“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
