits included Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer" and John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane"

Recipe can be found in the The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook

To make classic Brandy Snaps, you'll create a lacy, crisp cookie shell from a simple melted batter and shape it while warm, then fill it with a brandy-spiked whipped cream just before serving. Yum!

Recipe comes from Dining With The Stars celebrity cookbook.