Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Foodie Extravaganza is where we celebrate obscure food holidays or cook and bake together with the same ingredient or theme each month. Posting day for #FoodieExtravaganza is always the first Wednesday of each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook page  Foodie Extravaganza . We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our  Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board ! Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  has asked the bloggers to celebrate New Beer's Eve. She shared: "Did you know that April 6th is New Beer's Eve? Evidently that is a thing. Let's celebrate by sharing recipes featuring the brew of your choice." Here's the Foodie Extravanganza's beer-filled line-up... Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm grilled up Bratwurst Burgers. Sneha of Sneha’s Recipe served up Corn & Peas Pulao With Beer Chicken Tandoori. Karen of Karen’s Kit...

   Here we are at the final #EattheWorld event for 2020. What a year this has been! This challenge has been one that gave us some excuse for virtual travel as we've been sheltered-in-place with the coronavirus epidemic for most of the year. So, we've been able to read about different parts of the world and create a dinner, or at least a dish, with that cuisine. This Eat the World project is spearheaded by Evelyne of  CulturEatz . Read more about  her challenge . This month, Evelyne had us heading to Hungary. But, before we get to that collection, I just wanted to recap where we've been this year. Click on my recipe title to go to the original post... The Year in Review Trinidad and Tobago - January 2020 - Chicken Curry, Trini-Style Iraq - February 2020 - Hadgi Badah (Iraqi Cardamom Cookies) Fiji - March 2020 - Curry, Pulao, and Cassava Cake Senegal - April 2020 - The Kitchen Elves' Senegalese-Style Gumbo Bulgaria - May 2020 - Patatnik + 2016 Edoardo Miroglio Bio Mavr...

Earlier in the year I saw a post from one of my favorite bloggers - Wendy at  A Day in the Life on the Farm  - and I realized that they've been having a muffin party for years without me. LOL. I emailed the host, Stacy of  Food Lust People Love  and got the scoop: "...last Monday of the month and no themes. We've been baking together since August 2015! Only one rule, you must use the muffin method (folding wet ingredients with dry - no creaming butter and sugar, etc.) to bake muffins." Oh, my goodness...is  that  the muffin rule? That makes total sense. But I had no idea.  In my house we've always said that if it's 'naked' as in frosting-free, it's a muffin; if there's frosting, then it's a cupcake. Turns out there's more to it than that. In any case, I jumped in. This is my fourth month participating with the #MuffinMonday bloggers. Berry Oatmeal Muffin from Passion Kneaded Chocolate Banana Mini Muffins from Food Lus...

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of  Melissa's Produce . I received complimentary product for the purpose of review and recipe development, but all opinions are honest and they are my own.  This page may contain affiliate links. You can read in my recipe post - Passionfruit-Vanilla Panna Cotta - how  Melissa's Produce   ended up sending a selection of their ' Freaky Fruits ' to me and some of my Festive Foodies pals. And, because there was just too much goodness to fit into a two-day event, I am sharing some bonus recipes as I recipe test for October's #FreakyFruitsFriday. Dragonfruit Dragonfruit grows on a vining cactus and has a vibrantly colored rind that houses a juicy flesh flecked with tiny, edible black seeds. The fruit is similar in texture to a cantaloupe or a kiwi; its flavor runs the gamut from sweet to tart to virtually non-existent. I prefer ones that are somewhere in between the first two. But, honestly, I haven't...

Today is our second May post for our Kitchen Matrix Project, named after Mark Bittman's  Kitchen Matrix  cookbook. You can read about the year-long project:  here . This month, I chose the recipes and went with a Latin theme. So, last week, we made salsas. This week, we're working with masa. And so on...you get the idea. The #KitchenMatrixCookingProject Masa Creations An InLinkz Link-up This recipe isn't one of his, but I haven't made tamales in a long time and this is one of my family's favorites: tamales. I decided to make a variation of   maiale al latte  - Italian pork in milk - as the meat filling.  Pork braised in milk has s a delicate texture and flavor and the milk slowly evolves into a rich sauce of curds. Okay, it's not particularly photogenic, but it is delicious! Milk-Braised Pork Tamales Milk-Braised Pork 2 lbs skinless, boneless pork roast 1/2 C sliced onions 1/2 C chopped celery olive oil 2 C organic ...

Jake and I are celebrating 18 years of marriage tomorrow. That's a whole lifetime...well, at least the time it takes for a child to be considered an adult. On one hand it certainly feels like a lifetime; on the other, it seems to have passed in the blink of an eye. In this past eighteen years, we've had two boys, lived in two states and five different houses, and juggled probably a dozen different jobs between us. We've traveled to Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona; we've visited Italy and Costa Rica. We've SCUBA'd, zip-lined, canoed, and tangoed. It's been an amazing adventure. Under the Wedding Maple at Owen R. Cheatham Redwood Grove, Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park But it's also been work. A lot of work. Don't let anyone tell you that marriage is easy. Maybe that is what makes the celebrations all the more sweet. So, why cheesecakes? you ask. Well, we had seven cheesecakes at our weddi...