Vincent Price’s Asparagus Milanese

Vincent Price’s Asparagus Milanese

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...
Recipe of the Month – Vincent Price’s Bloody Marys

Recipe of the Month – Vincent Price’s Bloody Marys

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...
Vincent Price Cucumber Crocodile Competition

Vincent Price Cucumber Crocodile Competition

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...
Supper with the Stars – the book is out!

Supper with the Stars – the book is out!

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...
Cucumber Crocodile Competition and Book Launch Party

Cucumber Crocodile Competition and Book Launch Party

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...
Vincent Price’s Steak au Poivre

Vincent Price’s Steak au Poivre

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...
Vincent Price’s Manhattan

Vincent Price’s Manhattan

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...
Vincent Price’s Herb Bread

Vincent Price’s Herb Bread

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)...
Happy Birthday Vincent Price!  Recipe Testers Unite!

Happy Birthday Vincent Price! Recipe Testers Unite!

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...
Vincent Price’s Pimento Rice

Vincent Price’s Pimento Rice

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...
Vincent Price’s Cottage Fried Potatoes

Vincent Price’s Cottage Fried Potatoes

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...
Vincent Price’s Friday Chicken

Vincent Price’s Friday Chicken

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...
Vincent Price’s Ghoulish Goulash for Halloween

Vincent Price’s Ghoulish Goulash for Halloween

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...
Vincent Price’s Roast Turkey Wayside Inn

Vincent Price’s Roast Turkey Wayside Inn

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...
Vincent Price Bloody Marys

Vincent Price Bloody Marys

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...
Vincent Price’s Iced Tea

Vincent Price’s Iced Tea

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...
Virtual Vincent Price Dinner Party!

Virtual Vincent Price Dinner Party!

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...
Vincent Price’s Chicken Sweet and Hot

Vincent Price’s Chicken Sweet and Hot

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...
Vincent Price’s Corn Fritters

Vincent Price’s Corn Fritters

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...
Vincent Price’s Carrot Soup

Vincent Price’s Carrot Soup

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...
A Vincent Price Curry Party

A Vincent Price Curry Party

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...
Vincent Price’s Oatmeal Lace Cookies

Vincent Price’s Oatmeal Lace Cookies

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...
Vincent Price’s Chicken Livers en Brochette

Vincent Price’s Chicken Livers en Brochette

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...
Vincent Price’s Broiled Trout With Cucumber Salad

Vincent Price’s Broiled Trout With Cucumber Salad

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...
Happy Halloween – Vincent Price’s Steak Au Poivre

Happy Halloween – Vincent Price’s Steak Au Poivre

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...
Vincent Price’s Steak Au Poivre (Black Pepper Steak)

Vincent Price’s Steak Au Poivre (Black Pepper Steak)

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...
Vincent Price’s Buckingham Eggs

Vincent Price’s Buckingham Eggs

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...
Vincent Price’s Pineapple Nut Bread

Vincent Price’s Pineapple Nut Bread

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...
Vincent Price’s House Bread

Vincent Price’s House Bread

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...
Dinner and a  Movie – Madhouse (1974)

Dinner and a Movie – Madhouse (1974)

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...
Happy 12th Birthday Silver Screen Suppers – my favourite dozen movie star recipes!

Happy 12th Birthday Silver Screen Suppers – my favourite dozen movie star recipes!

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...
Boris Karloff’s Potted Shrimp

Boris Karloff’s Potted Shrimp

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...
Vincent  Price’s Cioppino

Vincent Price’s Cioppino

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....
Vincent Price’s Buckingham Eggs

Vincent Price’s Buckingham Eggs

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...
Vincent Price’s Goulash

Vincent Price’s Goulash

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...
Vincent Price’s Savory Stuffed Chicken

Vincent Price’s Savory Stuffed Chicken

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...
Vincent Price Buttermilk Waffles

Vincent Price Buttermilk Waffles

I can’t believe I’m only just now getting around to writing about these waffles as these were made YONKS AGO when my darling Caroline Frick was in the house, way back in April.  Over from Texas for a short visit, I set Dr Frick on waffle duty as she...

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