Category: Recipes

November 22, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I like gingerbread for Thanksgiving… Thank you Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock

This isn’t an adaptation, it’s verbatim from one of my favorite cookbooks. I can’t recommend it highly enough, and of course if you click on the title at the end of the post you will be whisked away to Amazon 😉 . Dark Molasses Gingerbread Cake This is the best…

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November 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Reprise: Something autumnal I whipped up one blazing hot 4th of July

Sun-dried tomato tapenade and Crostini Tossed green Salad Black bean and bell pepper and corn Salad Rice Slow roasted, spice rubbed, garlic stuffed pork Shoulder Mango Salsa Olive oil cake with caramelized figs and Peaches Okay. If you’re looking closely at the background of the monkey picture you’ll see my…

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November 18, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Reprise: Cooking with The Vile Harpy, or, Vickie Lester has a dinner party…

Yes – I understand there’s a football game on Sunday. Do I know who’s playing? No. Do I know where they’re playing? No. In blissful ignorance I have been planning dinner parties and thinking about Los Angeles empty of crowds and where I’ll go on Sunday. The Kid and the…

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November 14, 2014 / Vickie Lester

“Thanksgiving dinner at our house is eaten at our great round table set festively for the occasion. We serve from the buffet under a favorite painting that is – to put it mildly – modern. Better, we believe, than having an ancestor, real or purchased, peering over your shoulder at every mouthful.” Vincent Price

Mary Grant Price was a costume designer on Broadway – Vincent Price studied art and art history before becoming an actor in the 1930s – between them they had quite a gracious design-lifestyle-thing going on… Under the Mission cross on the fireplace our houseman, Harry Mullen, ladles Café Brûlot for…

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November 14, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The Elizabeth Taylor Salad at the MGM Commissary

Now then, if you were working at MGM in the late 1950s or early 1960s this is what was on the menu — wait, we’ll start with an aerial view of the studio: Okay, now the menu: . . .

October 24, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Gene Kelly’s recipe for — the world’s greatest man sandwich

Honestly, I couldn’t make this up if I tried:

June 13, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Lucky’s Luscious (Italian) Meatballs… In which Jackie Collins recounts making supper for Frank Sinatra… click on the letters…

* Lucky’s Luscious (Italian) Meatballs » Jackie Collins.

May 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Julie Andrews whips up a Queen’s Pudding (cake topped with meringue, very comforting)

April 17, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Wondering what to have for dinner? Well, don’t eat the ballet slippers. Here are a few recipes.

If you’re having a crowd—and Sunday I expect many of you may—here are a couple of suggestions: Bake a ham. Score the outer layer of fat on a 12-ish pound ham in a diamond pattern and rub with a mixture of chopped fresh tarragon, minced shallot, course mustard and brown…

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February 1, 2014 / Vickie Lester