by Jenny | 27 May, 2024 | Vincent Price
It’s Vincent Price’s birthday today so here’s one from the archives, I was SO YOUNG! No grey hair, a great set of spex that I no longer wear because my eyesight has got worse and some fab dungarees I can no longer squeeze into. Oh, the passage of...
by Jenny | 14 May, 2024 | Andy Clyde, David Niven, Diana Dors, Gene Tierney, Peter Fonda, Phyllis Diller, Top 100 Movie Star Recipes, Una Stubbs, Vincent Price
My blog is 17 years old today. 1,741 blog posts. My goodness! So much water under the bridge and so many recipes tried, with only a few FAILS. I thought I’d do a little round-up of where I am up to with the Top 100. Let’s go! Counting down from #93 Andy...
by Jenny | 13 Aug, 2023 | David Niven, Diana Dors, Gene Tierney, Peter Fonda, Phyllis Diller, Una Stubbs, Vincent Price
Silver Screen Suppers Towers has moved to the seaside. I put my intention to do this out into the universe a few months ago, and a beautiful place to live has been handed to me on a plate with parsley around it! I have an absolutely wonderful kitchen and am planning...
by Jenny | 16 May, 2023 | Vincent Price
Asparagus season here – yippee! The minute I spotted some, I grabbed it, with this lovely luncheon in mind. Sometimes when I’m working from home I fancy something fancy and this feels fancy. Egghead would approve! It’s so quick and easy too. I...
by Jenny | 26 Feb, 2023 | Supper with the Stars, Vincent Price
I had two frankfurters leftover from the Richard Basehart Frankfurters and Beans extravaganza written about here and that could only mean one thing. Hotchpotch of Curly Kale. I was determined that this recipe go in the Supper with the Stars book as I love it so....
by Jenny | 10 Aug, 2022 | Vincent Price
It was such fun to have a zoom party celebrating the launch of the paperback and Kindle versions of the Supper with the Stars book last week. Peter always makes his events so much fun. Folks brought along dishes they had made from those featured in the book including...
by Jenny | 1 Aug, 2022 | Ava Gardner, Diana Rigg, Vincent Price
My co-writer on the Vincent Price extravaganza Supper with the Stars organised a fabulously fun party last night to celebrate the launch of the paperback and Kindle versions. It was so lovely to see so many of our fabulous test cooks in the zoom room including Gill,...
by Jenny | 13 Feb, 2022 | Dolores Del Rio, Vincent Price, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Oh what a fun time I had appearing as a guest on Karie Bible’s lovely Hollywood Kitchen Show last Sunday. Karie had invited myself and my co-writer Peter to speak about our Vincent Price cookbook and to make Dolores Del Rio’s Enchiladas and Vincent...
by Jenny | 24 Dec, 2021 | Vincent Price
I am pleased to announce the three winners of the Vincent Price Cucumber Crocodile competition. Victoria Price was just delighted to see all of the entries and wrote, “OH MY GOD! These are so great. . .” Haha, indeed they are, for all the entries skip...
by Jenny | 4 Dec, 2021 | Vincent Price
I just LOVED receiving photographs of the cucumber crocodiles made for the Supper with the Stars book launch competition. It really brought me great, great joy! Here are a couple of photos by Sue Foll of my cucumber croc demo at the book launch (yes, I dyed mini...
by Jenny | 3 Nov, 2021 | Vincent Price
The book is out and it is GORGEOUS! We just couldn’t be prouder of it. Peter has done an amazing job with all the film reviews and co-star biographies. He had a great vision for how the book would look and he’s totally made that happen. Ben...
by Jenny | 6 Oct, 2021 | Vincent Price
To celebrate the launch of the Vincent Price cookbook I’m running a cucumber crocodile competition. All you have to do is make one of these beauties and send me a photo or tag me on Instagram by November 1st. Photos of your crocs will be judged by Victoria...
by Jenny | 13 Sep, 2021 | Vincent Price
Have you ever made a cucumber crocodile? If not, now is the time! To celebrate the launch of Supper with the Stars we are having a party! Visit Peter’s website for details – everyone welcome! I really hope to see some of you there, it’s going to...
by Jenny | 11 Sep, 2021 | Vincent Price
Do you ever order groceries online? Do you ever put loads of delicious looking things in your shopping basket, then have a rethink and think, “I am but one human being, living alone, I must be sensible”? and take lots of them out? Have you ever then...
by Jenny | 18 Aug, 2021 | Barry Norman, Vincent Price
Well, my work on the Vincent Price cookbook is done! I delivered all the final tweaks to my co-writer Peter Fuller yesterday and as we must celebrate all the wins these days, fashioned myself a little cocktail. This cocktail featured in an advertising campaign for...
