Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  Welcome to the October 2022 event of  our #EattheWorld project, being spearheaded by Evelyne of  CulturEatz . Here's  her challenge .  This month, we are sharing recipes from Morocco, here's the #EattheWorld line-up... Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Kefta Tagine with Eggs in Tomato Sauce   Culinary Adventures with Camilla : Briwat Bil Kefta + Other Moroccan-Inspired Bites  Sneha’s Recipe: Keto Moroccan Whole Oven Roasted Chicken   Sugarlovespices: Moroccan vegetable stew with butternut squash and chickpeas   Palatable Pastime: Moroccan Roasted Cauliflower with Sesame   Kitchen Frau: Grated Carrot Salad with Oranges   Pandemonium Noshery: Bissara - Moroccan Legume Soup   A Day in the Life on the Farm: Harira CulturEatz: Chicken Bastilla Other Moroccan-Inspired Bites While I was initially drawn toward making a tagine, I realized that I have a parade of tagine recipes already posted, including:  Chicken Tagine with Preserved Le...

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of L'Ecole . Complimentary wine was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. However, all opinions expressed here are my own.     This month kicks off a series of monthly posts that I'll be doing in collaboration with  L'Ecole Winery .* Once a month, I'll participate in a virtual tasting with their marketing manager, the winemaker, and the general manager. Then I'll post a pairing that I've created to go along with the wine. Some months I hope to share more than one pairing with one being posted on my  Culinary Cam YouTube  channel, such as the Savory Goat Cheese Truffles + L'Ecole's 2019 Sémillon video:  here . Musings on Marriage Under the wedding maple at Owen R. Cheatham Redwood Grove, Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park Musings on marriage in a wine pairing post , you ask?! Has she gone completely off the deep end? Well, perhaps. But it is Valentines' Day and during the ...

When I put a call out for book recommendations to the hive mind - for books either written by French authors or set in France - my friend Joselyn suggested Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunée.* She actually hadn't read it, but I'm always game to read foodie memoirs. On the Page I'll be honest: It's tough for me to read memoirs from people whose decisions just make me want to scream or shake some sense into them. This was one of those. Kim Sunée was abandoned in a marketplace in South Korea when she was three years old. Then she was adopted by an American couple who raised her in New Orleans. And she ended up living in Europe for a decade, with a stint in Sweden but most of the time in France. While her descriptions of food and travel were beautifully written, her relationships with men - particularly her lengthy affair with Olivier Baussan, the founder of L'Occitane en Provence - were maddening in their self-destructive ...

This weekend we had our extended family Christmas celebration. And I was thrilled to spend some time with my cousin's boyfriend, getting to know him and, especially, hearing about their recent travels to Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. I was quite envious of their globe-hopping and was happy to live vicariously through their tales. It was the first time that the larger family was meeting him - though he and Tiff had stopped by one of the boys' robotics competition earlier this Fall - and I have to say that he hung with the 'crazy' pretty darn well. My family can be loud and obnoxious. As D commented, "I don't envy any of the guys who marry into our family. But I'm glad that Daddy did." Me, too! While Tiff and Matt were in Morocco, they took a cooking class. And Tiff, who is a baker extraordinaire, brought some Moroccan cookies to the party. Actually, since they both took the cooking class, I'm not sure who baked them. Maybe both. In any cas...

I still don't remember how I ended up with  The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca  by Tahir Shah* on my to-read stack. I don't recall if a friend recommended it, or it was just one of those 'people who bought  x  also bought this' suggestions that always gets me on Amazon. Always. But, after I finally kicked jetlag from our holiday trip to Denmark, I picked this book up off my shelf. On the Page Unfortunately, I liked the idea of the book more than the actual book. British travel writer Tahir Shah uproots his family from the gloom of London and buys a house in exotic Casablanca. He has dreamt of making Morocco home since he traveled there as a child. In the same tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun  by Frances Mayes or A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle - that the French Winophiles will be reading next month! - Shah details his trials and tribulations about being a foreigner making a home in a new country. He acquired Dar Khalifa , a crumbling seaside ma...

I am notorious for never making the same thing twice. So, during a dinner party during the holidays a few close friends were talking about some of our dinner party highlights over the years and one dish bubbled to the top as the most unforgettable  dish I've ever made. Then it turned into a challenge: "We know that you never make the same thing twice - that you can't make the same things twice - but even if you made the seafood pie and it was only half as good as the first one, it would still be the best dish you've ever made." Seriously? Wow. A challenge, an insult, and a compliment all at the same time. Gotta love friends who tell the truth. Here's the Seasfood B'stilla v.2010 when I made it for Jake's 35th birthday... So, I promised that I would re-do the seafood pie during 2015. At. Some. Point. That gave me through December 2015 to make it. But, not one to procrastinate on my cooking obligations, I opted to get it done in the beginning...

Okay, seeing as we are only halfway through the alphabet and about 18 months into this Cooking Around the World Adventure , I decided we would take a pass on Morocco...since we've already cooked from there quite a bit. Country : Morocco Where it is: Located in Northwest Africa, near the Strait of Gibraltar. It's right on the edge of the African continent, bordering Algerian to the east, Mauritania to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. A Few Fun Facts... If somebody refuses to take no for an answer, you can instead say “ Insha’Allah (if God wills it).” I might have to try that. "Mommy, can I have another scoop of ice cream?"  Insha’Allah. As Islam is very strict regarding marriage and faithfulness, married people are prohibited from having friends of the opposite sex. Wow. Interesting. It goes further than that: "Of course, you may work with people of the opposite sex, but if you meet them outside the ...