by Jenny | 13 Sep, 2012 | Vincent Price
I’ve gone Quiche crazy. Preparing for the Highgate Horticultural Society competition on Saturday. I couln’t decide between Alfred Hitchcock’s and Vincent’s but my work colleague Obi just clinched it. He said of today’s...
by Jenny | 10 Sep, 2012 | Vincent Price
What a few days! I cannot begin to express what an amazing day I had at the Paralympics on Thrilling Thursday. I thought my eardrums would burst when David Weir won his race the sound in that stadium was unbelievable. It was a day full of love and...
by Jenny | 25 Jul, 2012 | Vincent Price
I passed the Amstel Hotel a couple of times on my way to and from business meetings in Amsterdam but I saved up my visit for Saturday morning when I could appreciate it to the full. I was strangely nervous as I walked across the bridge. It’s such an...
by Jenny | 25 Jul, 2012 | Vincent Price
When I first clapped eyes on the best cookbook in the world – Vincent and Mary Price’s Treasury of Great Recipes – I knew many great culinary experiences lay ahead. The mighty tome arrived in a box in a huge postal sack from the USA, delivered to work as I...
by Jenny | 14 Jul, 2012 | Vincent Price
It is day one in my new academic diary and it is time for this old kazoo to go back to school. My intensive 6 month writing boot camp with Lisa Clark begins today. I took the day off work and have been writing like a machine. My new project Movie...
by Jenny | 2 Jul, 2012 | Vincent Price
And then the mice came… I think my romance is well and truly over. What a shame. I was having a conversation with my 12 year old chum Jessie about it on the bus the other day and when I said it wasn’t going well she said, “Oh dear. And...
by Jenny | 19 Jun, 2012 | Vincent Price
It’s time to start eating things from the freezer. First up, some of Vincent’s Tortellini. It was good. Real comfort food as yet again, someone has bust my balloons… I’m Tired I’m not exactly sure what happened but I...
by Jenny | 12 Jun, 2012 | Uncategorized, Vincent Price
Coo what a feast! Heather, Ben, Sanja, James and my imaginary boyfriend came to help me scoff everything. It was a lot of work but I really enjoyed myself so it was worth it. I am definitely getting less stressed out when I do complicated...
by Jenny | 9 Jun, 2012 | Vincent Price
I am getting anxious about tomorrow’s party. It’s a big deal for me, a celebration of the end of the Vincentennial Cookblog and a gathering of most of the people who were at the party to launch it. I am worried about whether I’ll get everything...
by Jenny | 3 Jun, 2012 | Vincent Price
Yes, it was as weird as it sounds and looks. I’d been wanting to try it since I saw the recipe because I love avocado and I love liver. I knew it would be weird though, fried avocado? Hot avocado? And yes, it was strange But kinda...
by Jenny | 3 Jun, 2012 | Vincent Price
Behold His Majesty The Loaf. I love making bread. You have to be having a spinster’s day in really, for all the sticking it in a warm place to rise and then kneading it and letting it rise again, but really it’s a lovely thing to do. Vincent’s...
by Jenny | 30 May, 2012 | Vincent Price
OK, so there were no noodles. I am English and the idea of having a chicken leg with noodles just seems odd, so I had it with Savoy cabbage instead. Yum yum. As Vincent observed, “The real secret of this recipe’s excellence is the red wine added for the...
by Jenny | 9 Apr, 2012 | Vincent Price
Pineapples! I’ve been wanting to throw a whole Vincent Price dinner party for a long time and Easter Sunday seemed like a good time to do it. It was SPECTACULAR. First up were Rumakis (above), water chestnuts cloaked in chicken liver with a...
by Jenny | 13 Feb, 2012 | Vincent Price
After weeks of my planning and plotting and inventing clues, Heather & Nathan’s treasure hunt was BRILLIANT. When they arrived at the Palace of Solitude I greeted them at the door in a Sombrero with frozen margaritas in hand and so the fun began. I’ve written more...