by Jenny | 25 Jul, 2021 | Movie Star Cocktails, Vincent Price
Do you have a bottle of Angostura Bitters hanging around in your cocktail cabinet? You bought it for some tipple or another years ago, and it now just sits there, unloved? Most of us do. Luckily, Vincent Price was involved in an ad campaign that featured recipes...
by Jenny | 26 Jun, 2021 | Vincent Price
I have discovered three big things about myself during the global pandemic. 1) That I love to play drums 2) that the LWS Writers’ Hour is an absolutely magical place where creativity and friendships blossom – it’s international and free folks! 3)...
by Jenny | 14 Jun, 2021 | Vincent Price
It’s a momentous day! I have just emailed the final recipe verdict for the Supper With The Stars book to my co-writer Peter. Yippee. 52 films written about, 104 recipes tweaked, 104 verdicts delivered. Vincent’s kedgeree was the last recipe I tested for...
by Jenny | 27 May, 2021 | Charles Bronson, Diana Rigg, Eva Gabor, Frank Lovejoy, Henry Fonda, Ian Hunter, Ian Ogilvy, Jane Asher, John Carradine, Lana Turner, Lilian Gish, Lynn Bari, Margaret Lindsay, Nan Grey, Tallulah Bankhead, Vincent Price
It’s Vincent Price’s birthday today. Let’s celebrate with a round up of some of the dishes cooked for the forthcoming Vincent Price cookbook by our wonderful volunteers. My co-writer Peter has published a sneaky peek of the proposed book cover...
by Jenny | 12 May, 2021 | Vincent Price
I never cook rice. If Mr R is around the place and we are having curry or chilli or something else that requires a ricey accompaniment, he is in charge. He is the expert. Just as I am the expert in the scrambled eggs department. On a Sunday morning that’s my...
by Jenny | 27 Apr, 2021 | Vincent Price
Potatoes fried in a large amount of butter are going to be good aren’t they? This is not clickbait to tease you into reading a disaster story about how potatoes fried in a large amount of butter turned out NOT to be good. Because they definitely were good (it...
by Jenny | 27 Mar, 2021 | Top 100 Movie Star Recipes, Vincent Price
In May my blog will be 15 years old. Fifteen years of eating and drinking like my Hollywood idols. CRIKEY! I know exactly what movie star dish I am going to cook to celebrate, but you’ll have to wait until then to find out! Here’s a clue… In honour...
by Jenny | 21 Feb, 2021 | Vincent Price
On Wednesday I had such a stressful day I felt like my head was going to explode. I work in a film archive (well no longer physically “in” it) and stress is usually absent from my working life. But sometimes I have a humdinger of a day and I end up as...
by Jenny | 2 Feb, 2021 | Vincent Price
Ooh, I forgot about this post, I made this for Mr R’s birthday breakfast on 1st Jan, and now it February already but this such is a winning recipe so I have decided to make it RECIPE OF THE MONTH. It is a sarnie for a special occasion, for a special brunch, cut...
by Jenny | 1 Jan, 2021 | George Segal, Gertrude Niesen, Helen Hayes, Ian Ogilvy, Pat Phoenix, Vincent Price
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my lovely readers! The choice of my #1 movie star dish of 2020 is SIMPLE because this way of cooking a leg of lamb was an absolute revelation. The recipe is the culinary equivalent of an earworm because it keeps on popping into my head as...
by Jenny | 21 Dec, 2020 | Vincent Price
Greetings from Tier FOUR – who even knew that such a thing existed? Sigh. After a sleepless night worrying about what to do now that Christmas in London is cancelled and seeing my parents is illegal, I consoled myself briefly with some French Toast. I had two...
by Jenny | 22 Nov, 2020 | Vincent Price
Here’s what to do with any leftovers from Vincent’s Friday Chicken or any chicken I guess. After mentioning this recipe recently, I was very pleased to find this blog post hanging around in my drafts folder. This was written soon after the UK went into a...
by Jenny | 19 Nov, 2020 | Vincent Price
Well, it’s almost Friday folks! Mr R volunteered to test cook this recipe for the forthcoming Vincent Price Co*Star Cookbook. BUT, we both got so drunk on Gertrude Niesen Buzz-Bombs that I ended up doing it instead. There is something very satisfying about...
by Jenny | 28 Oct, 2020 | Vincent Price
Hello chums, I don’t know about you, but I am really looking forward to Halloween this year. Me and Mr R will be glued to the sofa all weekend scaring ourselves silly watching some amazing films courtesy of the Abertoir Horror Film Festival. I am planning to...
