Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Today the Sunday Funday group is celebrating romance for Valentines' Day. 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. Today Rebekah is hosting and she's given us the following prompt: Happy Valentine's Day! Today let's celebrate romance. Serve up a dish that would be a part of your perfect romantic meal; this includes drinks and appetizers. Here's the line-up of how the #SundayFunday bloggers are celebrating Valentines' Day... Beet-Kissed Savory Goat Cheese Truffles by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Chocolate Chip Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice Chocolate Dipped Strawberries by Amy's Cooking Adventures Grilled Grapes & Paneer Sticks by Sneha's Recipe Salmon with Peach Salsa by Making Miracles Strawberry Almond Crumble by Food Lust ...

  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 ...

  This month, Nicole of  Somm's Table  picked the topic of Celebrating BIPOC Winemakers & Winery Owners for our February Wine Pairing Weekend blogging group. I'll be honest: when I first saw her theme, I had no idea what that even meant. BIPOC. The acronym BIPOC refers to "black, indigenous, and people of color." So, I did some reading and ordered three different bottles from different winemakers. More on that in a second. If you are reading this soon enough, feel free to join our live Twitter chat on Saturday, February 13th 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...  Truffle Chip-Crusted Goat Cheese Truffles + McBride Sisters Brut Rosé on Culinary Adventures with Camilla The Many Talents of John Legend from A Day in the Life on the Farm Family and Wine Go Together for These Black-owned Bus...

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Quail & Olive . Complimentary product was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. However, all opinions expressed here are my own.   I am a sucker for anything pink, especially food...and especially around Valentines' Day. But, really, the color just makes me smile all year long. So, when Farmer Jamie of Serendipity Farms posted photos of some Italian radicchio she had available, I texted her immediately and ran over to meet her in a parking lot to exchange. My son joked, "Mom, you're like a vegetable junkie." Okay, there are worse habits, right? Look at these! They are gorgeous and delicious. So, you'll be seeing more recipes with these soon. But I started with a simple salad that was pink on pink on pink. All hues of pink!  I love supporting local businesses and this salad has the radicchio from Serendipity; beets and red onions from Robina's Organics ; and because radic...

  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.   Earlier in December I took part in a virtual tasting with L'Ecole Winery * that was hosted by the marketing manager, the winemaker, and the general manager. And I am excited to be starting a series of wine pairings on my Culinary Cam YouTube channel. The video for this recipe is here  and there will be more coming in 2021. In My Glass Made with grapes from the Stillwater Creek, Klipsun, Lodmell, Rosebud, and Estate Seven Hills vineyards in the Columbia Valley, this Semillon is comprised of 88% Sémillon and 12% Sauvignon Blanc. Sémillon wine is a white wine for red wine lovers, I think. It has a more full body, like a Chardonnay, but its flavors lean more bright and vibrant like a Pinot Gris or Sauvignon Blanc. And at a suggested retail price of just $15, you can't beat t...

I love the idea behind the Crazy Ingredient Challenge (CIC). In the CIC, we are assigned two ingredients to cook and create. This month, Kelly of  Passion Kneaded   is hosting. So, here goes... August's Crazy In gredient Challenge = goat cheese and watermelon Chabis is a French cheese made with goat milk. It has a delicate flavor and is really just a pillow of fresh goat cheese. I decided to make an easy appetizer with a smear of chabis topped with cubes of sweet watermelon and earthy roasted beets. To stay with the pink thing  I had going on, I added tiny pink rose petals and poured a Vinho Verde Rosé. Ingredients baguette, sliced and toasted chabis 1/2 C cubed watermelon 1/2 C cubed roasted beets (here's how to roast beets) 1 T fresh basil, finely sliced freshly ground salt freshly ground pepper olive oil organic rose petals, optional Procedure Place watermelon and beets in a small mixing bowl. Fold in the ba...