by Jenny | 1 Jan, 2012 | Vincent Price
Happy New Year to all my readers. 2012 is going to be a humdinger I can just feel it! Last night I saw off the old year in style with Corinna and Kate. We had Vincent’s New Year Vol-au-Vent which was a splendid looking mega pastry full of turkey, bacon,...
by Jenny | 17 Nov, 2011 | Vincent Price
My heart nearly burst with pride this morning when I got an email from my mum praising my pastry! I’d taken up some mini apple pies I made to a Vincent Price recipe last time I visited and she said, “We had your tartlets yesterday, they were really...
by Jenny | 31 Oct, 2011 | Vincent Price
There has been much Cucumber Crocodile action this week over at the Vincentennial Cookblog and I’m very excited to tell y’all that I’ve got an article about Vincent Price on lovefilm.com today – Happy Halloween On the contributors page I am next to Jean...
by Jenny | 13 Jun, 2011 | Vincent Price
For the Daring Cook’s Challenge this month I killed two birds with one potato. The task set was to make a “healthy potato salad” and I’m not sure how healthy it was but my guests sure liked it. I made it almost exactly to the recipe in...
by Jenny | 29 May, 2011 | Vincent Price
Happy Birthday Palace of Solitude and Happy Birthday Vincent Price! This weekend marks the first anniversary of my move to Silver Screen Suppers Towers and the start of the Vincentennial. The 100th anniversary of Vincent Price’s birth was on Friday and last...
by Jenny | 14 May, 2011 | Vincent Price
This month’s challenge over at the Daring Cooks was gumbo. I’ve only ever cooked gumbo once before – for Rosalind and Montgomery many moons ago when I was cat sitting at the Tessa Cohen mansion. The challenge for us UK based cooks was not really...
by Jenny | 30 Dec, 2010 | Vincent Price
Ooooh Roland’s Rissoles were GOOD! I have so much mixure left though. I may attempt to make little canape rissoles for tomorrow night’s New Year’s Eve extravaganza chez Charley and Corinna. I am so proud of myself. It’s been a busy night. ...
by Jenny | 21 Nov, 2010 | Joan Crawford, Vincent Price, William Powell
The Goulash has been in the slow cooker overnight and I’m about to construct a big batch of BISQUICK so that I can make some JC Cheese Straws as I have a BIG lunch party today. It’s a bit of a welcome-back-the-newlyweds party for Grace and Douglas. ...
by Jenny | 9 Nov, 2010 | Vilma Banky, Vincent Price
Had a long conversation about how cold it gets on a houseboat with Jan at work. He has just bought one and I told him he would soon become obsessed with trying to keep the fire alight when he wasn’t there. When I lived on the little floating caravan beside...
by Jenny | 11 Oct, 2010 | Vincent Price
Oh how I am loving the spinster life! Had a fabulous day today. Wallowed in bed with coffee and The Archers until 11.15 then made myself some Fritters for brunch. Yum yum yum. Mooched up to Alexander Palace to go and see my friend Shane’s art installation. ...
by Jenny | 17 Jul, 2010 | Vincent Price
To say that my housewarming was a humdinger would, I think, be an understatement. What a wonderful and crazy night it was. I tried to make a list of everyone who rocked up, I got to 61 people and then realised I was still drunk so had to stop… It was...
by Jenny | 1 Nov, 2009 | Vincent Price
“I sometimes feel that I’m impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.” I am learning a lot about the dark unconscious of the human race this week Vincent, but luckily I am also doing things to...
by Jenny | 31 Oct, 2009 | Vincent Price
“It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” It’s Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. How exciting. The pumpkin is carved and on the doorstep, there are treats to be dished out to any children of the night that come round to call and I have a very, very, very large...
by Jenny | 15 Oct, 2009 | Vincent Price
“A man who limits his interests, limits his life.” It warms the cockles of my heart (and believe me at the moment they need warming) to hear from test cooks who don’t know myself or Ruth, but just like the idea of being involved in our cooking project....