Peter Falk’s Avocado

Peter Falk’s Avocado

There isn’t any cooking going on at Silver Screen Suppers Towers as I have finally succumbed to Covid.  I’m mostly sleeping and knitting with the occasional wobble to the kitchen for a Lemsip.  So perhaps now is a good time for me to tell you about...
Happy Fourth Birthday Cooking With Columbo

Happy Fourth Birthday Cooking With Columbo

Four years ago today my Columbo cookbook was put out into the world.   Writing this was so much fun and it has brought me huge joy ever since.  The thing that makes me most happy is knowing that people all around the world are cooking from it.  For example, Missy...
Happy Birthday Peter Falk!

Happy Birthday Peter Falk!

For all you Peter Falk fans, I thought I would gather together photos of all of his favourite recipes in one post.  All these recipes are featured in the Cooking With Columbo book.  and I have a few copies here at Silver Screen Suppers Towers in London which I’m...
Top 100 Greatest Columbo Scenes of the 1970s

Top 100 Greatest Columbo Scenes of the 1970s

I have been meaning to blog about this for ages but just to let all Columbo fans know that the fabulous Columbophile is doing this mega-countdown RIGHT NOW and I heartily recommend you check it out. If you are quick, you’ll catch the last two posts where...
Happy Birthday Cooking With Columbo!

Happy Birthday Cooking With Columbo!

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 this will be a...
Columbo Podcast and Book Giveaway

Columbo Podcast and Book Giveaway

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 One More Thing...
Christmas Cooking With Columbo Cookbook Giveaway!

Christmas Cooking With Columbo Cookbook Giveaway!

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!...
Johnny Cash Chilli in Birmingham!

Johnny Cash Chilli in Birmingham!

Hello, all you lovely folks in and around the Birmingham, UK area.  There’s a special event happening this Sunday to celebrate Peter Falk’s birthday. I’m giving an illustrated talk about Columbo and there will be JOHNNY CASH CHILLI made by a top...
Video Demo – Peter Falk’s Pumpkin Lasagne

Video Demo – Peter Falk’s Pumpkin Lasagne

My chum film-maker Sarah Akrobettoe challenged me to make a cooking demo video over Easter and I did it!  It was so much fun to make and edit.  I did it all in one day, as my mum would say “all by my own self” on Easter Monday – and I am...
Cooking With Columbo Book Launch

Cooking With Columbo Book Launch

It was so lovely to have a get together with my friends and test cooks and have a little party to celebrate the launch of my Columbo book. Yes! It really exists! I can’t quite believe the book is out in the world, but it is!  It’s available on Amazon,...
The Columbo Bowl Chili Cook-along Has Begun!

The Columbo Bowl Chili Cook-along Has Begun!

Greg of Recipes for Rebels has created ANOTHER wonderful graphic for the cook-along, feel free to include it in your blog posts, print it out and frame it (which is what I’m going to do) or just appreciate the splendor of it! Just wanted to remind y’all...
Columbo’s Black and White Ice Cream Soda

Columbo’s Black and White Ice Cream Soda

It’s that time again…  It’s the #ColumboTV tweetalong tomorrow night and the episode is… In this episode, the Lieutenant rustles himself up a Black and White Soda.  I had no idea what this was, but the power of the internet has...
Lieutenant Columbo’s Omelet / Omelette

Lieutenant Columbo’s Omelet / Omelette

If I met someone who had never seen an episode of Columbo, I think I would recommend Murder By The Book as the one to start with.  It’s superb in so many ways…  Not least… but also… Credit is due for the screengrabs to the...
Test Cook’s Report – Peter Falk’s Avocado

Test Cook’s Report – Peter Falk’s Avocado

 My fellow Shellac Sister Lady Jane is well known for being averse to cooking.  But she stepped right up to the plate to test this recipe for the Columbo cookbook.  Admittedly, there isn’t really any cooking involved, but when you are a LADY, this...
Lieutenant Columbo’s Scallopini

Lieutenant Columbo’s Scallopini

Murder Under Glass is the BEST Columbo episode for foodies.  There is so much brilliant stuff going on with Cioppino, “Bon Snacks” biscuits and Japanese blowfish I cannot even begin to explain…  If you have never seen it, seek it out on DVD...
Lieutenant Columbo’s Omelet

Lieutenant Columbo’s Omelet

In the first non-pilot episode of Columbo, Murder By The Book, our favourite TV detective makes an omelet.  Well, he starts to make an omelet but we don’t get to see anyone eat it, as events interrupt his cooking session… Work continues apace on the...
Columbo’s Hard Boiled Eggs

Columbo’s Hard Boiled Eggs

I have been celebrating the completion of the second draft of the Columbo cookbook with the Lieutenant’s favourite snack.  Hard boiled eggs.  Behold my new guilty pleasure. Yes, I realise it’s the laziest thing in the world to buy pre-boiled, hard boiled...
Columbo’s Favourite Sandwich

Columbo’s Favourite Sandwich

I have been celebrating the completion of the first draft of the Cooking with Columbo cookbook, with champagne and a special Columbo sandwich.  YES!  I am soooo excited.  Myrna Loy, Janet Leigh, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, William Shatner and many...
Peter Falk’s Pumpkin Lasagna

Peter Falk’s Pumpkin Lasagna

This is a very special recipe for me as it graces the cover of my Cooking With Columbo cookbook. Plus I made a demo video… So here is the recipe and there follows some notes on how I tackled it. I thought I would have a problem finding jumbo pasta shells here in...
Peter Falk’s Spare Ribs

Peter Falk’s Spare Ribs

Ooh, Spare Ribs – yes!   I didn’t have hooks from which to suspend the ribs in my oven, as the legendary Mr Falk suggested.  I simply plonked them on the oven rack with the grill pan lower down in the oven underneath them to catch any drips....
Peter Falk’s Just Plain Avocado

Peter Falk’s Just Plain Avocado

Folks, this is my 999th blog post.  I am not kidding.  The next post you will see from me is my 1,000th so expect something special!  I’ll be cooking something very, very strange indeed. Until then, here’s something simple.  The way Peter liked his...
Peter Falk’s Pork Chops with Vinegar Peppers

Peter Falk’s Pork Chops with Vinegar Peppers

When you buy meat from the butcher, it’s only when you get it home that you see how HUGE it is compared to what’s on offer at the supermarkets. My tenderloin pork chops from Midhurst Butchers in Muswell Hill were mahoooooooooooooooosive! Hence, I only did half of...

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