by Jenny | 21 Oct, 2020 | Vincent Price
I am not sure if my friends in the USA will still be allowed to gather together around a dinner table indoors with people who are not part of their household for Thanksgiving this year. But maybe you live with lots of people in a flatshare? Or you have a household of...
by Jenny | 16 Oct, 2020 | Vincent Price
Greetings from the eve of Tier 2 here in London. So tomorrow we will be going into a second lockdown with the biggest change to our lives being NO HOUSEHOLD MINGLING. For me this will mean that during the week I’ll be here on my lonesome, and at the weekends I...
by Jenny | 15 Sep, 2020 | Vincent Price
Is it hot where you are? Here in the UK we are having an Indian Summer which is such a fillip. It is bright and sunny, and I’m still using my little portable desk fan. I am making the most of the lovely weather by spending an hour outside every day either...
by Jenny | 2 May, 2020 | Vincent Price
If ever there was a time for comfort food, the time is now. TOAD. You can’t beat it really, with a lovely onion gravy made with a drop of Vincent Price Ale this is TOPS. In possibly the shortest recipe of the month blog post ever, I present to you, Vincent...
by Jenny | 1 May, 2020 | Vincent Price
This Sunday folks! It’s going to be an absolute hoot. Hosted by Vincent’s daughter Victoria and my chum Peter Fuller of the Vincent Price Legacy UK website, it’s only $5 to join and Vincent fans all around the world will be wining and dining together...
by Jenny | 26 Apr, 2020 | Vincent Price
My brain has gone kind of melty when it comes to cooking during the lockdown. I am usually a stickler for making a recipe exactly to specifications, no deviations, no repetitions. But these strange times are doing something good to my brainbox and I am...
by Jenny | 17 Apr, 2020 | Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!, Vincent Price
When I volunteered for the Vincent Price Blogathon I had grand plans of throwing an elaborate dinner party with many dishes gleaned from Vincent’s fabulous cookbooks. Remember the days when you could have chums over for food and fun? I could have kicked off...
by Jenny | 12 Apr, 2020 | Vincent Price
After my initial Covid-19 lockdown panic about getting hold of certain foodstuffs, things have calmed down a bit here in North London. I managed to get a grocery delivery last Sunday and I have kind friends who have dropped off a couple of things I couldn’t get...
by Jenny | 22 Jan, 2020 | Ian Ogilvy, Murder, She Cooked, Vincent Price
“Well, who would have thunk it?” as my mum often says. I must admit, I decided to test this recipe for the Murder, She Cooked book myself as I didn’t think anyone would volunteer for it. It doesn’t sound very exciting does it? But surprise...
by Jenny | 20 Dec, 2019 | Vincent Price
This might be my last post before Christmas so I hereby wish all my readers a fabulous festive season! It was my birthday last week and look at the haul I got – haha! Anyone would think I was writing a book about Murder, She Wrote! The day after my fabulous...
by Jenny | 25 Oct, 2019 | Vincent Price
Halloween is coming! I have a proposal for you! Why not have a Vincent Price Curry Party? First, could I encourage you to spend a few minutes listening to the dulcet tones of Vincent describing his Lifesaver Curry? This is a video that Peter Fuller of the Vincent...
by Jenny | 14 Feb, 2019 | Vincent Price
It’s been a while since there was a FAIL in the Silver Screen Suppers kitchen, but these cookies were most definitely a fail. I’d never made them before and I was making them in advance of my “Living My Life Like Angela Lansbury Day” (blog post...
by Jenny | 14 Dec, 2018 | Vincent Price
It was the idea of TOAST POINTS that made me want to try this recipe. I had never heard of such a thing before and now I am obsessed with the idea of serving TOAST POINTS with everything. Not least because in a recently watched Murder, She Wrote, a waiter noted that...
by Jenny | 25 Nov, 2018 | Vincent Price
My boss Alwyn goes fishing to relax. When he talks about the pleasures to be had in the middle of the night standing in a river in the pitch black watching shooting stars it almost makes me want to do it myself. However, these days I am usually tucked up in bed by...
by Jenny | 18 Nov, 2018 | Elisha Cook Jr., Harry Morgan, Vincent Price
I am a big fan of stroganoff as it is quick and easy to make on a weeknight and feels like a BIG TREAT. I have made two movie star versions recently – both destined for the Vincent Price Co*Star cookbook. They were both delicious (although not very photogenic)...
by Jenny | 31 Oct, 2018 | Vincent Price
The lovely folks at my local emporium of meat, Morley’s Butcher in Crouch End, have a great piece on their website about this fabulous recipe. Skip over to their blog for all the details and cook yourself up a delicious steak for your Halloween din dins! There...
