Thursday, November 13, 2014

THANKSGIVING MARILYN MONROE GEM

 
You guys crack me up! Lately in the comments and a few emails, I have had a response to my new Thanksgiving header, so I though I'd share a few more of Marilyn.....


And then on the inter webs, I came across this gem from Marilyn's recipes....Jotted on a letterhead from an insurance company, the late screen siren explains how she prepares a turkey dinner, with all of the trimmings.
 
 
The notes, are evidence yet that she had a passion for cooking.
Fussing over details, Monroe writes that giblets must be ‘liver-heart’ and stipulates that the beef must be ‘browned (no oil)'. She even takes care to specify the quantity of the produce needed.
The most important instruction of all is right at the very top, where she states that ‘no garlic’ should be added to the stuffing.
Monroe’s flair for cooking was evident at an auction of her personal effects in 1999 when two well-worn cookbooks of hers from the 1950s were sold off for well above the reserve. The recipe is dated around 1955 or 1956 when she was living in New York with her husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.

Looks like we both liked rubbing bird.

18 comments:

  1. I love all the headers you use, and I adored Marilyn, and loved the way she spelt parsley..... just tickles me

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  2. loved her................I can just picture her taking ever so much care with all her prep for the Thanksgiving dinner and without a doubt I would bet my bottom dollar she was beyond a perfect hostess.

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  3. Another side to Marilyn we see. Great seasonal pictures of a beauty.

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  4. not only are you both fond of rubbing bird, but would both wear that pilgrim outfit for dinner.

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    1. The Mistress could never wear the pilgrim outfit, his junk would hang out the shorts.

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  5. LOL, love the pictures!!!! but not much of a cook, was she? Julia Child must be rolling.

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  6. yeah, we loved the header too! And is there such a thing as a bad picture of Marilyn?

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  7. As much as I love Marilyn and these pictures, I must question her kitchen prowess!!!!!

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  8. After seeing this, you could both handle a big gun plus giblets!

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  9. So, it looks like you both know your way around the kitchen and bedroom?

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  10. I used to hang out with a Tom, and he was quite the gobbler as well...

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  11. That's a scary recipe. I sure hope that Arthur loved her for more than her cooking and recipe dictation.

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  12. Now I find it hard to believe this goddess ever made a turkey well. But how beautiful she looks, so who cares.

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  13. I bet you both baste a bird well too.

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  14. Look like notes made during a phone call id say.

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  15. She was evidently the cutest pilgrim ever!

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  16. Turkeys are a girls best friend?

    Have a FABULOUS weekend!

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  17. Marilyn ...true beauty and classic. It's nice to get little snippets of her personal life in everyday things.

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Go ahead darling, tell me something fabulous!