Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours…. Yes! I am so lucky that I have good neighbours. Here’s a little tale about a lovely encounter I had with a neighbour on the bus home on a Friday evening recently. I do not know her name, but she is fab. Planning to go to my “bring a bottle...

Remember when I said a few blog posts back that everyone looks good in a cowboy hat?  Well here’s another bit of evidence if you need it… and plus… my word! I absolutely love it when a reader of my blog or a recipient of my newsletter gets in touch.  So I want to say...

Very sad to hear about Martin Landau going to that Hollywood in the sky yesterday.  Had to cheer myself up a bit with a big helping of his very own Martini recipe.  Martin is one of my favourite Columbo villains and I’ve written about the episode he is in here…. If you wanted to have...

This recipe found its way into the Cooking With Columbo cookbook. My word, I think this was the best steak I have ever eaten, no kidding. Martin’s marinade was divine. Also, I had learned some stuff from Harry Eastwood’s steak masterclass in January’s Delicious Magazine. Cooking steak always makes me a bit nervous, but there...

I am excited about tonight’s #ColumboTV tweetalong, as the episode we’ll all be tweeting along with, is one of my absolute favourites: Double Shock.  Martin Landau plays Dexter Paris, host of a television cooking show, and he gets the Lieutenant up out of the audience, to assist him in making hollandaise sauce. Everyone is welcome...