Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month, the World Wine Travel bloggers are traveling to Victoria, Australia and looking at white wine from the region. Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm is hosting. If you are reading this early enough, we are changing it up from our usual Twitter chat and opting for a Zoom chat. This should be lively though a wee bit early for us Left Coasters. I'll be the one with the messy bun, coffee in hand, and probably still in pajamas!  Join through this link on Saturday, May 28th at 8am Pacific. Here's the list of articles that the writers are sharing... Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm paired  Peach Chicken and a Chardonnay from Fowles Farm .  Cam of Culinary Adventures with Camilla shares  Steamed Mussels with a Citrus Drizzle + Punt Road Pinot Gris 2019 . Terri of Our Good Life is enjoying  Summertime Charcuterie with Whipped Feta + Butterfly Effect Rose Grenache . Jeff of Food Wine Click! serves up Frisk Prickly Riesling with Hoisin Pork . Deanna o...

Today the Sunday Funday group is sharing picnic recipes. 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.  And, for this event, Renu is hosting. We are sharing any recipes that can be eaten at a picnic! Here's the line-up of our creations from the #SundayFunday bloggers... Bacon Broccoli Mac  from Amy's Cooking Adventures Cucumber Mozzarella Salad  from Palatable Pastime Cowboy Beans  from A Day in the Life on the Farm Mango Pico De Gallo  from Mayuri’s Jikoni Murukulu Janthikalu  from Sneha’s Recipe Smoked Salmon Toasts from Culinary Adventures with Camilla Spicy Avocado Mango Bean Salad  from Cook with Renu   pic·nic /ˈpikˌnik/  noun an outing or occasion that involves taking a packed meal to be eaten outdoors So for this picnic, I didn't venture far...I packed a meal for our pati...

Today the Wine Pairing Weekend writers are talking about Slow Wine. Gwendolyn of Wine Predator...Gwendolyn Alley is hosting; you can read her invitation . Last month, the Italian Food Wine Travel group looked at Italian Slow Wine. This month, we turn our eyes towards Slow Wine in the United States.  And, as a fantastic bonus, Gwendolyn arranged a Zoom meeting for us with the senior editor of the guide,  Pam Strayer. It was nice to see familiar names in the editorial masthead, including Nicole Ruiz Hudson of Somm's Table , I've known Nicole for years through our wine blogging groups, but I finally met her face to face in 2019 at a Prosecco Superiore lunch in San Francisco. And the presenter from that event is also one of the Slow Wine Guide editors - Iris Rowlee. The wine circles collide! But we are talking about Slow Wine... If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join our live chat on Twitter on Saturday, May 14th at 8am Pacific time. Follow the hashtag #WinePW an...

  Welcome to the May 2022 event of  our #EattheWorld project, being spearheaded by Evelyne of  CulturEatz . Here's  her challenge .  This month, we are sharing Turkish recipes, here's the #EattheWorld line-up... Magical Ingredients: Kumpir - Turkish Style Baked Potatoes   Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Turkish Simit Bread  A Day in the Life on the Farm: Pide Ekmek   Pandemonium Noshery: Sahanda Pirzola - Turkish Lamb and Tomatoe s  Sneha’s Recipe: Keto Turkish Menemen - Scrambled Eggs In Tomato Sauce  Kitchen Frau: Çilbir (Turkish Eggs in Garlic Yogurt)  Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Ekşili Balık – A Lemony Turkish Fish Stew Recipe Other Turkish Recipes I have made some Turkish dishes before, including  Soganli Tavuk Yahnisi (Turkish Chicken Stew) ,  Muhallebi , and Turkish Bazlama, photographed above, a delicious flatbread for which I never posted a recipe. Soon! But for this event, I wanted to make a main dish...and I s...

Limoncello is one of those sips that instantly transports you back to where you first tasted it. In my case: sitting on the beach on the Amalfi coast with Jake during a three week trip to Italy just before we got pregnant with R. It reminds me of sunshine, sand, and a carefree time in our lives. Each time I make it, it's a delicious remembrance that one of these days we'll be kidfree and carefree again. Sooner than we think, actually. Well, maybe not the carefree part - that's a luxury of the young and  naïve - but both of our boys will be launched at the end of the summer. And I will certainly lift a glass in celebration that we did it: We raised two boys who have grown up to be good young men who will make the world a better place! But this is about limoncello... This particular batch was inspired by a lemon event at a local organic farm where we tasted three kinds of limoncello - one regular, one limoncello cream, and one with lavender. I picked a ton of lemons at the fa...

I have been making lemon meringue pies and tarts for years and years, but I have finally mastered what D calls "the actual good meringue." Okay, that was rude. However, I have to agree; once I started making Italian meringue, my pies disappear much more quickly!  The taste is a perfect sweet foil to the tart lemon filling; the texture is fluffy and light, just marshmallow fluff; and - maybe my favorite part of this meringue - the look. You can form dramatic, steep peaks. And, once you torch them, they are stunningly gorgeous. And, after I served another pie for Easter, I realized that I had neglected to post my actual good meringue! So, here we go. Oh, and my filling it's a traditional gelatin lemon filling; I fill mine with straight lemon curd. It's mouth-puckeringly delicious. Ingredients makes 1 pie Crust 2 cups flour plus more for rolling 1/2 cup powdered sugar 3/4 cup butter, cold and cubed 3 to 4 Tablespoons gin, as needed 1 to 2 Tablespoons cold water, as nee...

This month the Italian Food Wine Travel writers are looking at the Slow Food Movement. Here's the invitation from Gwendolyn: read it .  If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join in our Twitter chat. We will be live on Saturday, April 2nd. Follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add it to anything you tweet, so we can see it. Here are the articles that the writers have planned... Jennifer shares Slow Wine and Food of Madrevite on Vino Travels. Deanna delights with Montenidoli Il Templare White Wine + Wood Fired Pizza on Wineivore. Camilla offers Buono, Pulito, e Giusto: Lemon-Stuffed Chicken, Preserved Lemons, and an Umbrian Chardonnay at Culinary Adventures with Camilla. Nicole has Old World/New World Explorations of Malvasia on Somm's Table. Wendy does Spezzatino d'agnello and a G.D. Vajra Albe for A Day in the Life on the Farm. Terri pairs Grassfed Meatballs and Caiarossa Toscana on Our Good Life. On Wine Predator, hosts Gwendolyn and Sue ar...