Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month the Movies and Munchies group is watching  Encanto , hosted by Amy of   Amy's Cooking Adventures . You can read her invitation  here . And thought I finished this recipe early in the month, I forgot to post it before we went on vacation and here I am on the last day of the month. Ugh. Sorry, Amy. On the Screen Encanto takes place in the mountains of Columbia where the Madrigal family lives in an enchanted house. Each of the Madrigal children and grandchildren have been blessed with a special, magical gift...except Mirabel: Mirabel's mother, Julietta, heals with her cooking, especially her arepas con queso ; Mirabel's sister Luisa can lift an astounding amount of weight (think donkeys!); and her other sister Isabela creates beautiful flowers everywhere she goes. Tia Pepa controls the weather with her emotions and cousin Dolores has super hearing. While Abuela Alma doesn't have any magical powers herself, it was her miracle that saved her and her triplets - Jul...

Buon Anno! Happy New Year! Welcome to the first post of 2022 for the Italian Food Wine Travel group. I am hosting and decided to change things up slightly. This month, I invited the group to watch a movie in addition to tracking down a wine and making a food pairing. If you are reading this early enough, and aren't too groggy from your end-of-2021 celebrations, you are welcome to join our Twitter chat on New Year's morning. 8am. Just follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add that to anything you share so we can see it.  Here's what the writers were inspired to post... A Movie Set in Acerenza and Tumacë Me Tulë + Azienda Bisceglia Aglianico del Vulture Gudarra 2015 by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Enjoying Aglianico From the Vine with Pizza Montanara by A Day in the Life on the Farm From the Vine: Devouring Pizza, Donnachiara Aglianico Wine, and the Movie by Our Good Life How A Glorious Past Can Reinvent The Future in Basilicata by Grapevine Adventures Mil...

  As the year wraps up, I'm turning my eyes towards all of the fun we're going to have next year. So, I'm kicking off 2022's #ItalianFWT with an event that it wide open in its scope. I've invited the group to watch the movie From the Vine (available free on Amazon to Prime members). Then we are free to explore any Aglianico wine and pairings or recall any travel memories from Basilicata. Any combination or standalone focus is welcome.  Watch the movie to find out why I picked the Aglianico grape as our focus.  Buon anno! Happy 2022! How to Participate Details for participation Are you ready to jump in and participate in the Aglianico movie night #ItalianFWT event? Here are the details… Send an email to tell me you're in or post in the Facebook event group:  Include your blog url and Twitter handle. If you know your blog post title now, include that...but you can send me that a bit closer to the event, I'd like to get a sense of who's participating and ...

One of my favorite blogging friends - Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm - and I exchange book and movie recommendations fairly regularly. We seem to have similar tastes when it comes to those things. So, when she suggested that I watch Instant Family , I quickly added it to my watchlist. On the Screen from imdb.com Last night, Jake and I sat down to watch it. I didn't really know what to expect, but was quickly drawn in by its heartfelt and nuanced themes. This is movie about the Wagners - Pete (played by Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (played by Rose Byrne) - who elect to foster three siblings, including one teenager. You follow them through the condensed timeline of parenthood - honeymoon stage, frustration, resignation, and more; I say 'condensed' because, with my kids, I got years of 'cute' before I had to deal with 'teen 'tude.' At one point, Pete and Ellie are arguing about whether or not to give the kids back... Ellie: Whose idea w...

I had a lot on my mind a couple of nights ago and couldn't sleep. Not wanting to toss and turn and wake up Jake, I made my way to the living room, settled in on my bean bag and started streaming a silly little rom-com Leap Year . But Jake woke up anyway and joined me. So, I started it again and we watched it together from start to finish. On the Screen from imdb.com Meet Anna (played by Amy Adams) and her cardiologist boyfriend, Jeremy (played by Adam Scott). Anna is an über-organized, high-functioning stager - someone who makes houses look good for realtors - and thinks that Jeremy is going to propose before he leaves for a medical conference in Ireland. He doesn't. And she decides to take matters into her own hands and rely on an Irish tradition that allows women to pop the question on February 29th. So, she flies to Ireland, but ends up diverted to Wales after extreme turbulence. Then, via tugboat and choppy waters, she ends up in Dingle where she hauls her su...

When I saw that Amy Poehler's Wine Country  was releasing on Netflix last week, I immediately added it to my list. I knew nothing about it except that it would reunite several Saturday Night Live alumnae, it takes place in Napa, and it involves lots of wine. Those factors alone made it seem like a great Friday night diversion. After the boys headed to bed, I pressed play; Jake immediately lost interest and started watching something else on his computer. But he did join me in drinking Cab from Napa! On the Screen from netflix.com I have to admit that given the comedic chops in the group - Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, et al - I was more than a little surprised at how serious (read 'not that funny') the movie really was. I had expected a light, fluffy female version of The Hangover  meets The Bridesmaids or something like that. I anticipated it being edgy, loose, maybe a little bit raunchy, and funny. This was not that. Not real...

The Invitation "Would you like to go with me on a date?" I asked the little Wom, my Enthusiastic Kitchen Elf. Where are we going? "I want to take you to see a movie about cooking." He looked at me skeptically. Where are Daddy and R- going to go? Darn this kid knows me too well! "They are going to see a movie that is not appropriate for you." There, I admitted it. Our movie date was to distract him from the fact that he was being left out of a big-boy movie. Great. Okay. Are you taking me out for dinner first? "No, we're all going to have dinner together at home. Then we're all going to the theatre. You and I are going to see one movie and Daddy and R- are going to see another movie." Okay. We were there on opening night for our area and the theatre was packed. D looked around and noticed that he was the only child in the entire room. And, really, I was probably one of the youngest adults by at least ...