“We got a thing that won’t stop cooking.” (Sonny Bono from “It’s the Little Things”)

Well…it’s gonna burn.

We seem to have enough pages of Cher-related food content to have a food section.

Sonny & Cher Recipes
https://www.cherscholar.com/sonny-bono-recipes/

This was the previous roll-up page for all the available recipes I could find by either Sonny, Cher or Christy Bono. The page now includes:

  • Sonny’s recipes for:
    • Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce
    • Pollo Bono
    • Chicken Tonight
    • Rigatoni with Sausage and Short Ribs Sugo Di Spuntature
    • Frutta Di Mare a la Palm Springs
    • Sonny’s Baked Veal
  • Sonny & Cher making the Baked Veal on the Mike Douglas Show.
  • Info on Sonny’s Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cookies
  • Sonny & Cher Cookbooks, including Singers & Swingers in the Kitchen, Forever Fit, Cooking with Cher
  • Cher’s recipes from celebrity cookbooks or her own, including:
    • Perfect Pork Chops
    • Hawaiian Meatballs
    • Fat-free Tuna Pasta Salad
    • Cajun Swordfish Borchettes
    • Salmon en Papillote
    • Fiery Shrimp Fried Rice
  • Information on Sonny’s restaurants

The Pasta Sauce Recipes
https://www.cherscholar.com/the-secret-pasta-sauce/

Tracking the elusive Sonny pasta sauce recipe.
And a few of Cher’s pasta sauce recipes.

The Cherlato Truck
https://www.cherscholar.com/the-cherlato-truck/

Starting in 2023, Cher has roving gelato. And I remember when my friend said she couldn’t imagine Cher eating ice cream!

Movie Food
https://www.cherscholar.com/movie-food/

Foods as seen in Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck, Mermaids, Good Times and Chastity. Plus bonus links to drinking games for Cher movies!

The Jack Nicholson Cher Muffin-Off
https://www.cherscholar.com/the-jack-nicholson-cher-muffin-off/

On Sunday, April 4, 2004, I had a small dinner party in my Palms-area Los Angeles home.  Ape Culture co-editor Julie Wiskirchen, a pop culture aficionado and Jack Nicholson fan agreed to participate and we squared off with our respective celebrity-obsession recipes from the cookbooks Cooking for Jack and Cooking for Cher. (from 2004 Cher Zine 2)

My Armenian Dinner Party
https://www.cherscholar.com/my-armenian-dinner-party/

On March 20, 2010, I threw an Armenian food party on the night of a Cher Video Marathon. We made Eggplant & Roasted Garlic Babakanoosh, Easy Sou-Berag (Armenian Lasagna), Filled Armenian Cookies and we ordered food from Zankou Chicken in Los Angeles. (from Cher Zine 3)

Family Recipes
https://www.cherscholar.com/recipes-of-the-children/

  • Recipes I recreated from Chaz Bono, Elijah Allman and Georgia Holt
  • Information on Christy Bono’s (Sonny’s eldest daughter) restaurants