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 odd way of cooking a leg of lamb (us Brits...
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 me on his radio show today – how lovely! Here’s a link to...
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 be snapping selfies left right and...
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 from one of my guests, entitled “Spice Alert” revealing that he wasn’t keen on...
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 time ago, and in fact the SUMMER Show is tomorrow....
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 boiling eggs for 10 seconds before poaching in a whirlpool of water with a tablespoon...
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 everyone’s shock, and has gone...
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 it, I cooked one of...
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 – Polynesian food! We got into the Polynesian mood… First up was Steak Teriyaki with Peanut...
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 liver. This was a very,...
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 April 9th. This will...
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 disappeared into the kitchen with...
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 a doggie bag and my...
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 year, I embarked upon a project to cook one of Vincent’s recipes per...
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 Restaurants at Harrods...
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 of time, have been inserting into their bodies, then going...
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 that some time ago I’d made them a Vincent...
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 Anniversary Edition of A Treasury of Great Recipes by Mary...
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 recipe chums! And still time to make some for the #TreasuryCookalong My lovely neighbour...
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 © Tosh Matsumoto
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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 is my favourite of all movie stars when it comes...
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 with Vincent Price fans. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhrg! I just...
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 pan” makes me think of Fred Fannakapan, a name my dad sometimes...
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 couple of months when...
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 Mexican flouncy frock and made the Vincent Price Guacamole for me as I’d bitten off...
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 recent Guild of Food Writers‘ workshop I was reminded...
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 to raise funds for this excellent charity. For those outside the UK,...
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 more of the recipes below (or any other from the Treasury if you...
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 divine). Chicken Sweet and Hot, was absolutely delicious. The chicken I...
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 competition. Yikes. I am particularly pleased with my Yul Brynner Apple Walnut Cake (recipe...
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. I’ve just signed up to Lightroom so I can fiddle around with...
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 cut up small and not the main event, but...
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 have. The texture of the cake...
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. A toast to LIFE! I love this recipe, not least because...
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 catchier title for my cookalong than the Vincent & Mary Price’s Treasury of...
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 everything ready. I got two firsts, one for my greengage jam (recipe from The Cottage Smallholder)...
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 look MASSIVE! Here are folks gathered in my garden having Vincent...
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 and canapés in the “secret garden” behind my flat, then strolling round to BB’s for...
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 unidentified thing with claws, skate wings, sea bass and lots...
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 Victoria and her VIP guests, and it’s going to be just fabulous. The lovely Bruce...
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 the seconds and thirds added...
“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 on Sunday and I wanted...
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 star cake. I love it. It was the first cake baked...
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 boys and girls of Madison Avenue, it had a...
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 very happy about that. So tonight I made...
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. I’ve done my weekly drawing. ...
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 excited!
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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. Whisky sauce made to this recipe,...
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 recipes in the Treasury. It’s not until November but I’m already...
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 I am ON IT. As...
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 type up the recipe here. Mmmmm....
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 incinerated by the dinner ladies… But chicken livers are dainty...
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 Goulash….. I am so chuffed! Even nicer was the fact that...
I always feel weird serving guests things from my freezer, it feels like cheating. But I’m so flat out with Joan Crawford at the moment, it’s a Godsend to find so many weird and wonderful things in the frozen archives when I am pressed for time. Thus a very odd Saturday dinner was had last...
My September feature for Eat Drink Films is up, and it is all about guacamole this month. I have tested more movie star guacamole than you could shake a chili at over the last few weeks. I am carrying around a guacamole baby alongside the noodle baby at the moment. Fatty. Here’s a link to...
These are BRILLIANT! I’ve been meaning to have a go at these for years, and I finally got around to it. Partly because a little jar of these have been earmarked as one of my competition prizes. They will be heading to the States sometime soon. I gave a little jar to Debbie for her...
I like a rice you bake in the oven, especially when it is baking hot in the kitchen. Mine gets very hot and steamy if there are lots of things on the hob and at the moment in the UK we are having a HEATWAVE. It’s lovely. For the book group I had made the...
It was my turn to host the book group last week and it is now tradition that I make a 10 boy curry. We didn’t have the 10 boys parading around with the condiments, they were on the sideboard, or the “buffeteria” as Lindsey christened it the last time we had a 10 boy curry....
I was thrilled to get a first prize for my Vincent Price Raspberry Tart. I made it exactly to Vincent’s instructions in the “Treasury”. The only thing I did differently was to use cherry brandy rather than raspberry liqueur as I’d bunged all of that in my Madeleine Carroll punch. Mmmmm. I was so pleased...
