Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month the Movies and Munchies group is watching  Uncorked , hosted by Debra of  Eliot's Eats . Read  her invitation . I had seen the movie before, but wasn't watching it with foodie goggles on. So, I settled down on the bean bag and started to stream it. Jake looked at the screen and commented, "I think we've watched this before." I know, but now it's assigned, so I am going to watch it again! On the Screen At the base of it, this is a movie about a man who dreams of earning his master sommelier certification while his dad expects him to take over the family business, a barbeque joint. Elijah works in a wine shop as well as his family's restaurant. And the movie takes us from Memphis to Paris and back again. While I definitely admire those who have studied and earned those accolades, I have never had any desire to be able to identify grapes, vintages, and location just from a mere whiff and a small sip from the wine. For me, it's enough that the w...

  This month,  David from  Cooking Chat   picked the topic of Celebrating BIPOC Winemakers & Winery Owners for our February Wine Pairing Weekend blogging group. I'll be honest: when Nicole of  Somm's Table  picked the same theme last February, I had  no  idea what that even meant. BIPOC. The acronym BIPOC refers to "black, indigenous, and people of color."  After last year's event - and all of the other wine finds from my wine writing colleagues - I was inspired to track down several of these bottles for myself. You can read David's invitation  here   for this year's event and if you are reading this soon enough, feel free to join our live Twitter chat on Saturday, February 12th at 8am Pacific. Follow the hashtag #WinePW and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. In the meantime, all of these posts should be live by chat time. Here's what the bloggers are sharing...  Wendy from A Day in the Life on the ...

     This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of  St. Supéry . Complimentary wine was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. However, all opinions expressed here are my own.   After working with  St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery * for #MerlotMe last autumn, when I shared  Lebanese Lubyi, Turkish Bazlama, and 2016 St. Supéry Rutherford Merlot , I was invited to join them for a series of collaborative posts  throughout 2021. What fun! Their #InJoy series started this month, but I was late to the party so I missed the first week when  they tasted the 2016 Dollarhide Elevation with Spring Vegetables and Lamb Loin . Still, I had the wine, so I decided to make the salsa verde recipe from Estate Chef Tod Kawachi and use it on a roasted rack of lamb for our anniversary dinner. Happy twenty-first to me and Jake! I am actually loving these shelter-in-place celebrations of the past year. St. Supéry's Dollarhide E...

  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 saw that Amy Poehler's Wine Country  was releasing on Netflix last week, I immediately added it to my list. I knew nothing about it except that it would reunite several Saturday Night Live alumnae, it takes place in Napa, and it involves lots of wine. Those factors alone made it seem like a great Friday night diversion. After the boys headed to bed, I pressed play; Jake immediately lost interest and started watching something else on his computer. But he did join me in drinking Cab from Napa! On the Screen from netflix.com I have to admit that given the comedic chops in the group - Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, et al - I was more than a little surprised at how serious (read 'not that funny') the movie really was. I had expected a light, fluffy female version of The Hangover  meets The Bridesmaids or something like that. I anticipated it being edgy, loose, maybe a little bit raunchy, and funny. This was not that. Not real...

Gwen of Wine Predator has the Wine Pairing Weekend crew looking at Biodynamic Wines of the World. Read her invitation here . If you're reading this early enough, join us on Twitter for a live chat - Saturday, April 13th at 8am Pacific. Follow and use #WinePW. And here's the line-up for the event. Jeff of FoodWineClick!:   Biodynamics in the Dolomites with Azienda Agricola Foradori Nancy of Pull That Cork:   Celebrating Biodynamic Viticulture with Montinore Estate Pinot Noir   Nicole of Somm's Table: Organic/Biodynamic/Natural: WTF Does It All Mean????? David of Cooking Chat: Beef and Lamb Tagine with a Special Wine from Lebanon Martin of ENOFYLZ Wine Blog: Beautiful Biodynamic Bubbles: Quartz Reef Méthode Traditionelle Brut Pinny of Chinese Food and Wine Pairing: A Wine Lover’s Game Plan in Drinking Well - Biodynamic/Organic/Vegan Wines & Supplements Lauren of The Swirling Dervish: A Bottle of Red, A Bottle of White: B...