Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  Welcome to the September 2022 event of  our #EattheWorld project, being spearheaded by Evelyne of  CulturEatz . Here's  her challenge .  This month, we are sharing recipes from Wales, here's the #EattheWorld line-up... Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Cawl Cennin (Welsh-Style Leek & Potato Soup)   Pandemonium Noshery: Welsh Onion Cake   Sneha’s Recipe: Snowdon Pudding   Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Ŵyau Ynys Môn, Welsh Anglesey Eggs  Sugarlovespices: Welsh Anglesey egg and mashed potato casserole   A Day in the Life on the Farm: Teison Nionod   Kitchen Frau: Welsh Cakes (Skillet-Baked Currant Cookies) Welsh Cuisine When I started doing research about Welsh cuisine, you could certainly see the influence of ingredients and history. Think cawl, Welsh rarebit, laverbread, Welsh cakes, bara brith, and Glamorgan sausage. All are produced with limited and inexpensive ingredients. Because sheep farming is ubiquitous, lamb and mutton d...

Here we are at the third event of 2021 for our Soup Saturday Swappers group. Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  started this event and, every month, I get a new array of soup recipes to put in my to-try pile. This month, I am hosting and asked the bloggers to put a little Spring in our minestrone by adding in Spring veggies or eschewing the traditional tomato-based broth. Be creative...anything goes! Here's the line-up of recipes from the #SoupSwappers... Classic Minestrone Soup by Sneha's Recipe Green Vegetable Minestrone by A Day in the Life on the Farm Kale and Pasta Minestrone by Magical Ingredients Minestrone Napoletana by Karen's Kitchen Stories Putting Some Spring in My Minestrone + Bouza 2017 Albariño by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Vibrant Spring Minestrone Soup by Making Miracles Minestrone Minestrone is the catch-all name for all Italian vegetable soups that might include vegetables, beans, pasta, and herbs in a broth. When I lived in Italy, it...

Murder in the South of France by Susan Kiernan-Lewis* was the first in a series about character Maggie Newberry, an American who heads to France to identify the body of her sister who has purported died from a drug overdose. I blazed through this one in a couple of hours and jumped right in to the second book Murder à la Carte , actually preferring the second to the first. However, after reading these two, I think I'm done with the chick-lit mystery genre for awhile. On the Page image from amazon.com As I already mentioned Maggie heads to France to identify the body of her sister only to discover that she also has a niece about whom no one knew. Maggie makes some rather unbelievable choices and decisions, especially regarding Laurent. The Newberrys seems oddly detached from the death of their daughter Elise even though they end up taking custody of the granddaughter. And the authorities were written as uncaring and incompetent. I think the only thing that kept me ...

This summer, my Enthusiastic Kitchen Elf is working as an apprentice at a local organic farm. He absolutely loves it. And I adore that's he's such a sponge for knowledge. He comes home every day that he works and explains to Jake what kind of flowers they need to plant as pest indicators; he shares with us how to plant multiple crops together to balance the nutrients in the soil. This really is the perfect summer job for him! One Saturday he invited me to join him and I was put on weeding a row of red cabbage seedlings. Then we pulled up some leeks to take home. I'll be honest: getting paid in vegetables makes me so happy. This is a really simple preparation that renders the leeks silky smooth. Ingredients  serves 4 to 6 Leeks 3 to 4 organic leeks, trimmed, cleaned, and halved lengthwise 1 Tablespoon olive oil 1 Tablespoon butter Topping 1/4 cup bread crumbs (I used leftover sourdough whirled in a food processor) 2 Tablespoons grated pa...

National Soup Swap Day is being hosted by Kate of Kate's Recipe Box . She wrote: "The third Saturday in January is National Soup Swap Day! Bring your favorite soup to the virtual soup swap!" There is no link list for this event, so please check out her Pinterest Board ! Even though I live on the very temperate central coast of California, and the temperature is consistently between 45 and 65 degrees, I still have a soup season. Soups are easy to make; can be made ahead of time, if needed; and are simple to multiply for large groups. Some of my favorites - that are in our regular soup season rotation - include... Kimchi Soondubu Jjigae (Kimchi-Tofu Stew) Laksa Noodle Soup Aash-e Reshte Then I have soups that are less typical on our table, but tasty nonetheless. These might be highly seasonal or include specialty items I can't get regularly. Think Ling Ngau Tong (Lotus Root and Nut Soup), Salmorejo de Conejo , Chilled Watermelon and Rosé S...

Here we are at the September Soup Saturday Swappers event. Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  started this event and, every month, I get a new array of soup recipes to put in my to-try pile. And this month, Sid of Sid's Sea Palm Cooking is hosting as we explore soups featuring potatoes. Sid writes, "Share your favorite soup that contains potatoes. Baked, Mashed, Red, White, Russets, Sweet.....as long as they play an important enough role in the soup that it wouldn't be the same soup sans potatoes." I thought about all of the soups I love with potatoes: Spring-Kissed Seafood Chowder , Spinach Chowder , and King of Soups . But all of those were cold-weather soups and we are enjoying a warmer than usual Indian summer. So, I decided to make one of my favorite chilled soups for the event. But first, here's what the other bloggers made... An InLinkz Link-up New Potato-Corn Vichyssoise inspired by Laurey Masterton's   The Fresh Honey Co...

This is a sponsored post written by me in conjunction with the April #Winophiles event. Wine samples were provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. On the third Saturday of each month, The French Winophiles convene and share posts about a particular grape or region. Today we are focusing on the Picpoul varietal. And despite my lack of expertise on the grape, I am hosting. You can read my invitation post: here . I'm always up for learning something new and seeing what delicious pairings this group creates. If you're reading this soon enough, hop on the Twitter chat on Saturday, April 21st at 8am Pacific time. Search for the hashtag #Winophiles to follow along or peruse the tweets later. Picpoul Picpoul is a white grape varietal that's been cultivated in the Languedoc region of France for centuries. It is rarely grown outside of France, however I was able to locate a vintner not too far from me, here on California's central coast....

Last week, the Enthusiastic Kithchen Elf and I were playing a foodie trivia game. I won, but he held his own; he did complain that I had an advantage with the questions about wine and liqueurs. Probably true. But he knew more about celebrity chefs than I did! One of the questions was about the seafood-based stew from France. He talked about Moqueca from Brazil and Cioppino from San Francisco, but couldn't come up with the name of the one from France. So, I told him I'd make it for him this weekend. And I figured it would be the perfect celebration dinner for Jake's and my 18th wedding anniversary. It was! It just so happened that this dish was mentioned in Cooking for Picasso: A Novel by Camille Aubray.* I had originally picked up this book as it was supposed to be one of our Cook the Books' selections for the year, but the hostesses swapped it out for another. So, I picked it up yesterday while everyone else worked on school projects. I crawled under t...