Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month Jane from  Always Ravenous  is hosting the Wine Pairing Weekend bloggers for a fun look at California food and wine pairings. She's calling the theme: Tasting California: Cookbook Tour paired with California Wines. Initially she wanted us to work with  What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You Want: 125 Recipes for Real Life  by Gaby Dalkin, but the book isn't released until next month; in any case, you can read Jane's invitation post:  here .  My official event post will be coming out later this week, but I decided to do some bonus California pours. And I had a 2018 Castle Rock Rosé of Pinot Noir from Monterey County in the fridge. I decided to make an Indian-spiced fried chicken. I'll get to that in a bit. In the Glass At just over $10 a bottle, this wine easily qualifies as an everyday sipper. It boasts a beautiful salmon color. Additionally, its herbal aroma and medium body make it an incredibly satisfying pour. The texture was smoo...

Last month when I saw  this invitation from David , at  CookingChat , for a food + wine pairing blogging event, I was in. Immediately. The inaugural event was fantastic; the theme for this month = "refreshing." Here's David's July #winePW invite .  I   knew , for this, I wanted to pour a local white wine that would pair well with a homemade ice cream. There's nothing more refreshing on a hot summer's day than ice cream and a chilled white wine...so, why not put them together?!? In the Glass... Cambiata is a small (local to me) winery owned by Eric Laumann who worked for Bonny Doon and Edna Valley before launching his own label in the early 2000s.  Cambiata - in Italian - means "changed." In music, Eric writes it's "the added tonal dimension that occurs when two chords momentarily share properties, so that the transition has greater depth and mellifluence. The cambiata is expressed on my label with the idea of divine pr...