by Jenny | 8 Oct, 2018 | Vincent Price
I have been craving Steak Au Poivre ever since I had a conversation with my personal trainer Nige about it. Yes! I have a personal trainer, and it is bloody brilliant. The best thing about it is that after seeing Nige for a couple of months, I can actually do all...
by Jenny | 15 Sep, 2018 | Vincent Price
This is one of those things that I get a mad craving for every now and then. Usually when I have a hangover on a Saturday. Which I did, last Saturday. Therefore, as I was home alone and I had all the wherewithal, I rustled some up. SOOOOOOOOO GOOD! Vincent’s...
by Jenny | 8 Sep, 2018 | Vincent Price
Whenever the Muswell Hill and District Horticultural Show rolls around (3 x per year) I always panic slightly about what cake to make to donate to the cake stall. Unlike Battenburgbelle, I am not a natural born cake maker. I like making bread, I like making soup, I...
by Jenny | 20 Aug, 2018 | Robert Quarry, Shirley Jones, Vincent Price, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Yay! It’s Pieathalon day – whoop whoop! One of my favourite things about having a blog is getting invited to participate in some really bonkers challenges. Once a year ACE food blogger Yinzerella over at Dinner Is Served 1972 organizes a...
by Jenny | 24 Jun, 2018 | Vincent Price
I have great affection for Vincent’s House Bread. Not because it is the greatest loaf I ever made but because it is the FIRST loaf I ever made. Way back in 2011 during the Vincentennial year – click here for my blog post about it. I was SO pleased with...
by Jenny | 3 Jun, 2018 | Dinner and a Movie, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price
From June 1-3, 2018, Vincent Price Legacy UK and Silver Screen Suppers are taking part in a fantastic blogathon celebrating all things Amicus and Hammer, hosted by Cinematic Carthasis and Realweegiemidget Reviews, and we’ve picked Scream and Scream Again and Madhouse...
by Jenny | 3 Jun, 2018 | Robert Quarry, Vincent Price
From June 1-3, 2018, Vincent Price Legacy UK and Silver Screen Suppers are taking part in a fantastic blogathon celebrating all things Amicus and Hammer, hosted by Cinematic Carthasis and Realweegiemidget Reviews, and we’ve picked Scream and Scream Again and Madhouse...
by Jenny | 14 May, 2018 | Bette Davis, Corinne Griffith, David Bowie, Elizabeth Taylor, Hal Linden, Irene Dunne, Joan Crawford, Natalie Wood, Ross Martin, Sophia Loren, Vincent Price, William Holden
I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this blog for 12 years – goodness me. So much has changed in that time. When I began I was a broken-hearted singleton living on a houseboat on the Thames. My tabletop cooker had to be turned on...
by Jenny | 8 May, 2018 | Boris Karloff, Vincent Price
You need teeny tiny brown shrimp for this dish. I think that potted shrimp is a very, very British thing, and I’m not sure where else in the world you can get these little fellas. I’ve been doing some trawling around the net for info but I can’t work...
by Jenny | 7 May, 2018 | Eddie Albert, James Garner, Vincent Price
Just over five years ago my neighbour Chloë sent a text asking if I was single. She knew someone she thought I would hit it off with. She set us up on a blind date and we are still together. She’s a genius matchmaker! My blind date, now my soul...
by Jenny | 17 Feb, 2018 | Vincent Price
If you have seen or read Julie and Julia you may remember that the Julia Child task that filled Julie Powell with the most fear was BONING A DUCK. For me, the dish in the Cooking With Columbo book that most gave me the heebie-jeebies was this one, Cioppino....
by Jenny | 25 Nov, 2017 | Vincent Price
I woke up craving these today, and luckily I had the wherewithal about the place to make them. I’m on a writing retreat this weekend. But a writing retreat in my own bed. Lovely. Not – actually – me. I consider Buckingham Eggs to be my ultimate...
by Jenny | 18 Nov, 2017 | Vincent Price
Under Doctor’s orders, I am trying to eat liver once a week. This is no real hardship as I love liver, however, I am not confident about cooking it. Luckily my ex Vic, who lives downstairs from me is an expert in this field so he supervised...
by Jenny | 28 Oct, 2017 | Vincent Price
I think we’ll be talking about Vincent’s Goulash recipe on the Museum of Soho radio show tomorrow from 10am, so I thought I’d put the recipe up. It is such a great thing to cook for Halloween – you can call it GHOULISH GOULASH. At the end of...
by Jenny | 26 Oct, 2017 | Vincent Price
I’m going to be on the radio on Sunday talking about Vincent Price, I’m very excited. It’s the Museum of Soho show on Soho Radio and you can listen to me make a fool of myself live between 10-11am. I’ll put the link to the show in...
