How shall I celebrate?
Help me choose what to cook on publication day!
I have decided to take a day off work to fully celebrate the release of Cooking The Detectives on 1st July. I am going to dedicate a day to one of the cop shows featured in the book. I’ll watch an episode or two and cook the dish favoured by the star of that series. Probably having a little glass of champers too!
40 detective shows are celebrated in Cooking the Detectives and each chapter contains a signature dish from the kitchen of the actor that played the sleuth. Here’s the full list of the series that I feature - I wonder if any of your favourites are in here?
Dragnet, Colonel March of Scotland Yard, The Avengers, The Saint, Burke’s Law, Honey West, Ironside, Sherlock Holmes, Hawaii Five-O, McCloud, The Persuaders, Columbo, McMillan & Wife, Lord Peter Wimsey, The Streets of San Francisco, The Snoop Sisters, Kojak, Police Woman, The Rockford Files, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, Hart to Hart, Magnum, P.I., Nero Wolfe, Bergerac, Remington Steele, Cagney & Lacey, Miss Marple, Murder She Wrote, Miami Vice, Moonlighting, The Law and Harry McGraw, Inspector Morse, Poirot, Prime Suspect, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders, Vera.
Here’s a taster of some of the recipes in store…
As I will be home alone, I don’t want to cook anything huge so here are the dishes I fancy that are good for one.
Votes please and whichever one comes out top, I will make and watch an episode of the corresponding show while I scoff it! Then I will share the chapter from the book and the corresponding recipe with y’all next month…
Who will it be?
I’m excited to see who comes out top.
TTFN - Jx
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What fun! My choice is not there to vote on, but it would be Columbo's Veal Scallopini. First, because he cooked it on the show, and explained how to cook it during the scene, and second, he cooked it while in the very midst of catching the murderer. That episode of Columbo resonates with me mostly because when I last saw it was in the hospital and fasting. So many different dishes were featured in that one episode! I got so inspired that I bought a fancy boning knife online, which of course, I have never used. So silly, but I was famished! It was the second episode of the 7th season - Murder Under Glass. This is also the time i found your blog as I was looking for the recipe online, and have that book in my collection now.