The results of the Muswell Hill Horticultural Society Summer Show Cookery Classes are IN. I was awarded one FIRST, one SECOND and one THIRD. Third was for my Vincent Price Blueberry Muffins. Read all about them and get the recipe here…
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Happy National Blueberry Muffin Day! The first of my monthly columns on the lovely Eat Drink Films website is up! Isn’t it lovely? Vincent Price Blueberry Muffins Here’s some I made earlier… Thanks Vincent!
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Want to hear the most exciting news EVER? There is going to be a 50th Anniversary Edition of Mary and Vincent Price’s “A Treasury of Great Recipes”. Pass me the smelling salts! Yinzerella over at Dinner is Served alerted me to this, and sent me over me to a fabulous new website called Cooking With...
Some folks opted to have another pink tonic rather than the booze fuelled New Fashioneds but I preferred these of the two. They sure packed a punch. Too busy drinking them to get a good photo… Recipe for these is as follows: A lump of sugar dissolved with 3 dashes Angostura and a splash of...
The world cup has just started and hence normal service at Silver Screen Suppers Towers will be interrupted. I’ll be drip-feeding some findings on the third of the recipe testing parties Nathalie and I have thrown whenever I get a few moments away from the telebox. After the first goal was scored – an own...
Ooh, ooh! I met my hero on Thursday – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI. Oh it was so exciting! It never would have happened if I hadn’t have been so merry on red wine, and chatting to Heather from Cook Up a Party at the Guild Awards after-party. I said, “ooh, there’s Ottolenghi, would it be really starstruck...
I won an Oscar last week! Well, the film archiving world’s equivalent of an Oscar. I am the proud recipient of the Focal International Footage Employee of the Year Award. Look how happy I am about it. It’s a bit like winning the Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Sort of. It’s reminded me that...
When I was single Buckingham Eggs was my regular “Spinster Saturday” treat. I love this stuff. Anchovies. Mmmm. Eggs. Mmmmm. Cheese. Mmmmm. I was on my lonesome most of the weekend before Easter, and I had a bit of a trip down memory lane to those Saturdays. I made the anchovy/butter/mustard paste with the anchovies...
After the disaster that was Myrna Loy’s Shortbread I wasn’t sure about entering this category for the MHHSSS (see previous post) but I spotted this recipe in The Treasury of Great Recipes and it sounded good. And good it certainly was. I did everything exactly to Vincent’s recipe which I am posting below, except for...
Helped by the stars of the silver screen, I won a TROPHY on Saturday. I won the Cookery Cup at the Muswell Hill Horticultural Society Spring Show. GET ME! Quite frankly I am exhausted, so I’ll be having an early night tonight rather than ranting and raving about it but here is what I won:...
I am shocked to the core. Today when I got home from work, the Muswell Hill & District Horticultural Society Handbook and Schedule of Spring, Summer and Autumn Shows 2014 was on my doormat. Despite assurances from the committee that the cookery categories would be the same as last year, they are DIFFERENT! Where is...
Chocolate mousse was obviously a big favourite in the world of puds for movie stars. I have recipes by Deborah Kerr, Jack Hobbs, Moira Lister, Raymond Burr, Rose Martin, Wendy Toye, Agnes Ayres, and Carol Burnett. There are possibly more tucked away under other names too, but Vincent’s recipe is SO good I’m not sure...
Hereby follows a fabulous guest post by Uncle Vic, my ex boyfriend, current neighbour and lover of all things Vincent Price related…. This was Vic’s challenge for the Vincent Price Halloween Cookalong, but he was poleaxed by lack of cooking pans in his own gaff. Therefore he came down two flights of stairs from his...
When I made the Vincent Price Chinese Chicken on Saturday afternoon I followed his instructions to sip on a “New Fashioned” as I basted my chicken every now and then. I always do as Vincent suggests, because he KNOWS so much stuff about eating and drinking. His recipe as it appeared in magazines is in...
On Saturday night I had to take a buffet style dish to “Strictly Fortismere” a Strictly Come Dancing type affair at my god-daughter’s school. Her mum (Battenburg Belle) in a moment of madness had volunteered to do a tango. It was brilliant. And VP’s Chinese Chicken was a perfect thing to take to an event...
Mmmm. Yes. I do like these. Mr R however, has something against stuff that “moves around on the plate” so I made him a naked version with the sauce on the side. He took dainty tastes of it from the tip of his knife. He’s a very graceful eater is Mr R. He doesn’t slather...
