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...
by Jenny | 3 Dec, 2015 | Vincent Price
Have you ever been to Bart’s Pathology Museum? It’s insane! Very hard to find, it’s a hidden treasure of London. If you ever get to go, make sure you have a look at the cabinet that contains many strange things that folks, since the dawn...
by Jenny | 2 Dec, 2015 | Vincent Price
My lovely chums David and Katy can get to my place “door to door on the 134” but we don’t see each other often enough. Something to rectify in 2016 because I LOVE THEM. They came round for dinner the other Friday and I vaguely remembered...
by Jenny | 7 Nov, 2015 | Vincent Price
Joy, joy, joy! Blog posts have popped up all around the world from the folks who joined in with the Treasury Cookalong. It brought many a tear to my glass eye! So much wondrousness! The cookalong was organised to celebrate the launch of the 50th...
by Jenny | 31 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
It’s a bumper day for Vincent Price today! Not only has my EatDrinkFilms column gone live but a Bibelot Magazine article too! Nip over to the delightful Bibelot for Mary and Vincent’s recipe for Scotch Shortbread – this is a fail-safe...
by Jenny | 31 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
and for dessert? This month’s EatDrinkFilms column is all about Mary and Vincent Price’s A Treasury of Great Recipes and includes their recipe for Soufflé Au Grand Marnier. Mmmmmmmmmm! Nip over there by clicking on this link…. Photo...
by Jenny | 31 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
Getting ready to party? I am! Here’s a glimpse of what is going on here… What are you having for your din dins tonght? May I propose something Vincent Price related? If you are a regular reader of the blog you will know that Vincent...
by Jenny | 29 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
Oooh, I am SO EXCITED about next week and all the wonderful things that are going on when Victoria Price is here to give talks about her father’s life and legacy, to sign 50th Anniversary Editions of A Treasury of Great Recipes and generally HAVE FUN in London...
by Jenny | 28 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
An underwhelming name, for a seriously delicious pudding… This was the final course of my Mexican Extravaganza last Sunday and a huge hit. Everyone had a second slice. I mangled it a bit, getting it out of the flan pan. The term “flan...
by Jenny | 27 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
This may well be my number one favourite of ALL Silver Screen Suppers dishes. I absolutely ADORE this stuff and can eat it by the ladle-ful. Recipe is at the end of this post. I cannot recommend anything else you will find here as highly. Except maybe I will, in a...
by Jenny | 24 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
Last Sunday I gave what I have decided was my BEST EVER DINNER PARTY. Heather and Nathan, Ptolemy and Keith came over for a Mexican extravaganza. Oh my. What a delicious combination of Mexican inspired loveliness. Ptolemy wore a suitably...
by Jenny | 20 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
When did you last see giblets? This is going to be a LONG post about chickens, so if you are here for Vincent’s curry recipe, and you don’t wish to wade through my blatherings about chicken, please proceed to the end of the post. At a...
by Jenny | 11 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
You are joining in with the Vincent Price Treasury Cookalong right? I DO hope so! Having an excuse to cook something you might not do otherwise, is GREAT. I looooooove cookalongs. The RNLI Fish Supper was a sort of countrywide cookalong, organised...
by Jenny | 7 Oct, 2015 | Vincent Price
To celebrate the launch of Mary and Vincent Price’s 50th Anniversary Edition of A Treasury of Great Recipes, you are hereby invited to a cookalong – wherever you are in the world – whenever you have a moment to cook! Simply select one or...
by Jenny | 20 Sep, 2015 | Vincent Price
Aaarg! I think this has immediately become my favourite of all movie star chicken recipes. Apologies to Elizabeth Taylor who was previously the holder of the title for * best movie star chicken recipe ever * (as her Chicken Steamed in White Wine is...
by Jenny | 5 Sep, 2015 | Vincent Price
I had a lovely day off yesterday, spending it baking like a lunatic for today’s Muswell Hill and District Horticultural Society Autumn Show cookery contest. I made 8 cakes! Admittedly, 2 are for the cake stall, but I’ll have 6 in...
by Jenny | 24 Aug, 2015 | Vincent Price
I’m having a day off work to fiddle around with plans for the Vincent Price Treasury Cookalong, and work on other bits and pieces of writing. As is tradition for a spinster’s day off, I made Buckingham Eggs for my brekkie. Mmmm. ...
by Jenny | 21 Aug, 2015 | Vincent Price
Now then. If you ever invite me round to dinner (and I wish you would), if you ask me if there is anything I prefer not to eat, I will say mushrooms, aubergines and seafood. With a caveat. I don’t mind mushrooms and aubergines if they are...
by Jenny | 19 Aug, 2015 | Vincent Price
Ooh, I think I have perfected the non-cup measurements, for this best of all cakes. I misread my scribbled post it note, stuck on the page of The Treasury of Great Recipes, from when I made it last time. I used a lot more flour than in theory I should...
by Jenny | 17 Aug, 2015 | Vincent Price
I am drinking champagne alone, on a Monday night, in bed. How decadent. I have good reason though, honest. Tonight I cooked dinner for someone very dear to me, who almost snuffed it a couple of weeks ago. So champagne seemed to be appropriate....
