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
WELCOME to those who have passed a milestone in the Everwalk Walk Up An Appetite Challenge. Here’s a Thanksgiving recipe from the kitchen of Vincent Price. If you are a fan of Vincent, do sign up to my monthly newsletter or leave a comment below and I will add...
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...
by Jenny | 20 Sep, 2017 | Vincent Price
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...
by Jenny | 19 Jul, 2017 | Vincent Price, When Bloggers Meet or Collaborate
Everyone agreed. If you are going to make Vincent Price’s Tropical Chicken, you’d better get yourself to a funfair that has a coconut shy. Because the coconuts you get from Waitrose are TOO SMALL to contain a whole chicken breast when chopped...
by Jenny | 20 Jun, 2017 | Vincent Price
I made this dish recently because the caretaker of my building threw away my cauliflower. Yes, a perfectly good cauliflower. But I guess it was my fault. I’d put it out on the fire escape because my old dinky fridge was too full, and it was cold out there. When I...
by Jenny | 26 May, 2017 | Vincent Price
I learned something fundamental last week. You cannot stir a curry with one hand and try and film it on your iPhone with the other. The saucepan spins and spins and spins! Just like the little coloured spinning wheel of death I get on my computer screen all the...
by Jenny | 5 May, 2017 | Vincent Price
I’ve made a couple of these lately. Once for the brilliant cheese & wine party we had at my place, organised in order to drink all of the 24 bottles of lovely wine my ma and pa bought me and Mr R for our big birthdays. That, as you can probably imagine, was a...
by Jenny | 20 Apr, 2017 | Vincent Price
I’ve been on a little holiday to Whitstable and very lovely it was too. Four days in a fabulous and oh-so-peaceful little home from home, that was full of books and a beautiful orchid: It was a perfect place to write – and cook – and eat – and...
by Jenny | 9 Apr, 2017 | Vincent Price
I’m excited to let y’all know that my chum Peter Fuller is organising what promises to be a fabulous party on Tuesday 30th May in Islington, London. All the details are on the Vincent Price London Legacy website here…. but for now just let...
by Jenny | 31 Mar, 2017 | Vincent Price
Vincent usually gets things absolutely perfect in his recipes, but this one was a bit screwy. Serves 6? Me and Vic ate the lot between the two of us! Perhaps we are just greedy… Vic said: “Serves 6? 6 leprechauns maybe.” My ex is a...
by Jenny | 28 Feb, 2017 | Vincent Price
More exciting news for Vincent Price fans! Some of you may know that Vincent and Mary’s Treasury of Great Recipes was reprinted and released in 2015 in a 50th anniversary edition. We had an amazing day here in London at Harrods for the book launch…...
by Jenny | 9 Nov, 2016 | Vincent Price
Did you have a lovely Halloween? I sure did! Mr Rathbone came as Vincent Price (naturally), and we took a specially posed picture of him adding the finishing touches to this dish, just as Vincent did… I must admit, I thought that this was a slightly...
by Jenny | 30 Oct, 2016 | Vincent Price
It’s HALLOWEEEEEEEN! We’ll it’s the day before Halloween but here in the UK it seems everyone is dressing up and going bonkers all weekend… I got a nice message from a reader of the blog, Mark Brisenden to say that he’s mentioning...
by Jenny | 4 Sep, 2016 | Vincent Price
Ooh, I’ve got a little article over at the Vincent Price Legacy site about cooking with the BRAND NEW and JUST RELEASED Vincent Price Ale. Can you imagine how amazing it will be to sip a beer with Vincent on the label? I have some on order and will...
by Jenny | 26 Jul, 2016 | Vincent Price
For the Hedda Hopper night’s dinner, I was planning a whole feast of curries made with the lovely spice mixtures prepared before your very eyes at Rafi’s Spice Box in Sudbury. But on the morning of the day, an email popped into my inbox...
by Jenny | 8 Jul, 2016 | Anne Baxter, Vincent Price
There is something very appealing about the recipe title “Honey Buns”, so it was destined that I make them at some point, and make them I did, for the Muswell Hill and District Horticultural Society Spring Show. Now then, the Spring Show was a LONG...
by Jenny | 11 Jun, 2016 | Vincent Price
I’ve been trying to perfect poached eggs, Vincent Price style, throughout my holiday week. We always treat ourselves to stonking great big brunches when we are in Mersea, like this: So every day I’ve been experimenting with Vincent’s method of...
by Jenny | 1 Jun, 2016 | Vincent Price
This is probably the BEST movie star chocolate cake recipe ever, BUT, a word of warning, do not think you can get up early to make this, and still get into work on time. That is not going to happen. Our much beloved work colleague Luke resigned recently, much to...
by Jenny | 14 Apr, 2016 | Vincent Price
The lovely Peter Fuller has a fabulous new Vincent Price website and he asked me to write something about the glorious TV show that is Cooking Price-Wise, the series that my food hero presented on British TV in the 1970s. It was a really fun article to write, and for...
by Jenny | 16 Mar, 2016 | Vincent Price
When Vincent Price expert Peter Fuller comes round for lunch, it has GOT to be a menu from the Master of Menace himself. We had a brilliant afternoon sampling delights from Vincent’s International Cooking Course LP… Bounty of Paradise –...
by Jenny | 2 Mar, 2016 | Vincent Price
I’ve done an inventory of what’s in the bottom drawer of my frozen archives #2 and there is a LOT of liver in there. I love liver, and don’t eat it often enough. It is so GOOD for a body. So I now have a mission to eat all the...
by Jenny | 28 Feb, 2016 | Vincent Price
One of my cyber-chums, Taryn over at the fabulous Retro Food For Modern Times has inspired me to set myself a six week challenge. It is this. I shall eat as much as I can from the frozen archives in an attempt to have ONE EMPTY DRAWER in my freezer by...
by Jenny | 15 Feb, 2016 | Vincent Price
How was your Valentine’s Day? I was single for 8 years, so know full well, that it is perfectly lovely to spend it all by yourself. Now that I have the fabulous Mr Rathbone by my side though, I do like to pull out all the stops. For breakfast I...
by Jenny | 7 Jan, 2016 | Vincent Price
Do you have a freezer full of Christmas leftovers? For our work Xmas lunch, we went to The Queen’s Pub and Dining Room in Primrose Hill. The turkey was really flavoursome, but the portion was massive, and there was no way I could eat it all, so I asked for...
by Jenny | 30 Dec, 2015 | Vincent Price
Do you have a blog? Are you thinking about it? If you are, I would say DO IT, because magical things will start to happen. During the Vincentennial year, when celebrations were going on to mark what would have been Vincent Price’s 100th...
by Jenny | 9 Dec, 2015 | Vincent Price
It’s taken me so long to write about this, because to be honest, it was such a brilliant day, I don’t think I can do it justice. Shall I give it a go? Many moons ago, I was at a Guild of Food Writers event and Bruce Langlands, Director of Food and...
