When my chum Orlando Murrin heard that there were a couple of Ray Milland recipes in the Columbo cookbook he let his friend Rosie Jones know.  Rosie is Ray Milland’s second cousin and she offered to test his Chow Mein recipe.  How fab is that?  I love Rosie’s photo of the finished dish – doesn’t...

I have never eaten lobster before. I’ve always thought of it as being a big prawn. And I’m not mad on prawns so why would I like lobster? But anyhow, Ray Milland’s Lobster Salad is on the test cooking schedule for the Columbo Cookbook so I had to try it!  Battenburg Belle was game to...

This was a hit with the King of Chow Mein.  With me too.  I was pleasantly surprised at how good this was. Tonight was a momentous night.  The grand finale of series two of The Rockford Files.  So I cooked Chow Mein for my ex who first of all trotted up the stairs with some...