by Jenny | 12 Aug, 2015 | Vincent Price
I’ve been craving this for ages and as I’m testing recipes for the forthcoming Vincent & Mary Price’s Treasury of Great Recipes Virtual Reality Book Launch Party Cookalong, I made it tonight for my din dins. If anyone can think of a...
by Jenny | 12 Jul, 2015 | Vincent Price
The Muswell Hill and District Horticultural Society Summer Show was loads of fun. It’s not as mad as the Spring show, as there are less cooking categories, nevertheless there was some bonkers last minute rushing around yesterday morning to get...
by Jenny | 16 Jun, 2015 | Vincent Price
The Strolling Supper Club was a resounding success and made a whopping £850 for Alice’s Youth Music Memorial Fund. We were so pleased with how it all went. Davie took a nice pic of me preparing everything in my kitchen, he’s managed to make it...
by Jenny | 11 Jun, 2015 | Vincent Price
Tonight I’ve been practising my mini toad in the holes for Saturday’s Strolling Supper Club. I’m joining forces with Battenberg Belle and Davie from Seven Songs to raise money for the Alice Youth Music Memorial Fund. We’ll be having cocktails...
by Jenny | 31 May, 2015 | Vincent Price
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Mersea Island fishermen sell some of their catch directly from the quayside between 2.45 and 4.30pm. So we bundled down there to get ourselves some fresh fish. There were some lovely looking flat fish such as lemon sole, dabs, an...
by Jenny | 28 May, 2015 | Vincent Price
Exciting plans are falling into place for Victoria Price’s visit to London in November, to launch the 50th anniversary edition of her parents’ wonderful book; A Treasury of Great Recipes. I’ve been helping to organize a couple of events for...
by Jenny | 10 May, 2015 | Anne Baxter, Diana Dors, Vincent Price
Oh, I forgot to say, I won the Guy Chester cookery cup! I don’t want to rub it in too much with Battenburg Belle, as by rights, she should have scooped it. We do not understand the scoring system and she got more firsts than I did. But I guess...
by Jenny | 9 May, 2015 | Vincent Price
“That is chicken supreme”, said Mr R about this dish, and he also pointed out that there’s no need to panic about it, if you have left it overnight in your fire escape. I shall explain. I made this on a Saturday as I had 5 guests coming for dinner...
by Jenny | 18 Apr, 2015 | Vincent Price
The name of this cake doesn’t do it justice. If I had the power to go back in time, I might suggest to Mary and Vincent that it should be known as “The Price’s Divine Pineapple and Macadamia Nut Cake”. It’s my favourite film...
by Jenny | 3 Apr, 2015 | Vincent Price
In my dreamworld it is the early 1960s, and I’m partaking of an ice cold Mai Tai at Trader Vic’s… with Roger Stirling to my right… and Mary and Vincent Price to my left… For not only was Trader Vic’s a favourite haunt of the lovely...
by Jenny | 13 Feb, 2015 | Vincent Price
I was single for 8 years (with some little hiccups along the way) so I do know what it’s like when Valentine’s Day is on the horizon and you haven’t got a significant other. But this year, as last, I do have a lovely Valentine and I’m...
by Jenny | 12 Feb, 2015 | Vincent Price
It’s my annual spinster’s day! I do so love to have a day to myself now and then, doing exactly whatever the hell I like. Today is such a day. I am on annual leave, and still in my pyjamas at 1pm with no intention of getting out of them....
by Jenny | 11 Feb, 2015 | Vincent Price
If only I had the plane fare to Los Angeles I would be there… For more details about the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Treasury of Great Recipes, register with the Cooking With Vincent website… Soooooooooooooooooooooo...
by Jenny | 4 Feb, 2015 | Vincent Price
Have you ever had haggis on a pizza? I did on Burns Night and it was DELICIOUS! It was my chum Nathan who came up with this idea and he guided me through the process at a pizza extravaganza for 6 at Silver Screen Suppers Towers on Burns’s birthday....
by Jenny | 24 Jan, 2015 | Vincent Price
Things are hotting up here in advance of Victoria Price’s visit to London to launch the 50th Anniversary edition of The Treasury of Great Recipes. I’m involved in planning an event that will combine a film screening with a feast of food based on...
by Jenny | 9 Jan, 2015 | Vincent Price
My life has been changed forever by this book, I hope… A fair bit of toot and 30 books have left the building already, and there will be more sliding out the door over the next 6 months. For that’s how long the process is going to take methinks, but...
by Jenny | 11 Nov, 2014 | Vincent Price
It’s the One Reeler Film Club at the Cinema Museum tonight so I have made a cake. It smells and looks delicious but I’ve never made it before so I’ll have to wait until tonight to find out how it tastes. If it is good, I will return and...
by Jenny | 1 Nov, 2014 | Joan Crawford, Vincent Price
These were unanimously enjoyed at my Halloween party (although approached somewhat gingerly by a couple of guests). Liver is a funny thing. Here in the UK a lot of us associate it with school dinners. A tough lump of stuff dipped in flour and...
by Jenny | 31 Oct, 2014 | Vincent Price
Just a quick link to a lovely piece on the website of my lovely local butchers – Morley Butchers in Crouch End. I only popped in for a ham bone yesterday and it set in motion a wonderful chain of events…. Vincent Price’s Goulish...
