Culinary Adventures with Camilla

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 ...

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the Book Club Cookbook . I received complimentary product for the purpose of review and recipe development, but all opinions are honest and they are my own.  This page may contain affiliate links.   Several weeks ago, my contact at  The Book Club Cookbook  emailed, offering me a few  new spice blends  to participate in their 2021 #BlendsBash.  You betcha!  So, I planned to share a series of recipes. The first I posted was my Chai a Little Tenderness Autumn Muffins recipe. This is the second recipe. Stay tuned for the others. Where the Crawdads Zing  is a blend that was described as a 'Gulf Coast Bay Seasoning'. Comprised of a mixture of celery seed, sea salt, cayenne pepper, yellow mustard powder, thyme, paprika, black pepper, ginger, and bay, I figured I would use it as I would use Old Bay. And - in a moment of serendipity - my mom requested a seafood boil for her birthday dinner. Done! In...

Katarina of  Grapevine Adventures  is hosting the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers with this month's exploration of wine sustainability in Italian wines. You can read her invitation  here . If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join in our live Twitter chat as we talk about the subject. Follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add that to your tweets so we can see it in our stream. In the meantime, here's what the bloggers are sharing. All of these articles will go live between Friday, September 3rd and early morning Saturday, September 4th... Camilla from Culinary Adventures with Camilla takes inspiration from Sicily in Pasta alla Norma + Tasca d’Almerita Lamuri Nero d’Avola Sicilia 2016. Terri from Our Good Life shares the article Che Fico: A Wine that Supports Sustainability in Italy . Linda from My Full Wine Glass heads to Alto Adige with Alois Lageder – Driven to Create Wines in Harmony with Nature . Gwendoly...

Having friends who fish is the best. Well, really, having friends who fish and share is the best! Jake came home with a large fillet of salmon from Phil, a friend at work. Sweet! So, last night, I poached it in olive oil, put it on a bed of lentils, and topped it with some pickled ramps. Dinner!! Ingredients Olive Oil-Poached Salmon salmon fillets (serving sizes vary, but I did 1/4 pound per person for this dinner) olive oil as needed 6 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 3 to 4  fresh fennel fronds freshly ground salt freshly ground pepper Lentils 1/4 C olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and thinly sliced 1 medium fennel bulb, trimmed and thinly sliced 1 t ground cumin 1 C brown lentils 2 C fresh tomato wedges 1 t ground sea salt olive oil for serving To Finish freshly ground salt pickled ramps  Procedure Olive Oil-Poached Salmon Select a large enough pot that the salmon fillets can sit flat without touching each other. Pour olive oil in...

I know, I know. Risotto is made with arborio rice. But I had barley...and I really wanted to make a citrus-y 'risotto' to go underneath my seared scallops for this week's project. So, this isn't really risotto, but I didn't want to invent a word for barley done risotto-style. Here we are moving into the second half of November.  That means that the Kitchen Matrix Cooking Project - really Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm , Karen of  Karen's Kitchen Stories , and I - have been doing this for ten months already. You can read more about our project  here . And this month, Wendy picked the recipes. This week, she selected Scallops  + 12 Ways. Bittman offers a dozen preparations with scallops including six grilled and six raw. I will definitely be trying his Miso-Glazed Scallops and Panzanella Scallops on the cooked side. For the raw scallops, the Salsa Cruda and Tartare were intriguing. I love scallops, but it's not the preferred seafood at my ho...

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of  González Byass, an   #InternationalSherryWeek  sponsors. Complimentary wine was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. However, all opinions expressed here are my own. A couple of weeks ago, Jeff from FoodWineClick! shared an opportunity with the #WinePW (Wine Pairing Weekend) crew to receive samples of Sherry. Since my experience with sherry is next to nothing, I was excited to taste and learn more. Really, whenever I think of sherry, I think of cooking  sherry. I was thrilled to be proven incorrect. The Sherry I received two bottles of Sherry from González Byass* and really wasn't sure how to pair it. I am still definitely in the novice-Sherry camp; but I can happily say that both Jake and I are fans!  After reading the tech sheets from the sponsor, I wanted to pour the Sherry with a wine-braised chorizo (similar to this one ) and some other small Spanish ni...

When I was preparing for our annual family camping trip last month, I started asking friends for book recommendations because between the hikes, the canoe rides, and family meals, I tend to spend several hours of the day in my hammock! And someone recommended  Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.* So, I bought a copy. On the Page I really enjoyed this book - so much so that I slowed my pace of reading towards the end because I didn't want it to end. There were so many threads of stories from a fishing village in Korea to Japan and to America and back to Tokyo. However, I also found the story incredibly tragic. Pachinko is a sprawling saga that spans almost eight decades. It begins with Sunja, a teenager, who runs a boarding house with her widowed mother. She meets a fish broker who seduces her, gets her pregnant, and, then, tells her that he has a family in Japan. Her reputation is preserved when a missionary staying in the boarding house offers to marry her and raise the ch...