Culinary Adventures with Camilla

It's hard to believe that January flew by so quickly. Here we are in February for the second 2021 installment of our #EattheWorld project, being spearheaded by Evelyne of  CulturEatz . Here's  her challenge . This month, we are sharing Sudanese recipes. Here's the #EattheWorld line-up for Sudan... Palatable Pastime: Best Easy Hummus   Magical Ingredients: Sudanese Tamia   A Day in the Life on the Farm: Sudanese Peanut Stew   Pandemonium Noshery: Kamounia - Sudanese Beef   Sneha’s Recipe: Gurasa - Sudanese Flatbread  Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Red Lentil Soup (Sudanese Addas)   Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Basbousa and Karkadé Making Miracles:  Sudanese Rice and Potato Goulash   Kitchen Frau:  Peanut Butter Creamed Spinach and Sudanese Peanut Butter Meringues When I saw the destination, I started researching and immediately tried a recipe for Asida , a cooked wheat gruel that is particularly popular in Sudan, as well as in Saudi ...

Today kicks off a week-long celebration of all things blueberry. Many thanks to Ellen of Family Around the Table   and Christie of A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures for wrangling all of us. Though this is a five day event, I'm only jumping in for four of the days. Here's what the bloggers have in store for the first day... Blueberry Week Recipes Breakfast Blueberry Liege Waffles by A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures Buttermilk Blueberry Buckwheat Pancakes by Palatable Pastime Glazed Blueberry Donut Muffins by Sweet Beginnings Drinks and Appetizers Blueberry Basil Bourbon Smash by Cookaholic Wife Blueberry Bubble Tea by Our Good Life Blueberry Lemon Naan Bread Appetizer by The Freshman Cook Blueberry Syrup with (Optional) Bourbon by Food Above Gold Roasted Blueberry French Toast Crostini by Daily Dish Recipes Sauces and Spreads Blueberry Barbecue Sauce by Karen's Kitchen Stories Saucy Honey & Balsamic Blueberry Jam by Faith, Hope, Love,...

I started this book - Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors: A Novel by Sonali Dev* - on Mothers' Day when I packed it into my backpack for a hike.  On the Page While the boys flew their remote control glider on the thermoclines around the dunes, I lounged on the sand, sucked down some coffee, and read about a third of the book. Then, while Jake manned the grill for my Thai-inspired Mothers' Day dinner, later that afternoon, I polished it off.  While I have read Pride and Prejudice  by Jane Austen, I vastly prefer the slightly darker themes explored in her contemporaries' works such as anything by the literary phenomenon that were t he Brontë sisters. I'm less interested in the  exploration of women's reliance on marriage in the pursuit of social standing and economic security as I intrigued by madwomen in attics. Just me? Maybe. At the center is Dr. Trisha Raje, a neurosurgeon at Stanford Medical, who has just created a way to gently nudg...

Here we are at the November Soup Saturday Swappers event. Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  started this event and, every month, I get a new array of soup recipes to put in my to-try pile. And this month, Ashley of  Cheese Curd in Paradise  is hosting as we explore soups featuring pumpkins or squash. Ashley writes, "Perfect time to cook with these seasonal ingredients. Get creative with an pumpkin or squash ingredients- or maybe a combination!" I just made a pumpkin stew inside a beautiful blue pumpkin! If I had known...I would have saved it for this event. You can see my Jarrahdale Pumpkin Posole: here . But I loved Ashley's idea of mixing pumpkin and acorn squash. So, I went with that. Before I get to my offering, here's the rest of the #SoupSwappers crew... An InLinkz Link-up Pumpkin Laska I opted to share a Malaysian-inspired soup with our two favorite squashes: a pumpkin and an acorn squash. We love that this is creamy, coconuty...

December always means Christmas cookies. Lots and lots of Christmas cookies. I was excited to see that Ellen at Family Around the Table was organizing a week-long event surrounding cookies. She has also created a giveway from one of our event sponsors. More on that soon! For now, I hope you enjoy the recipes my fellow bloggers have shared to kick-off this celebration of cookies. Get baking! Monday's Cookie Tray Alfajores (dulce de leche sandwich cookies) by Caroline’s Cooking Candy Cane Tassies by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies by The Bitter Side of Sweet Crystallized Gingerbread Chocolate Chip Cookies by Faith, Hope, Love and Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice Dutch Speculaas Cookies by Palatable Pastime Easy Sugar Cookies by Bear & Bug Eats Empire Cookies by Red Cottage Chronicles Gingerbread Gooey Butter Cookies by Making Miracles Gingerbread Men Cookies by The Freshman Cook Graham Cracker Cho...

Welcome to the April version of  Improv Cooking Challenge . This group is now headed up by Nichole of  Cookaholic Wife . The idea behind Improv Cooking Challenge: we are assigned two ingredients and are challenged to create a recipe with those two things.  This month's items: bananas and coconut. It just so happens that I made a dessert from Tuvalu for our Cooking Around the World Adventure that included those two ingredients! And I recently learned more than I probably needed to know about bananas when I read Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel. You can read my thoughts and see another banana recipe in this post . While this dessert is not a particularly photogenic one, it was delicious and everyone asked for seconds! I'll call that a success. Suafa’i Ingredients  serves 6 6 medium ripe to overripe bananas 5 C water 1½ C coconut milk 1 C milk ½ C large tapioca pearls ¼ C organic granulated sugar ...

Who needs a flowers when your Love bring you purple cauliflower?!? In this case it wasn't my husband, but my littlest Love - one of my Kitchen Elves. The Enthusiastic Kitchen Elf walked up to me in Whole Foods with his hands behind his back. "Mom, can you buy something for me? It's edible." Sure. What it is? "Well, I want to buy it with my own money, but I didn't bring any money. But I want to buy it for you because it so pretty!" He swung his arms out and was holding a beautiful, deep purple head of cauliflower. "Can you buy it for me? I'll give you money when we get home." Absolutely. But, you do know that we're going to eat it, right? You don't want me to put that in a vase, do you? "Well, can it sit in a vase for one night? Then you can cook it." Deal. I actually whipped this up the first night the boys were away for Fall Break. So, D didn't actually get to eat the centerpiece! I served this ...

For my first event post, I published  Love is Dizzying, But Romance Is All About Balance , with a little help from by one of the event sponsors -  UncommonGoods . To go along with my Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake with Rose Peppercorn Salted Cream, that I published in the  UncommonGoods  post, I served tiny mugs of hot chocolate made with Pacari Chocolate .* Andean Rose Geranium Hot Chocolate  with Whipped Coconut Cream Ingredients  serves 4 Hot Chocolate 4 C milk (I made mine dairy-free with my  homemade hazelnut milk ) 1-1/2 C dark chocolate, chopped into pieces 1/2 C Andean Rose Geranium chocolate, chopped into pieces 2-3 T honey, depending on your taste 1 vanilla bean pinch salt (I used a rose peppercorn salt from UncommonGoods) Optional to make it 21+: 1 ounce brandy or tequila Whipped Coconut Cream 1 can coconut milk (must be a full fat version) 1/2 C organic powdered sugar Procedure Whipp...