Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  Thanks to Stacy of  Food Lust People Love , Sue of  Palatable Pastime , Rebekah of  Making Miracles , and Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for coordinating this low-stress group. This week, Mayuri's Jikoni  is hosting a Diwali Party.  Diwali is the Festival of Lights, arguably India's most important holiday of the year. The festival's name comes from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) that Indians light outside their homes to symbolize the inner light that wards off spiritual darkness. This festival is as important to Hindus as Christmas is to Christians though it has grown to encompass non-Hindu communities as well. Here's the #SundayFunday line-up of creations.... Karen’s Kitchen Stories:  Aloo Tikki Sneha’s Recipe:  Atta Ladoo / Whole Wheat Flour Ladoo Palatable Pastime: Chicken Tikka Nan Pizza   Mayuri’s Jikoni:  Chocolate Kalakand   Cook with Renu:  Condensed Milk Instant Kalakand   A Day in the...

This week, we went from Summer to Fall! Thanks to Stacy of  Food Lust People Love , Sue of  Palatable Pastime , Rebekah of  Making Miracles , and Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for coordinating this low-stress group. This week, Renu is hosting. And we are sharing pumpkin recipes. Almond Flour Pumpkin Muffins by Amy’s Cooking Adventures Batar Da’an by Pandemonium Noshery Caramel Topped Pumpkin Pie by Palatable Pastime Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes by Food Lust People Love Pumpkin and Black Bean Quesadillas by A Day in the Life on the Farm Pumpkin Crème Brûlée by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Quick Pumpkin And Other Veggies Sabzi by Sneha’s Recipe Spiced Pumpkin Bread by Mayuri’s Jikoni   Pumpkin Crème Brûlée And so begins my annual parade of pumpkin recipes. I decided to start with the marriage of two of my favorites: pumpkin and crème brûlée ! Ingredients 1/3 cup organic granulated sugar  6 egg yolks 2 cup organic heavy whipping cream 1/2 t...

Last month, my family and I spent a week on Oahu. I hadn't been to the Hawaiian islands in far too long and it had been even longer since I visited Oahu where my dad lived after leaving the Philippines and before his family moved to the Monterey Peninsula. But regardless of the time and distance, it feels like home.  To get myself in the Hawaiian frame of mind, I downloaded a ridiculous number of books set in Hawaii, including the fifteen A Murder on Maui books in the series by Robert W. Stephens. Yes, fifteen. I only read four while we were there. Then I read the other eleven after we got home. I'll be honest: it's not great literature. But they were entertaining and I breezed though the set that features Edgar Allen Rutherford, nickname Poe, as a private investigator who is married to a Maui detective Alana Hu. Poe also owns a bar with his childhood best friend, Foxx, who is also the father of a daughter with Alana's sister, Hani. Poe narrates as if in a conversation ...

Today the Sunday Funday group is sharing raspberry cake recipes. Thanks to Stacy of  Food Lust People Love , Sue of  Palatable Pastime , Rebekah of  Making Miracles , and Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for coordinating this low-stress group. This week, I am hosting and suggested we share recipes to celebrate National Raspberry Cake Day which is tomorrow, Sunday, July 31st. Because most of the country is in a heat wave, I told the bloggers to be creative...they didn't even have to turn on the oven! Here's the list of recipes... Eggless Berry Tiramisu by Sneha's Recipe Healthy Raspberry Frozen Yogurt (Only 3 Ingredients!) by Amy's Cooking Adventures Raspberry Coffee Cake by A Day in the Life on the Farm Raspberry Lemon Pound Cake by Mayuri’s Jikoni Raspberry Roll Cake by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Raspberry Roll Cake When we went to the farmers' market this week, I had hoped to find either black raspberries or golden raspberries. There wer...

Though bread pudding's roots reach back to Europe as a way to use stale bread, it is its place as a beloved dessert in New Orleans that had me pick it for the dessert at my July demo & tasting at The Quail & Olive this week...and I used fresh bread! Instead of the traditional bourbon sauce, I used the caramel and dark chocolate drizzles by Monin that Anni has in the pantry section of her store. Ingredients makes 12 individual puddings 6 cups bread (I used a soft white), torn into 1-inch pieces 1/3 cup organic dark brown sugar 1/3 cup maple syrup (from Runamok Maple ) 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup heavy cream 4 eggs 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (from The Casa Market ) 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (from Diaspora Co. ) 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger (from  Diaspora Co. ) 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated (from  Diaspora Co. ) 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1/4 teaspoons ground cardamom Also needed: muffin baking dish, parchment paper or muffin cups; sauces for drizzling Proced...

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of  the Oltrepò Pavese Wine Consortium. Complimentary wine was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. However, all opinions expressed here are my own. For the February #ItalianFWT event, Susannah of Avvinare is hosting. You can read here invitation here , but she asked us to explore Oltrepò Pavese wines and even lined up a few samples for the group. If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join our Twitter chat on Saturday, February 5th at 8am Pacific time. Follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here's the line-up of the group's Oltrepò Pavese articles... Payal of Keep the Peas shares Just Now Discovering Oltrepò Pavese . Camilla from Culinary Adventures with Camilla adds Second Pours of Oltrepò Pavese Wines with BraisedShort Ribs and Puff Pastry. Linda from My Full Wine Glass brings Flying Under the Radar with an Oltrepò Pavese ...