Culinary Adventures with Camilla

It's laughable, really, that I cannot make pancakes but I make a mean crêpe. If someone can please give me a no-fail pancake recipe, I would be eternally grateful. But one upside: I've made crêpes so many times, D can make them on his own with virtually no help from me. This morning, he bellowed from his room."Mommy, can we have crêpes for breakfast?" Sure. Can you make them? "Okay." I still had to get up and make sure that our seriously rudimentary kitchen in this timeshare actually had everything he needed. One thing I was missing: milk. I guess we've made hot chocolate too many times already this week. So, he used almond milk. Ingredients  makes between 5 to 6 crêpes 1/2 C flour 1 large egg 1 C almond milk butter for greasing the pan jam or jelly for serving (we had some plum jam from a local coffee shop) Procedure Whisk everything together to form a thin batter. Heat and butter a griddle or frying pan over medium heat. Po...

We discussed and debated this morning and just couldn't agree. You can call it a  clafoutis  if it's made with cherries; if it's made with any other type of fruit, it's a  flaugnarde . This was made with a mixture of cherries and wild blueberries. So...what do you think it should be called? Is this a  Flafoutis  or a  Claugnarde ? Whatever you call it, it's dairy-free, gluten-free, and all kinds of delicious. Ingredients non-dairy butter for greasing the pan 3 C fruits (I used 2 C cherries and 1 C wild blueberries) 4 eggs 3/4 C organic granulated sugar 3/4 C sweet white rice flour 1-1/2 C almond milk 2 T vanilla paste 1 T cherry liqueur powdered sugar for dusting Procedure Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter your baking dish(es). Spoon the fruit into the bottom of the dish(es). Whisk the eggs, sugar, and flour together until smooth. Add the milk. vanilla paste, and liqueur. Whisk until smooth. Pour over the fruit. Bake for 45-50 m...

This weekend we had a birthday party dinner - under the redwoods - for my husband. He's finally 40! Because we were camping, I decided that I wasn't going to lug a birthday cake to the woods. I have done that. It's not as easy as you would think. But the boys both insisted that Daddy needed something to hold his candles. Really?!? I decided to bake some candle-holding brownies. And I wanted to use the coconut flour I received from Morning Pep .* A friend asked, after seeing this photo: how many people does it take to light all of Jake's candles?! A lot, apparently. And there weren't even forty candles. There were only 36 in the box. Whoops. Ingredients makes two 8" round pans 2/3 C coconut oil 1 C cocoa powder 12 eggs 1 C coconut sugar 1/2 cup milk (I used unsweetened almond milk) pinch of salt splash of pure vanilla extract 1 C coconut flour (I used  Morning Pep ) 1/2 C chocolate chips (I used  Pacari Chocolate * ) Pr...