Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of  Melissa's Produce . 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. A little while ago, I decided to host an enchilada event for Cinco de Mayo and asked some of the other Festive Foodies to join me. Then I reached out to my contacts at Melissa's Produce to see if they would want to sponsor the event. They did!  A group of us received an amazing array of dried chile peppers to develop some recipes ahead of May 5th. Crazy for chiles? Yep, we are. But I'll admit: I was more than a little daunted by this box of dried chiles as I was unfamiliar with several of them.  Thankfully there is a chile temperature scale on the upper right hand corner of each package. So, I decided to start testing them in different versions of my homemade enchilada sauce. First up: the guajill...

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the sponsors of #FabulousFallBounty. 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. Here we are at the third day of our celebration of #FabulousFallBounty. You can read more about the event:  here . And, once again, many thanks to our event sponsors:  Silpat   for a handy silicone mat;  Le Creuset  for a lovely serving platter; and  Melissa's Produce  for providing the bloggers with a beautiful box of goodies. My mind was aswirl with how to incorporate it all into some autumn-inspired dishes when I received this bounty of seasonal produce. I knew that I wanted to showcase the dried guajillo chiles and pears in a fun mole sauce. After attending a mole cooking class last year, we've been experimenting with different variations. So, this isn't a traditio...