Culinary Adventures with Camilla

I'm on Orphan-detail again today for the  Secret Recipe Club  - for a Group C orphan last week! - and I am  so  excited about cooking from Eat Laugh Love  - a cooking and baking blog written by Denise. One of the reasons I always volunteer to help out an SRC orphan is to meet new foodie bloggers. I had never come across Denise's blog and I, happily, lost several hours of my life perusing and drooling over her recipes and posts. I love that she has a culinary to-do list . Me, too. I just haven't published it. Maybe that's a good 2014 project! There was no doubt in my mind what I was going to make from Denise's blog. Soup. The weather was turning colder, the skies were gloomier, and she has an amazing variety of soups from which to choose. The Best Lentil Soup Ever . Cream of Celery . Healthy and Heavenly Sausage and Shrimp Gumbo . SuperFoods Soup . And more. Seriously. If you need some soup-pot inspiration, check out this blog. In the end, I decided t...

This round Rachel, at  The Crispy Cook , selected  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle  by Barbara Kingsolver for our October-November  Cook the Books  project. I had read the book years ago, but happily cracked the cover again for this. Besides, I was reading with a different focus than before. This time around I was searching for inspiration in these pages that would send me to the kitchen. I felt slightly handicapped in that I am cursed with a black thumb. I can't keep any plants alive. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Even the ones that people swear "can't die." Trust me, I can kill anything. Needless to say, I don't have a garden. But I do get farm-fresh fruits and vegetables weekly through our CSA box and from friends who have fabulous green thumbs. www.kingsolver.com Animal, Vegetable, Miracle  is, as its subtitle suggests, the tale of a year-long food experiment. Novelist Barbara Kingsolver and her family leave Arizona for a family-farm in Appalachia. T...