Culinary Adventures with Camilla

While the rest of the country was watching a football game yesterday, I was playing kitchen witch and working with my stinging nettles from Farmer Jamie at Serendipity Farms . Yes, I do know what the game is called. And, yes, I did know which teams are playing, But, no, I didn't really care. These nettles and a Hawaiian version of Banangrams were much more entertaining. The word game would have been easier, however, if I actually knew enough Hawaiian words! Still the boys and I had fun while Jake went to a football viewing party. Back to the post at hand... On the Page Circe  by Madeline Miller* came highly recommended, so I picked up a copy along with her first book, The Song of Achilles . I plan to read that one soon. This is Miller's reimagining of Circe's story. Circe is the daughter of Titan sun god Helios and Perse one of the many Oceanid nymphs and she is renowned for her knowledge of potion and herbs. When my older son asked what I was reading, I as...

I've been remiss in posting about our tabletop travel recently. Not that we haven't been cooking - and eating. Just that I haven't posted. Whoops. I need to sift through my photos and recipes for our German feast and dinner from Ghana. But last night we cooked and ate Greek. Loved it! Even before I sat down, the troops were chanting "Red book! Red book!" They were digging in while I was still serving myself. My red book contains our favorite recipes of all time. In cooking Greek, the most difficult part for me was deciding what to make. A stop at Cornucopia in the afternoon made the decision for me. I smelled the Meyers lemons before I saw them. Then I noticed that they were grown in Big Sur. Local, fragrant, and so voluptuous. I had to have them. Then I flipped through my Greek cookbook until I found two dishes that deserved these beauties. We started with Greek meatballs: Keftedes . My cookbook reported, "they are always a must on the meze table....